Your fact-checks will appear here
National government of the United States
The short answer: there is no clear, sourced evidence that Venezuela “stole oil from the United States” as a matter of the U.S. government’s crude being taken; what President Trump and allies have des...
Available reporting and official U.S. documents through 2025 consistently state that Venezuela plays at most a minor role in the fentanyl trade; U.S. and independent analyses report “no proof” that fe...
News reports allege the Trump administration sent "tens of millions" of dollars — often cited as $45 million — in cash to Afghanistan that critics say reached the Taliban through Afghanistan’s banking...
Official U.S. government and independent analyses show millions of “encounters” at the U.S.–Mexico border during Joe Biden’s presidency, but that raw encounter counts are not the same as people “let i...
There is no reliable, sourced list in the provided reporting that names U.S. senators accepting money from the Venezuelan government; available sources focus on U.S. Senate votes and legislation relat...
Ashli Babbitt was not widely reported to have been wielding a knife at the moment she was fatally shot on January 6, 2021; official investigations and major contemporaneous reporting found no evidence...
The claim that Senator Chuck Schumer “wrote” a law that explicitly allows the U.S. government to blow drug-smuggling boats out of the water is a simplification and a mischaracterization: Schumer backe...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative total for how many Somali nationals were deported from the United States since 2020; different sources report related figures — for example...
President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, and U.S. strikes under his administration killed his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen; source...
U.S. officials have repeatedly asserted that struck Venezuelan boats were carrying narcotics, and the White House and Pentagon say intelligence confirmed drugs aboard some vessels . Independent report...
The U.S. government has publicly declared it will treat the Cartel de los Soles — which Washington says is “headed by Nicolás Maduro” — with terrorist-designation tools that let it freeze assets and c...
Reporting and government documents show that U.S. immigration agents have detained dozens — and that some U.S. citizens have been deported or wrongfully removed — but the exact tally is unclear becaus...
Multiple reputable outlets report that the U.S. completed a $500 million sale of Venezuelan oil and that some proceeds are being held in bank accounts whose largest tranche is in Qatar (Semafor, CNN, ...
U.S. sanctions have materially worsened Venezuela’s economic contraction and constrained imports of food, medicine and spare parts, but they did not originate the country’s crisis—years of mismanageme...
The available reporting shows the U.S. government asserted that the Venezuelan speedboats were , but multiple independent outlets, experts, and Venezuelan officials say has been produced to independen...
Most available reporting says President Trump’s actions in 2025 involved blocking, rescinding, or reallocating roughly $4.9–$5 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign‑aid funding and terminati...
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted Nicolás Maduro and at least 14 current and former Venezuelan officials on a suite of criminal counts including narco‑terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine...
The claim that “Israel rules America more than the other way” overstates the relationship and conflates influence with control; evidence shows , but not formal domination of U.S. government institutio...
Elon Musk’s companies have received at least $38 billion in U.S. government contracts, loans, tax credits and subsidies since the early 2000s, according to multiple analyses cited in recent coverage ....
Estimates of deaths tied to the Afghanistan wars since 2001 vary widely by category and source: Brown University’s Costs of War project counts more than 940,000 direct deaths across five post‑9/11 the...