Ok everyone, last one before the big one.
I’m monitoring for false and misleading information around the final presidential #debates
See something? DM are open or email me 📩jane.lytvynenko@buzzfeed.com. On Insta? Send tips to: instagram.com/janelytvynenko
I’m monitoring for false and misleading information around the final presidential #debates
See something? DM are open or email me 📩jane.lytvynenko@buzzfeed.com. On Insta? Send tips to: instagram.com/janelytvynenko
1. Trump repeated a false claim about covid-19 recovery rates that has been circulating online all summer.
Here's the PolitiFact fact-check of the 99% recovery rate claim:
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
Here's the PolitiFact fact-check of the 99% recovery rate claim:
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
2. A fact-check from my colleague on the $3.5 million claim from Trump:
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1319452150481719299
3. The Times did a great breakdown of the falsehoods around the Biden/Ukraine scandal back in 2019.
Trump just repeated much of them during the debate.
nytimes.com/2019/10/29/bus…
Trump just repeated much of them during the debate.
nytimes.com/2019/10/29/bus…
4. Sure, I can fact check this, thanks for asking!
According to this detailed debunk, the $1.5 billion is exaggerated and without evidence. It's complex, so read through:
factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps…
According to this detailed debunk, the $1.5 billion is exaggerated and without evidence. It's complex, so read through:
factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps…
6. This sounds like "go ahead" to me, not "good"
https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/1319462188990500866
7. Lots of people are challenging the claim that the "pigs in a blanket" chant Trump referred to is a BLM chant.
According to this fact-check, the words were chanted in 2015 — before Trump's time — by a group unaffiliated with the official BLM movement. cnn.com/2020/07/02/pol…
According to this fact-check, the words were chanted in 2015 — before Trump's time — by a group unaffiliated with the official BLM movement. cnn.com/2020/07/02/pol…
8. We fact-checked Trump's "windmills cause cancer" thing back in 2019.
He's been making it since 2012, in part during a time when he was fighting a wind farm meant to be installed near two of his golf courses:
buzzfeednews.com/article/danver…
He's been making it since 2012, in part during a time when he was fighting a wind farm meant to be installed near two of his golf courses:
buzzfeednews.com/article/danver…
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