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18 fact-checks for “pemilu OR pilpres OR capres OR kpu OR election”
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Did President Barack Obama Settle 70,000 Somali Refugees in Minnesota, Leading to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Election?
Even if Obama had resettled that many Somali refugees in the state (he didn’t), Omar won by nearly three times that amount of votes.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 13, 2019
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Does Passage of HR1 Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Vote?
Another sourceless, citation-free Facebook status update is spreading disinformation about immigrants voting.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 14, 2019
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Do New Chicago City ID Cards Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Vote?
A text-based viral status update recycles an old, false claim about Chicago’s CityKey identification cards giving its recipients the ability to vote in state and federal elections.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 7, 2019
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Are Members of a Refugee Caravan Defiling American Flags on Their Way to the United States?
Various photographs purporting to show members of a caravan of asylum-seekers en route to the United States border were stolen and repurposed from unrelated protests.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 6, 2018
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Did a CNN Reporter Assault a White House Employee?
Rumors appeared about Jim Acosta after a woman tried to take away his microphone during a press conference.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 7, 2018
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Did Sen. Kamala Harris Use an Affair With a Married Man to Launch Her Career?
Rumors that the California Democrat used a relationship with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown to launch her political career years later are mostly fiction.
Truth or Fiction · English · Dec 22, 2017
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Was Michael Cohen Hillary Clinton’s ‘Personal Lawyer’?
The disinformation around Donald Trump’s former legal counsel and fixer has officially begun.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 1, 2019
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United States President Barack Obama Banned Nativity Scenes at the White House?
False claims that President Obama banned nativity scenes at the White House have been circulating since 2009 — and they persist today.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 24, 2017
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President Trump Ends Barack Obama’s ‘Vacation Scam’?
A rumor that United States President Donald Trump “cracked down” on his predecessor Barack Obama’s “vacation scam” or sent the former president a bill for vacations that weren’t part of official state business reappears on social media periodically.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jun 7, 2017
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Did ‘Migrants’ Demand $50,000 Each to Leave the United States?
Two migrant groups purportedly made requests of the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, but many stories about them lacked necessary context.
Truth or Fiction · English · Dec 13, 2018
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‘Muslim Invasion: UK Overrun’ Chain Emails
Chain anti-Muslim emails that have circulated for years have been effectively weaponized into corrosive disinformation online, and the claims they make are false, but tenacious. We found the central theme of the emails — that the U.K.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jun 15, 2017
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Did Taxpayers Foot the Bill for the Trump Family’s Dinner at His Property While Furloughed Workers Went Unpaid?
A meme about taxpayers paying for a Trump dinner during a government shutdown is wrong in a number of ways.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jan 25, 2019
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President Richard Nixon Pardoned John McCain of War Crimes?
Rumors appeared in 2017 that the former Arizona senator had confessed to war crimes and to committing treason during the Vietnam War, but that he was later pardoned.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jul 25, 2017
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Facts Meme
An “Occupy Democrats” meme makes a number of claims about the achievements of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 27, 2019
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‘What If the Government Funded Adoptions Instead of Abortions?’
A fast-moving Facebook meme suggested that the government funds abortions (but ought to fund adoption instead.)
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 4, 2019
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Did Texas Ranchers Find ‘Prayer Rugs’ Near the U.S.-Mexico Border?
A presidential tweet referenced a dubious story reiterated a long-circulating, never-proven rumor that has been used to bolster claims that the Islamic State is attempting to gain entry to the United States.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jan 18, 2019
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Do Border Signs Admit the United States Has Lost Control of Border Territory?
What’s up with that picture of scary border signs circulating on social media?
Truth or Fiction · English · Feb 21, 2019
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‘Clinton Body Count’ Rumors
A list of people associated with the Clintons who have died originated in the mid-1990s with an organization that made a name for itself in the conspiracy theory world.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 17, 2015
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