Had rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs died in a hospital bed as of October 11, 2024? No, that's not true: As of October 17, 2024, Combs was still listed at the detention center where he was sent upon his arrest. As of the time of writing, there h
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Grandmother In Kamala Harris Autobiography Photo Is NOT Fake — Woman With Similar Name Died Years Before Harris Was Born
Did presidential candidate Kamala Harris lie about having a Black grandmother, because the woman she identifies in her autobiography as her grandmother died four years before Harris was born? No, that's not true: Two women -- one of whom
PolitiFact→ Kamala Harris – Mostly True: Trump reversed the ACA's LGBTQ+ healthcare protections. But lawsuits muddied impact
Donald Trump “took away protections against discrimination for LGBTQ patients under the Affordable Care Act.”
Health Feedback→ People experiencing homelessness died more frequently from COVID-19 than the general population
REVIEW During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous claims surfaced downplaying the reality or severity of COVID-19. However, Science Feedback previously demonstrated how scientific data directly contradicts these assertions. At the time of writing, COVID
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Social media posts misidentify immunologist as someone who died in Aug. 9 plane crash in Brazil
Dr. Leo Ferreira, a cancer researcher shown in a video clip, was on the plane that crashed in Brazil on Aug. 9.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No secret: President Joe Biden’s first wife died in a car crash
President Joe Biden “killed his first wife.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Half-Staff US Capitol Flag Does NOT Mean Biden Died Week Of July 22, 2024 — It Was Lowered For Jackson Lee’s Death
Did the U.S. Capitol lower its flag to half-staff during the week of July 22, 2024, because President Joe Biden had died? No, that's not true: The flag was lowered on July 22, 2024, to honor Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died July 19, 2024
The Dispatch→ Social Media Users Share False Claim That Jimmy Carter Died
An X user shared a fake letter purporting to be from the office of the former president.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Twenty children died at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. This ridiculous claim doesn’t change that
Photo shows “the Sandy Hook girls that did not die like they said they did!”
The Dispatch→ The Tea Party Movement Died With a Whimper
It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Boeing whistleblowers died of infection, gunshot wound
Boeing-linked whistleblowers died of infection and a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to reports
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Filmmaker Mike deGruy died in a helicopter crash, not for “exposing the truth”
Filmmaker Mike deGruy died for "exposing the truth."
FactCheck.org→ O.J. Simpson Died from Cancer, Not COVID-19 Vaccine
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. SciCheck Digest O.J. Simpson, a football star who was acquitted in the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, died of cancer on April 10 at age 76. Misinformation spread online with
Full Fact→ Alexei Navalny was an Amnesty ‘prisoner of conscience’ when he died
Several posts on social media share a 2021 BBC headline about how he’d been stripped of this status, but these posts are missing crucial context—that it was reinstated months later.
Full Fact→ Image does not show Israeli soldier who died by suicide after attack by fellow troops
An image shared with a claim that it shows an Israeli soldier who took her own life uses a photo of a soldier who was killed at a checkpoint in 2022.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Attorney Johnnie Cochran died from a brain tumor, not because of reparations fight
Johnnie Cochran “mysteriously passed away” and his death is linked to his work on slavery reparations.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Kirby Did NOT Say Zero Civilians Had Died In Gaza — He Said ‘The Right Number Of Civilian Casualties Is Zero’
Did Assistant to the Secretary of Defense John Kirby say that the "true number of civilians deaths in Gaza is zero"? No, that's not true: That is a misquote that drastically changes the meaning of what Kirby said. No such quote is found i
Full Fact→ Bradley Walsh has not died
False claims that the actor and TV presenter has passed away are circulating online.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claims that tennis journalist Mike Dickson died from COVID-19 vaccines are not substantiated
Sports journalist Mike Dickson died because of COVID-19 vaccines.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Bloodied Palestinian baby doll wasn’t made by Israel. It was an art protest.
