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Snopes→ Trump’s Legal Team Cried Vote Fraud, But Courts Found None
Judges uniformly rejected Trump's claims of vote fraud and found the campaign's legal work amateurish.
Snopes→ ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ to Debut in Theaters and on HBO Max
“Wonder Woman 1984” isn’t skipping theaters or moving to 2021, but it is altering course.
Liste→ South African pharmacy chain Clicks denies offering free sanitary pads, but is running a promotion
Social media posts shared thousands of times in South Africa claim that health and beauty retailer Clicks is giving away free sanitary pads. The claims are false; the pharmacy explained that while it is running a promotion on sanitary pads, they are n
Snopes→ GOP Increasingly Accepts Trump’s Defeat — But Not in Public
The GOP's public silence on the reality of Biden's victory amounts to tacit approval of Trump's baseless claims of election fraud.
Top Fact Checks→ The Biden Cancer Initiative amassed $4,809,619 in contributions, but spent $3,070,301 on salaries.
The Biden Cancer Initiative was not a grant-giving organization, but a platform for people in the field to come together and collaborate.
Snopes→ Trump Seems to Acknowledge Biden Win, But He Won’t Concede
President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the White House, but made clear he would not concede.
WaPo Fact Checker→ Trump lost. But his Twitter feed keeps giving supporters false hope.
All week, the president has been tweeting madly. But many of his claims are mindless.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Microsoft Is Investigating Claim Of Smoking Xbox Series X, But Company Doubts It Is Real
Is Microsoft investigating the claim made by some Xbox Series X owners that the console is emitting smoke from the top vent? Yes, it's true: the company is looking into the claim, even though its engineering teams haven't encountered smo
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Pfizer is part of Operation Warp Speed, a partnership to produce and distribute a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, but it developed a vaccine without direct Warp funding
REVIEW In early November 2020, the U.S. company Pfizer and the German company BioNTech announced that their vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 showed an efficacy rate of 90% during clinical trials. Considering that COVID-19, the disease caused by
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Wearing face masks helps reduce the spread of COVID-19, but it only confers partial protection and should be combined with additional public health measures
REVIEW An article published by The Federalist on 29 October 2020 claims that face masks are ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19. In support of its claim, the article cites several scientific studies and shows 12 graphs comparing COVID-19
Full Fact - All content→ Viral letter on Covid-19 testing in Liverpool school was real but has been withdrawn
A number of posts on Facebook show an image of a letter purportedly sent out by Broadgreen International School in Liverpool about Covid-19 testing that will take place within the school without parental permission being needed. It is correct tha
TFCN Feature – Poynter→ TFCN Roundup: Did Trump call to stop counts where he leads, but not where Biden does?
This week, MediaWise's Teen Fact-Checking Network took on seven claims, focusing hard on the 2020 presidential election. The post TFCN Roundup: Did Trump call to stop counts where he leads, but not where Biden does? appeared first on Poynter.
Liste→ Fake suicide note attributed to late South Korean comedian Park Ji-sun circulates online
An image purporting to show the "genuine suicide note" of late South Korean comedian Park Ji-sun’s mother has been shared multiple times across social media platforms. These posts circulated online just a day after the comedian and her mother were f
Snopes→ Giuliani Misattributes Quote to 2 Different Patriots on Election Day
The former New York mayor took two swings and missed both on Election Day 2020.
Liste→ Quote on fear misattributed to Hermann Goering
A post shared several thousand times on Facebook claims that the Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering said during the Nuremberg trials that "the only thing a government needs to turn people into slaves is fear." However, there is no trace of the statement
Snopes→ Does a Video Show a ‘Butthole’ Surfing Robot?
Truly just a means to an end.
Hoax-Slayer→ Three Malware Distribution Methods You REALLY Need to Know About
Criminals use many ways to distribute malware. However, among such tactics, they repeatedly use variations of the following three methods in their malware email campaigns. The post Three Malware Distribution Methods You REALLY Need to Know About appe
FactCheck.org→ Revived Political Post Falsely Attributed, Again, to Clint Eastwood
Quick Take Facebook users falsely claim a post critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was written by actor Clint Eastwood. A nearly identical post aimed at former President Barack Obama — and also misattributed to Eastwood —
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Fewer flu cases observed in the start of this year’s flu season than in previous years, but Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet suggesting data manipulation is unsupported and cites inaccurate figures
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic introduces an element of uncertainty regarding the dynamics of this year’s flu season. Although scientists expressed concerns about the simultaneous occurrence of the pandemic and the flu, they also observed a curious
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates online that substandard canned fish was distributed in Sri Lanka
A photo of a newspaper report claiming that 25 containers of substandard canned fish were distributed in Sri Lanka has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts in October 2020. The claim, however, omits important context; Sri Lankan
Full Fact - All content→ It’s possible to receive financial support above the benefits cap, but this does not apply to the majority of households
A post shared over 50,000 times on Facebook claims that people receiving benefits can get £850 a week in support. This can be the case, although that’s not necessarily a typical amount, because for the majority of households most majo
WaPo Fact Checker→ Trump-friendly singer distributes faulty talking points on child trafficking
Matriarch has produced a viral music video that extols Trump's work on trafficking, but she gets her facts wrong.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mail-In Ballots And Other Mail WERE Stolen From Locked Mailboxes, Dumped In A Park In Washington State — But Police Suggest Motive Was Financial, NOT Political
Is it true that mailboxes in Camas, Washington, were broken into and that mail including election ballots was taken and dumped at a local park, where the mail was then rained upon? Yes, this is true. Camas police confirmed the incident an
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ The final presidential debate had fewer interruptions, but more falsehoods
Lee en español IFCN · The final presidential debate had fewer interruptions, but more falsehoods The final debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden started with a warning. The moderator, Kristen Welker, said that the
Top Fact Checks→ Our NATO partners were far behind in their defense payments. But at my strong urging, they agreed to pay $130 billion more a year.
