Stories the American press reported as fact, and what the evidence later showed. Every file has a screenshot of the original, the sources, the proof, and which party it helped.
Citing two people familiar with internal dynamics, Politico reported that Wiles helped arrange press secretary Katie Zacharia's Sean Hannity interview, with one source calling it a 'sanctioned hit', before Zacharia's ouster.
Citing two people familiar with the matter, MS NOW reported on air that FBI Director Kash Patel had landed in Russia for a scheduled meeting.
ABC reported that 1789 Capital, the firm linked to Donald Trump Jr., had taken a major stake in Anduril through a $2.5 billion investment. It also said companies backed by Trump's sons had won billions in Pentagon contracts since the election.
On the last day of the Supreme Court term, NPR published and broadcast that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring.
On Mornings with Maria, Kevin O'Leary said without evidence that opponents of his Utah data center project, including named activist groups, were proxies for the Chinese government sabotaging US AI.
A Times story on the administration's 'Pax Silica' investment effort said it sought $4 trillion. It also quoted Under Secretary Jacob Helberg calling the Strait of Hormuz crisis a 'blessing.'
Teasing a NewsNight segment, Abby Phillip described the weekend's events near Gracie Mansion as an attempted terror attack against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. A CNN reporter and a commentator made the same claim.
Citing two anonymous sources, the Post reported that Defense Secretary Hegseth gave a verbal order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat on Sept. 2, and that a follow-up strike that killed two survivors was carried out to comply.
During the government shutdown, Fox News Digital published a story headlined 'SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown', built on viral videos of supposed recipients.
On the day after Kirk was killed, a Times explainer on his views presented an antisemitic statement as something Kirk himself had said on his podcast.
Citing an ATF bulletin, the Journal reported that ammunition tied to Charlie Kirk's killing was engraved with transgender and anti-fascist messages.
After the 2020 election, Newsmax aired claims, often from guests such as Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell, that Dominion voting machines were rigged to flip votes to Joe Biden.
A Times story on starvation in Gaza, with a front-page photo of the emaciated 18-month-old Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, presented him as a picture of famine.
MSNBC contributor and former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said on Morning Joe that FBI Director Kash Patel had reportedly been seen at nightclubs far more than in his office at the Hoover Building.
CNBC ran a breaking-news banner saying adviser Kevin Hassett had said Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every country except China. Reuters repeated the claim, citing CNBC.
An AP story headlined that DNI Tulsi Gabbard said Trump and Putin were 'very good friends' focused on strengthening ties. MSNBC hosts Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi used it to attack Trump as close to Putin.
CNN's live fact check of Trump's address to Congress said he falsely claimed that $8 million had been spent on making mice transgender.
A November 2021 CNN segment on The Lead with Jake Tapper, plus a web version, linked security contractor Zachary Young to a 'black market' exploiting desperate Afghans after the Taliban takeover. Young was the only contractor named.
A widely shared Clarissa Ward segment showed CNN's team finding a man in a Damascus cell. He said he was a civilian from Homs named Adel Ghurbal who had been held for three months.
Defending President Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden, an Esquire column said President George H.W. Bush had pardoned his son Neil after the savings-and-loan scandal.
Final 2024 forecasts called the presidential race essentially a 50-50 toss-up. FiveThirtyEight gave Harris about a 50 percent chance and Trump about 49 percent, and Nate Silver's final model also landed at roughly 50-50 with a slight Harris edge.
Three days before the election, Ann Selzer's final Iowa Poll for the Des Moines Register showed Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump 47 percent to 44 percent among likely voters in Iowa, which caused a national stir.
CNN political analyst Jonah Goldberg described Trump's remark about Liz Cheney facing rifles as a call to put her in front of a firing squad. The same framing ran widely in headlines and on air.
A Panorama documentary aired a week before the 2024 election. It joined two parts of Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 speech into what looked like one continuous call to march on the Capitol and fight.
60 Minutes and Face the Nation aired two different excerpts of Kamala Harris's answer to the same question about Netanyahu. The 60 Minutes version was shorter and tighter.
Questioning Sen. Tom Cotton about Trump's Arlington Cemetery visit, Meet the Press host Kristen Welker said Biden and Harris had both met Gold Star families at the 2021 dignified transfer of the 13 service members killed at Abbey Gate.
In 2021 Axios described Vice President Harris as Biden's 'border czar'. In July 2024 it published a piece saying she never held that role.
A viral claim said Vance's memoir described sex with a couch. AP published a fact check on it, then took the fact check down.
Minutes after shots were fired at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, CNN's live page said the Secret Service rushed him off stage after he fell.
In mid-June 2024, the White House called viral clips of President Biden "cheap fakes," and prominent coverage emphasized that videos fueling doubts about his age were misleadingly edited.
Headlines said Trump predicted a 'bloodbath' if he lost, which read as a threat of political violence.
On ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos told Rep. Nancy Mace that Trump had been found liable for rape in the E. Jean Carroll case.
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough told viewers that, from his private meetings with the president, Biden was sharper than ever and the best version of himself intellectually and analytically.
On MSNBC with Ari Melber, Weissmann predicted the Court would likely affirm the D.C. Circuit's rejection of Trump's immunity claim. He singled out Justice Kavanaugh as unlikely to accept Trump's arguments.
On MSNBC with Chris Hayes, Weissmann said Trump's criminal-immunity claim was so weak the Supreme Court might decline to review it.
On Oct. 17, 2023, prominent headlines attributed an explosion at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City to an Israeli airstrike and reported hundreds dead, relying on statements from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
Outlets reported that Hamas had killed and beheaded about 40 babies in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023.
CNN reported, and The Washington Post published an excerpt saying, that Elon Musk secretly ordered Starlink switched off near Crimea to sabotage a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian fleet.
During coverage of Trump's federal arraignment, a Fox News on-screen caption described Biden as a wannabe dictator who had his political rival arrested.
On The Last Word, Weissmann predicted Trump would be indicted in the classified documents case that week, and that the case would be filed in Washington, D.C.
For years, coverage presented the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation as a probe grounded in evidence that Trump's campaign was coordinating with Russia.
After the 2020 election, Fox News programs aired and at times embraced claims that Dominion Voting Systems machines had rigged the vote against Trump.
Major outlets' 2016 to 2019 Trump-Russia coverage, much of it built on anonymous sources and the Steele dossier, led audiences to expect a collusion finding that never came.
Citing one anonymous senior US intelligence official, AP reported that Russian missiles had crossed into NATO member Poland and killed two people.
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, Fox News hosts including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo, plus commentators like Marc Thiessen, predicted a Republican wave or even a 'red tsunami.' RealClearPolitics projected Republicans would reach 54 Senate seats, and FiveThirtyEight's final forecast favored Republicans to win both chambers.
An NBC TODAY report said Paul Pelosi did not immediately declare an emergency or try to flee when police arrived, and instead walked back toward his attacker.
A USA Today breaking-news reporter published stories on topics including Texas's abortion ban and Ukrainian women in the war, quoting people the paper could not later verify.
OAN broadcast claims that Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss pulled 'suitcases' of illegal ballots from under a table and ran them through machines for Biden.
Snake Island's 13 defenders were reported killed after defying a Russian warship, and a single Ukrainian ace, the 'Ghost of Kyiv', was said to be downing Russian jets.
NPR reported that Chief Justice Roberts had asked the justices to mask up for Justice Sotomayor's sake, and that Justice Gorsuch refused, which forced her to work from her chambers.
In 2017 and 2019 stories, The Washington Post identified businessman Sergei Millian as a key source for the Steele dossier, including its most lurid allegation about Trump.
Photos and video of mounted Border Patrol agents confronting Haitian migrants near Del Rio, Texas, were widely described as agents whipping or using whips on migrants.
Rolling Stone, building on a KFOR interview with an Oklahoma ER doctor, ran a headline saying gunshot victims were left waiting because horse-dewormer overdoses were overwhelming Oklahoma hospitals.
After Joe Rogan said he had COVID-19 and had taken ivermectin, CNN and other outlets described the drug he took as a livestock or horse dewormer.
Relying on US officials, outlets reported that a drone strike in Kabul had destroyed a vehicle carrying multiple suicide bombers headed for the airport, with secondary explosions showing explosives on board.
After the 2020 election, Newsmax aired allegations from Trump lawyers and allies that Dominion security director Eric Coomer rigged voting machines against Trump and was tied to antifa.
All three outlets reported that the FBI had warned Rudy Giuliani in 2019 that he was the target of a Russian disinformation operation.
A Fox News graphic said Biden's climate requirements would cut 90% of red meat from diets, down to about four pounds a year, and Fox hosts said the plan meant no burgers on the Fourth of July.
A New York Post cover story said copies of Vice President Harris's children's book were being handed out in welcome kits to migrant children at a Long Beach, California shelter.
60 Minutes suggested that a $100,000 Publix donation to Gov. Ron DeSantis's campaign helped the grocery chain win the job of giving out COVID-19 vaccines in Florida.
On Rachel Maddow's show, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said data suggested vaccinated people do not carry the virus, and Maddow told viewers the virus stops with each vaccinated person.
During Winter Storm Uri, Gov. Greg Abbott told Fox's Hannity that wind and solar shutting down had pushed Texas into a power shortage, and Fox hosts framed the blackouts as a warning against the Green New Deal.
Citing an anonymous source, the Post reported that Trump told a Georgia elections investigator to find the fraud and that she would be a national hero.
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was reported to have died after rioters struck him with a fire extinguisher on January 6.
The Washington Times reported that XRVision facial-recognition software had matched members of antifa to people inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
After Election Day, Newsmax aired repeated claims that Dominion and Smartmatic manipulated votes and that Dominion employee Eric Coomer rigged machines.
