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Fact Check: Red-brick house edited into Afghan family photo and falsely said to be a gift

An edited image purporting to show an Afghan journalist and his family outside a house in the UK has been shared online to ...

Fact Check: Oxford photo shows Boris Johnson with his first wife, not Ghislaine Maxwell

The first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been incorrectly identified in a photo online as Ghislaine ...

Assessing small boat crossings and fact-checking Trump's Washington DC crime claim

Returning to Donald Trump’s press conference about crime in Washington DC, the US President also claimed "the number of ...

Fact check: Violent crime in DC has fallen in 2024 and 2025 after a 2023 spike

President Donald Trump, justifying his temporary federal takeover of policing in the nation’s capital, claimed at a press ...

Wash Post columnist says Meta's new community notes fact-checking system 'nowhere near up to the task'

Meta's new community notes program struggles to combat misinformation on Facebook and Instagram, according to Washington Post ...

Fact Check: Hero pilot Captain Sully criticized Trump's pick to lead FAA

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger in August 2025 criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal ...

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Nicolás Maduro Saying 'Come For Me ... Cowards' In Response To Trump DOJ's $50 Million Bounty

Does a video show Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, reacting to the $50M bounty announced August 7, 2025 by the US ...
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Fact Check: Did Pakistan capture Indian soldiers and force them to chant slogans?

Mathrubhumi’s fact-check finds viral video claiming Pakistan captured Indian soldiers is false. Official confirmations state ...

Fact checking Fox News claims about crime rates and migration in Ireland

The Irish flag flouts the wind as it flies at half staff over the General Post Office on O'Connell street, Dublin, Ireland, ...

Claim Hegseth donated $12.9M to Minnesota homeless shelters doesn't add up

In August 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth donated $12.9 million in bonuses and ...

Fact check: Trump says jobs data revision after 2024 election was 'rigged'

PolitiFact Ruling: Pants on Fire. The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day ...