Fact check: Trump repeats false claims during rally in Waco, Texas

CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday with a rally in Waco, Texas, that was reminiscent of his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. The rally comes as Trump is facing investigations in New York City over a hush money payment, in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election … Read more

African Schools Football Championship Fact Sheet for the 2022/23 Season

THE THREE PILLARS The CAF African Schools Programme is a development project that focuses on organised school football through the African Schools Football Championship that increase the social impact of football and build the capacity of participating countries through training programmes. There are three pillars to this project: THE GAME Nurturing football talent in a … Read more

Fox bosses ‘shut down’ fact checking with 2020 conspiracies, Dominion lawyer says

Wilmington, Delaware CNN  —  Dominion lawyers on Tuesday claimed that Fox Corporation chairman Rupert and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, gave implicit but clear instructions to Fox News after the 2020 election to “shut down the talk of fact-checking” and “let the hosts run wild” with election conspiracies. “They made the decision to let it … Read more

Tucker Carlson Swiftly Fact Checks Himself Following Fox News Fumble

Fox News host Tucker Carlson owned up to an on-air “mistake” after he falsely claimed that a 2017 clip of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was from 2007 ― a year before the 2008 financial crisis. “So she was wrong, but she’s lying about it. This is not the first time she’s been wrong, by the … Read more

Fact check: Biden falsely credits tax that took effect in 2023 for deficit reduction in 2021 and 2022

Washington CNN  —  President Joe Biden falsely said on Wednesday that his new corporate minimum tax is the reason the federal budget deficit declined in 2021 and 2022. In reality, that tax didn’t even come into effect until the beginning of 2023. Biden has repeatedly taken credit for reducing the deficit in 2021 and 2022 … Read more

Fact check: Elon Musk amplifies false claim that Jan. 6 video was ‘censored’

Washington CNN  —  A conservative commentator with a substantial Twitter following went viral late last week by making false claims about the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 – and Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified some of the misinformation, pushing it to millions of people. The conservative commentator, Chuck Callesto, inaccurately tweeted … Read more