President Biden exaggerated the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during a CNN town hall 'You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,' he said. It's rare for people who are vaccinated to contract it, but it does happen. July 23, 2021 Amy Sherman
The argument over content moderation is ‘missing context’ Researchers argue the debate about free speech versus online harm requires a better understanding of how social media feeds us information July 22, 2021 Harrison Mantas
Tomi Lahren misrepresents COVID-19 survival chances for those with and without a vaccine A Facebook post from the conservative commentator leaves out the fact that vaccination substantially reduces the risk of infection. July 22, 2021 Tom Kertscher
Tucker Carlson spins a web of misleading claims as he alleges ‘meaningful voter fraud’ in Georgia The Fox News host suggested that an alarm that sounded at a Fulton County elections warehouse in May 2021 could be proof of fraud in the 2020 election July 21, 2021 Bill McCarthy
Trump’s claim about Arizona mail-in ballots is based on a misunderstanding of early voting Trump claimed that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots in Maricopa County were improperly counted without a record of them having been sent to voters July 20, 2021 Tom Kertscher
Are state legislators really seeking power to overrule voters? President Biden claimed that legislators want to be able to overturn voters' will. His charge wasn’t as clear cut as he made it sound. July 19, 2021 Louis Jacobson
Suspended from social media, Donald Trump has found a new, old way to spread falsehoods He's headlined political conferences, hosted rallies, held a press conference, given media interviews and issued written statements. July 16, 2021 Miriam Valverde
Here are Twitter’s most prolific citizen fact-checkers Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking platform Birdwatch is improving. Meet the non-journalists fighting misinformation on it. July 15, 2021 Alex Mahadevan
Trump said there were ‘no guns whatsoever’ at the Capital riot. But some defendants were armed, documents show. Some of the more than 430 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol brought guns onto Capitol grounds. July 15, 2021 Gabrielle Settles
CNN did not report that President Biden authorized U.S. intervention in Haiti after assassination An image being shared on Facebook that appears to be a screenshot of a CNN news story is not authentic. July 14, 2021 Ciara O'Rourke
