On October 18th, 2018, United States President Donald Trump fired off a volley of tweets about a large caravan of people wending their way from Honduras to the southern United States border: These statements were duly picked up and breathlessly repeated by news channels and pundits, spreading the story with crucial context omitted from the story, such …
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A viral video making the social media rounds on October 4th, 2018 shows President Donald Trump carefully ascending the stairs to Air Force One on the tarmac in Minneapolis, Minnesota — with a piece of paper stuck to the back of his left shoe, then pausing at the top and waving before disappearing into the …
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A Russian mining company has sold asbestos with Trump’s face stamped on it and the phrase, “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.”
False claims that Maxine Waters called for an ‘illegal immigrant’ to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court are based on a digitally-altered image.
A Houston woman named Lennie Reisch wrote about her experience coming to the U.S. from Cuba as an unaccompanied minor in a viral Facebook post.
There’s no way to prove or disprove claims that Red Hen owner Stephanie Wilkinson partners with a registered sex offender because they’re based on a single, unverifiable account.
Bill Clinton’s 1996 immigration law changed procedures for immigrants seeking asylum, but it did not require the prosecution or separation of families that crossed the border.
Peter Fonda called for Barron Trump to be kidnapped in a Twitter rant about the administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. He later deleted the tweet and apologized.
At least one U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility for child immigrants uses fence-like enclosures. But the facility has been in use since 2014, and other CBP facilities operate as licensed child care providers.
Robert De Niro was questioned as a witness in a French prostitution ring in 1998. However, the actor was never charged and denies wrongdoing.
