Fact Check

President Donald Trump is holding firm on his insistence that coronavirus cases are rising in the U.S. purely because more people are being tested

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned countless conspiracy theories and misinformation on everything from what caused the outbreak to false cures and phony treatments. Here are some of the most common myths debunked.

An AP Fact Check finds that President Donald Trump has a monthslong history of declaring the coronavirus under control, when it isn’t

During a visit to Iowa, Vice President Mike Pence made several false claims about President Donald Trump’s handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s first campaign rally since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, Trump and his supporters are making false and misleading claims about COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and testing.

The national semantics exercise over “pepper balls” and “tear gas” has continued.

Cities and communities throughout the U.S. have experienced protests and unrest since George Floyd, a black man, died after a white police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest in Minneapolis on May 25. The protests and clashes between police and demonstrators have spurred memes and social media posts to misleadingly claim that large piles of bricks have been deliberately...

President Donald Trump is making claims on space that are off course from reality.

President Donald Trump has made false statements and implications about how three Democratic officials responded to violent protests that followed George Floyd’s death in police custody in Minneapolis.

President Donald Trump and Twitter are tangling over truth and consequences

President Trump is threatening social media companies with the prospect of new regulation after “fact checks” were added to two of his tweets by Twitter. Trump accused Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 presidential election” and “completely stifling free speech,” stating “as president, I will not allow it to happen.”

President Donald Trump has been relentlessly promoting a malaria drug for coronavirus patients and assuring people it won’t hurt them

President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior during the Obama administration in the presidential campaign season.

President Donald Trump is making a baseless boast about coronavirus testing for the coronavirus

President Donald Trump is wrongly casting blame on governors and the Obama administration for shortages in coronavirus testing

In the latest turns of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump has weighed in on how much power he thinks he has to deal with it

President Donald Trump is offering a rosy portrait of a smoothly running federal emergency lending program for small businesses that doesn’t match reality.

President Donald Trump is claiming that the U.S. is experiencing a lower death rate from the coronavirus pandemic than other countries

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to information overload for many people, often making it difficult to separate fact from fiction and rumor from deliberate efforts to mislead.

President Donald Trump misstated the facts when he asserted that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved a decades-old malaria drug to treat the coronavirus