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Politics | The Left

The Deadly Palestinian Public Relations Scam That Dupes the Left

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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Klebwinz was slow to admit that Beverly Hills wasn’t a good target market for his Cheetos-encrusted bacon balls ven...

Politics | Debunking Lies

The colourful Twitter history of Palestine

A look at the Twitter history of Palestine. And how across social media a lack of real evidence led to a colourful (but very fake) creation

Politics | Leftist Lies

FACT CHECK: Florida School 'Bans' Amanda Gorman Poem

Claim: A school in Florida has "banned" the poem read by Amanda Gorman at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Politics | Debunking Lies

A new low in Israel-bashing

The French Foreign Ministry and the United Nations refuse to acknowledge that Israel does not target civilians.

Politics | Politics

FACT CHECK: Biden's Education Secretary Insists He Didn't Support Mandatory COVID Vaccines for Schoolchildren

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona claims "did not encourage states to adopt student vaccine mandates," directly contradicting his comments in 2021.

Politics | POLITICS

Rashida Tlaib's Lie-Filled Tweet Against Israel Gets Instantly Fact-Checked Into Middle of Next Week

The smackdown of Rashida Tlaib's anti-Semitic tweet shows why GOP users no longer hate Twitter.

Politics | Politics

FACT CHECK: Biden Distorts Paul Pelosi Attack During State of the Union

After invoking the January 6 Capitol riot during his State of the Union address, Joe Biden sought to connect the riot to the attack on Paul Pelosi.
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Politics | Debunking Lies

NGOs Blame the Victims: A False “Massacre” in Jenin and “Legitimate Resistance” outside a Jerusalem Synagogue

NGO responses to the terrorist attack in Jerusalem and counter-terror operations in Jenin reflect an immoral agenda that stands in direct contradiction to the human rights mandate that they and their funder-enablers claim.

Politics | Donald Trump

Fact check: False claim about Trump's tax returns, salary donation

Multiple federal agencies told USA TODAY that Trump did donate his presidential salary, though that is not reflected in his tax returns.

Politics | Politics

Fact check: Biden makes false and misleading claims in economic speech - CNNPolitics

President Joe Biden delivered a Thursday speech to hail economic progress during his administration and to attack congressional Republicans for their proposals on the economy and the social safety net.

Politics | Joe Biden/Biden Administration

9 Times Someone ‘F—d With a Biden’ and Got Away With It

What happened: President Joe Biden dropped an F-bomb during a conversation with Ray Murphy, mayor of Fort Myers Beach. "No one fucks with a Biden," he told the mayor following a press conference to discuss recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Ia

Politics | Op-Ed

Biden's Remarks Were a Mess, But He Got Nailed for It Big Time Twice During the Speech

Biden's brain breaks mid-remark and he doesn't have any idea at all what he's saying.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Sheikh Jarrah property dispute and the false claim of Israeli land discrimination

The claim that Israeli law permits Jews to reclaim ownership of lands they owned prior to 1948 but denies Palestinians such a right is false in every particular. 

News | News

Fact Check: 'The mess we inherited': Biden leans heavily on Trump's 'Warp Speed' but won't give credit - ABC News

President Joe Biden is taking credit for accelerating the vaccine rollout, without giving credit to former President Donald Trump's team that laid the groundwork.

News | News

Democracy Dies In Darkness? Washington Post Refuses To Track Biden’s Presidential Lies, Falsehoods

The Washington Post has announced it will effectively cease its fact-checking operation where the Biden administration is concerned. According to

News | News

Fact Check: Did Military Play 'Hit the Road Jack' Outside White House on Trump's Last Day?

On Donald Trump's last day as president, social media was full of memes and posts to mark the end of his term.

Politics | 2024 Election

Fact Check: Kamala Harris Lies 4 Times About Trump and Racism on '60 Minutes'

Kamala Harris repeated several disproven claims about Trump. Ironically, she attacked Joe Biden for racial insensitivity during the primary.

History | History

Vice Presidential Debate: Kamala Harris' Dishonesty on Abe Lincoln

Harris claimed at the VP debate that Abraham Lincoln refused to nominate a candidate for Chief Justice in October 1864 because "Honest Abe said, it's not the right thing to do" and wanted the people to vote first. Lincoln, of course, said no such thing.

Politics | Leftist Lies

FACT CHECK: Did Hunter Biden Get Kicked Out of the Military for Drugs? (Spoiler: Yes)

During the first presidential debate Joe Biden denied President Trump’s charge that his son, Hunter Biden, was dishonorably discharged from the military for drug use.

Politics | 2024 Election

Fact Check: Trump Paid Tens of Millions of Dollars in Taxes

The blockbuster expose by the New York Times revealed that Trump paid tens of millions of dollars in taxes during the years in question. | 2020 Election

Politics | 2024 Election

Fact Check: Joe Biden Claims to Not Support Green New Deal

Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to not support the Green New Deal during Tuesday's presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.

Politics | Media Watch

Facebook Fact-Checker: Trump ‘Did NOT Urge People to Inject Disinfectants’

A Facebook fact-checking partner determined that President Donald Trump did not tell people to inject themselves with disinfectants to cure the coronavirus. Lead Stories, a fact-checking outlet run by former CNN employees, took a video from popular Facebo

Politics | Politics

Facebook Fact Checker Debunks New Smear Against Trump From Media, Democrats: ‘Factually Inaccurate’

A Facebook fact checker intervened this weekend to stop the latest smear against President Donald Trump from the media and members of the Democratic Party after they falsely claimed that the president called the coronavirus a “hoax.” Facebook

Science & Technology | Technology

Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook.

Politics | Donald Trump

Fact-Checkers Work To Tear Down Trump's Big Wall Speech, But There Are Some Big Problems

The Washington Post isn't trying very hard to hide its partisan bias in its fact-check on President Trump's Oval Office address on border security and illegal immigration.

Politics | Politics

FACT CHECK: Did Clapper Get ‘Caught Lying To Congress’?

President Donald Trump claimed that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper "famously got caught lying to Congress" in a Thursday tweet.

Miscellaneous | Social Media

How Facebook’s Fact-Checking Partnership Will Work

A team of about six people will draw on the resources of ABC News to get to the bottom of questionable articles, said James Goldston, the president of ABC News.

Politics | Other Politics

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech to the Detroit Economic Club

Donald Trump's economic speech was filled with facts and figures, but they were not always reliable.

Politics | From CNN

Democratic convention speeches Day 2: CNN's Reality Check Team vets the claims - CNNPolitics.com

The Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia on Tuesday for the second night of its convention, and CNN's Reality Check Team put the speakers' statements and assertions to the test.

Politics | Politics

Actually, a US president did host an Israeli PM just before elections

Denying it is snubbing Netanyahu, White House cites 'long-standing practice' of not inviting candidates close to polling day. So what was Clinton doing with Peres in 1996?

News | That's News to Me

FACT CHECK: Obama's claims on illegal immigration

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made some notable omissions in his remarks about the unilateral actions he's taking on immigration.