Claims Database
Every claim we have reviewed, fully sourced, adjudicated, and on the record.
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84 claims
| Figure | Network | Claim | Type | Verdict | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | The original White House ballroom project price was $200 million, and the double-size, highest-quality completed project will be something less than $400 million. | Attribution | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Approximately 1,100 Afghan refugees, many of whom contributed to the United States' war effort, may now be sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo or back to Afghanistan. | Other | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Three cruise ship passengers have died from hantavirus, three others who are sick were evacuated, and two others are hospitalized. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Senate Republicans added $1 billion for White House East Wing security enhancements as part of an ICE and Border Patrol funding bill. | Event | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | A carrier-based F-18 fighter strafed and crippled an Iranian-flagged oil tanker after it failed to comply with repeated warnings. | Event | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | The president said a deal could be reached in a week, according to Fox's Bret Baier, who spoke by phone with him. | Attribution | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Central Command says American forces blew up six small Iranian boats in the strait. | Attribution | True | → |
| Bret Baier | Fox News | Three sick passengers from a cruise ship have been evacuated to Holland and three others have died from a rare virus outbreak. | Event | True | → |
| Bret Baier | Fox News | The Nasdaq surged 513 points to its highest finish ever. | Statistic | True | → |
| Bret Baier | Fox News | The S&P 500 finished ahead 106 points for another record close. | Statistic | True | → |
| Bret Baier | Fox News | The Dow rose 612 points today. | Statistic | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Three cruise ship passengers have died and at least three others are sick after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondias. | Event | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Oil today hit $114 a barrel, and a gallon of gas now stands at $4.46, up almost $1.50 since the war began. | Statistic | True | → |
| Anderson Cooper | CNN | Iran conducted a drone strike today on the port city of Fujairah in the UAE, with video showing an oil terminal burning. | Event | True | → |
| Bret Baier | Fox News | A Chinese national named Jia Beiju sold more than a million COVID tests for nearly $4 million through his California-based company. | Official Finding | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Two million regular people who invested in Trump meme coins lost a collective $4 billion. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Since the start of Trump's second administration, the president's net worth has tripled. | Attribution | Mostly True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Trump declared in a letter to Congress that hostilities that began on February 28, 2026 have terminated. | Event | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | A Reuters poll found that 77% of registered voters blame Trump for the recent rise in gas prices. | Polling | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Only 19% of Americans say that the actions the United States has taken in Iran have been successful. | Polling | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | A Washington Post poll found that 61% of Americans think Trump's war in Iran was a mistake. | Polling | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | The average price of a gallon of gas in the United States was $4.39 on May 1, 2026, up nine cents from the previous day. | Statistic | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | A Secret Service agent was shot in his bulletproof vest during the White House Correspondents' Dinner incident | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | The first Trump prison camp planned to open in Williamsport, just outside Hagerstown, Maryland, was stopped by a lawsuit brought by the state of Maryland. | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Congressman Tom Kaine's last vote in Congress was on March 5th, and he has not been seen in Washington for almost two months | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Congressman Tom Kaine has been actively trading stocks since his disappearance from Washington and personally certified the stock trade disclosures via digital signature | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Indivisible and more than 600 groups are organizing a nationwide day of economic disruption called May Day Strong on Friday, May 1st. | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Kristi Noem, former Homeland Security Secretary, has been refusing to leave a waterfront home reserved for the Coast Guard commandant since being fired in early March | Attribution | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | A man armed with guns and knives breached security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton and was charged with attempted assassination of President Trump | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Louisiana Republicans are delaying the primaries for House races originally set for May 16th, even though early voting was set to begin Saturday and overseas ballots and mail ballots had already been sent out. | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Maine's Governor Janet Mills suspended her Democratic Senate primary campaign, citing a lack of financial resources. | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Graham Platner has a tattoo from 2007 that he has acknowledged is a Totenkopf Nazi symbol that he has since had covered up. | Attribution | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Eight states have now approved changes to their congressional maps. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | An AI chatbot provided detailed instructions to a microbiologist on how to modify a virus to create a superbug resistant to every known treatment and how to release it for maximum casualties. | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | The Florida State University shooting resulted in two people killed and seven others wounded. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Phoenix Eichner asked ChatGPT about the safety mechanism on a Remington 12 gauge shotgun on April 17th, 2025, and later that same day carried out a mass shooting at Florida State University. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Only one person has been approved for President Trump's Gold Card Visa program, which costs $1 million, despite claims of $1.3 billion in applications within days of launch. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | American journalist Shelley Kittleson was kidnapped by a pro-Iran militia in Iraq on March 31st and released a week later. | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | This marks King Charles's 19th trip to the United States and his first formal state visit as the British monarch. | Other | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | A U.S. Special Forces soldier was charged with making more than $400,000 from an online prediction market by betting on the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using insider information. | Official Finding | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | It has been 87 years since a royal garden party was held at this location, with the last one in 1939 hosted by Queen Elizabeth and her father King George VI. