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1Jan 8, '22"Mass formation psychosis," an unfounded theory spreading online, suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas to combat COVID-19. Psychology 17.2×03k1.4k604
2Aug 13, '22The National Archives maintains millions of unclassified documents from former President Obama’s administration at a facility in Chicago. Obama did not take the records himself, no17×011k4.6k322
3Nov 7, '20This week's #APFactCheck focuses on President Trump's comments questioning election integrity. Trump produced no evidence of systematic problems in voting or counting. In fact, the16.1×06.6k2k160
4Oct 16, '19#APFactCheck: Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that the "principal reason" for losing jobs has been bad trade policy. Economists mostly blame those job losses on automation and robots, n12.3×010k2.9k108
5Nov 21, '19#APFactCheck: President Trump falsely claims that he opened an Apple plant Wednesday in Texas. The plant has been in business for years.12.2×06.7k4.3k60
6Aug 22, '20Trump's claim the Democrats omitted God from The Pledge of Allegiance distorts what happened. "Under God" was included in the pledge recited on all four convention nights and omitt12.2×05.4k2.9k102
7Nov 1, '20“Hello, Minnesota!” That’s how Joe Biden greeted a crowd at a campaign stop. Which makes sense, because he was, in fact, in Minnesota — contrary to a widely shared video that was a10.3×06.4k2.8k144
8Sep 29, '21Posts continue to circulate online falsely claiming that COVID-19 survivors don’t need vaccines because of natural immunity. In fact, that protection is variable and not long-lasti9.7×01.7k1.2k242
9Jul 23, '21A claim circulating online falsely suggests that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blocked the National Guard from coming to lawmakers’ defense during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capit9.4×04.9k3.1k215
10Apr 23, '22As the U.S. looks ahead to the 2022 midterms, false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election continue to spread. Despite the ongoing claims to the contrary, the8.9×02.7k1.5k111
11Oct 13, '22Pfizer never claimed to have tested the impact of its COVID-19 vaccine on transmission ahead of its 2020 release, despite misleading claims suggesting the company lied about this i8.7×01.9k921499
12May 7, '21An online claim that Pfizer admits vaccinated people can "shed" the COVID-19 vaccine to unvaccinated people is false. COVID-19 vaccines cannot spread between people. Posts making t8.1×03.4k2.2k277
13Nov 6, '20An #APFactCheck reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting. READ MORE:7.9×05.6k2.4k187
14Feb 24, '22Social media users are sharing a photo of a fiery explosion with false claims it shows Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. It actually shows Israeli air strikes in Gaza in 2021. Here 7.5×04.4k2.3k256
15May 3, '22A new film fails to support its claim that it uncovered proof of a ballot collection scheme in the 2020 election. The film is based on faulty assumptions and an improper analysis o6.9×01.2k756120
16Oct 4, '22Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a DNC event about distributing equitable resources to help with the effects of climate change. She did not say that Hurricane Ian relief will 6.7×01.3k697117
17Nov 15, '20President Trump has wrongly claimed that Georgia elections officials can't verify signatures on absentee ballot envelopes because of a legal settlement. Georgia's secretary of stat6.7×04.3k1.6k79
18Oct 27, '22A video circulating online has been altered to make it appear that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer a question on oil companies, and promptly ended 5.9×02.7k2k97
19Sep 18, '20An #APFactCheck reviews Joe Biden's distortion of President Trump's words on virus "hoax." MORE on the coronavirus:5.2×02k1.1k118
20Nov 7, '20A video viewed millions of times on Twitter falsely claims to show an Atlanta poll worker crumpling up an absentee ballot. An election official says the worker did no such thing — 4.8×02.9k1.2k133
21May 31, '20Officials have seen a surge of social media accounts that have fewer than 200 followers created in the last month, a textbook sign of a disinformation effort.4.4×02.3k1.7k72
22Aug 11, '21Experts say you’re highly unlikely to OD on fentanyl just by being near the drug, after a misleading video claimed that happened to a San Diego County sheriff’s deputy. Now, the sh4.4×02.2k889179
23Aug 27, '21An anti-vaccine website is distorting a study out of Vietnam to falsely claim vaccinated individuals carry more coronavirus than those who are unvaccinated. Get the facts.4.2×02k1.4k203
24Feb 9, '22No, the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not the father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The well-worn piece of false news has reemerged on social media amid protests in4.2×070823683
