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FactChecking Pence’s Presidential Announcement June 8, 2023

Mike Pence formally jumped into the 2024 presidential race on June 7, becoming the first vice president in 83 years to challenge a president under whom he served. We fact-checked his remarks on the day he announced his candidacy. The post FactChecking Pence’s Presidential Announcement appeared first on FactCheck.org.

FactChecking Chris Christie’s Presidential Announcement June 7, 2023

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie kicked off his campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination with a June 6 town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. We fact-checked his remarks, which included false or misleading claims about former President Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner, whom Christie attacked several times. The post FactChecking Chris Christie’s […]

What VAERS Can and Can’t Do, and How Anti-Vaccination Groups Habitually Misuse Its Data June 6, 2023

For decades, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, has been exploited by people opposed to vaccination. Here, we’ll explain how VAERS works and run through five misconceptions that anti-vaccination activists wield to mislead people about vaccines. The post What VAERS Can and Can’t Do, and How Anti-Vaccination Groups Habitually Misuse Its Data appeared first on […]

FactChecking Haley’s CNN Town Hall June 5, 2023

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley -- a former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump's administration -- made a few false and misleading statements in a June 4 town hall on CNN. The post FactChecking Haley’s CNN Town Hall appeared first on FactCheck.org.

A Florida School Restricted Access to Amanda Gorman’s Poem, But Didn’t ‘Ban’ It June 5, 2023

Following a parent's complaint, one K-8 school in Florida restricted access to a poem by Amanda Gorman that she had read at the 2021 presidential inauguration. The school moved the book in its library to a shelf for upper-grade students only. But social media posts falsely claimed Miami-Dade County had "banned" the book in all […]

Biden Officials Have Taken Oaths of Office, Contrary to Social Media Claim June 2, 2023

Officials serving in President Joe Biden's administration have taken their oaths of office, and most can be seen in videos from their swearing-in ceremonies. But a video circulating on social media falsely suggests that they haven't been sworn in and are "acting as elected officials without swearing an allegiance to the Constitution." The post Biden […]