20 files on the record. 16 helped Democrats, 1 helped Republicans, 3 helped neither.
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.
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.
All three outlets reported that the FBI had warned Rudy Giuliani in 2019 that he was the target of a Russian disinformation operation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NBC News tweeted a clip saying Trump called Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 'incredible' at an Ohio rally.
NBC News reported that federal investigators had wiretapped the phones of Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, including a call with the White House.
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.
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.
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.
In its fact check of the second presidential debate, NBC News rated Trump's claim that Clinton "acid washed" her email server as false, explaining that her team used a software program called BleachBit, not a corrosive chemical. Critics say this read a figure of speech literally while confirming the underlying point that the files were permanently wiped.
On the night of Trump's July 21, 2016 acceptance speech and the morning after, several major outlets used "dark" in their headlines or framing. Critics such as Legal Insurrection said the shared word showed media groupthink that echoed Clinton campaign talking points.
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.
An NBC News/Marist poll showed independent Greg Orman leading Republican Sen. Pat Roberts 48% to 38% among likely Kansas voters.
During the Washington Navy Yard shooting, CBS and NBC identified a Navy chief petty officer named Rollie Chance as the gunman.
Many outlets named Ryan Lanza as the Sandy Hook Elementary gunman, and some circulated his Facebook profile and photo.
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.
