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** FactCheck.org's Weekly Update
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August 1, 2020


** FactCheck Posts
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Trump’s Executive Orders on Prescription Drugs ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2020
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President Donald Trump recently signed executive orders that he says will reduce drug prices by 50% “and even greater, in certain instances.” That could happen for some individuals, but it remains to be seen how the orders will be implemented and whether they will result in such large reductions.

The President’s Trumped-Up Claims of Voter Fraud ([link removed]) Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2020
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We briefly recap the false, misleading and unsupported arguments that the president has made this year about the potential for voter fraud — starting with the case that he made for delaying the 2020 election.

FactChecking Trump’s COVID-19 Press Briefing ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
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President Donald Trump, at a July 28 briefing, made a few false and misleading statements about COVID-19.


** Debunking False Stories
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Herman Cain Died of COVID-19, Not Cancer ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2020
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Within hours after his passing, Facebook posts falsely claimed that former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain died of colon cancer, not COVID-19. Cain did battle and survive cancer in 2006, but his staff confirmed online that his death was due to the novel coronavirus.

COVID-19 Data-Reporting Changed, But Not Florida’s Case Count ([link removed]) Posted on Friday, July 31st, 2020
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As Florida’s COVID-19 case count rose to the second-highest in the U.S. in July, a former challenger for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat falsely claimed on social media that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had made a “mistake” and subsequently reduced Florida’s count by 79,000 cases. There was no such adjustment.

In Viral Video, Doctor Falsely Touts Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 ‘Cure’ ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
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A widely shared video, featuring a doctor falsely claiming hydroxychloroquine is a “cure” for COVID-19, ignited an online storm that resulted in the video being pulled by social media platforms. There is no known cure for COVID-19, and current scientific evidence hasn’t found that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment.

Trump Didn’t Tweet In 2009 That He ‘Would Never Let Thousands’ Die in Pandemic ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
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An image on social media falsely purports to show a tweet from Donald Trump in 2009, saying he “would never let thousands of Americans die from a pandemic while in office.” There is no evidence Trump ever posted that tweet.

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