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PolitiFact→ What Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means for Trump’s cases and, potentially, future presidents
The Supreme Court’s July 1 decision on presidential immunity removes some thorny legal obstacles in former President Donald Trump’s quest to return to the Oval Office. It also stands to empower future presidents.
PolitiFact→ What Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means for Trump’s cases and, potentially, future presidents
The Supreme Court’s July 1 decision on presidential immunity removes some thorny legal obstacles in former President Donald Trump’s quest to return to the Oval Office. It also stands to empower future presidents.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Numbers in viral social media post reflect statewide STD tests, not Houston cases
"There were 42,000 people diagnosed with (an) STD in Houston” in one week.
Health Feedback→ Very rare cases of blood clots linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are well-known and have been publicly recognized since 2021
REVIEW A claim that the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca “admitted” for the first time that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause blood clots went viral on social media platforms in late April and early May 2024. One example is an Instagram reel in w
The Dispatch→ Can the Supreme Court Provide Clarity on Abortion in Life-Threatening Cases?
Two years after Dobbs, there is still confusion about what exceptions to state abortion laws allow.
Health Feedback→ DTaP vaccine isn’t associated with sudden infant death syndrome, whooping cough vaccine led to historic decline in cases
REVIEW An Instagram reel posted in March 2024 suggested that the whooping cough vaccine was never needed, since whooping cough deaths had plummeted before the vaccine was available. It also implied that the DTaP vaccine is dangerous and associated w
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Fact-check: Trump calls his fraud case ‘a form of Navalny.’ That distorts the cases.
Donald Trump’s fine in the New York fraud case “is a form of Navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism.”
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump says he ‘cooperated far more’ than Biden in classified documents cases. Pants on Fire!
“I cooperated far more” than Joe Biden in the classified documents investigations.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause leprosy, aren’t responsible for leprosy cases in Florida
REVIEW A reel posted on Instagram in early January 2024 claimed that COVID-19 vaccines caused leprosy. The video mentioned a surge in leprosy cases in the U.S., where “none of the traditional risk factors are being found” and that medical journa
PolitiFact→ There’s a new COVID-19 variant and cases are ticking up. What do you need to know?
Nationally, a sharp uptick in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, began in mid-December and seems to be gaining steam. Here are some things to know this time around.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Say All Cancer Treatments Cause Cancer — Agency Studying <.5 Percent Of Cases Related To Last-Option Treatments Of Advanced Blood Cancers
Did the Food and Drug Administration say all cancer treatments "actually cause cancer"? No, that's not true: The agency issued a press release announcing that it is investigating only cases related to one specific type of drugs -- CAR-T t
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No mystery about, or link between, pediatric pneumonia cases in China and Ohio
“Mysterious pneumonia” from China is now in Ohio.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, Alabama cases of EEE virus aren’t linked to Bill Gates or Oxitec’s modified mosquitoes
CLAIM: Recently reported cases of Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, virus in Alabama were caused by a genetically modified mosquito project tied to Bill Gates.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ FACT FOCUS: Critics twist California bill that would weigh gender-identity support in custody cases
California lawmakers have approved a bill that would instruct courts to consider, among many other factors, whether a parent affirms a child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ There is no connection between rising COVID cases and elections, contrary to claims online
CLAIM: COVID-19 only spikes during election seasons. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There is no connection between rising COVID-19 cases and the electoral process, epidemiology experts confirm.
The Dispatch→ Polling on Trump’s Cases Shows Two Different Universes
Republicans are rallying around their guy, but the general electorate thinks the indictments are legit.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Misinfo about ‘suitcases’ of ballots and a burst pipe in 2020 return after Trump’s Georgia indictment
CLAIM: On election night in 2020, a burst water pipe at a ballot processing site in Georgia’s Fulton County allowed workers to steal the election from former President Donald Trump.
