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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: People In Plastic Bags Are NOT Christians Being Killed In Afghanistan — It’s A Protest Performance In Colombia
Do these photos depict Christians who refused to deny their faith being suffocated in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: These are video stills taken at a protest performance 8,800 miles from Afghanistan in Medellín, Colombia, on May 26,
Full Fact - All content→ Reversing is not being removed from HGV driving tests
A screenshot of a tweet going viral on Facebook claims that the reversing element of HGV driving tests is being removed in order to make them easier to pass, amid a shortage of lorry drivers. This is not quite the case. Initially, a now-closed governme
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Viral Video Does NOT Show Rice Being Made Out Of Plastic Sheets In A Factory — They’re Plastic Pellets
Does this viral video show "rice" being made out of plastic sheets in a factory? No, that's not true: The sheets are not being used to make rice but to make plastic pellets. The claim, which is accompanied by a video, has made the rounds
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Pelosi And Biden Are Being Investigated By The FBI For Election Fraud
Are House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden being investigated by the FBI for election fraud? No, that's not true: There is no evidence offered to support this claim and no publicly available evidence supports it. The claim is
Top Fact Checks→ The bodies of those who died from COVID-19 vaccines are being dissolved and turned into fertilizer in Wisconsin.
The legalization of alkaline hydrolysis has been misrepresented. The law is not related to COVID-19 vaccines, which are proven to be safe.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Claims that people were being killed by zidovudine (AZT) instead of AIDS are unsubstantiated
REVIEW Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor on COVID-19, has been the target of attacks pr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Farmers Are NOT Being Told They Must Destroy Their Crops
Has the government sent letters to farmers telling them that they must destroy their crops and be paid one-and-a-half times the value of the crop or lose all government farm subsidies? No, that's not true: A collection of hoax TikTok vide
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ How are Afghan refugees being vetted? Here’s what we know.
U.S. officials are working on one of the largest airlifts in U.S. history ahead of an Aug. 31 deadline to leave Afghanistan. The evacuation effort includes American citizens as well as thousands of refugees and Afghans who helped the U.S. military over
Snopes→ Are Llama Cells Being Tested in Humans as Possible COVID Treatment?
Wait to alpaca your masks away.
Snopes→ Did a Pastor Die After Being Buried Alive in Zambia?
The story has been reported by multiple outlets but the details seem to vary with each telling.
Snopes→ Video Doesn’t Show America’s Afghan Allies Being Executed by Taliban
A genuine video of people being executed in 2013 was re-shared as if it were related to summer 2021 events in Afghanistan.
TruthOrFiction→ U.S. Military Dogs Being Evacuated From Afghanistan
On August 16 2021, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand shared an image on Twitter which puportedly showed dogs with the United States military dogs as they were getting moved out of Afghanistan as its cities rapidly fell to the Taliban: U.S. military dogs
Top Fact Checks→ President Joe Biden said that there would be “no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the US Embassy from Afghanistan.”
Biden made the comments during a press conference on July 8, 2021.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lindell’s ‘Truth vs. The Big Lie’ Numbers Flat-Out Contradict Douglas G. Frank’s Theories About Phantom Voters Being Used To Inject Votes
Did "corrected" vote totals from the 2020 election presented by Mike Lindell at his election fraud Cyber Symposium as "Truth" support the theory that fake ballots were injected into every state's official election returns? No, that's not
Snopes→ ‘River Dave’ Doesn’t Think He Can Go Back to Being a Hermit
"River Dave" Lidstone, a logger by trade who chopped his firewood and grew his food in the woods along the Merrimack River in the town of Canterbury, said he's not grieving the loss of his life in isolation.
Top Fact Checks→ A man named Ajmal Khan killed a Hindu family in Rajasthan after not being allowed to marry their daughter.
Ajit Cheeta assaulted his wife and killed both of his daughters and injured his wife. No communal reasons were cited by police reports.
Snopes→ Naomi Osaka Told Megyn Kelly to ‘Do Better’ After Being Accused of Hypocrisy Over Magazine Shoots
The tennis star faced criticism from the tv anchor for avoiding French Open journalists to protect her mental health.
Snopes→ Trump Inaugural Committee Head Accused of Being UAE Agent
Tom Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, California, was among three men charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
Snopes→ Is an Arizona Hotel Being Used as an Illegal Safe House For ‘Illegal Immigrants’?
