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Election Day unfolded without widespread voting problems reported around the U.S., though there were hiccups typical of most major elections. Still, false claims distorting the issues spread online. Here are the facts behind Tuesday's most widely shared misinformation. 🧵
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Dominion has been falsely tied to: • The Biden family apne.ws/o1QjpH6 • Prominent Democrats apne.ws/q49Zqoz • The Clinton Foundation apne.ws/6IJgNEX • Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez apne.ws/tLmzq7g
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The #APFactCheck team reviewed President Biden's first State of the Union address. Read more on his comments related to COVID-19, electric cars, guns, and the infrastructure bill. READ MORE: apne.ws/sUTvkhn
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An #APFactCheck reviews President Joe Biden's first joint address to Congress and the Republican response from South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. Read more and see our interactive annotated fact check here: apne.ws/z63WkEK
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Though his own attorney general has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, President Trump on Wednesday repeated a litany of baseless assertions of corruption, machine tampering and mysterious votes that allowed Joe Biden to steal the election. apne.ws/CKe5SNy
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President Trump's tweet Monday sought to perpetuate the mathematically impossible and thoroughly debunked myth that he pulled out a victory from the election that definitively chose Democrat Joe Biden as the next president. #APFactCheck Read more: apne.ws/zhMnOaf
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An #APFactCheck finds that President Trump is repeating baseless claims of voter fraud. He is also wrongly asserting the Pfizer Inc. vaccine news was delayed until after Election Day to undermine him. Read more: apne.ws/86BfKWY
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An #APFactCheck reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting. READ MORE: apne.ws/PahV2kP
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An #APFactCheck reviews claims made by President Trump at the White House on Thursday about vote counting. READ MORE: apne.ws/GaZ0uoY
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An #APFactCheck finds that the coronavirus and a manufactured crisis over voting fraud featured in President Donald Trump’s misstatements in the final week of #Election2020. And Joe Biden went astray on trade as he assailed Trump's record on China. More: apne.ws/KyXTe5K
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An #APFactCheck finds that the coronavirus and a manufactured crisis over voting fraud featured in President Donald Trump’s misstatements in the final week of #Election2020. And Joe Biden went astray on trade as he assailed Trump's record on China. More: apne.ws/1P5vMES
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President Trump is falsely asserting that voting by mail is proving to be rife with problems across the country. For the most part, the surge in early votes has been managed smoothly. #APFactCheck Read more: apne.ws/mQFOcX1
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The #APFactCheck team reviews a week in the #Election2020 campaign, including President Trump on the coronavirus and Joe Biden on fracking. Read more: apne.ws/jTrvD17
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The #APFactCheck team reviews Joe Biden's statement about health insurance. #Debates2020 Read more: apne.ws/XsnDQX8
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The #APFactCheck team finds that President Trump's first line in the debate, on the coronavirus, was false. #Debates2020 Read more: apne.ws/V1U46iu
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An #APFactCheck reviews comments made by President Trump about how children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are treated. #Debates2020 Read more: apne.ws/c3Hi2nV
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The #APFactCheck team reviews Joe Biden's statement about health insurance. #Debates2020 Read more: apne.ws/7A0FpW6
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