On February 16, President Joe Biden appeared on a CNN Town Hall hosted by Anderson Cooper. During the Town Hall, Biden answered questions posed by some members of the audience on various topics, including COVID-19, unemployment, and student loans.
India’s nearly half-year long farmers agitation received international attention earlier this month when Rihanna tweeted about the protests. The 32-year-old Barbados-born singer’s tweet asked “[W]hy aren’t we talking about this?!” along with an...
On January 3 this year, activist Rachna Dhingra highlighted in a Twitter thread that hundreds of survivors from one of the world’s worst industrial disasters — 1984’s Bhopal gas tragedy — were being targeted and unethically recruited to participate...
On December 2, OpIndia, a right-wing Indian news website published a piece railing against the practice of fact checking, calling it a new name for the “same old propaganda journalism” and sarcastically calling fact checkers “unbiased angels...
On December 8, farmer unions called for a nationwide Bharat Bandh—with resounding support from opposition parties—in protest against the new agricultural reforms. As has happened with several major protests in the recent past, social media was rife...
Princess Diana was wearing a costume the first time she met Prince Charles.
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In their February 1981 engagement interview, Diana described them as meeting "in a plowed field" with no mention of a costume.
Season four of "The Crown", the show...
On 19 November, the BBC announced that Radio 1 would no longer be playing the uncensored version of “Fairytale of New York”, the popular Christmas song by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. Instead, whenever there is cause to broadcast the 1987 hit, BBC...
As the 2020 presidential elections concluded in the United States with Joe Biden as the President-elect, some social media users claimed that there will be no need to fact check the president anymore. I’m a senior fact checker at Logically. I have...