Misinformation Watch Blog Posts

On Saturday, October 4, the home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein burned down, prompting a flurry of media coverage from mainstream publications across the spectrum that r...

Attendees of Pope Francis' funeral were expected to abide by the Vatican's traditional dress code. But President Trump wore a blue suit and tie, prompting a flurry of media bias and misleading coverag...

Almost immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic began, people speculated about how it started. Most of this focused on China, where the pandemic began, and specifically on the city of Wuhan.

The Guardian claims it's “fiercely independent” and "without a billionaire bankrolling" it, yet it's owned by an endowment fund valued at $1.5 billion.

The New York Times reported Musk met with Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. days after the 2024 presidential election.

A graph from ZeroHedge (Lean Right bias) posted on X circulated to tens of millions of people, purporting that in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 presidential elections, Democrats only received about 66 mill...

With Israel and Hamas at war, conflicting, confusing, and misinformed reports are spreading quickly. Here are some major storylines that need a bit of clarification.

ProPublica tied the deaths of two women in Georgia to an abortion-restricting state law. Was this accurate?

The United Nations recently updated how it shows data on the Palestinian death toll in Gaza, making some figures appear to decrease by nearly half. Here’s a breakdown of the numbers and some contradic...

Do migrants really commit crimes at a higher rate than citizens? Does the data support the claim, or is it misinformation? What explains the partisan divide in perception?