CLAIM: A new order from the Biden administration directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to release all detained immigrants immediately.

CLAIM: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to eliminate at least 3 billion people in the world, starting in Africa, in a plot involving vaccines.

Joe 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,...

CLAIM: 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. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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.

CLAIM: 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.  

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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....

CLAIM: 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...

A 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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. 

CLAIM: 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.

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: Photo shows young people in Uganda stopping a policeman from stealing a ballot box during the country’s presidential election on Thursday.

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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.

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: During television election coverage of the Georgia Senate runoff races, 32,000 votes disappeared from GOP Sen. David Perdue’s vote count. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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,...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: A registered nurse named Khalilah Mitchell in Nashville, Tennessee, received the COVID-19 vaccine and developed Bell’s palsy because of it. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: University of Florida researchers found “no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of Covid” in a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

CLAIM: 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...

A 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...

CLAIM: 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.

CLAIM: 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. 

CLAIM: 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...

CLAIM: 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.

CLAIM: 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...