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The Daily Démêler

Démêler le vrai du faux

Discerning the true from the false

The Daily Démêler is a tool of C'est Vrai, which dispells the most recent 'fake news' being spread by corporate news media. We highlight a select list of entries that you can open up for more information.

Our independence allows us to call-out media bias, misinformation, and disinformation.

We disentangle wild claims about elections, the economy, healthcare, housing, politics, and other issues -- and we tell you if the claims are true or not.

Pinned Fact Checks

  • Healthcare

    Many have accused David Leonhardt of undermining pandemic precautions in support of returning to business as usual, despite the science and data that show Covid-19 infections are not slowing down. In this report, Leonhardt claimed Omicron wouldn't cause more deaths than Delta.
    Omicron Is Milder (The New York Times)
    David Leonhardt / Jan. 5, 2022

Fact Checks

  • Land Use/Housing

    When it comes to privatisation of strategic public assets, the journalists from the New York Times always appear to promote the transfer of title of public housing stock to private real estate developers, always ignoring the concerns that the private sector will never build low-cost housing for people living on low incomes.
    How’s Mayor Adams Doing ? Don’t Ask, Many New Yorkers Say. (The New York Times)
    Jeffery C. Mays / Dec. 29, 2023
  • Politics

    New York magazine published an opinion report about the Mayor Eric Adams emerging without charges in the face of a reported Federal corruption investigation into his campaign finance activities. The opinion report completely ignored repeated questions about ethics compliance throughout Adams' career. For example, we look at the Aqueduct racetrack casino controversy.
    OPINION : Eric Adams Is Battling for His Political Life (New York)
    Errol Louis / Nov. 18, 2023
  • Politics

    In describing that U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DSA-NY 14) was in a "safely Democratic district," the New York Times ignored that her district partially overlapped with a New York City Council District, which has just elected a Republican to serve on the Municipal Legislature. How could New York's 14th Congressional district be "safely Democratic," if a portion of it voted for a Republican ?
    Two Young Democratic Stars Collide Over Israel and Their Party’s Future (The New York Times)
    Nicholas Fandos / Nov. 11, 2023
  • Elections

    Corporated-owned legacy media, which rely on access for exclusives on political news stories, allegedly engage in obfuscation whenever the Government is accused of misconduct, particularly when it abridges free speech. In the case of election interference, corporate media portray restrictions on the Government's alleged misconduct as only benefiting the political right, whereas the political left have been known to also support free speech causes.
    State Dept. cancels Facebook meetings after judge’s ‘censorship’ ruling (The Washington Post)
    Joseph Menn / July 5, 2023
  • Elections

    Corporated-owned legacy media, which rely on access for exclusives on political news stories, allegedly engage in obfuscation whenever the Government is accused of misconduct, particularly when it abridges free speech. In the case of election interference, corporate media portray restrictions on the Government's alleged misconduct as only benefiting the political right, whereas the political left have been known to also support free speech causes.
    Federal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites (The New York Times)
    Steven L. Myers / July 4, 2023
  • Healthcare

    Dr. Leana Wen, a physician many have accused of subverting her medical and scientific independence to politics, has repeated the claim that COVID-19 deaths are being over-counted. Although public health doctors have repeatedly said that calculating COVID-19 deaths can lead to some discrepancies when measured using different methodologies, those discrepancies shouldn't be used to diminish the true toll of pandemic deaths.
    Opinion : We are overcounting covid deaths and hospitalizations. That’s a problem. (The Washington Post)
    Leana S. Wen / Jan. 13, 2023
  • Politics

    U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DSA-NY 14) deflected responsibility for having accepted valuable gifts in connection with her highly-publicised attendance of the élite Met Gala in 2021. To do so, her spokesperson falsely claimed that an Ethics Committee investigation would be dismissed.
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is subject of House ethics investigation (The Guardian)
    Martin Pengelly / Dec. 8, 2022
  • Law/Crime

    The New York Times has faced criticism that, particularly in respective of its law enforcement journalism, it reports the Government's position without balance from critics of the Government's law enforcement Agencies. In the past, increased deployment of police officers into the subway system resulted in the appearance of disporoportionate targeting, or discriminatory arrests, of migrant food vendors, for example. The perspective of the risks, or dangers, of such Broken Windows policing was missing from this latest report.
    New York City Will Increase Police Presence in Subways to Combat Crime (The New York Times)
    Emma G. Fitzsimmons / Oct. 22, 2022
  • Healthcare

    When Dr. Walensky issued a social media advisory about the coming Winter wave of Covid-19, many accused her of purposely omitting the wearing of face masks, the filtration of indoor air, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions due to political pressure from the White House. The act of omission was clear, since her advisory began with the words "Respiratory viruses," placing focus on the airbourne nature of viruses. Yet, her recommendations were silent on the use of face masks, indoor filters, or other mitigations, like social distancing.
    Covid-19 Social Media Advisory (Twitter)
    Rochelle Walensky / Oct. 21, 2022
  • Healthcare

    Dr. Ashish Jha rejects responsible non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI's) in the face of the XBB, BA.2.75, and QB.1.1 outbreaks. These three variants reportedly escape all prior immunity.
    White House COVID response coordinator talks vaccine politicization and how the U.S. has responded to the pandemic (Yahoo Finance)
    Anjalee Khemlani / Oct. 17, 2022