C-SPAN / YouTube screen shotCommentary Don't Believe the Libs' Fact Checks on the $50 Million in Condoms to Gaza at This Point "That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on," Trump's press secretary said. Is she right? By C. Douglas Golden January 30, 2025
Face the Nation / YouTube screen shotPremium Fact Check: Was the US Founded by Immigrants? The media continues to insist that we're a country created by immigrants. That's only true if you use the word loosely, however. Here's why. By C. Douglas Golden January 29, 2025
Lionel Bonaventure - AFP / Getty ImagesPremium A Look Back at Facebook's Censorship Era The era of fact-checking is quickly coming to an end on Meta's platforms, but it's unclear if it's gone for good. By C. Douglas Golden January 23, 2025
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty ImagesCommentary Bernie Sanders Gets Agitated When Treasury Nominee Scott Bessent Dismantles His 'Oligarchs' Question Sen. Bernie Sanders questioned Treasury nominee Scott Bessent about oligarchy, but has no problem with oligarchs when they are Democrats. By C. Douglas Golden January 17, 2025
Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesCommentary Fact Check: Are Black Women 'The Most Educated Demographic,' as Rep. Jasmine Crockett Claimed? "We are looking at qualifications," Crockett said during the CNN segment. But what qualifications, exactly, was she looking at? By C. Douglas Golden January 11, 2025
Elijah Nouvelage / Getty ImagesPremium Fact Check: Did Michelle Obama Skip Jimmy Carter's Funeral to Avoid Trump? The former first lady was absent at the funeral for Jimmy Carter. Did this have something to do with being seated next to Trump? By C. Douglas Golden January 10, 2025
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds - AFP Getty ImagesCommentary Fact-Checkers Freak Out, Call 'Emergency' Meetings After Zuckerberg Pulls the Money Members of the International Fact-Checking Network hosted an emergency meeting after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled free speech policies. By Ben Zeisloft January 9, 2025
STR - Jiji Press - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary With 'Fact-Checkers' On Their Way Out at Facebook, Babylon Bee Notes 12 Times Platform Fact-Checked Satire "USA Today, another one of Facebook's fact-checking partners, helpfully pointed out that this was satire," the Bee mockingly noted on one. By C. Douglas Golden January 9, 2025
Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesCommentary Zuckerberg Drops 'Fact-Checking,' Says Process Eroded Trust. NYT Blames ... Fake News “I don’t believe we were doing anything, in any form, with bias,” one fact-checker said in comments repeated by the Times. By C. Douglas Golden January 8, 2025
Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesPremium Fact Check: Did Republicans Block Funding for Pediatric Cancer Research? Democrats say the GOP sacrificed children with cancer on a pyre, "so that we can make way for tax cuts for billionaires." Is that true? By C. Douglas Golden December 23, 2024