2021 marked another year of brazenly slanted media coverage, and the "fact-checking" industry, who've long cast themselves as impartial arbiters of truth, was no exception. With former President Trump ...

At Snopes, our process for deciding what topics to fact check is pretty simple: We monitor burgeoning rumors across media platforms and rank them by whether they show signs of future virality and/or ...

The year couldn't come to an end without Time magazine's announcement of its 2021 Person of the Year. This year the magazine announced it chose billionaire Elon Musk for "creating solutions to an ...

Snopes' team of fact checkers spent much of 2021 closely analyzing photos or videos of U.S. President Joe Biden to see whether he had committed a social faux pas. Below is a sampling of those fact ...

A video of crowds gathering in 2021 at an NBA watch party in Wisconsin has been reshared online to falsely claim it shows people in April protesting against U.S. President Donald Trump and his ...

Global estimates of the polar bear population show either a modest decline or virtually no change. Before 1973 they were at threat of being over-hunted, and today they face climate change and ice loss ...

A 2021 video of dark cloud formations filmed at a beach in Florida was shared online with false captions saying it showed footage shot ahead of Hurricane Milton in October 2024. Milton made landfall ...

• Biden accurately cited the raw number of jobs created and the fact that it was bigger than any previous year for which data is available. • However, looking at the percentage increase — a fairer way ...

Mass rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines has been the defining story of 2021, yet for all its success, vaccination rates remain stubbornly low in some populations. As with all things in American life ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters breached the U.S. Capitol building, temporarily disrupting the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's 2020 election win. The Biden administration has ...