From November 2020, Fox hosts including Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro and others aired and amplified claims that Dominion and Smartmatic voting technology was used to rig the presidential election.
After a State Farm Arena surveillance video was presented as evidence of fraud in December 2020, OAN accused election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of inserting illegal ballots to help Biden.
Final-stretch 2020 polls, widely reported by news outlets, showed Joe Biden with a large national lead and comfortable margins in key states.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released a week before Election Day showed Biden leading Trump 57 percent to 40 percent among likely Wisconsin voters, a 17-point lead.
After the New York Post published emails from a laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, Politico ran a story headlined that the story was Russian disinformation according to dozens of former intelligence officials. The 51 signers' letter itself said they had no evidence of Russian involvement, only that it bore the earmarks of an information operation; Twitter and Facebook limited the Post's story.
In his September 2020 book, Weissmann argued the Mueller team should have investigated Trump's finances, subpoenaed Trump, and stated a conclusion on obstruction.
Newsweek's headline said People of Praise, the Christian community Amy Coney Barrett belongs to, inspired Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
Coverage of a nurse's whistleblower complaint reported a high number of, or mass, hysterectomies performed on detained immigrant women at the Irwin County Detention Center.
Coverage of the August 2020 Kenosha shootings repeatedly said Rittenhouse had brought or carried his rifle from Illinois into Wisconsin, a detail used to suggest he arrived armed for a fight.
Coverage of the Kenosha police shooting described Jacob Blake as an unarmed Black man.
The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence had concluded a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered Taliban-linked militants bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan. The story set off weeks of coverage of what the president knew.
A noose was left in Black driver Bubba Wallace's Talladega garage stall, and the coverage treated it as a deliberate racist act aimed at him.
FoxNews.com illustrated its coverage of Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone with images showing an armed man amid smashed storefronts, plus a burning-city photo, as scenes from the zone.
OAN reported that Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old protester shoved to the ground by Buffalo police, was tied to antifa and was trying to capture police radio signals.
After publishing an op-ed it had solicited from Sen. Tom Cotton urging federal troops to restore order amid rioting, the Times declared the piece did not meet its standards.
Outlets reported that police tear-gassed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square to clear the way for President Trump's walk to St. John's Church and his Bible photo op. NPR's headline stated the clearing was done to clear the way for the photo op.
A Lancet study drawing on a purported global hospital database from the firm Surgisphere reported that COVID patients given hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die in the hospital.
Coverage elevated Rebekah Jones, the former manager of Florida's COVID dashboard, as a whistleblower fired for refusing to manipulate data to support reopening.
Chuck Todd aired a clip of Attorney General Barr saying history is written by the winners about dropping the Flynn case, then said Barr had not invoked the rule of law.
Politico reported that Trump, through a Manhattan building partnership, owed tens of millions of dollars to state-owned Bank of China on a loan coming due in 2022.
The Times' first major story on Tara Reade's allegation said its reporting found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden beyond the hugs, kisses and touching other women had described.
The 1619 Project's lead essay stated, without qualification, that protecting slavery was one of the primary reasons the colonists declared independence from Britain.
Prime-time host Trish Regan ran an on-screen graphic reading 'Coronavirus Impeachment Scam' and argued that criticism of Trump's response was another attempt to impeach him.
On MSNBC's The 11th Hour, Brian Williams and Times editorial board member Mara Gay approvingly read a tweet saying Bloomberg's roughly $500 million in ad spending could have given each American $1 million.
Politico's rally story was headlined as Trump rallying his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax' and said he called the virus 'their new hoax.'
In February 2020 The Washington Post said Sen. Tom Cotton was repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that had already been debunked, after he raised the possibility that the virus came from a Wuhan lab. Facebook later treated claims that the virus was man-made as removable misinformation.
In late January 2020, prominent headlines told Americans the flu was a bigger worry than the new coronavirus.
Newsweek reported that Trump would spend Thanksgiving 2019 tweeting and golfing.
Wire services and NPR reported a U.N. expert's finding that the U.S. was holding over 100,000 migrant children in detention, presented as current Trump-era practice.
After ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. raid, the Post changed its obituary headline from calling him ISIS's terrorist-in-chief to describing him as an austere religious scholar at the helm of the group.
ABC aired footage that it presented as Turkey's attack on Kurdish-held northern Syria.
National outlets reported a 12-year-old's account that three white boys held her down and cut her dreadlocks at a Christian school in Virginia where Karen Pence taught.
A September 2019 New York Times Sunday Review essay adapted from a book by two Times reporters presented a new allegation of Kavanaugh's college misconduct; in 2018, Julie Swetnick's sworn declaration of drugging and gang rapes at parties was widely broadcast.
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell said on air and on Twitter that a single source told him Trump's Deutsche Bank loan documents showed Russian oligarchs as co-signers.
