No, Biden did not instruct ICE to release all detained immigrantsBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKJanuary 26, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A new order from the Biden administration directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to release all detained immigrants immediately.Bill Gates never said ‘3 billion people need to die’ By ALI SWENSONJanuary 26, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to eliminate at least 3 billion people in the world, starting in Africa, in a plot involving vaccines.Post peddles bogus claims of an illegitimate Biden presidencyBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 25, 2021 GMTJoe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20. He wielded the power of the office immediately, signing a series of executive orders on his first day. In other words,...ADVERTISEMENTPfizer phone message about vaccine approval misrepresentedBy BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 25, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Pfizer acknowledges on its own information line that its COVID-19 vaccine has not been fully approved or licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Tweet attributed to Black Lives Matter is fabricated By ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 25, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Black Lives Matter posted on its official Twitter account: “i’m starting to get a feelin that the Democratic Party used us...”AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Black Lives Matter official...The National Guard received no offer to stay at Trump Hotel in WashingtonBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK and ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 25, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Donald Trump invited National Guard members to stay at Trump Hotel in Washington so they don’t have to sleep in a cold parking garage. Post uses 4-year-old photo to criticize Biden on masksBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 22, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, celebrating with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her family during the week of Biden’s inauguration. No one in the photo is...Kamala Harris rested hand on Bibles, not a purse, during oathBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 21, 2021 GMTCLAIM: When Vice President Kamala Harris was sworn into office on Wednesday, she placed a black clutch purse on top of the Bible so she wouldn’t have to touch the holy book.ADVERTISEMENTTroops did not turn their backs on BidenBy BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 21, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Troops in Washington turned their backs on President Joe Biden’s motorcade as it passed on its way to his inauguration at the U.S. Capitol. Trump did not pardon Joe ExoticBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 21, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Donald Trump pardoned “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic before leaving office as president of the United States.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Joe Exotic did not appear on Trump’s pardon...Band did not play ‘Hit the Road Jack’ outside the White House By ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 20, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Military band played the song “Hit the Road Jack” outside of White House before Donald Trump said farewell to Washington. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The audio in the video was altered....Posts falsely cite Pelosi as responsible for security during Capitol insurrection By BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 20, 2021 GMTCLAIM: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is in charge of overseeing the Capitol Police, is responsible for security failures that allowed the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to...Video makes false claims about Insurrection Act, transfer of powerBy ALI SWENSON, ARIJETA LAJKA and JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKJanuary 20, 2021 GMTA nine-minute video that has thousands of shares on Facebook and other social media mimics an emergency broadcast alert while peddling false claims regarding the transfer of the presidency. The...Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman did not create Telegram channelBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 19, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, created a channel on the popular messaging app Telegram on Jan. 18 and has posted several dozen times there...Video altered in effort to make Biden appear confusedBy The Associated PressJanuary 17, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Video shows President-elect Joe Biden confused as he stops to pick up his notebook before leaving the stage after a news conference on Saturday. Woman in video at Capitol with arrested activist is not with CNNBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKJanuary 16, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A video shows a CNN reporter disguised herself as a Trump supporter and conspired with a Black Lives Matter activist to incite a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.Removal of gender-specific terms from House rules does not amount to a banBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 15, 2021 GMTCLAIM: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called herself a “wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter” on the floor of the House of Representatives this week after banning that type of gender-specific...FBI did not issue statement clearing Trump for Capitol insurrectionBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKJanuary 15, 2021 GMTCLAIM: The FBI has cleared President Donald Trump “of any guilt, any connection” to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no record of the federal law...ADVERTISEMENTPhoto of policeman struggling to hold ballot box in Uganda is from 2016By ALI SWENSONJanuary 14, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows young people in Uganda stopping a policeman from stealing a ballot box during the country’s presidential election on Thursday.Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807By BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 13, 2021 GMTCLAIM: It has been officially confirmed that the Insurrection Act has been secretly signed by President Donald Trump. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The president has not invoked the Insurrection...Videos do not show Capitol rioters on no-fly list that were removed from flights By ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 12, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Videos show Capitol rioters who were removed from flights because they are on the federal no-fly list. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. American Airlines reviewed two videos circulating...Letter from Pelosi to mayor of Portland, Oregon, was fabricatedBy BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 11, 2021 GMTCLAIM: In an August letter, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler to adhere to the Democratic playbook and blame President Donald Trump in response to riots and...Video of Trump family in tent was filmed before Capitol riot By ALI SWENSONJanuary 8, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Video shows President Donald Trump, members of his family and members of the Trump administration watching a screen and celebrating from a tent as rioters stormed into the U.S. Capitol...No truth to alleged ‘evidence’ that Capitol rioter was antifa activistBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 8, 2021 GMTCLAIM: The website PhillyAntifa.org shows a photo of a bearded man who resembles a man in the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, proving that the rioters in the Capitol were...Photo shows Pelosi’s son-in-law reporting on Capitol riotBy ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 7, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows Nancy Pelosi’s son-in-law with antifa member who breached U.S. Capitol. AP’S ASSESSMENT: Partly false. Dutch American journalist Michiel Vos, who is married to House...NPR headline not written before Trump supporters stormed CapitolBy BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 7, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A National Public Radio story headlined “Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, Clash With Police” was published on Wednesday at 9:33 a.m. before the insurrection, proof that the violence was...Photos show Trump supporter inside Capitol rioting, not antifa By JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK and ALI SWENSONJanuary 7, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A shirtless protester wearing a fur hat with horns who stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was an antifa activist, not a supporter of President Donald Trump.Photo does not show shredded ballots in Georgia By The Associated Press January 6, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows shredded ballots found in Dell boxes in Georgia as election workers count the vote. