AFP's fact-check service debunks misinformation spread online. Here are some of our recent articles on inaccurate claims in the United States: An article shared thousands of times says the US federal government stopped Texas from generating more power as a severe winter storm approached. This is false; a spokeswoman for the state's grid operator called the claim "misinformation," and documents confirm that the Department of Energy granted a request for more electricity six days before the inaccurate article was published. A years-old claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi travels routinely to her California district on a Boeing 757 that costs millions of dollars annually in fuel has resurfaced. Pelosi's office denied the claim, analyst estimates of fuel costs are far lower, recently she has not spent each entire weekend in San Francisco, and she has flown there commercially. Articles shared thousands of times on Facebook claim the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased the Covid-19 death toll by 1,600 percent because they illegally altered rules for reporting mortality data. This is false; the CDC's chief of mortality statistics said the claim "doesn't have any validity," and public health attorneys said the agency's actions did not violate the law. Facebook posts attempt to link President Joe Biden to pedophilia by claiming he met his second wife Jill when she was a teenager. This is false; according to Jill Biden and media reports they went on their first date in 1975 when she was 23 and he 32. 1. 2. 3. 4. afp