The Times' first-edition print headline on Trump's speech after the El Paso and Dayton shootings read 'Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.'
For two years, The Rachel Maddow Show made Trump-Russia its dominant story and raised the possibility that Russia was steering the Trump administration.
On the day Mueller delivered his report, a Times op-ed by American Constitution Society president Caroline Fredrickson argued the public already knew enough about the Trump campaign's Russia ties without it.
John Solomon's columns and Hill.TV interviews relayed Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko's claims of a Ukrainian plot to help Clinton and that Ambassador Yovanovitch gave him a do-not-prosecute list.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, an MSNBC contributor, said on the network that Mueller would bring further indictments, including on criminal conspiracy with Russia.
House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff told CNN's State of the Union that evidence of Trump-Russia collusion was 'in plain sight,' a line he had used since late 2017.
Actor Jussie Smollett was widely reported, based on his account and initial police statements, to have been the victim of a racist and homophobic assault by two men in Chicago in January 2019. Many commentators and public figures treated the attack as established fact.
A Telegraph Magazine cover story made claims about Melania Trump's family, education, modeling career and her reaction on election night.
Coverage of the Lincoln Memorial encounter with Covington Catholic students described Native American activist Nathan Phillips as having fought in the Vietnam War.
Based on a short viral clip, national outlets portrayed a group of Covington Catholic High School students, especially junior Nick Sandmann, as having surrounded, taunted and blocked a Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, near the Lincoln Memorial.
Citing two federal law enforcement officials, BuzzFeed News reported that President Trump personally directed his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations, and that the special counsel had learned this from witnesses and documents.
The Times reported that Paul Manafort told Rick Gates to have Konstantin Kilimnik pass Trump campaign polling data to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
After the Cohen sentencing filings, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal told CNN's New Day that Trump's future looked like it was behind bars.
An opinion piece by Max Bergmann and Sam Berger argued that Mueller's recent filings showed the probe would implicate the president, his campaign and close associates in aiding Russia's conspiracy.
In a USA Today column, Peter Zeidenberg, a former deputy special counsel, wrote that Mueller was building a broad conspiracy case likely to catch Trump's family and quite possibly Trump himself.
NPR reported that Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators the Trump Tower Moscow project faded away in 2014, conflicting with Cohen's plea and suggesting legal exposure.
Citing unnamed sources, The Guardian (Luke Harding and Dan Collyns) reported that Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange at Ecuador's London embassy in 2013, 2015 and around March 2016, months before WikiLeaks released the Democratic emails.
From 2017 through early 2019, anchors, guests and columnists repeatedly said the 'walls were closing in' on Trump and that the Mueller probe was the 'beginning of the end' of his presidency.
Citing unnamed sources, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman reported that Donald Trump Jr. told friends he feared an indictment within days, possibly for lying about the Trump Tower meeting. In December, Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano predicted Trump Jr. would be indicted.
The Globe's front-page story on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's DNA test said a Native American ancestor six to 10 generations back would make her between 1/32 and 1/512 Native American.
NBC News tweeted a clip saying Trump called Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 'incredible' at an Ohio rally.
A Times story and headline tied $52,701 in State Department curtain spending to U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley amid budget cuts, illustrated with her photo.
On CNN, Rep. Steve Cohen said both Kushner and Trump Jr. would 'probably' be indicted, and John Dean said Trump Jr. was likely a target. An MSNBC 'AM Joy' legal panel named Kushner as Mueller's prime next target.
CNN reported, citing sources, that Michael Cohen was prepared to tell Mueller that Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians.
TIME's reporting on John Moore's photo of a crying 2-year-old Honduran girl said she was carried off by agents, and the magazine put her on its cover beside Trump as the face of family separation.
AP tweeted that Trump referred to people crossing the border illegally as 'animals'; CNN and others framed the remark as aimed at immigrants generally.
NBC News reported that federal investigators had wiretapped the phones of Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, including a call with the White House.
The Times' award-winning podcast Caliphate centered on a Canadian man who said he had joined ISIS in Syria and taken part in executions.
McClatchy reported that Mueller's investigators had evidence Michael Cohen secretly traveled to Prague in late summer 2016, which would have confirmed a key Steele dossier allegation. A follow-up in December 2018 said Cohen's phone had pinged cell towers near Prague around that time.
YouGov reported in March 2018 that two in three Democrats believed Russia tampered with vote tallies on Election Day to help elect Trump. Earlier YouGov/Economist polls had found 52% (Dec. 2016) and 55% (May 2017).
Fox News coverage, including segments by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, presented a Parkland survivor's claim that CNN forced a scripted question on him at its gun town hall.
Coverage of the Nunes memo largely cast it as a misleading dud that failed to show problems with the FBI's Carter Page surveillance, while the Democratic rebuttal memo said the FBI had not omitted material facts.
