"Donald Trump has appointed NBA legend Karl Malone as the new director of Child Protective Services,"a Nov. 14 Instagram post featuring an image of Trump and Malone said.
The photo was manipulated. A photograph posted in March 2023 shows that the woman’s sign said, "I’m the mother of the girl you’ll never touch," in Spanish. Social media users reacted strongly to a ...
Pop singer Billie Eilish criticized President-elect Donald Trump the day after he won the Nov. 5 election, but social media posts have added fiction to her comments by saying shes ...
A video shared Nov. 18 on Facebook claimed that President-elect Donald Trump had "exposed" that Democratic officials and President Joe Biden had hidden a federal subsidy for up to $6,400 for all ...
A Threads post said, "The U.S Senate accidentally passed a bill banning Trump from becoming President, and Biden is planning to sign it." The X post the claim originated from referred to the Ending ...
As of Nov. 19, PolitiFact found no evidence that Musk is releasing a solar-powered Tesla. Tesla uses lithium-ion batteries, not solar panels, in the electric cars it makes. Tesla also doesn’t have a ...
Musk is a well-known inventor, but since he joined President-elect Donald Trump on the campaign trail and in his incoming administration, Musk has grown politically prominent. Trump tapped Musk to ...
California was the first state to enact no-fault divorce in 1970 after then-Gov. Ronald Reagan signed it into law. Reagan, himself a divorcé, said the law was a step toward removing the "acrimony and ...
But the claim in the posts that show Rittenhouse and Goldberg, a co-host of ABC’s "The View" talk show, originated as satire. The posts were flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and ...
Federal and state election officials rebutted claims of widespread fraud in the 2024 election, including claims that Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink manipulated the vote counts. They ...
Millions of ballots have been counted in the two weeks following the election, as officials have worked to verify vote totals and count ballots that were not counted or had not been received by ...
There is no such tax credit. The TikTok video originated on a satire account . We rate claims that Trump is ending this purported tax credit Pants on Fire!