by Tyler | Sep 1, 2020 | 2020 Election, Black Lives Matter, Fact Check, Joe Biden, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Politics, Riots, Trending
Joe Biden claimed that Trump “declined to rebuke violence.” In fact, the president specifically said “violence has no place in American political discourse.”
by Tyler | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020 Election, coronavirus, Covid-19, Fact Check, Health, Mike Pence, Politics, RNC, Trending
Mike Pence was probably correct to say that Trump imposed the China travel ban before the coronavirus spread within th U.S., though not before the first case arrived.
by Tyler | Jul 18, 2020 | 2020 Election, Abolish the police, AOC, Chris Wallace, Crime, Defund the Police, Eric Garcetti, Fact Check, Fox News, Joe Biden, LAPD, Media Bias, Minneapolis, Politics, Trending
Fact check – CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, just redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. They mean the same thing.
by Tyler | May 29, 2020 | 2020 Election, Fact Check, Politics, silicon valley, Tech, Trending, Twitter, Twitter Fact Check, vote by mail, Voter Fraud
Twitter corrected the notice that it appended to tweets by President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal pointed out that the fact check, itself, was factually inaccurate.
by Tyler | May 27, 2020 | 2020 Election, CNN, Donald Trump, Fact Check, Jack Dorsey, Masters of the Universe, Politics, Tech, Trending, Twitter, vote by mail, Washington Post
Twitter added a link to “get the facts” about mail-in ballots after President Trump tweeted out widely-held concerns about the potential for voter fraud. The Twitter-curated “moment” is filled with mainstream media articles from...
by Tyler | May 21, 2020 | 2020 Election, absentee voting, Fact Check, Media, Michigan, New York Times, Politics, Trending, vote by mail, Voter Fraud
Fact check – CLAIM: It is legal for Michigan to send unsolicited applications to vote by mail to every registered voter in the state. VERDICT: UNCLEAR.