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Reality Check: Do Online Companies Really Care About Your Privacy?

The Facebook scandal involving personal data mishandled by Cambridge Analytica has raised concerns over the privacy of the information we share on our social media accounts. Some countries have gone

By Ben Swann

/ April 19, 2018

Reality Check: Do Online Companies Really Care About Your Privacy?

Would More Sanctions Against North Korea Really Work?

Alexander Matsegora, Moscow’s envoy to North Korea says that any more sanctions on the country’s oil supply would be perceived as a declaration of war. He went on

By Ben Swann

/ February 15, 2018

Would More Sanctions Against North Korea Really Work?

Beyond The Memo: Can We Trust The FISA Court?

Friday, the White House released a controversial memo meant to provide some context to the whole Trump/Russia investigation. The Nunes memo is four pages long, and it explains many

By Ben Swann

/ February 7, 2018

Beyond The Memo: Can We Trust The FISA Court?

You Can Sell Taiwan $2 Billion in Weapons, But Don't Take Their Phone Call

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of the above video. Reality Check is a segment by investigative journalist Ben Swann on CBS46 in Atlanta, Georgia. Well it

By Ben Swann

/ December 14, 2016

You Can Sell Taiwan $2 Billion in Weapons, But Don't Take Their Phone Call

Reality Check: Why Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are not 'Wasted Votes'

In what has been an election year unlike any other, things could become even more unusual. As we head toward the presidential debates, is it possible that we will see

By Ben Swann

/ August 11, 2016

Reality Check: Why Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are not 'Wasted Votes'

What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Violence As Protest

The Quest for Peace and Justice Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Lecture -- December 11, 1964 “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I

By Ben Swann

/ July 8, 2016

What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About Violence As Protest

WATCH: Crowd Chants 'Let Her Speak' as Third Party Candidate Forcibly Removed from Debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9t7Q4H7efg Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, was physically ejected from a Monday Goucher College senatorial debate

By Ben Swann

/ March 30, 2016

WATCH: Crowd Chants 'Let Her Speak' as Third Party Candidate Forcibly Removed from Debate

WATCH: Do DC Lobbyists Have A Bigger Vote Than You?

Reality Check: Dem Super-delegates Include Registered Lobbyists!Ben Swann A week ago I told you about the Democratic Party’s superdelegate problem. And that problem may be worse than we

By Ben Swann

/ March 23, 2016

WATCH: Do DC Lobbyists Have A Bigger Vote Than You?

Libertarian Party Obtains Ballot Access in Oklahoma for First Time in 16 Years

The Libertarian Party just scored a major victory in its quest to fulfill candidate Gary Johnson’s promise that the party will be on the ballot in all 50 states

By Ben Swann

/ March 21, 2016

Libertarian Party Obtains Ballot Access in Oklahoma for First Time in 16 Years

Truth in Media: Donors, Lobbyists among Democratic Superdelegates

A new report found that some Democratic superdelegates are also registered lobbyists. In the Democratic Party’s presidential primary process, superdelegates are party insiders who are allowed to vote for

By Ben Swann

/ March 15, 2016

Truth in Media: Donors, Lobbyists among Democratic Superdelegates

GOP Committeeman: Primaries Don’t Matter, We Can Change the Rules Anytime

Republican National Committeeman Curly Haugland of North Dakota sent a letter on Friday to fellow RNC officials arguing that current party rules allow 2016 Republican National Convention delegates to vote

By Ben Swann

/ March 14, 2016

GOP Committeeman: Primaries Don’t Matter, We Can Change the Rules Anytime

Reality Check: Democrats Have a Major Superdelegate Problem

Reality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate Problem Reality Check: Democrats Have a Super-Delegate ProblemBen Swann The Democratic Party has a problem: superdelegates. A system the party created to protect itself

By Ben Swann

/ March 11, 2016

Reality Check: Democrats Have a Major Superdelegate Problem