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Culture & entertainment fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about culture & entertainment. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

3,169 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Says C.S. Lewis wrote, “They believed blindly everything they heard or read in the papers. They gave up their freedoms.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Photo shows Taylor Swift after she “broke down in tears on live television the moment the race was called for President Trump.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Photo shows Ice Cube and 50 Cent wearing Donald Trump hats.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

“Donald Trump posted this photo of Taylor Swift saying that she was crying because she lost over $150 million worth of merchandise.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Milwaukee's Marcus Performing Arts Center – where 'The Daily Show' had been scheduled – “was originally located in the ‘soft perimeter,’ they called it, security-wise” but “was shifted, understandably so, to the ‘hard perimeter.’”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

The Palestinian flag before 1948 included the Star of David.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Photos show celebrities reacting to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

“Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village” founded by African Americans in 1825.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Anthony Bourdain and Chris Cornell were killed while working on a documentary about “widespread pedophilia.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Image shows “P Diddy with Kamala Harris.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Viral imageCulture & entertainment

Michael Kors said, "I’m tired of pretending I like blacks."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

"Black Americans are not descended from people who were taken from Africa to be enslaved."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

“Mark Wahlberg y Mel Gibson invierten 500 millones de dólares para el primer estudio de producción de la industria centrado en los valores tradicionales”.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Says Bruce Willis died, as of July 23, 2024.

Publisher’s rating: False

فکت‌نامهCulture & entertainment

تصویر جدید مهرانه مهین ترابی و حمید فرخ‌نژاد

Publisher’s rating: ساخته‌شده با هوش مصنوعی

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

“Elon Musk invests $1 billion in Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg’s new un-woke production studio.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Soviet and Chinese communists have “grabbed control” of U.S. entertainment, movies, television, music, academia, K-12 education and the news media.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

“Gordon Ramsay calls Tim Walz a ‘woke creep,’ throws him out of Hell’s Kitchen.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Fredo is an ethnic slur against Italian Americans

Publisher’s rating: Not usually