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | The attempted assassination of President Trump occurred two days before this broadcast at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | The suspect in the assassination attempt, 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen, had his first appearance in federal court today. | Event | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | The suspect was charged with attempting to assassinate the president, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, and transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce. | Official Finding | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | The suspect left California for Washington, D.C. by train on Tuesday, before Jimmy Kimmel told a joke on Thursday night. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The USS Boxer will join with 4,500 Marines and sailors and a fresh fleet of Ospreys. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | Three aircraft carriers, the USS Ford, USS Lincoln, and USS Bush are in theater for the first time in two decades. | Event | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The three aircraft carriers come with 200 aircraft on board and 15,000 sailors and Marines. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | A captured Iranian tanker was loaded with two million barrels of Iranian crude oil. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | Treasury froze $350 million in Iranian cryptocurrency. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | Iran's opposition has been on the streets seven times in recent years, including a few months ago with hundreds of thousands of people protesting. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The USS Chief and USS Pioneer, two Avenger class ships, have been dispatched from Southeast Asia and have surged into the region. | Event | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | A sailor aboard the USS Chief was scratched by a Macaque monkey during a stop in Thailand and is receiving medical care in Japan. | Event | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The Iranian shadow tanker Majestic X was loaded with two million barrels of Iranian crude when seized by U.S. Marines in the Indian Ocean. | Statistic | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | Central Command says 33 ships have been turned around due to the blockade. | Attribution | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 19 U.S. Marines have been wounded in the Iran conflict | Statistic | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 13 U.S. service members have been killed in the Iran war | Statistic | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 63 U.S. Navy sailors have been wounded in the Iran conflict | Statistic | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | 271 U.S. Army soldiers have been wounded in the Iran war | Statistic | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Virginia voters approved a newly drawn House district map that will boost Democrats' chances of gaining control of the chamber. | Attribution | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Trump's approval rating is down to 33 percent, with 67 percent disapproving, putting him underwater by 34 points according to a new AP poll. | Polling | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | 70 percent of Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of the economy, with only 30 percent approving, putting him 40 points underwater on this issue. | Polling | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on 11 counts including six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. | Official Finding | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The USS Sprawns became the first US Navy ship in almost 40 years to fire its deck gun at an enemy boat. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | After Charlottesville, SPLC donor contributions jumped from 50 million to 130 million in a single year. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | Gavin Newsom used over one million dollars in donor cash to purchase his own book. | Statistic | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Every U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge has attended at least one White House Correspondents' Dinner, except the current president Donald Trump. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | In early 2016, the U.S. paid a $1.7 billion legal settlement to Iran related to military equipment from the 1970s. | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | More than 250 veteran American journalists signed a petition to the White House Correspondents' Association regarding the president's efforts to restrict freedom of the press. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | A round trip train ticket from New York to New Jersey for the World Cup will cost $150. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | New Jersey Transit is limiting the sale of train tickets to 40,000 per match. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | The first $400 million of the $1.7 billion Iran settlement was paid in early January 2016. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty filed two felony counts of second degree assault with a dangerous weapon against ICE officer Gregory Donald Morgan Jr. | Event | Mostly True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | Jared Kushner is attempting to raise $5 billion from Gulf states like Saudi Arabia. | Event | True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | Juries found Alex Jones liable for defamation in Sandy Hook cases, and families were ultimately awarded about $1.5 billion. | Official Finding | Mostly True | → |
| Rachel Maddow | MSNBC | A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration is enjoined from construction and renovation at the warehouse in Williamsport, Maryland for the purposes of operating it as a detention and processing facility | Official Finding | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | President Trump is considering the release of $20 billion in frozen Iranian assets as part of a deal to end the war with Iran. | Event | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The U.S. military has over 10,000 sailors, Marines, and airmen executing the quarantine. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | A federal prosecutor was removed from the investigation into John Brennan. | Event | True | → |
| Jesse Watters | Fox News | The U.S. Navy has turned away 19 ships since the start of the blockade. | Statistic | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | The IRS is in discussions with Donald Trump regarding a settlement for his $10 billion lawsuit against the agency. | Attribution | True | → |
| Jen Psaki | MSNBC | The Justice Department has agreed to pay former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn $1.25 million. | Official Finding | True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | A New York Times poll shows 57 percent of respondents do not approve of how President Trump is handling his presidency. | Polling | Mostly True | → |
| Jake Tapper | CNN | Iran announced it had reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic following a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. | Event | True | → |