25Feb 2, '22Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn’t post on Facebook telling people to avoid texting and calling unvaccinated friends and family. The post was fabricated. Here are the fa4.0×01.4k78473
26Jan 27, '22Experts say a U.K. report shows vaccine-induced immunity working properly in those who later get COVID-19 — contrary to a professor's claim that it shows the vaccines are “damaging4.0×02k1.1k386
27Oct 27, '21Updating your voicemail’s outgoing message requires service or a connection. But a “tip” that’s been widely shared on social media wrongly claims people can do so when stranded wit4.0×02k1.2k186
28Jul 8, '22Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan who was assassinated on Friday, did not tweet about Hillary Clinton the day before he died. A screenshot purporting to show such a tw4.0×01.6k711114
29Feb 12, '22A screenshot of a CNN report has been altered to add a bogus chyron claiming Russia is waiting to capture U.S. weapons before invading Ukraine. The image was edited to place fake t3.7×01.5k1.1k104
30Aug 10, '22A major economic bill working its way through Congress would increase the ranks of the IRS — but wouldn't create a mob of armed auditors targeting middle-class taxpayers, as some R3.6×01.1k70175
31Aug 13, '21Yes, a video that’s circulating online does show someone setting a fire. But no, he wasn’t trying to start a wildfire and blame it on climate change. He was a firefighter applying 3.4×02.4k937164
32Nov 6, '20An #APFactCheck reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting. READ MORE:3.4×02.3k1.1k75
33Nov 19, '20President Donald Trump’s legal team presented a litany of falsehoods at a news conference, falsely claiming the U.S. election was tainted by fraud and blaming Hugo Chavez, German s3.3×01.6k63450
34Sep 15, '21There’s a simple explanation for a CNN clip that shows California recall votes disappearing from a live ticker. An employee at the polling firm that provides election data to CNN m3.3×084032774
35Oct 25, '22A manipulated video circulating online makes it appear that Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly claimed most people hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 are vaccinated. The audi3.1×01.2k87786
36Feb 17, '21With millions of Texans still without power amid frigid temperatures, false claims that wind and solar energy were primarily to blame spread across social media. But gas, coal and 3.0×01.8k1.1k60
37Feb 5, '20An #APFactCheck finds President Trump's portrayal of American renewal in his #StateoftheUnion speech drew on falsehoods about American energy supremacy, health care and the economy3.0×01.6k1.1k47
39Nov 17, '21A Pfizer official confirmed the wife of the company's CEO is alive and well, contrary to widely-shared social media posts. A blog known for publishing misinformation falsely claime2.7×01.4k81055
40Sep 14, '21Experts have debunked the claim that erectile dysfunction and swollen testicles are linked to COVID-19 vaccines. Rapper Nicki Minaj drew attention to the unfounded theory in a twee2.7×01.3k51853
41Nov 30, '21A clip of Jill Biden reading a book to students during a White House holiday event has been manipulated to insert audio of a child yelling a disparaging comment. But the first lady2.7×01k64769
42May 6, '21An #APFactCheck finds former President Donald Trump is wrong on many fronts as he continues to push falsehoods about widespread voter fraud and a stolen election, including the lie2.6×01.5k71853
43Oct 14, '22All ballots cast by mail or dropped off at a drop box are vetted for legitimacy. The specifics differ by state, but fraud is exceedingly rare. Mail ballots are among the most frequ2.5×087435642
44Nov 27, '21The WHO did skip two letters of the Greek alphabet when naming omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus. The agency said it did so to stop people confusing “nu” with “new” and to 2.4×01k48474
45Dec 24, '21Twitter users are sharing a headline purporting to be from a New York Times opinion piece calling on teachers to permit bullying against unvaccinated children. But no such story ex2.4×01.2k84956
46Jul 29, '22Social media posts have claimed without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were to blame for the recent deaths of three doctors in Canada. Two of the doctors had cancer and the third 2.4×077946668
47Oct 18, '21A social media post claiming to share images of grocery store shelves during Trump and Biden’s presidencies is misleading. The “Trump” photo was taken in Australia in 2012; the “Bi2.4×01.1k72457
48Dec 29, '21The Austrian city of Linz is hiring staff to process fines issued to those who flout the nation's planned COVID-19 vaccine mandate, not to hunt them down as social media users clai2.3×077636884
49Feb 9, '22Online posts this week are reviving an old false claim that wrongly attributes an increase in deaths in 2021 to COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say the coronavirus and deferred medical 2.3×084750581
