President Donald Trump is the most popular politician in the #CoronaVirusFacts database. Since Jan. 24, when fact-checkers around the world began building a list of falsehoods related to the COVID-19 crisis, Trump’s name has appeared at least 61 times in fact-checks from seven countries outside the United States.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the second-most fact-checks with 22 citations, a third of what Trump has registered so far. Giuseppe Conte (from Italy) and Jair Bolsonaro (from Brazil) are cited 15 and 10 times, respectively.
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