The Dispatch→ Ranking the Four Criminal Cases Against Trump
How this week’s indictment in Georgia fits in with the rest.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, the CDC didn’t issue a travel advisory for Florida over an increase in leprosy cases
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Full Fact→ A very small share of malnutrition cases in hospital are in children
Articles in the Sun said that about a third of 11,000 malnutrition cases in England involved children. The actual share is about 3%.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proven Link Between ‘Athlete Cardiac Arrests’ And COVID-19 Vaccine — Many Non-Cardiac, Non-Vaccine-Related Cases Cited In Goodsciencing List
Does a social media post listing "1,884 Athlete Cardiac Arrests" and 1,310 deaths between January 2021 and July 2023 prove a connection between these mishaps and the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: While the ultimate source of the
AllSides→ Video: Fewer Cases of Flu Due to Pandemic Precautions
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/07/scicheck-video-fewer-cases-of-flu-due-to-pandemic-precautions-contrary-to-viral-claim/
The Dispatch→ Awful Qualified Immunity Cases
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FactCheck.org→ Video: Fewer Cases of Flu Due to Pandemic Precautions
Influenza cases decreased during the first years of the pandemic, likely because of measures adopted to stop the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. In this video, FactCheck.org teamed up with Factchequeado to debunk a viral post that falsely
Logically→ Post exaggerates breast cancer cases estimates for 2023 to claim COVID jabs are ‘bioweapons’
AllSides→ U.S.-Acquired Malaria Cases Spark False Claims of Links to Gates-Funded Research
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/07/scicheck-u-s-acquired-malaria-cases-spark-false-claims-of-links-to-gates-funded-research/
FactCheck.org→ U.S.-Acquired Malaria Cases Spark False Claims of Links to Gates-Funded Research
SciCheck Digest The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports research into fighting malaria, including funding a company that releases genetically modified mosquitoes that are incapable of carrying the disease. But reports of locally acquired cas
Health Feedback→ 2023 malaria cases in the U.S. are unrelated to the release of genetically modified mosquitoes, contrary to viral claims online
REVIEW Mosquitoes serve as vectors for a number of potentially fatal diseases like dengue, chikungunya, Yellow fever, and West Nile fever, as well as malaria and Japanese encephalitis. Altogether, they cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ A WHO report of infant myocarditis cases in Wales is being misrepresented on social media
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, a Bill Gates-funded project did not cause the recent US malaria cases
Bill Gates is behind the five recent cases of malaria in the United States.
Logically→ No, recent U.S. malaria cases not linked to Bill Gates or mosquito release project
Full Fact→ Bill Gates-funded company did not cause malaria cases in Florida
Claims that a company happened to start releasing mosquitoes in the same places local-acquired malaria has been identified have been shared on social media.
Health Feedback→ Breast cancer cases haven’t doubled in U.S. women under 45, despite social media claims
REVIEW A video that originated on TikTok and was widely shared on Facebook wrongly claimed that there was a spike in breast cancer cases in 2022. As this review will explain, the video misrepresented the data, and the change in the figure from previ
PolitiFact→ The differences in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s classified document cases
Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s documents cases are not comparable, experts told PolitiFact. The main difference is intent.
PolitiFact→ How do Donald Trump and Joe Biden's classified documents cases compare?
Some backers of Donald Trump argue that the document handling cases of Trump and Joe Biden are basically equivalent and haven’t been prosecuted equally. We don’t know what the probe of Biden will ultimately find, but Trump’s case has some big agg
The Dispatch→ Arraignment Day: The Legal and the Political Cases
What to look for from the courts and how Donald Trump’s indictment might—or might not—affect the race for 2024. Continue reading Arraignment Day: The Legal and the Political Cases »
FactCheck.org→ Database Errors Fuel False Claims about HIV Cases in Military
SciCheck Digest The rate of new HIV infections in the military has been relatively unchanged since 2017. But social media posts falsely claim that the military has recorded a “500% increase in HIV since the COVID vaccine rollout.” A Def
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Uptick in cases of myocarditis in newborns in Wales linked to enterovirus, not COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines administered during pregnancy drove an increase in cases of myocarditis in babies.