50Aug 12, '22Social media users are sharing a manipulated image of an email from former President Trump, referring to the “nuke codes” as part of a fundraising tactic. The actual email containe2.3×083256657
51Jul 6, '22An image showing the suspect charged with killing seven people at a July 4 parade in a jail cell has been manipulated. In the edited image, shared by a U.S. congresswoman, the susp2.2×099258658
52Jul 20, '22Social media users are citing a months old study from Sweden to push the unproven theory that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines permanently alter recipients’ DNA. Experts, and the study autho2.2×0736408179
53Aug 17, '21Social media users tried to contrast life in Kabul before and during Taliban rule using images of a CNN reporter without and with a head covering. But they left out key context: On2.1×088736777
54Aug 18, '21A 2003 photo of three women walking behind a man was manipulated to add chains onto the women’s ankles. Also, social media users falsely claimed the photo showed Afghan women, but 2.1×01.3k65274
55Nov 16, '20President Trump's tweet Monday sought to perpetuate the mathematically impossible and thoroughly debunked myth that he pulled out a victory from the election that definitively chos2.0×01.6k48421
56Jun 19, '22Despite a fabricated screenshot circulating online, The Atlantic hasn't published an article with a headline describing President Joe Biden's bike fall as "heroism."2.0×074037046
57Oct 8, '20Pence says Trump administration has “a plan to improve health care and to protect preexisting conditions.” An #APFactCheck finds no clear plan and that people are already protected1.9×01.2k71014
58Aug 24, '21False claims have reemerged attempting to compare approval for thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects in the 1950s and 60s, with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. But those compari1.9×01k59082
59Aug 6, '21Posts saying Pfizer’s CEO canceled a trip because he was not fully vaccinated are missing an important piece of context: The trip was months ago, when vaccines were still rolling o1.9×01.1k45536
60May 27, '22An image purporting to show identical tweets from Sen. Ted Cruz after 12 mass shootings is fabricated. It includes a real message from Cruz following Tuesday’s school shooting in U1.8×067430154
61Aug 24, '21A news conference by Florida doctors encouraging the public to get vaccinated was not a "walkout" as many on social media claimed, nor did the physicians refuse to treat patients. 1.8×096360832
62Oct 23, '20The #APFactCheck team reviews Joe Biden's statement about health insurance. #Debates2020 Read more:1.7×01.3k49113
63Feb 7, '22Social media users are falsely trying to link a newly identified HIV variant to the COVID-19 vaccines. But the experts say the variant has been circulating for decades, and there i1.7×063140882
65Sep 6, '22Monday’s ruling granting Donald Trump’s request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago doesn’t show that President Biden ordered the search. Her1.6×079152535
66Oct 26, '22First lady Jill Biden’s remarks at a Diwali reception on Monday were not interrupted by a child cursing at her, despite what a video purportedly shows.1.6×085145332
67Jun 9, '22A widespread tweet falsely suggests that 5-year-old transgender children are receiving hormone treatments to transition. Experts say youth who haven’t reached puberty are offered s1.6×097931664
68Sep 13, '22The U.K. government hasn’t canceled all funerals scheduled for Sept. 19, the day that Queen Elizabeth II is set to be buried, contrary to misleading claims spreading online. Here a1.6×088644257
69Aug 9, '22A photo from a 2020 rally for former President Trump in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is circulating online with false claims that it’s of a rally Trump hosted in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last w1.6×058836427
70Jul 27, '22Twitter users are sharing a fabricated People magazine headline to spread the false claim that Klondike’s Choco Taco was discontinued due to "cultural appropriation" concerns. The 1.5×0783243115
71Nov 4, '22President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he launched his first campaign for Congress at Delaware State University, a historically Black college. He did not say he attended the 1.5×078533714
73Sep 16, '21Nobody’s VA health benefits are being taken away based on their COVID-19 vaccination status, as was suggested by a satirical article that many shared as real. It came from a site t1.5×069247041
74Nov 18, '21As the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial deliberated for a third day, social media users shared a photo of bricks they claimed were found nearby in Kenosha. But the image was taken 1.5×072851030
75Feb 1, '22Posts falsely claim Canadian law enforcement reported over 100,000 trucks and millions of people were in Ottawa last weekend to protest vaccine mandates. The agencies never issued 1.5×070240843