NBC and other outlets reported that Russia-linked bots and trolls were amplifying the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag pushing for release of the Nunes FISA memo, relying largely on the Hamilton 68 dashboard.
The Post reported that CDC policy analysts were told not to use seven words, including fetus, transgender and science-based, in budget documents, framed as a list of forbidden words.
Critics said the reported attendance of Andrew Weissmann, a senior Mueller prosecutor, at Hillary Clinton's 2016 election-night party, plus his email praising Sally Yates, showed the probe was politically biased.
Fox News' headline and tweet said Beverly Young Nelson admitted forging part of the yearbook inscription she had offered as evidence that Roy Moore knew her.
Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel tweeted a photo of the Pensacola rally venue that suggested the arena was largely empty for Trump's speech.
CNN reported that on Sept. 4, 2016, an email offered Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. a website and decryption key for hacked WikiLeaks documents, which would have been before the documents were public.
Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported that Special Counsel Mueller had subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records of President Trump's and his family's accounts, saying the probe had zeroed in on Trump's own business dealings.
Citing a confidant of Michael Flynn, Brian Ross reported on air that Flynn was ready to testify that candidate Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials during the campaign.
Headlines, tweets and tightly cropped clips presented President Trump as impatiently dumping an entire box of fish food into a koi pond at Akasaka Palace while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looked on.
A GQ headline contrasted Trump's call for the death penalty for New York truck attacker Sayfullo Saipov with his silence on the Las Vegas gunman, implying a double standard.
Citing three officials present, NBC reported that at a July 20, 2017 Pentagon meeting Trump said he wanted a nearly tenfold increase in U.S. nuclear warheads, back toward Cold War peak levels.
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, the White House-credentialed site published a story naming a man identified by 4chan users as the shooter and describing him as a left-wing Democrat.
After DHS notified states, outlets reported that Russian government hackers had targeted or tried to hack election systems in 21 states, with USA Today naming Wisconsin among them.
Coverage of Trump's Aug. 15, 2017 press conference framed his 'very fine people on both sides' remark as a defense of white nationalists, and the shorthand that he called neo-Nazis very fine people was repeated for years. The Atlantic's headline said he defended white-nationalist protesters.
A front-page Times story said scientists feared the Trump administration would suppress a draft federal climate report that had not been made public, and that a copy had been leaked to the paper.
Outlets ran a few-second clip from Trump's Warsaw visit as proof that Poland's first lady, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, refused to shake Trump's hand.
The Times and AP repeatedly reported that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, using the figure to fault Trump for doubting it.
A CNN investigative article said Congress was examining a Russian investment fund (the Russian Direct Investment Fund) whose CEO had allegedly met Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci shortly before the inauguration. The story rested on a single anonymous source.
After the shooting at the GOP congressional baseball practice, the Times editorial 'America's Lethal Politics' said a clear link existed between political incitement, including a Sarah Palin PAC map, and the 2011 shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords.
CNN reported that U.S. investigators believed Russian hackers had breached Qatar's state news agency and planted the fake quotes from Qatar's emir that set off the Gulf diplomatic crisis.
Citing sources, CNN reported that James Comey would dispute Trump's claim that Comey had told him he was not under investigation.
In spring 2017 Infowars, along with similar sites, ran stories tying yogurt maker Chobani and its Idaho plant, which employed refugees, to crime and disease.
A FoxNews.com story claimed murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks and was the source of leaked DNC emails.
The day after Comey's firing, multiple outlets reported, citing congressional and other officials, that Comey had asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a significant increase in resources for the Russia investigation shortly before Trump fired him.
In mid-March 2017 the conservative site IJR published a piece suggesting, without evidence, that Barack Obama's trip to Hawaii was tied to a federal judge there ruling against Trump's revised travel ban.
Fox senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Fox & Friends and in a Fox column, citing unnamed intelligence sources, that Obama used Britain's GCHQ to surveil Trump so there would be no American fingerprints.
MSNBC heavily promoted a breaking-news exclusive on Trump's tax returns, which many viewers and Democratic figures took to mean damaging new revelations.
Days after Trump's 'last night in Sweden' remark, The O'Reilly Factor presented guest Nils Bildt on screen as a Swedish defense and national security adviser, and he backed claims that asylum seekers had driven up crime in Sweden.
Citing four current and former officials, the Times reported that phone records and intercepted calls showed Trump campaign members and associates in repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials during the year before the 2016 election.
A widely shared Washington Post piece reported that the State Department's entire senior management team had suddenly resigned in Trump's first week, which many outlets framed as a protest exodus.
On Inauguration Day, a White House pool report and TIME's Zeke Miller reported that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been taken out of the Oval Office.
After RT programming briefly replaced C-SPAN's online feed, Fortune's headline and tweets said C-SPAN had confirmed it was hacked, and New York Magazine promoted the hack framing on Twitter.
