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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Irish Health Service Did NOT ‘Admit’ Novel Coronavirus Doesn’t Exist, Nor That Masks, Distancing and Lockdowns Don’t Work
Did Irish Health Service officials "admit" COVID-19 does not exist? No, that's not true: The claim rests on a purported Irish Health Service (HSE) letter the agency says does not exist. The person based her claim on a bit of sophistry: Sh
Top Fact Checks→ With COVID-19, vaccine manufacturers have zero liability for any harm done. If people are killed, hurt, paralyzed, or maimed for life—it doesn’t matter.
COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers are exempt from future product liability claims, but the vaccines authorized for use have undergone rigorous trials.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Mask Study Did NOT Prove ‘Mask Wearing Basically Doesn’t Do A Damn Thing’
Did a Danish study show mask-wearing has a statistically insignificant impact on COVID-19 infection and "basically doesn't do a damn thing"? No, that's not true: Both the study authors and an editorial in the journal where it was publishe
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What ‘DKIM’ Verification Of Hunter Biden Email Proves — And What It Doesn’t
Does the DomainKeys Identified Mail signature within metadata of the New York Post's "smoking gun" Hunter Biden email prove the correspondence is "unquestionably authentic"? That's a stretch: DKIM can validate who sent an email and what t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Tweet ‘Obama Should Wait Until He Leaves Office To Pick Another Justice! If He Doesn’t, He Should Be Fired!’
Did Donald Trump tweet "Obama should wait until he leaves office to pick another Justice! If he doesn't, he should be fired!" in April 2016 about an election year Supreme Court vacancy? No, that's not true. This is a fake tweet that Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jarrett Stepman Did NOT Receive A Ballot To A Home Where He Doesn’t Live – He Received A Voter Information Packet
Did a man who no longer lives in California receive an election ballot at his parents' house? No, that's not true. Jarrett Stepman, who is employed by The Daily Signal, a conservative news outlet, claimed on Twitter his parents received h
Top Fact Checks→ Kamala Harris doesn’t qualify to serve as the U.S. vice-president.
Kamala Harris is a United States citizen from birth and is qualified to serve as the U.S. vice-president.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NEW Starbucks CEO Did NOT Admit She Doesn’t Like White Peope
Did "New Starbucks CEO" Rosalind Brewer admit she doesn't like white people? No, there are several things that are not true in that statement, the most obvious one being that Brewer isn't actually the CEO of Starbucks (who happens to be a whit
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO New Man Appears In Window On Cover Of ‘Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Book About Divorce’
Does another man appear in the window of a broken home on the cover of the children's book "Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore"? No, that's not true: An image of the "book about divorce" being shared widely on social media is a photo-shopped hoax
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO Bombshell Claim: Scientists Do NOT Find ‘Man-made Climate Change Doesn’t Exist In Practice’
Did a peer-reviewed and published scientific study in Finland conclude that "man-made climate change doesn't exist in practice"? No, that's not true: A draft of a short research paper that has not been reviewed by scientific peers or published
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Say Trump Can Have Wall If He Doesn’t Run In 2020
Did Nancy Pelosi offer to trade building a border wall in exchange for Donald Trump not running for president in 2020? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ White House doesn’t apologize for aide’s comment mocking McCain
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Facebook doesn’t sell data but profits off it
AP FACT CHECK: A look at the veracity of Facebook's claim that it doesn't sell user data
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s visa lottery system doesn’t exist
AP FACT CHECK: Trump describes _ and criticizes _ a visa lottery system that doesn't exist
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech doesn’t skimp on exaggerations
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's State of the Union speech doesn't skimp on exaggerations
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump doesn’t wait for facts in Amtrak crash
AP FACT CHECK: Trump doesn't wait for facts to emerge in deadly Amtrak crash before using it to plug infrastructure plan
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Viral photo doesn’t show ‘antifa’ beating cop
A widely spread photo that appears to show an anti-fascist activist beating a police officer is a doctored image
ABC News→ The Latest: Trump’s praise of leader doesn’t match US facts
The Latest: Trump's praise of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's aggressive war on drugs doesn't match facts provided by his own State Department
Snopes→ Is Viral Photo of 96-Armed Octopus Real?
