2021 marked another year of brazenly slanted media coverage, and the "fact-checking" industry, who've long cast themselves as impartial arbiters of truth, was no exception. With former President Trump ...

At Snopes, our process for deciding what topics to fact check is pretty simple: We monitor burgeoning rumors across media platforms and rank them by whether they show signs of future virality and/or ...

The year couldn't come to an end without Time magazine's announcement of its 2021 Person of the Year. This year the magazine announced it chose billionaire Elon Musk for "creating solutions to an ...

Snopes' team of fact checkers spent much of 2021 closely analyzing photos or videos of U.S. President Joe Biden to see whether he had committed a social faux pas. Below is a sampling of those fact ...

A video of crowds gathering in 2021 at an NBA watch party in Wisconsin has been reshared online to falsely claim it shows people in April protesting against U.S. President Donald Trump and his ...

• Biden accurately cited the raw number of jobs created and the fact that it was bigger than any previous year for which data is available. • However, looking at the percentage increase — a fairer way ...

Shortly after 2 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Donald J. Trump breached the U.S. Capitol, turning the seat of American democracy into the scene of an unforgettable crime. Inside, lawmakers ...

A 2021 video of dark cloud formations filmed at a beach in Florida was shared online with false captions saying it showed footage shot ahead of Hurricane Milton in October 2024. Milton made landfall ...

Low attendance at Biden’s 2021 inauguration? This video omits key context If Your Time is short The audience size at President Joe Biden’s Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration was limited because of concerns ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters breached the U.S. Capitol building, temporarily disrupting the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election win. The Biden administration has ...