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Month: January 2025

Our Partnership with Meta Is Ending

Our Partnership with Meta Is Ending
January 7, 2025

Meta is ending its partnership with U.S. fact-checking organizations, such as ours, but we’d like to reassure our readers: FactCheck.org isn’t going anywhere. Our journalists will continue to provide nonpartisan coverage of false and misleading political claims, helping you to sort fact from fiction, just as we have done for more than 20 years.

Republicans Wrongly Tie New Orleans Attack to Illegal Immigration; Suspect Was a Citizen

Republicans Wrongly Tie New Orleans Attack to Illegal Immigration; Suspect Was a Citizen
January 3, 2025

Federal law enforcement officials have identified an Army veteran, who was born in the United States, as the sole person responsible for the Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured many more. But some Republican politicians and social media posts have wrongly claimed or suggested that the attack was the result of illegal immigration.