2022′s Pinocchio-est Pinocchios It's time for our roundup of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. False claims made by President Biden and conspiracy theories about the president dominate the list. Misleading claims about the coronavirus, by a Republican and a Democrat, also made the cut. Former president Donald Trump earned this dubious honor for the eighth straight year by spreading a baseless conspiracy theory about one of his supporters at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who also appeared on last year's list, earned two spots this year, while Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) appears in the tally for the second straight year with a coronavirus claim. Russian president Vladimir Putin makes an appearance for his falsehoods justifying the invasion of Ukraine. And we gave former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows a special hypocrisy award for warning about voter fraud – while engaging in actions that led to a state investigation for potential voter fraud. The list has no particular order. Click the link to read the full report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. False claims about who committed 2 right-wing attacks During a House Oversight Committee hearing on the threat posed by white supremacists and militia groups, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) made some comments that made us wonder if he had been paying attention to the testimony. Biggs asserted that the Buffalo shooter who pleaded guilty in the killings of 10 people at a Buffalo Tops grocery "was an admitted socialist who was thankful that the conservative movement was dead" and the man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), "was a leftist himself, a radical leftist." That's Four Pinocchios false. What motivates extreme violence is sometimes difficult to parse. Neither man was especially articulate, and easy categorizations are sometimes difficult. But Biggs ignored clear evidence that the Buffalo shooter and Pelosi's attacker were advocates of far-right ideologies at the time they committed their attacks. That's a wrap for the year for us. We wish all of our readers a joyous holiday season and a happy new year. The newsletter will return Jan. 6. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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