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** FactCheck.org's Weekly Update
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November 28, 2020


** FactCheck Posts
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Ad Links Warnock to ‘Defunding the Police’ ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
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A conservative group’s deceptive TV ad suggests that Democrat Raphael Warnock supports defunding the police. He has said multiple times that he doesn’t.

Checking the Facts in the World of Trump ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
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Rem Rieder — an editor at the Washington Post, Miami Herald, American Journalism Review and USA TODAY — looks back at his year of fact-checking in the age of Donald Trump.

No ‘Landslide’ for Biden, Either ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
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Back in 2016, Donald Trump wrongly called his victory a “landslide.” Now, some are taking a page out of Trump’s book to claim Biden won in a landslide. He didn’t, either.


** Debunking False Stories
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Baseless Conspiracy Theory Targets Another Election Technology Company ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
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An unfounded conspiracy theory of widespread election fraud claims that an election technology company called Smartmatic switched votes in the 2020 election. But Smartmatic provided ballot-marking machines to only one U.S. county.

Meme Misrepresents Old Inauguration Photo ([link removed]) Posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
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A popular meme on Facebook falsely purports to show a photo of “Biden’s Inaugural stage” being built outside the White House. The photo shows the reviewing stand for the inaugural parade at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993.

Website Concocts False Story of Soros Arrest ([link removed]) Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2020
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A bogus social media story uses a doctored image of an indictment to falsely claim George Soros has been arrested in the U.S. “for election interference.” The actual charges are against six Russian nationals for cyberattacks.


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Danish Study Doesn’t Prove Masks Don’t Work Against the Coronavirus ([link removed]) Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
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Q: Did a recent study in Denmark show that face masks are useless for COVID-19?
A: No. The study found that face masks did not have a large protective effect for wearers — not that masks provide no protection at all or don’t offer benefits to others.

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