Bloodied Palestinian baby doll was “made in Israel.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Zealand Health Data Does NOT Prove 20 Percent Of Vaccinated Died After COVID-19 Immunization
Does New Zealand health data prove that 20 percent of vaccinated citizens died after COVID-19 vaccination? No, that's not true: The agency wrote, "We assure people there is no evidence whatsoever that vaccination is responsible for excess
Full Fact→ Asylum seeker who died aboard Bibby Stockholm misidentified as doctor from Cameroon
The man who died on 12 December has been named as Leonard Farruku, an Albanian national.
Full Fact→ Photo of ‘missing dad with dementia’ is actually US taxi driver who died in 2022
Posts on Facebook desperately appealing for help finding a missing father with dementia are fake.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Princess Diana died in 1997. A conspiracy theory that loops in former President Donald Trump claims
Princess Diana “is still alive” and “possibly could be with Trump.”
FactCheck.org→ Dozens of Children Died in Hamas’ Oct. 7 Attack on Israel, Contrary to Online Claim
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Quick Take At least 29 children have been identified by international authorities as having died in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. But a video, citing a post deleted by the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Palestinian Health Ministry Did NOT Announce That All ICU Patients Had Died At Al Shifa Hospital In Gaza By November 12, 2023
Did the Ministry of Health in Gaza announce that all the ICU patients at the Al Shifa hospital had died in mid-November 2023 because of Israeli bombardments and cutting off electricity as well as blocking supplies? No, that's not true: Pa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US House Speaker Mike Johnson Did NOT Say ‘Every Woman Has A Duty To Birth At Least One Able-Bodied Worker’
Did House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson say that "Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker"? No, that's not true: Johnson's director of media affairs told Lead Stories that he "never said anything of the k
Full Fact→ It’s time political parties tidied up their election campaigns
Political parties need to start restoring trust in our democracy and ending dodgy election campaign practices
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, this deposition transcript doesn’t prove George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose
“New court documents reveal that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claims that Matthew Perry died because of COVID-19 vaccine are unfounded, lack evidence
Matthew Perry died because of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence 30 New Zealanders Got COVID-19 Vaccine At Clinic, Then Died
Have 30 people in New Zealand, all allegedly given COVID-19 shots at one clinic on the same day, all died since receiving their vaccinations? No, that's not true: A New Zealand Ministry of Health official told Lead Stories that "There is
Full Fact→ Photo of a man who died in 2014 used in recent hoax appeals for ‘missing’ man
The hoax has been shared in community groups across the UK and abroad.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden’s Family Did NOT Say He Died And Was Replaced By Actor In 2019
Did President Joe Biden's family say he died and was replaced by an actor in 2019? No, that's not true: This article and accompanying video from The People's Voice is baseless. There is no member of the Biden family who has claimed that J
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, former President Barack Obama didn’t reveal how his personal chef died
“Obama finally reveals how personal chef drowned in mysterious pond accident.”
FactCheck.org→ Video Falsely Claims 850 People Died of Myocarditis in Mexico
SciCheck Digest Cases of myocarditis have been reported following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, but they are rare and usually mild. Yet, a viral video distorts news reports to falsely claim 850 people died in Monterrey, Mexico, in June due to myocardi
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – There’s no CNN report saying Joe Biden’s family confirmed he died
CNN reported Sept. 7, 2023, that President Joe Biden’s family admitted “he died and was replaced by an actor in 2019.”
Full Fact→ How many people died while on waiting lists?
Apparently contradictory research from Labour and the Times suggests that either 121,000 or 340,000 people died while waiting for treatment in England last year.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Post falsely claims 850 died of myocarditis in Monterrey, Mexico, in two weeks
CLAIM: In a span of two weeks in late June, a total of 850 died due to myocarditis in the city of Monterrey, in Mexico’s northeastern state of Nuevo León.
Logically→ Edited video of BBC news clip shared as President Biden’s ‘confession’ that Buhari died 6 years ago
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ‘Secret CDC Report’ Shows Hundreds Of Thousands Of Children ‘Died Suddenly’ Following Rollout Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Does a "secret CDC report" show hundreds of thousands of children "died suddenly" in the United States following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? No, that's not true: The author or authors of the article making the claims did not find any su