On May 12, 2020 NBC claimed that President Donald Trump made false claims regarding COVID-19 testing. NBC's claim is unsupported by fact and in itself false . Trump stated that "If somebody wants to be tested right now, they'll be able to be tested.". Fact Check: False Claim by NBC NBC's claim is unsubstantiated and false. NBC based its claim on a poll which showed 5% of people they polled said they were able to be tested and that 12 million expected tests do not equate to more than 3.6% of the population. Fact: An ans…
The general headline "Texas abortion law goes into effect, banning abortions as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy" is the claim by NBC, ABC, CNN, and other media outlets. In this case, we are not checking a fact check, but the accuracy of the premise reporting a supposed "fact". NBC The dramatic headline NBC published read: " Texas abortion clinics turning away patients as strict new law takes effect The law, which bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, took effect at midnight." Looking no further…
During his congressional address on March 4th, President Donald Trump stated that millions of dollars had been spent on studies in which transgenic mice were given transgender (gender-affirming) hormone therapy to examine the health effects of these treatments. Trump referred to this as "making transgender mice." Several media outlets, including NBC, Rolling Stone, CNN, MSNBC, and host Rachel Maddow, quickly claimed this statement was false. To their credit, CNN later retracted its original claim and revised its conclusion to "n…
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…
In an article titled "Fact Check: Could Pregnant 10-Year-Old Girl Get an Abortion in Ohio?" Newsweek makes a false claim that a 10-year old rape victim had to travel to Indiana for an abortion due to Ohio's "6-week ban" on abortion. Newsweek presents the claim of it's fact check as: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, claimed that an unnamed 10-year-old who crossed into Indiana for an abortion, "did not have to leave Ohio to find treatment." The news outlet ultimately decides that the Yost statement is "…
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…
On May 8th, 2025, a wave of articles emerged across various media outlets, alleging that Dr. Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, lacks a medical license and never completed her education—some even claiming she holds no medical degree at all. These claims are entirely false . The Claims and Claimants MSNBC referred to the nomination as a "dark joke" in a segment titled 'Dark joke': MAHA influencer with no medical license tapped as Trump surgeon general , both on-air and online. USA Today ass…
Image: Factbase Mimicking what many media outlets have been saying since November 4th, FactCheck.org has joined the false claim of "baseless" and "no evidence of" voter fraud in a recent article under it's FACTCHECK POSTS category. To first address the talking point of "baseless" voter fraud and "no evidence" of voter fraud, there are over a thousand affidavits signed under the penalty of perjury that state otherwise. Under federal law his is legally admissible as evidence in federal court. Moreove…
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…
Forbes was the first to announce that the Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) told them that less than 6,200 people were in attendance at the Tulsa Rally on June 20th, 2020. This number came from Andy Little with the TFD who also stated that the number was derived from the number of tickets scanned and doesn’t include staff, suites, or media. This was stated at 7:30 pm CST, the time the event started was indicated as 8:00 pm CST. Officials of the Trump campaign stated that attendance is on a first-come-first-serve basis to unregistered attendees of w…
In an article published by CNN titled "Fact-checking Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview", CNN makes multiple false claims. In an interview on 'Meet the Press' with host Kristen Welker, Trump answered questions with answers that CNN's Daniel Dale and Jack Forrest falsely claimed were "false". Biden directed Justice Department to indict Trump CNN could have gotten this one right had they left it at " This claim is not supported by any evidence ", but they pressed forward resulting in a false claim. Thi…