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The claim that U.S. President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to self-incriminate over 400 times in a deposition for his civil fraud case in…
Read more Trump invoked the Fifth over 400 times in 2022 deposition, judge saidEvery election cycle since 2010, we have published profiles of some of the many outside groups trying to influence who gets elected to Congress and the White House.…
Read more Players Guide 2026 – FactCheck.orgPolitical leanings: Conservative/Republican 2024 total spending: $296.6 million The Senate Leadership Fund, or SLF PAC, is a Republican super PAC that was established in 2015 by allies of…
Read more Senate Leadership Fund – FactCheck.orgThe claim that the U.S. military was responsible for four deaths in the crash of a private medical transport plane in New Mexico in May 2026 is still…
Read more Did US military’s GPS signal jamming cause fatal plane crash? What we knowNew Jersey’s governor announced that “a software error” in the state’s motor vehicle registration system resulted in 6,600 noncitizens being improperly added to the state’s voter registration list.…
Read more Trump Overstates Magnitude of Noncitizen Voting in New Jersey – FactCheck.orgDOJ Subpoenas New York Times Freelancer The Justice Department subpoenaed freelancer Matthew Cole over his 2025 reporting for The New York Times on a failed U.S. military operation…
Read more Media News Daily: Top Stories for 08/05/2026Claim: Capital One bank closed 300 of U.S. President Donald Trump’s accounts because of money laundering concerns. Rating: Context Lawyers for Capital One said in a court filing…
Read more Capital One closed hundreds of Trump bank accounts for ‘anti-money laundering reasons,’ lawsuit saysPresident Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31…
Read more Trump’s Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney Memo – FactCheck.orgLincoln Project Loses Ground as Anti-Trump Media Expands The Lincoln Project is entering the 2026 midterms with far less financial strength than it had during the 2020 cycle.…
Read more Media News Daily: Top Stories for 08/03/2026Claim: U.S. President Donald Trump once suggested that people should inject bleach or other disinfectants into their bodies to treat COVID-19. Rating: What’s True During an April 2020…
Read more Claim Trump told people to ‘inject bleach’ to cure COVID-19 recirculates online after Fauci’s Senate hearingWelcome to our weekly media literacy quiz. This quiz will test your knowledge of the past week’s events with a focus on facts, misinformation, bias, and general media…
Read more MBFC’s Weekly Media Literacy Quiz Covering the Week of Jul 26th – Aug 1stClaim: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a July 2026 interview that white New Yorkers must pay cash reparations to the descendants of Black slaves. Rating:…
Read more Did Mamdani say white New Yorkers must pay cash reparations for slavery?Sen. Rand Paul has pointed to a line in Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary to claim that the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
Read more Paul Distorts Fauci’s Diary Entry About COVID-19 and Wet Market – FactCheck.orgFacebook Launches Free Verification Badge Using Facial Recognition Meta is launching a free “Facebook Verified” badge designed to help users identify real people amid growing AI-generated profiles, content,…
Read more Media News Daily: Top Stories for 07/30/2026Claim: In July 2026, Maple Leaf Foods recalled more than 12,000 pounds of bacon sold in the Pacific Northwest. Rating: In late July 2026, less than two weeks…
Read more Why 12K pounds of Maple Leaf Foods bacon sold in Northwest was recalledPresident Donald Trump has blamed improper forest management for Canadian wildfires whose smoke drifted into the Midwestern and Northeastern U.S. earlier this month. But climate change — and…
Read more Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement – FactCheck.orgSummary Our latest update in this series provides economic and other metrics of President Donald Trump’s second term, so far. Job growth remains slower, with a total of…
Read more Trump’s Numbers, July 2026 Update – FactCheck.orgKaitlan Collins Responds to Trump’s WHCD Insults CNN anchor and chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins addressed President Trump’s insults during and after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,…
Read more Media News Daily: Top Stories for 07/28/2026Claim: An comparison of images of U.S. President Donald Trump shows a photo edited by the White House next to Getty Images’ original photo. Rating: Context Both images…
Read more Do images of Trump show White House edited Getty photo? We investigatedMS NOW Disputes Fetterman Blacklist Claim MS NOW rebutted Sen. John Fetterman’s claim that the network will not invite him on as a guest. Fetterman told the Washington…
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