Gene therapy modifies a person’s genes to treat disease‚ according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact‚ a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View this fact brief on Wisconsin Watch.

An Aldi supermarkets employment ad has some conservatives complaining on social media that it shows the German-owned discount grocer is no longer hiring white people. A woman in a Feb. 4 Instagram video said‚ "Guys‚ you missed it. Aldi is hiring everybody but white people." As evidence of her claim‚ the woman read from a LinkedIn job listing Jobs for Humanity posted for a national procurement specialist that read: "Jobs for Humanity is partnering with Aldi to build...

The conservative organization Americans for Prosperity has launched a new website focused on Bidenomics and how President Joe Biden’s policies are hurting families in the United States. The website is part of an eight-figure campaign that AFP is launching to critique Bidenomics‚ a term coined by the Biden administration to show how the president’s policies are helping the U.S. economy. The page‚ described by AFP as “the website Joe Biden doesn’t want...

In a victory for Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton‚ at least nine House Republicans appeared to have lost their primaries on Tuesday evening. Another eight members‚ at least‚ were also forced into runoffs this May 28 — including House Speaker Dade Phelan who was the No. 1 target of the far right. The two state leaders and other prominent Republicans‚ like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and former president Donald Trump‚ endorsed challengers in dozens of races citing the incumbents’...

A ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militant group has resulted in at least two crew members' deaths aboard the M/V True Confidence‚ a Barbados-flagged bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden‚ according to two US officials speaking to CNN. This incident marks the first fatalities in the ongoing Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships. The Liberia-owned vessel has been abandoned‚ and coalition warships are currently assessing the situation. Alongside the fatalities‚ six other crew...

There’s a nagging discrepancy between what pollsters find when they test a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the share of the raw vote Trump has so far generated in Republican primary contests. In November‚ the polling suggests Trump can count on the support of roughly 90 percent of self-identified Republicans — exactly where he needs to be‚ according to the conventional wisdom. And yet‚ a significant number of GOP primary voters continue to say they are not...

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) took to social media to tell former President Trump to “eat dirt” after Trump called the United States a third-world country in his Super Tuesday victory speech. “Trump just called America a ‘third world’ country.’ With all due respect (which is none)‚ eat dirt scumbag‚” Kinzinger posted on X‚ the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This is the best country on earth. You‚ are our biggest embarrassment and stain. But you’ll be over...