76Nov 4, '22Days before the midterm elections, copies of the "Arizona Catholic Tribune" landed in Phoenix-area mailboxes. It isn't a newspaper or affiliated with the church. The mailer and sim1.4×061352613
77Oct 16, '20An #APFactCheck reviews comments made by President Trump about masks, including at his town hall in Miami. Read more:1.4×09464559
78Nov 10, '20A wide range of false claims have circulated online about Dominion Voting Systems since a tabulation mistake was identified and corrected in Michigan — even though it was caused by1.4×065130344
79Jul 11, '22Social media users are spreading false claims that the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election results. The court has made no such decision and is on 1.4×071243723
80Jun 11, '22A bill passed by the House this week would ban manufacturing or selling privately made firearms without serial numbers, known as ghost guns. It wouldn’t criminalize disassembling a1.3×063429634
81Nov 11, '20An #APFactCheck finds that President Trump is repeating baseless claims of voter fraud. He is also wrongly asserting the Pfizer Inc. vaccine news was delayed until after Election D1.3×088036919
82Apr 26, '22Social media users are making misleading claims about the reason Ghislaine Maxwell’s federal criminal trial was not televised, while the civil trial of Johnny Depp’s libel lawsuit 1.3×076225960
83Apr 4, '22Social media users are sharing an edited, poor-quality video of bodies in the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, falsely claiming it shows them moving. An analysis of the original clip sho1.2×064340840
84May 12, '22Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani are ongoing, despite false claims that the cases had been resolved.1.2×07584217
85Nov 17, '21False theories spread online about why the presidential seal was blurred in a recent video of President Joe Biden. But there’s nothing mysterious behind it: Federal law limits how 1.2×060532129
86Jan 22, '20At President Trump's impeachment trial, his defense team got some facts about the impeachment hearings wrong and misrepresented some of Robert Mueller's findings in a report on 2011.2×056840814
87Nov 2, '20There’s a reason Joe Biden was on a plane without a mask in a photo that’s circulating online: It was taken in 2019. Some social media users suggested the lack of a mask was hypocr1.2×099428810
88Nov 4, '20The ink on the ballots had barely dried when the claims began to spread online: Supposedly, the Sharpie pens that some Arizona voters used to mark their votes were ruining ballots 1.2×098627221
89Sep 30, '21A photo that social media users falsely claimed showed the Taliban hanging a man in Afghanistan actually shows a suicide attempt that occurred in 2018. Get the facts from @AP.1.2×0698252118
90Nov 10, '20There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Yet falsehoods about dead people voting and ballots being thrown out by poll workers are still thriving on social med1.2×076334117
91Aug 13, '21A social media post claiming to show Harvard "terminated" an admitted student due to social media activity is a hoax. Get the facts.1.1×062331873
92Feb 26, '22Social media users are sharing a video of a 2015 warehouse fire in China to falsely claim it shows a fiery explosion in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion. @AP has the facts.1.1×062743920
93Mar 31, '20President Trump is making premature assertions about the coronavirus death rate in the U.S. and revising history about how seriously he viewed the threat, including the need for ve1.1×061139521
94Apr 24, '18#APFactCheck: When Trump rails against Obama administration for 'giving' billions to Iran, he neglects to mention the money was Iran's to begin with.1.1×06164012
95Jan 20, '21President Trump has delivered farewell remarks to the nation as he prepares for Wednesday's transfer of power to Joe Biden. An @APFactcheck finds that Trump twisted his record and 1.1×063027323
96Apr 8, '22Social media posts falsely claim former Judge Janice Rogers Brown was the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court. Brown was nominated to a federal appeals court in 2003, 1.0×065126930
97Aug 14, '20.@AP Fact Check: Yes, Kamala Harris is legally eligible to serve as U.S. vice president or president. False claims to the contrary that have long circulated on social media have bu1.0×06962898
98Jul 16, '21No, Arizona’s largest county did not count tens of thousands of mysteriously unaccounted-for ballots in the 2020 election. A false claim about supposed extra ballots is based on a 1.0×068627522
99Jan 6, '21An #APFactCheck makes clear that Vice President Mike Pence has no authority to send election results back to the states for a do-over when he presides over the congressional tally 0.9×07072445
100Nov 11, '20There’s nothing new about claims that dead people voted — the allegation comes up around every presidential election. In 2020, there’s no evidence that it happened. @arijetalajka h0.9×062621417

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