Ciara O'Rourke
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PolitiFact | Earth is round and Elon Musk didn’t say it was flat
The earth isn’t flat, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk didn’t say it was, either. An image of a purported tweet from the ent → Read More
PolitiFact - No, Elon Musk isn’t poised to buy Facebook
Entrepreneur billionaire Elon Musk famously bought Twitter in 2022, but there’s no evidence that he’s poised to snap up → Read More
PolitiFact | Donald Trump isn’t commander in chief anymore; he’s not preparing U.S. Marines to stop ‘coup’
Former President Donald Trump is no longer the commander in chief, but a recent Facebook post suggests that he still con → Read More
PolitiFact - Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has spoken out against voter suppression, but a recent video circulating social med → Read More
PolitiFact | Claims that Vladimir Putin destroyed an ‘adrenochrome warehouse in Ukraine’ lack evidence
A recent blog post builds on a fictitious narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stymieing the production of → Read More
PolitiFact - No, President Joe Biden didn’t change the name of Black History Month
February is Black History Month, which was first officially recognized by the U.S. government in 1976, when then-Preside → Read More
PolitiFact | How do you count school shootings in Canada? Depends on how you classify the incidents
Recent Facebook posts advocating for gun restrictions argue that such policies have worked so well in Canada there have → Read More
PolitiFact | President Joe Biden is alive and traveling; he wasn’t executed
The deaths of serving and former U.S. presidents draw global news coverage, but there is none to corroborate the claim i → Read More
PolitiFact | That special immigrant visa and ‘evacuation program’? The State Department says it’s not legit
A recent Facebook post uses a U.S. State Department seal and a 2021 U.S. Air Force photo of Afghan evacuees to spread th → Read More
PolitiFact | No man buns were harmed as fake news about a vigilante cutting them off spread on social media
Are man buns the latest victim of religious zealotry? A satirical headline circulating on social media has duped at leas → Read More
PolitiFact - Atlanta isn’t banning the word ‘women,’ despite social media post claims
Is a woman persona non grata in the city of Atlanta? A recent Instagram post says: "The city of Atlanta is moving along → Read More
PolitiFact | Did Joe Biden profanely mention pacemakers in speech? No; this video was altered
A video circulating social media shows President Joe Biden giving a speech against a curtain partly reading, "Protect an → Read More
PolitiFact | Have COVID-19 vaccines caused all COVID-19 deaths in Canada? No
Canada’s government has not published data showing that all COVID-19 deaths in the country are caused by COVID-19 vaccin → Read More
PolitiFact - The US government, not a vigilante, shot down a Chinese balloon
On Feb. 4, a U.S. Air Force fighter jet shot down what government officials say was a Chinese spy balloon. Video footage → Read More
PolitiFact | Video of Quran-burning man was from Denmark in 2021, not Sweden in 2023
Rasmus Paludan, leader of the far-right Danish party Stram Kurs, burned a Quran in Stockholm on Jan. 21, an incident tha → Read More
PolitiFact | Videos of people ‘dropping suddenly’ aren’t related to COVID-19 vaccines
"Died suddenly" has become shorthand for unfounded claims that COVID-19 vaccines were responsible for someone’s death. T → Read More
PolitiFact - Damar Hamlin is alive despite baseless claims to the contrary
First, conspiracy theorists claimed without evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin → Read More
PolitiFact - Flames from hell? That’s just the Truth-O-Meter burning over claims a photo shows Obama as Satan
Get thee behind me, fake news about former President Barack Obama dressed as Satan. An old allegation about the 44th pre → Read More
PolitiFact - Empty promise on Facebook dangles free health care. It isn’t true
New year, old misinformation. In 2022, we debunked claims about free health insurance for Americans 25 and older and Ame → Read More
PolitiFact | Fabricated story falsely claims Vladimir Putin destroyed an adrenochrome lab in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the hero in a fabricated blog post that gained traction on Facebook. The Jan. 20 sto → Read More