Mother Jones reported in October 2016 that a veteran Western spy had given the FBI memos alleging a years-long Russian operation to cultivate and compromise Donald Trump. In January 2017 BuzzFeed published the full 35-page dossier, noting it was unverified, and its allegations drove years of coverage.
Citing unnamed U.S. officials, The Washington Post reported that code tied to a Russian hacking operation had been found inside a Vermont utility, which it said showed that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid.
Fox & Friends reported that food-stamp fraud had reached an all-time high, costing taxpayers about $70 million in 2016, and asked whether the program should be ended.
Outlets reported that three drunk men shouting 'Donald Trump' had harassed Baruch College student Yasmin Seweid on a Manhattan subway and tried to pull off her hijab while riders watched.
The Post reported that a Russian propaganda campaign helped spread fake news during the 2016 election, relying in part on an anonymous group, PropOrNot, which listed 200+ sites as propaganda outlets or echoes.
Days after the election, outlets reported that St. David's Episcopal Church in Bean Blossom, Indiana, an LGBT-inclusive parish, had been vandalized with 'Heil Trump', a swastika and an anti-gay slur, and presented it as post-election hate.
Days after the election, news outlets reported that a man near the University of Michigan campus threatened to set a Muslim student's hijab on fire unless she removed it, and the story was framed as part of a post-election wave of hate incidents.
The day after the election, national outlets reported a University of Louisiana at Lafayette student's account that two men, one in a white Trump hat, beat her, robbed her and pulled off her hijab.
Writing on election night as stock futures plunged, NYT columnist Paul Krugman said the first-pass answer to when markets would recover was never, and that the world was probably facing a global recession with no end in sight.
Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium gave Clinton a greater than 99 percent chance in one version of its model (93 percent in its final revised projection), calling the race for her in October. On CNN's Smerconish shortly before the election, Wang said he would eat a bug if Trump won more than 240 electoral votes.
The New York Times' Upshot forecast put Hillary Clinton's chance of winning the presidency at roughly 85 percent heading into Election Day, listed at 84 percent in its final reading, giving Trump about 16 percent.
HuffPost Pollster's presidential model put Hillary Clinton's chance of winning at about 98 percent on Election Day. Days earlier, HuffPost Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim wrote that Nate Silver's far less confident FiveThirtyEight forecast was tilting the polls toward Trump and amounted to guesswork dressed up as math.
The widely cited Crystal Ball's final projection gave Hillary Clinton 322 electoral votes to Donald Trump's 216.
Six days before the election, Bret Baier reported, citing FBI sources, that the Clinton Foundation investigation would likely lead to an indictment barring obstruction, and also relayed claims that Clinton's server had been hacked by foreign intelligence services.
A week before the election, outlets widely reported the burning of Hopewell M.B. Church, a historically Black church in Greenville, Mississippi, spray-painted with 'Vote Trump', as a likely racially or politically motivated hate crime.
Slate reported that computer scientists studying DNS logs believed a Trump Organization server was carrying on a sustained, human-like pattern of communication with servers of Russia's Alfa Bank, suggesting a covert channel. The piece called the evidence suggestive rather than conclusive.
Within minutes of James Comey's letter to Congress 11 days before the election, outlets reported that the FBI had reopened its investigation of Clinton's private email server, echoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz's tweet.
Two weeks before the 2016 election, a Washington Post analysis headline declared that Donald Trump's chances of winning were approaching zero.
Introducing a segment on hacked Podesta emails in mid-October 2016, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo told viewers it was illegal to possess the stolen documents and that the rules were different for the media.
Yahoo News reported that U.S. intelligence officials were probing whether Trump adviser Carter Page had opened private channels with senior Kremlin officials, including talk of lifting sanctions. In April 2017 the Washington Post reported the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant on the basis that Page was acting as an agent of Russia, and he was widely portrayed as a suspected Russian agent.
The AP's promotional tweet for its analysis of Hillary Clinton's State Department calendar said more than half of the people who met her as secretary gave money to the Clinton Foundation.
A Daily Mail article on Melania Trump's 1990s modeling career repeated allegations that she had provided services beyond modeling, and suggested the Trumps' account of how they met was staged.
Headlines across outlets said Donald Trump had a crying baby and its mother thrown out of his Ashburn, Virginia rally.
A Washington Post column said the Trump campaign had gutted the Republican platform's anti-Russia stance on Ukraine, and coverage presented the change as an early sign of a Trump-Russia accommodation.
After the June 2016 Orlando massacre, outlets amplified a man's claim on Univision that he had been Omar Mateen's lover and that the attack on Pulse was revenge against gay Latino men, and coverage widely treated Pulse as deliberately chosen because it was a gay club.
The documentary Under the Gun, executive produced and narrated by Katie Couric, showed members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League sitting silently for about nine seconds after she asked how felons could be stopped from buying guns without background checks.
