Fact Check

The research, which the NIH maintains is not gain-of-function, could not have led to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The infrastructure bill would create a voluntary pilot program aimed at studying per-mile user fees to fund the Highway Trust Fund. The bill does not include a “driving tax,” as some social media posts misleadingly claim.

Conservatives have falsely claimed a video shows someone cut off Biden’s microphone, for fear he was veering off-script.

House Republicans are making the laughable claim that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “ultimately responsible for the breakdown of security at the Capitol.”

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.”

In a Florida speech about senior citizens, President Donald Trump made misleading comparisons of Medicare costs under his administration and his predecessor’s.

Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as U.S. president, contrary to the false claims of viral posts on Facebook. Her mother is from India and her father from Jamaica — but Harris was born in Oakland, California.

A tweet shared widely online during the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd was made to appear to be from antifa, the anti-fascist coalition.

President Donald Trump has twice now advanced the flawed theory that China nefariously continued to allow flights out of Wuhan

In a weekend tweet, President Donald Trump erroneously described a New York Times article, falsely stating that it said the coronavirus originated in Europe and suggesting that it had no named sources.
The story, which reported on new genomic analyses of some of the first coronavirus cases in the New York area, made no such claim — and quoted no fewer than seven scienti