Is there a legitimate movement made up of people trying to raise awareness that birds are not real but are actually government spy drones that charge on power lines and drop tracking devices on cars? No. This parody movement is supported
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Logically→ Only two people in the world know Coca-Cola’s recipe, and they aren’t allowed to travel on the same plane.
The recipe is only known to a small number of people at a time. Anyone who reproduces Coca-Cola's recipe wouldn't be able to market it as Coca-Cola.
AllSides→ No, Texas Lawmakers Aren’t Stripping MLK, KKK from State Education Requirements
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2021/07/22/no-texas-lawmakers-arent-stripping-the-kkk-and-jim-crow-from-state-education-curricula-n2592869
AllSides→ Most immigrants in US illegally aren’t eligible for direct $1,400 stimulus checks
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/12/facebook-posts/most-immigrants-us-illegally-not-eligible-direct-1/
AllSides→ Immigrants in US illegally aren’t eligible for federal welfare; Trump did not ban it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/17/fact-check-trump-did-not-ban-welfare-immigrants-us-illegally/5385793002/
ABC News→ AP FACT CHECK: Tesla safety claims aren’t quite right
AP FACT CHECK: Tesla safety claims are partly true but not quite right
ABC News→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims on Russia probe aren’t adding up
AP Fact Checks are finding that President Donald Trump's statements on the Russia investigation aren't all adding up
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Make-A-Wish Did NOT Deny A Wish For Unvaccinated 4-Year-Old Cancer Patient — Charity Asked Him To Make Another
Did the Make-A-Wish Foundation refuse to grant a 4-year-old cancer patient a wish because he is not vaccinated? That's not true: The charity's medical team had ruled out air travel and large group settings for unvaccinated and critically
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Meme Does NOT Paint Accurate Picture Of Effectiveness Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Does this meme paint an accurate picture of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: Although what we know about the virus and the vaccines has changed over time, scientists and public health experts continue to say th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Aboriginal Interpreter Is NOT Translating Mark McGowan’s English To English In Video — She Is Speaking Kriol
In a video made to encourage COVID-19 vaccines in aboriginal communities, did Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia, make a patronizing and insensitive blunder by having an Indigenous interpreter stand beside him and simply repea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Government Medicare Program Does NOT Offer A Flex Card
Is the U.S. government's Medicare program providing "flex cards" to qualified seniors that allow them to spend up to $2,800 a year? No, that's not true: Flex cards -- attached to a flexible spending account with money put aside for specif
Snopes→ Was Djokovic Mocked by Federer and Nadal?
This video of Federer and Nadal laughing is real, but they aren't talking about Djokovic.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – CDC employees aren’t avoiding vaccination, and their director didn’t say they were
"Biden's CDC Director ADMITS Her Own Employees Aren't Getting Vaccinated."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ — That’s A Rocket Launch
Does a video show China's "Artificial Sun" rising to break a record for heating a loop of plasma and holding a temperature of 126 million degrees for 17 minutes? No, that's not true: This video shows a rocket launch and is unrelated to th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Over 100,000 Children Are NOT In Serious Condition From COVID-19 As Supreme Court Justice Said
Are over 100,000 children in serious condition because of COVID-19? No, that's not true: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor overstated the pandemic's toll on children 17 and under during Supreme Court oral arguments on January 7, 2022.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT ‘Deadly Experimental Shot’
Are the injections against COVID-19 "deadly experimental shots" and not vaccines? No, that's not true: Medical science classifies all three injected preventatives as vaccines and former President Donald Trump, whose Operation Warp Speed s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Study Does NOT Say Vaccinated People Are More Likely To Be Infected With COVID-19 Than Those Without The Shot
Does a study say vaccinated people are more likely to become infected with COVID-19 than those who don't get the shot? No, that's not true: One of the study's co-authors says the writer of an article about their work got it wrong. "Interp
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Omicron Variant Is NOT Just Common Cold Or RSV Infection — It’s Separate And Unique
Is the CDC just calling the common cold or RSV the omicron variant? No, that's not true: The omicron variant is a mutated version of the original COVID-19 virus. While the common cold and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) are viral infect
Snopes→ Advocates Shine Spotlight on Spanish-Language Misinfo on Social Media
Watchdogs say safety measures that help keep English-speaking users safe aren't being equally implemented for Spanish speakers.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccines Do NOT Pose 7 Times Higher Death Risk Than COVID For People In 20s
Do vaccines pose a seven times higher risk of death than COVID for people in their 20s? No, that's not true: The authors of a Japanese medical bulletin provide no clear evidence of deaths due to the vaccine to establish a ratio with death
Snopes→ ‘Bah-Boom, Bah-Boom’: Acorn-Ucopia of Food Fattens Squirrels
Humans aren't the only species packing on extra pounds during the pandemic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In Scotland, Fully Vaccinated ARE Nearly 9 In Every 10 COVID-19 Deaths — But Simple Numbers Can Mislead
Do fully vaccinated people account for nine in every 10 COVID-19 deaths in Scotland? Yes, that's a bit exaggerated yet true: But simple ratio analysis based on that statistic doesn't tell the story fully. The figures are found in the COVI