A holding facility for asylum seekers became the center of protests in June 2021.
Top Fact Checks→ During the Arizona audit of the 2020 Presidential election, 74,243 mail-in ballots were found with no record of them being sent.
This claim misrepresents a normal feature of elections - some early ballots are not returned by post because people choose to vote in person instead.
Snopes→ Robert Cruz Surprises Dad After Being Signed by Nationals
The caption of Cruz's viral TikTok video read: "Surprising my dad at his work with the news that I just got signed by the Washington Nationals."
TruthOrFiction→ ‘Friendly Roast in 2015,’ ‘HRC Being Roasted’
In July 2021, a TikTok video was shared to Facebook, bearing the labels “Friendly Roast in 2015” and “HRC Being Roasted” — purportedly showing former U.S. President Donald Trump “roasting” former Democratic pre
Snopes→ Camper Killed After Being Pulled from Tent by Grizzly Bear
The incident marks the second bear attack in Big Sky Country this year.
Top Fact Checks→ Video footage showing England’s Chief Medical Advisor Professor Chris Whitty being harassed was staged.
There is no evidence to suggest that video footage of two members of the public manhandling Whitty is fake.
Top Fact Checks→ The Delhi administration is stockpiling vaccines by administering fewer doses despite vaccines being available.
The official Delhi COVID-19 vaccine bulletin shows there has been a steady increase in vaccinations and a steady decrease in the vaccine stockpile.
Snopes→ Top General Blasts Rep. Matt Gaetz for ‘Offensive’ Comment About Military Being ‘Woke’
And the exchange went viral.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BBC News Did NOT Post Headline About Tom Hanks Being Arrested For Child Pornography Charges
Did a BBC News Online headline report that Tom Hanks was arrested on 135 counts of child pornography possession? No, that's not true: Although an image attributed to BBC News Online displays that headline, along with a picture of Hanks an
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Donald Trump says he was ‘right about everything.’ Is he right about being right?
Former President Donald Trump recently released a statement claiming he was “right about everything” that critics said he was wrong on. Is he right about being right? We looked through the 10 points in Trump’s June 12 statement and found
Top Fact Checks→ Former Pfizer Vice President claims that governments are lying about new variants of COVID-19 being deadlier.
Dr. Michael Yeadon is known to make unfounded claims about COVID-19 in interviews for conspiracy theory websites and media outlets.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Story About Trans Species Man Self-Identifying As Deer Being Shot By Hunters Is NOT Real
Was a South Carolina man named William Tenenbaum and who self-identified as a deer shot by hunters because they mistook him for the real thing? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a li
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Did the Red Cross Say People Cannot Donate Blood Plasma After Being Vaccinated?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/did-the-red-cross-say-people-cannot A viral Instagram post claims
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did the Red Cross Say People Cannot Donate Blood Plasma After Being Vaccinated?
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Snopes→ Did Lea Salonga Say She Was Rejected From a Role for Being Asian?
Salonga's powerhouse vocals have made her a household name.
Snopes→ Yankees’ Torres Positive for COVID Despite Being Vaccinated
New York Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated and having previously contracted the coronavirus during the offseason.
Full Fact - All content→ Why is the Nuremberg Code being used to oppose Covid-19 vaccines?
As the UK Covid-19 vaccine roll out has gathered pace, and the use of “vaccine passports” continue to be debated, an increasing number of social media users are voicing their opposition to these moves and claiming they are an infringement o
Snopes→ Does a Video Show Disneyland’s Splash Mountain Being Evacuated?
Disneyland recently reopened after being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Snopes→ Does a Photo Show Paris Hilton in a ‘Stop Being Poor’ Shirt?
This meme has been circulating for years.
Liste→ Arnold Schwarzenegger did not sleep on the street after being rejected by a hotel
A photo of American movie star and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger wrapped in a sleeping bag at the foot of his own statue has been shared thousands of times on social media since 2018. The posts claim that Schwarzenegger was forced
Full Fact - All content→ Donkey being carried out of compassion, not self-preservation
An image of a person in military uniform carrying a donkey has been widely shared on Facebook. The caption with the image reads: “Soldier carrying donkey through a minefield. If the donkey was free to wander as it pleased, it would likely detonat