The Times's investigation of Donald Trump's private conduct with women opened with former model Rowanne Brewer Lane's 1990 Mar-a-Lago pool-party story, presented as an example of Trump demeaning women.
A New York Times piece on Bernie Sanders's legislative record first ran as a largely positive account of how he won amendments, then was substantially reworked after publication to add skeptical paragraphs about his effectiveness.
Polling averages showed Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders in Michigan's Democratic primary by around 20 points, and FiveThirtyEight's forecast gave her better than a 99 percent chance of winning.
A Washington Post editorial cartoon by Ann Telnaes portrayed Ted Cruz as an organ grinder with his young daughters drawn as trained monkeys, arguing he used them as political props.
The Times reported that San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik had talked openly on social media about her support for jihad and that immigration officials missed it during her visa vetting.
The AP published, and CNN aired, an account from a supposed survivor of the San Bernardino attack, including a claim tying the shooter to the GamerGate controversy.
The Daily Beast identified San Bernardino shooter as Syed Raheel Farook and ran his Facebook photo; separately, an L.A. Times reporter and a Fox News scroll gave a hoax name for the female shooter.
PolitiFact Iowa rated Marco Rubio 'Pants on Fire' for saying North Korea had more than 2,000 nuclear warheads.
Politico's exclusive headline said Ben Carson's campaign admitted he fabricated a West Point scholarship, implying he had falsely claimed to have applied and been admitted.
The final media-sponsored Bluegrass Poll showed Democrat Jack Conway leading Republican Matt Bevin 45% to 40% days before Kentucky's 2015 governor's race.
From 2002 on, Fox News repeatedly presented Wayne Simmons as a former CIA operative and terrorism expert.
The Times reported that two inspectors general had asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled sensitive information on her private email account.
In July 2015, HuffPost announced it would cover Trump's campaign in its Entertainment section rather than Politics, calling it a sideshow. In November 2015, FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver told the media to stop freaking out about Trump's poll leads, putting his nomination chances at well under 20 percent.
The Times excluded Sen. Ted Cruz's memoir 'A Time for Truth' from its bestseller list, saying an overwhelming preponderance of evidence showed sales were limited to strategic bulk purchases.
Fox News aired an on-screen claim that an active shooter was confirmed at the Washington Navy Yard, and its D.C. affiliate tweeted that multiple sources confirmed a shooting.
In a segment after the Charleston church shooting, Chris Hayes said Bill O'Reilly had described the Confederate flag as standing for the bravery of Confederate soldiers.
Interviewing Bernie Sanders, Diane Rehm stated as fact that he held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship.
During tensions after Freddie Gray's death, Fox News reported that its crew saw Baltimore police shoot a young black man in the back as he ran.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos aggressively questioned 'Clinton Cash' author Peter Schweizer about the Clinton Foundation and covered the story as a neutral anchor.
Bloomberg Politics published a story saying former first lady Nancy Reagan had endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
Amid the Indiana RFRA fight, ABC57 headlined that a Walkerton pizzeria was the first local business to publicly deny same-sex service, and national outlets said it would deny service to LGBT people.
The Daily Beast, following a Jezebel post, reported that Gov. Scott Walker's budget would let Wisconsin universities stop reporting campus sexual assaults to the Justice Department.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams said on air that he had been in a helicopter forced down by an RPG in Iraq in 2003, a story he had told in various forms for years.
The Daily Beast reported as an exclusive that Mitt Romney would announce a third presidential run.
After the Charlie Hebdo attack, Fox News guests and hosts described Muslim 'no-go zones' in France and Britain, including a guest's claim that Birmingham was a totally Muslim city non-Muslims avoid.
Ed Schultz suggested RNC chairman Reince Priebus had misled the public about his whereabouts, showing a photo of him with Chris Christie and Jerry Jones at what was presented as that week's Cowboys-Eagles game.
Rolling Stone published a detailed account of a student, called Jackie, being gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity party, and portrayed the university as indifferent.
Weeks before the 2014 Colorado Senate election, Deadspin suggested Republican candidate Cory Gardner had lied about playing high school football.
A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll showed Democrat Anthony Brown leading Republican Larry Hogan 47% to 38% among likely voters in the Maryland governor's race.
An NBC News/Marist poll showed independent Greg Orman leading Republican Sen. Pat Roberts 48% to 38% among likely Kansas voters.
Citing an anonymous source close to Ferguson police leadership, Fox News reported that Officer Darren Wilson was nearly beaten unconscious by Michael Brown and suffered an orbital (eye-socket) fracture.
After Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, coverage widely relayed witness accounts that Brown had his hands raised in surrender when he was killed, which became the rallying cry of the protests.
Unsealed John Doe filings produced national headlines that Gov. Scott Walker was part of, or at the center of, a 'criminal scheme' to illegally coordinate fundraising with outside conservative groups.
CNN reported that at least 40 veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix VA, many while on a secret wait list, a figure widely repeated as 40 deaths caused by delays.
