Your fact-checks will appear here
Independent U.S. government agency
is a –led blueprint for a administration whose named architects include a mix of former Trump officials and conservative operatives; the most repeatedly identified figures in reporting are , , , , , a...
A significant number of individuals who authored or contributed to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 have been nominated, appointed, or confirmed to roles in the current Trump administration, inc...
The federal government does not have a blanket technical backdoor into modern end‑to‑end encrypted apps; telecommunications carriers remain required to provide readable content when they already have ...
U.S. law has no single nationwide rule forcing ISPs to retain specific browsing logs for a fixed time or to hand them over without legal process; retention periods vary by company and jurisdiction, an...
ISPs in the United States can sometimes block or be required to block specific traffic, but whether they can lawfully . Federal court decisions weakening national net neutrality protections in early 2...
Project 2025 is a 900‑page conservative blueprint, led by the Heritage Foundation and former Trump officials, that proposes sweeping reorganization of the executive branch and many policies critics ca...
No single authoritative source in the provided reporting says that every NPR and PBS member station is independently incorporated as a 501(c). Reporting and agency summaries show member stations are r...
Recent FCC rulemaking and legal challenges are reopening the path for further consolidation in U.S. broadcast media: the FCC launched a new review of ownership rules in September 2025 and is seeking p...
The available documents and analyses show , leaving that dimension largely undocumented in the public record. Federal and civil‑society reports indicate that people of color and women own a small frac...
Releasing someone’s text messages without their consent can trigger , expose the releaser to statutory penalties and fines, and implicate a separate regulatory regime that treats certain texts as call...
Several news analyses identify a mix of Republican lawmakers who have publicly criticized actions by former President Trump or his administration as authoritarian or dangerous, but the lists and conte...
publishes a public status page and issues public advisories during incidents, and its availability has been tracked and diagnosed by a web of third‑party monitors and crowdsourced outage sites; report...
platforms are multi-page statements of principle that outline priorities for the party every four years; emphasizes progressive policy goals like universal health, economic fairness, civil rights, cli...
Several authors of Project 2025 now occupy senior roles in the federal government: Russell Vought is serving as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brendan Carr is leading the Federal Com...
Two clear paths exist for online product-return disputes: file with the Better Business Bureau (a non‑government intermediary that documents and mediates consumer complaints) and file with federal con...
A broad constellation of civil lawsuits — largely brought by state attorneys general, advocacy groups, and international civil-society coalitions — has targeted President Joe Biden and his administrat...
Major systematic reviews and expert bodies find no conclusive evidence that 5G-frequency radiofrequency (RF) fields, at exposure levels experienced by the public, cause cancer; WHO/IARC and national a...
Major U.S. federal resources require ISPs to disclose network-management and commercial practices under the FCC’s Internet Freedom rule (47 CFR § 8.1) and the FCC maintains an ISP disclosures portal w...
To confirm whether your local NPR/PBS member station is a tax-deductible 501(c) in 2025, the quickest reliable checks are: ask the station or its website for its tax identification and a donor receipt...
Yes — multiple publicly available compilations identify people who contributed to and track which contributors were later nominated, appointed or confirmed to government posts — but there is no single...