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O.J. Simpson, a football star who was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, died of cancer on April 10 at age 76. Misinformation spread online within hours of the news. Social me...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/scicheck-o-j-simpson-died-from-cancer-not-covid-19-vaccine/

A claim on social media misrepresents the number of people who have registered to vote in three states in 2024 and suggests the new voters are immigrants in the country illegally. There have ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/viral-claim-inflates-number-of-new-voters-in-three-states/

As a primer for the 2024 election, here's our guide to the top 10 falsehoods and distortions -- so far -- in terms of Trump's and Biden's propensity to repeat them. The post Familiar Claims in ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/familiar-claims-in-a-familiar-presidential-race/

In a video statement outlining his position on abortion, former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that "all legal scholars, both sides, wanted and in fact demanded" that Roe v. Wade "be ende...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/trumps-false-claim-about-roe/

Small amounts of aluminum have been used for many decades to strengthen the immune response to vaccines. Exposure to high levels of aluminum has been associated with brain and bone problems, but ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/scicheck-posts-raise-unfounded-concerns-about-aluminum-in-vaccines/

During a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump pointed to a chart on apprehensions of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally at the southwest border. "See the arrow on ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/trumps-misleading-chart-on-illegal-immigration/

Women are having fewer children today than in the past globally, but experts say that’s by choice and it doesn’t mean “we are facing a crisis in reproductive health,” as Nicole Shanahan, ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/scicheck-shanahan-misleads-on-womens-fertility-trends/

Former President Donald Trump attended the wake for slain New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller and met with his family. But social media posts make the unsupported claim that Trump paid o...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/posts-make-unsupported-claim-about-trump-donation-for-slain-officer/

Both Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility happened to fall on March 31 this year. President Joe Biden recognized both occasions, as he has done every year in office. But some social m...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/partisan-controversy-over-easter-and-transgender-day-of-visibility/

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who won a civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump, has a net worth of about $2.7 million, her most recent financial disclosure statement ...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/social-media-posts-inflate-net-worth-of-n-y-attorney-general/