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2020 election misinformation

The spread of misinformation about the 2020 election on social media and the efforts of the Biden administration to combat it.

Fact-Checks

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Jan 28, 2026
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Did Biden use social media companies to censor opposition voices? And if you disagree does that mean the twitter files are fake?

The record shows engaged in repeated communications with social media companies about misinformation and public-health risks, and Republicans have characterized those exchanges as coercive or tantamou...

Jan 12, 2026
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What evidence shows Newsmax favors a particular political party or ideology?

Newsmax shows consistent indicators of favoring conservative and Republican viewpoints: multiple media-bias trackers rate it right-leaning to strongly right, and reporting documents instances where Ne...

Jan 13, 2026
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Trump administration spreading or encouraging misinformation

The record compiled by multiple reporting outlets and academic projects shows the Trump administration — and President Trump personally — made a large number of demonstrably false or misleading public...

Jan 22, 2026

How did social media and news outlets amplify false claims about the 2020 election and who benefited?

Social media amplified false claims about the by enabling rapid, networked spread of misleading posts from high-profile actors and partisan influencers while traditional news outlets — through headlin...

Jan 8, 2026

Did Donald Trump ever officially confirm or deny saying 'dumb people party'?

The widely circulated line that Donald Trump called Republican voters “the dumbest group of voters in the country” is a fabricated meme that fact‑checking organizations have repeatedly debunked and wh...