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Lin et al. (2023) news-quality score 0.880 (0.800 or above counts as reliable). PNAS Nexus, doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad286
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Migrant caravan coverage timed to election season
The recurring promise that Mexico will pay for the wall
The recurring drug-laced Halloween candy scare
The recurring Trump remarks about acing his cognitive test
The recurring claim that Ilhan Omar married her brother
The recurring promise to end the Ukraine war "in 24 hours" / "on day one"
Election-season "ballots found in a ditch" stories
The recurring claim that Somali immigrants are living lavishly on public benefits
The recurring claims about gas prices
The recurring claim that prices are coming down
The recurring promise that prices will come down "on day one"
The recurring promise of a healthcare plan "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that mass-shooting victims and witnesses are "crisis actors"
Pre-election "assassination attempt thwarted" amplification
The recurring Republican and MAGA figures charged with child sex crimes
- Aug 2026: Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County clerk and former Florida state representative (Republican), arrested on child sex abuse charges
- Mar 2025: Influencer Ricci Wynne indicted on federal charges of producing child sexual abuse material
- Mar 2025: Minnesota Republican state Sen. Justin Eichorn charged after a Bloomington sting
The recurring claim that vaccines cause autism
- Aug 2026: Trump's childhood-vaccine order and the federal autism committee
- Nov 2025: CDC "Autism and Vaccines" page changed
- Jan 2025 – Feb 2025: Confirmation hearings
- Nov 2024 – Dec 2024: Kennedy picked for HHS; Trump raises autism in interviews
- Mar 2016: The "Vaxxed" film is pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival
The recurring DOGE savings claims
The recurring promise to release the Epstein files
- Feb 2026: Redaction dispute and Bondi's "all files released" letter
- Dec 2025: Deadline release, redactions and "over a million more" documents
- Nov 2025: Trump reverses position; the Epstein Files Transparency Act becomes law
- Jul 2025: DOJ/FBI memo finds no "client list"; Trump directs grand jury unsealing request
The recurring promises of a new Iran nuclear deal
The recurring "in two weeks"
The recurring claim that George Soros is paying the protesters
The recurring "welfare queen" claim that recipients are gaming public benefits
- Dec 2025 – Jan 2026: Minnesota child care fraud claims: Nick Shirley video, federal child care funding freezes, Walz drops re-election bid
- May 2025 – Jul 2025: "One Big Beautiful Bill" Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
- Feb 2025: DOGE / Trump claims that dead people are getting Social Security
- Jun 2018 – Jul 2018: Court blocks Kentucky's Medicaid work requirement
- Apr 2018: Trump executive order on welfare work requirements
The recurring claim that foreign countries pay the tariffs
The recurring claims that wind power is bad, doesn't work, and "doesn't work at night"
The recurring pardons of political allies and donors
- Jan 2026: Trump pardons ex-Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced, banker Julio Herrera Velutini and Mark Rossini
- Nov 2025: Pardons of Giuliani, Meadows and the 2020 alternate electors
- May 2025: Walczak pardon reporting and the late-May clemency batch
- Jan 2025: January 6 pardons and commutations
- Jan 2025 – ongoing: Biden's preemptive pardons of family members and officials
- Dec 2024: Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden
The annual "War on Christmas" coverage
The recurring promise to jail or prosecute political opponents
- Nov 2025: Trump posts "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" about six Democratic lawmakers
- Oct 2025: Trump posts that Garland, Wray, Smith and Monaco "should be prosecuted"
- Oct 2025: Trump says Pritzker and Brandon Johnson "should be in jail"
- Nov 2023: Univision interview on using the DOJ against opponents
- Jun 2023: Pledge of a "real special prosecutor" to "go after" Biden
The recurring claim that undocumented immigrants get free health care
The recurring threats of tariffs and sanctions against longtime allies
- Jul 2025: The EU tariff threat ends in the Turnberry deal
- Mar 2025: Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum over Ontario's electricity surcharge, then drops it the same day
- Feb 2024: "Do whatever the hell they want" rally remark
- Jan 2020: Reported private 25% auto-tariff threat over the Iran nuclear deal
- Dec 2019: Proposed tariffs over France's digital services tax
The recurring claim that illegal voting decided an election
The recurring "they're coming for your ___" warnings
The recurring Trump praise for authoritarian leaders
- Nov 2019: "I'm a big fan" of Erdoğan (White House visit)
- Jul 2018: Helsinki press conference
- Jun 2018: After Singapore, "His people sit up at attention"
- Apr 2017: Kim "a pretty smart cookie" (CBS "Face the Nation")
- Feb 2017: "You think our country is so innocent?" (Fox News interview with Bill O'Reilly)