Mark Meadows warned of voter fraud. But then look at what he did. In the run-up to the 2020 election, President Donald Trump repeatedly warned about potential election fraud — as did Mark Meadows, his White House chief of staff. But, apparently, what's good for the goose is not always good for the gander. During the 2020 election, Meadows and his wife, Debra, submitted voter registration forms that listed as their residential address a 14-by-62-foot mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021. The forms ask for a residential address — "where you physically live" — and are signed "under penalty of perjury." According to The New Yorker, Meadows and his wife have never lived there — and Meadows himself may have never set foot in the house. But the couple used that address to cast ballots in the 2020 general election, North Carolina voting records show. Six months earlier, in March 2020, Meadows sold, for $370,000, a house in Sapphire, N.C., meaning the couple no longer had a place of residence in the state. Instead, they lived at the time in a condominium in Old Town Alexandria in Virginia. But that did not stop Debra Meadows from using the old Sapphire registration to cast a ballot in a June primary runoff election for someone for whom she had done fundraising. We expanded on the New Yorker's reporting and obtained many new documents. Please read our 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. Tucker Carlson yet again echoes Russian disinformation Russia for years has been seeding the ground to claim that the United States set up biowarfare labs in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. This week, brief remarks by Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state, were twisted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and others to provide "confirmation" of the disinformation program. The attacks on the U.S.-funded labs in the region had become even more pronounced after Britain in 2018 said the Russian government was responsible for the attempted killing of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal via the nerve agent novichok. Nevertheless, despite constant debunking by fact checkers and medical experts, the Russian propaganda that the United States has bioweapons labs in Ukraine has taken root, especially on the right, with the hashtag #usbiolabs trending on Twitter as the Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced. We dig into the history of these labs and show how the Russian disinformation campaign is straight out of the Soviet playbook. The Soviets had engaged in long-running campaign of false allegations that the United States used biological weapons — as cover for its own illicit weapons programs. Officials admitted the fabrications after the Soviet Union collapsed, but Russian disinformation about biological weapons resumed again in earnest after Vladimir Putin took control in 1999. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. 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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