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photos being shared online do not show shredded...ADVERTISEMENTPerdue vote count changed on television due to data reporting errorBy ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 6, 2021 GMTCLAIM: During television election coverage of the Georgia Senate runoff races, 32,000 votes disappeared from GOP Sen. David Perdue’s vote count. Washington rally photo was from 2018, not TuesdayBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKJanuary 6, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A photo showing a huge crowd in the nation’s capital depicts a Jan. 5 rally of President Donald Trump’s supporters.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo was taken in 2018 and...No evidence COVID-19 vaccines lead to autoimmune diseaseBy BEATRICE DUPUYJanuary 5, 2021 GMTCLAIM: COVID-19 vaccines that rely on messenger RNA technology will teach the body to attack itself, leading to autoimmune disease. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no evidence that the...Assembly resolution can’t decertify election results in WisconsinBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 5, 2021 GMTCLAIM: A new resolution in the Wisconsin legislature will likely decertify the state’s election results and award its electoral college votes to President Donald Trump. Photo of Bay Area truck rally was taken in October 2020, not January 2021By ARIJETA LAJKAJanuary 5, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows convoy of Trump supporters heading to Washington, D.C., for protests in January.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo capturing a convoy of cars draped with Trump flags was...Most Georgians won’t pay 61 percent tax rate under proposed Democratic tax plan By AMANDA SEITZJanuary 5, 2021 GMTCLAIM: 61% - That’s the new tax rate many Georgians will live with if the Democratic tax plan passes.AP’S ASSESSMENT: Partly false. Many won’t see their taxes go up drastically under the...Photo doesn’t show cars driving to nation’s capital from CaliforniaBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 5, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows a caravan of cars traveling to Washington from California in early January in support of President Donald Trump.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. This photo shows a pro-Trump...Photos show emergency ballots, not fake ballots, in Georgia warehouseBy ALI SWENSONJanuary 4, 2021 GMTCLAIM: Photos show dozens of boxes of counterfeit ballots at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photos show legitimate emergency ballots, not fake ballots,...Brother of Georgia SOS is not a Chinese tech firm executiveBy AMANDA SEITZDecember 31, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has a brother, Ron, who works for a Chinese tech firm, Huawei. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Raffensperger’s office confirmed to The...No record of registered nurse who claims Bell’s palsy after vaccineBy ARIJETA LAJKADecember 31, 2020 GMTCLAIM: A registered nurse named Khalilah Mitchell in Nashville, Tennessee, received the COVID-19 vaccine and developed Bell’s palsy because of it. ADVERTISEMENTPosts falsely claim there are only 133 million registered voters in the USBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKDecember 29, 2020 GMTCLAIM: There are 133 million registered voters in the United States so if President Donald Trump got 74 million votes, President-elect Joe Biden could not have received 81 million...Photos show vaccinations being given, not staged eventsBy ARIJETA LAJKADecember 29, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Photo collage proves vaccinations were staged. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The collage contains four photos of people being given vaccines: two of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receiving...There were not more votes than voters in PennsylvaniaBy ALI SWENSONDecember 29, 2020 GMTCLAIM: There were 205,000 more votes than voters in the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. This analysis is based on incomplete data, according to the Pennsylvania...Nashville explosion caused by bomb, not missileBy The Associated PressDecember 29, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Video shows that Nashville explosion was caused by a missile or some kind of directed energy weapon. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The explosion was caused by a bomb inside of a parked...Posts misrepresent study examining household coronavirus transmissionBy JUDE JOFFE BLOCKDecember 28, 2020 GMTCLAIM: University of Florida researchers found “no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of Covid” in a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.AT&T not conducting voting machine audit near Nashville explosion siteBy ALI SWENSONDecember 28, 2020 GMTCLAIM: AT&T got a contract to do a forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems machines and those machines were recently moved to Nashville, Tennessee — to the same AT&T building that was damaged in...Lengthy video makes false claims about 2020 election By ALI SWENSON and JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKDecember 25, 2020 GMTA 93-minute video circulating online employs false claims and flawed logic to suggest that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and that an election technology firm and China were...No, Congress did not give itself a pay raise this yearBy JUDE JOFFE-BLOCKDecember 24, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Members of Congress gave themselves more than $40,000 in pay raises this year while only giving Americans $1,200 checks and voting to give just $600 more.Biden family does not own Dominion Voting SystemsBy ALI SWENSONDecember 23, 2020 GMTCLAIM: President-elect Joe Biden’s sister is married to Stephen Owens, the co-founder of the private equity firm Staple Street Capital, which owns Dominion Voting Systems. Photo of Pelosi at indoor gathering was taken last JanuaryBy ARIJETA LAJKADecember 22, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows Nancy Pelosi at an indoor party, defying COVID-19 restrictions. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The photo of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a gathering was taken last January in...Photo does not show John Roberts with Ghislaine MaxwellBy ALI SWENSONDecember 21, 2020 GMTCLAIM: Photo shows Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-girlfriend and longtime confidant of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, posing on a chair with United States Chief Justice John Roberts.Winning more counties doesn’t translate to an election win for TrumpBy ALI SWENSONDecember 21, 2020 GMTCLAIM: If you take away the states in question in the 2020 election, Trump won 25 states and Biden won 16. And Trump won 2496 counties to Biden’s 477, showing that Trump won 84% of America and...