Image: Lawandcrime.com Georgia's amended voting rules under SB202 has been criticized by the media and fact checkers claiming a shocking felony for any person handing food or water to voters standing in line. This was echoed by Joe Biden who said “It’s sick” at a press conference on March 25. “Deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line, waiting to vote.” This is simply not true. FactCheck.org FactCheck.org revolved it's fact check of this around Georgia Governor Brian Kemp who called Joe Biden statem…
Image: NBC News President Joe Biden gave his first prime-time presidential address shortly after signing the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. POLITIFACT subsequently provided a couple misleading fact-checks in its regard. Vaccinations Joe Biden made the claim that: "Two months ago, this country did not have nearly enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all or nearly all of the American public. But soon we will." POLITIFACT claims this is misleading rated a the claim Mostly False. They state that While Trump was in office, his admin…
Image: Insider The New York Times published an article (See Ref. 1) claiming former President Donald Trump's speech at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) conference in Florida contained many false and misleading statements. The article titled "Trump Revives Familiar Falsehoods in CPAC Speech" made several accurate fact checks, however, a few of these were false claims . Historic Lows on Illegal Immigrants The New York Times (NYT) makes the claim that "Apprehensions of unauthorized migrants are the best ga…
Image: Newsweek CNN released a Fact Check shortly after former President Donald Trump delivered a speech in Florida at the Republican CPAC conference (Conservative Political Action Conference). In the article titled "Fact check: Trump delivers lie-filled CPAC speech" appears to be filled with more falsehoods than claimed of the Trump speech which opens with calling the speech "a speech filled with debunked lies" . Trump Lost the Election Fair and Square CNN states that "Trump lost the election fair and square", ho…
Image: Getty Images 2021 On January 20th, Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address which fact checkers have since combed through for the most party, accurately. However, NPR and other outlets have stated that Biden's statement regarding COVID deaths was overstated. Joe Biden said that: It’s taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II. NPR claimed that: While the number is close, this is a slight overstatement. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the total American deaths in World War II totaled 405,…
Image: GQ In an article titled "We looked for Antifa at the Capitol — we couldn’t find any" written by Adriana Usero, several false and misleading claims were stated. It is important to note that some current data was not available at the time of the Washington Post piece, however, the articles declares: This article will be updated as we continue our search. Perhaps they haven't search further or had time to update the article? opinion To date, no evidence supports the claim that individuals with Antifa connections formed pa…
FBI Wanted for Capitol Building Siege In an article on FactCheck.org titles "" the author inaccurately claims that: Viral social media posts and a Republican House member have amplified claims wrongly identifying some right-wing figures at the U.S. Capitol riot as part of “antifa.” The claims feed into an unfounded conspiracy theory that anti-fascist activists in disguise orchestrated the event. Whereas they cover many social media posts that are indeed inaccurate evidence of any anti-Trump activist or activist group. They fail to…