Enenecontahexapus doesn't roll off the tongue very easily.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Vackseenz’ Video Is NOT Correct — mRNA Vaccine Does NOT Revise Your DNA
Does the video "The One About Vackseenz," correctly describe the genetic impacts of COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true. The video peddles multiple COVID-19 conspiracy theories, including that messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines "alter the f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nevada Voter Has NOT ‘Disappeared’ — She Cast Her Ballot As A U.S. Citizen Living Abroad
Did Nevada voter Christina Gupana "disappear"? Is the "Louder With Crowder" show correct in saying her vote in the 2020 general election was fraudulent? No, that's not true: Lead Stories located Gupana and spoke to her on several occasion
Snopes→ Is Pic of Froot Loops Pizza Real?
All of a sudden, pineapple doesn't seem too bad.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dr. Seuss Enterprises Did NOT Cancel ‘The Cat In The Hat’ When It Withdrew Six Titles From Publication
Has the Dr. Seuss book, "The Cat In The Hat," been "canceled"? No, that's not true: "The Cat In The Hat" is not among the six titles Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced March 2, 2021, that it would no longer publish because some portrayals of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Donald Trump Will Be Inaugurated On March 4
Will Donald Trump be inaugurated on March 4, 2021? No, that's not true: The "five pieces of evidence" held up to support such a claim have been debunked before or are speculative, assigning significance to otherwise neutral facts. Joe Bid
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden Has NOT ‘Killed’ Dr. Seuss — Decision To Stop Six Seuss Titles Was Made Last Year By The Publisher
Has President Joe Biden "killed" Dr. Seuss, as six Seuss books will no longer be published? No, that's not true: the publisher of the books, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, says it decided last year, in conjunction with a panel of experts, to stop
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Louder with Crowder’ Video Of Vacant Voter Addresses In Nevada, Michigan Includes Errors, Is NOT Proof Of ‘Mass Voter Fraud’
Is a "Louder with Crowder" video that shows vacant lots at voter addresses in Nevada and Michigan proof of voter fraud? No, that's not true: Lead Stories dug into the Nevada data and found at least two types of mistakes. In some instances
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
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Full Fact - All content→ There is evidence vaccines reduce risk of Covid-19 illness
A post on Facebook has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine “doesn't stop you getting [Covid-19] or spreading it”. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, which have been approved for use in the UK, have both been shown in m
Full Fact - All content→ There is evidence vaccines reduce risk of Covid-19 illness
A post on Facebook has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine “doesn't stop you getting [Covid-19] or spreading it”. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, which have been approved for use in the UK, have both been shown in m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Is NOT Withholding Information About Post-Vaccination Deaths, NOT Lacking A Data Category For Them
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withhold data that showed a federal vaccine reaction-reporting database -- VAERS -- was under-reporting the number of people who have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? Does the CDC
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Article Titled ‘To Fight White Supremacy, Coca-Cola Discontinues Vanilla Coke’ Is Satire
Did the Coca-Cola company discontinue "Vanilla Coke" in an effort to fight white supremacy? No, that's not true: This story, a satirical spin-off of a real controversy regarding online diversity training and Coca-Cola, was published origi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Blocking ‘Community Standards’ Does NOT Keep A Person Out Of ‘Facebook Jail’
Do these instructions explaining how to block "community standards" give a Facebook user free rein to violate the platform's community standards without being penalized or going to "Facebook Jail"? No, that's not true: These instructions
Hoax-Slayer→ ‘Copy and Paste To Upgrade The System’ Facebook Hoax
Does copying and pasting a message on Facebook "upgrade the system" so that you see fewer ad posts and more posts from your friends? No, it doesn't. The post ‘Copy and Paste To Upgrade The System’ Facebook Hoax appeared first on Hoax-Slayer.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The United States Did NOT Spend Zero Dollars On Imported Oil In 2020
Did the United States spend zero dollars on imported oil in 2020? No, that's not true: That would mean either that the United States did not import any oil in 2020 or that the oil it imported was free. Neither is correct. The claim appear
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Did Biden Dismiss Uighur Genocide During His Town Hall?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Southern U.S. Snow Videos Do NOT Show Evidence Of Something Unnatural
Was the snow that recently fell across a large portion of the world, notably in Texas and Louisiana in mid-February 2021, an unnatural substance that was made in a lab or by the government? Did it not melt away into water the way that nor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Say The Governor Of Texas Was A Democrat
In defending Ted Cruz' ill-timed vacation in Cancun, did Donald Trump Jr. flub it and say Texas' Republican governor is a Democrat? No, that's not true. Trump Jr.'s tweet about Texas Sen. Cruz leaving Texas for Cancun amid a winter storm