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Unmask Fauci Plot — Public Health Officials Are Paid To Predict Outbreaks, Develop New Technology
Does this video unmask new-in-November-2021 evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci helped mastermind the COVID-19 pandemic to bring humankind under government control? No, that's not true: The October, 2019 C-SPAN video has been the subject of c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In UK, Fully Vaccinated ARE 4 In Every 5 COVID-19 Deaths — But Simple Ratio Can Mislead If Other Variables Ignored
Do fully vaccinated people account for four in every five recent COVID-19 deaths in the UK? Yes, that's true: But simple ratio analysis based on that statistic doesn't tell the story fully. The figures are found in the COVID-19 vaccine su
Lead Stories→ Pfizer Petitions Court For Identity of ‘Conservative Beaver’ Publisher — Lead Stories May Have Found Him
Wanted for Defamation On November 5, 2021, a website named Conservative Beaver published a false story about the CEO of Pfizer being arrested for fraud. It wasn't the first false story published by the website and it wouldn't be the last:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccines Are NOT The Reason Vaccinated English Under 60 Are ‘Dying At Twice The Rate of Unvaccinated People The Same Age’
Are COVID-19 vaccines the reason vaccinated people ages 10 to 59 in England are dying at twice the rate of the unvaccinated? No, that's not true: Age 10-59 is, statistically, a huge age group, so the claim uses a misleading "same age" com
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Humanity Is NOT Being Held Hostage By New World Order Using COVID-19 Vaccines — Video Is Long List of Disproven Claims
Is humanity being held hostage by a new world order pushing COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: The video in this Facebook post recycles previously debunked claims about COVID and plays into the rhetoric of an elaborate QAnon story of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Health Care Workers Do NOT Need To Quarantine After Testing A COVID-19 Positive Person
Do health care workers giving COVID-19 tests need to quarantine after coming into contact with those who test positive? No, that's not true: Those workers are wearing personal protective equipment and are only in close contact for the sec
Snopes→ Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict Astroworld Tragedy?
"The Simpsons" aren't nearly as good at making predictions as the internet seems to think.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Did the British Medical Association's news blog reveal flaws that disqualify the results of a contractor's field testing of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, and were the problems ignored by the Food & Drug Administration and by Pfizer? No,
FactCheck.org→ Video Questioning Vaccine Efficacy Pushes Falsehood About Israel Data
SciCheck Digest The COVID-19 death rate for unvaccinated people has been significantly higher than for vaccinated people in both Israel and the U.S. Despite that, conservative commentator Ben Swann makes the false claim in a video that Israeli data pro
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pope Francis Does NOT Have A Warrant Out For His Arrest
Did authorities send out an arrest warrant for Pope Francis on November 1, 2021? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that an arrest warrant for Pope Francis has been issued, that he is going to court for crimes against humanity or t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trapdoor Spider Is NOT Poisonous — Only Venomous To Animal Prey
Is this trapdoor spider poisonous, and can it kill human beings who are stung by it "within 5 minutes"? No, that's not true: Trapdoor spiders don't produce poison, only venom to subdue prey -- which does not include humans. McGill Univers
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Israel Statistics Do NOT Show Vaccines Are Ineffective — They Illustrate A Common Weakness With Overly-Simple Analysis
Do Israel's health statistics show COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective and have not changed health outcomes of Israelis? No, that's not true. The data demonstrate Simpson's Paradox, the name for a common statistical problem: a trend apparen
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In UK, Fully Vaccinated ARE 82% Of COVID-19 Deaths, 66% Of Hospitalizations — But Percentages Don’t Tell Full Story
Do fully vaccinated people account for 82% of recent COVID-19 deaths and 66% of hospitalizations in the UK? Yes, that's true. The figures are found in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report - Week 43 by the UK Health Security Agency pub
Full Fact→ Why can you mix and match booster jabs in pregnancy?
We have been asked on WhatsApp about the Covid-19 booster vaccines in pregnancy. In particular people have asked why the booster vaccine is deemed to be safe in pregnancy, and why mixing and matching vaccines for the booster is sometimes recommended (d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Field In Madison, Georgia, Does NOT Store ‘Disposable Coffins’ And Is Not Owned By CDC Or FEMA
Did the CDC pay someone to store up to 500,000 "disposable coffins" in what had been a soybean field in Madison, Georgia? Does this indicate that there is a "plan" that might include "FEMA Camps" and an impending need to bury hundreds of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Are NOT Cockroach Parts In Your Chocolate
Are pieces of cockroaches found in chocolate and chocolate liquor? And when people have allergic reactions to chocolate, are they actually having allergic reactions to the cockroach pieces in the chocolate? No, that's not true: According
Snopes→ Does This Map Show the United States in 30 Years?
The United States could see some drastic changes if climate change is not addressed, but they aren't depicted on this map.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Two Great White Sharks Were NOT Spotted In The Mississippi River Near Davenport, Iowa
Were two great white sharks found in the Mississippi River near Davenport, Iowa? No, that's not true: A shark expert says great whites could not tolerate being in freshwater. Also, the story was posted on a website that says its stories s