When speaking about NATO partners increasing their defense payments by $130 billion, President Donald Trump is talking about indirect funding, a Washington Post fact check found. Since 2006, every NATO member has had guidelines to spend at l
Top Fact Checks→ But let me just tell you I paid millions and millions of dollars in taxes.
An investigation by NYT revealed that Trump paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017. He has not paid any federal income tax for 11 years in the past 18 years. President Trump has also not paid any federal income tax for 11 years in the past 18 y
Top Fact Checks→ Frankly, he ran the H1N1, swine flu, and it was a total disaster…700,000 people would be dead right now. But it was a far less lethal disease.
The kind of disaster which U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting is with regards to the Obama administration's handling of H1N1 is not true. The swine flu is estimated to have killed 12,469 in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump, Congress DID End Tax Penalty For Non-Insured, But $10,000 Penalty NOT Likely
Did someone who couldn't afford health care under Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act get penalized $10,000, which was then used to pay for others' free health care? And is it true that Trump "ended that theft?" This is a mixture of false
Full Fact - All content→ Non-Covid deaths in private homes are up, but have decreased elsewhere
The front page of the Metro newspaper makes various claims about the rise in deaths from diseases and conditions which aren’t Covid-19 between March and September this year. These statistics refer only to the number of deaths that happen in priva
Snopes→ Trump Says Fauci Is ‘Terrific Guy’ But Not ‘Team Player’
Trump's strained relationship with Fauci has political overtones as the president defends his record on the coronavirus just two weeks before Election Day.
Liste→ Reflections on racial divisions were tweeted by UN official, wrongly attributed to Nelson Mandela
A quote about divisions in society has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim these are the words of former South African president Nelson Mandela. The claim is false; AFP Fact Check traced the purported quote to a tweet
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Say ‘I’ll Have To Leave The Country’ If He Loses And Bruce Springsteen Said He Would Move To Australia If Trump Wins — But Both Were Joking
Did Donald Trump say "I'll have to leave the country" if he loses to Joe Biden in the presidential election and did rock star Bruce Springsteen say he would move to Australia if Trump is re-elected? Yes, both men said they would leave the
Liste→ Misleading posts claim rickshaw seizure happened in India — but the video actually shows an eviction drive in Dhaka, Bangladesh
A video showing a man crying inconsolably as his rickshaw is seized by local authorities using a mechanical digger has been viewed hundreds of times in Facebook and Twitter posts that suggest the incident took place in India. The claim is misleading: t
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did Joe Biden Throw a Rally But No One Showed Up?
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TruthOrFiction→ Pete Buttigieg: ‘I Don’t Have a Problem Standing up to Somebody Who Was Working on Season Seven of Celebrity Apprentice When I Was Packing My Bags for Afghanistan’
On October 15 2020, a meme quoting former South Bend, Indiana mayor and Democratic Party presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg began circulating, in which he purportedly said that he was shipped off to Afghanistan while United States President Donald
Full Fact - All content→ Royal Navy sailors died while preventing the slave trade, but not tens of thousands
We’ve seen multiple claims online and in the media that 17,000 to 20,000 members of the Royal Navy died while “liberating slaves.” This claim seems to have history; repeats of it date back to at least 2010. It seems to refer to the We
Liste→ Pelosi in presidential succession, but not guaranteed VP spot
Facebook posts claim US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become Kamala Harris’s vice president if Joe Biden was elected and unable to serve his full term. This is misleading; the 25th Amendment of the Constitution states that the vice president becom
FactCheck.org→ Posts Falsely Attribute Comments on Churches to Harris
Quick Take There is no record of Sen. Kamala Harris ever calling churches “PROPAGANDA CENTERS for intolerant homophobic, xenophobic vitriol,” as viral posts on Facebook falsely claim. Full Story Popular posts on Facebook are attributing
Snopes→ Is This Pete Buttigieg’s Defense of Late-Term Abortions?
"These hypotheticals are usually set up in order to provoke a strong emotional [response]," the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor declared.