Coverage of a Congressional Budget Office report said the Affordable Care Act would mean roughly 2 million fewer jobs, a framing quickly echoed by Republican critics as Obamacare 'killing' jobs.
The Times first reported that former Port Authority official David Wildstein said Gov. Chris Christie knew about the George Washington Bridge lane closures and that Wildstein had the evidence to prove it.
A week before Virginia's 2013 governor's race, a Washington Post poll of likely voters showed Democrat Terry McAuliffe leading Republican Ken Cuccinelli 51% to 39%.
60 Minutes presented a British security contractor, called 'Morgan Jones,' as an eyewitness who scaled the compound wall during the Benghazi attack and later saw Ambassador Stevens' body.
A Fox & Friends anchor told viewers President Obama had offered to pay out of his own pocket to keep a Museum of Muslim Culture open during the government shutdown.
Numerous outlets reported that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis used an AR-15 rifle, and the claim drove calls for an assault-weapons ban.
During the Washington Navy Yard shooting, CBS and NBC identified a Navy chief petty officer named Rollie Chance as the gunman.
The Post's first PRISM story said the NSA and FBI were tapping directly into the central servers of nine U.S. internet companies that participated knowingly.
ABC's Jonathan Karl reported that a top White House aide's email backed State Department concerns about the Benghazi talking points, presenting the wording as if from the emails themselves.
The Post's front page showed two young men at the marathon under the headline 'Bag Men', implying federal investigators were looking for them.
On April 17, 2013, CNN reported that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing had been arrested.
Hours after the Boston Marathon bombing, the New York Post reported 12 people had been killed and that a Saudi national was in custody as a suspect.
Breitbart's Ben Shapiro reported, citing Senate sources, that defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel may have received money from a group called 'Friends of Hamas.'
MSNBC posted a video titled to say a grieving Sandy Hook father was heckled by 'gun nuts' at a Connecticut gun-control hearing; local coverage also said he was heckled.
Major outlets reported that Nancy Lanza, the gunman's mother, taught kindergarten or substituted at Sandy Hook Elementary, implying a motive tied to her classroom.
Many outlets named Ryan Lanza as the Sandy Hook Elementary gunman, and some circulated his Facebook profile and photo.
Gallup's final national pre-election survey showed Romney narrowly ahead of Obama, after weeks of tracking that had Romney leading among likely voters.
Prominent conservative analysts predicted Romney would win comfortably: Michael Barone 315 electoral votes, George Will 321 (including Minnesota), Dick Morris 325.
In his final pre-election WSJ column, Karl Rove predicted Romney would win roughly 51% to 48% with at least 279 electoral votes, probably more.
Days before the 2012 election, the Daily Caller published video interviews in which two Dominican women said Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez had paid them for sex.
Citing unnamed sources, Fox News reported that CIA operators in Benghazi were twice told to stand down and that requests for military backup were denied during the attack.
Moderating the second presidential debate, CNN's Candy Crowley interjected to side with President Obama that he had called the Benghazi attack an act of terror, undercutting Mitt Romney mid-exchange.
Early coverage described the Benghazi consulate attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens as an angry mob protesting a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad.
HuffPost reported Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's claim that an unnamed Bain investor told him Mitt Romney had paid no taxes for ten years, a claim that then spread widely.
During live coverage of the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting, ABC's Brian Ross suggested that a Jim Holmes listed with a Colorado Tea Party group might be the suspect.
In the first minutes after the Supreme Court's ACA ruling, CNN and Fox News reported that the Court had struck down the individual mandate.
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell aired a short clip of Mitt Romney marveling at a Wawa touchscreen ordering kiosk and likened it to George H.W. Bush's 1992 supermarket-scanner gaffe, implying Romney was out of touch with ordinary technology.
Early exit-poll reporting on election night portrayed Scott Walker's recall race as too close to call, with voters split roughly evenly between Walker and Tom Barrett.
BBC News ran a photo of rows of shrouded bodies as an image of the Houla massacre in Syria.
ABC News' exclusive police surveillance video was presented as showing George Zimmerman had no visible injuries after shooting Trayvon Martin, undercutting his claim he was attacked.
After oral arguments, CNN's senior legal analyst called the day a train wreck for the administration and said the health law looked like it would be struck down.
NBC's Today show aired a version of George Zimmerman's 911 call that made it sound as if he volunteered that Trayvon Martin was Black.
CNN aired an audio-enhanced version of George Zimmerman's 911 call and its reporter said it certainly sounded like Zimmerman used a racial slur about Trayvon Martin.
The morning after the 2012 Iowa caucuses, national outlets reported as settled fact that Mitt Romney had won Iowa by eight votes over Rick Santorum.
As Enron Task Force leader, Weissmann won convictions of Arthur Andersen for obstruction and of Merrill Lynch executives in the Nigerian barge deal, using aggressive legal theories.
