Is it true that whether a vaccine works or doesn't work for other people, you don't need one? Paradoxically, neither of these claims is true: You need protection even if others are vaccinated and especially when the vaccine, like many oth
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Top Fact Checks→ Dr. Anthony Fauci has admitted that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work against the Delta variant.
In the interview, Fauci stated that the Delta variant is more transmissible. Fauci has consistently emphasized that COVID-19 vaccines are effective.
Top Fact Checks→ The latest data from Israel show that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work.
Vaccination is extremely effective in preventing severe illness or death from COVID-19 but may be less effective in preventing infection.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Claims About CEOs Who Don’t Use Their Company’s Products Are NOT All True
Does this meme accurately represent the relationships of several CEOs to the products of their respective companies? This tweet from 2019 contains a mixture of true, false, unverified and misleading statements. This screenshot meme origin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It’s NOT True That Americans Don’t Need COVID-19 Vaccine Because Of 1% Fatality Rate
Do people not need a COVID-19 vaccine because the immune systems of 99% of people who came down with it fought it off without one? No, that's missing context: A 1% fatality rate is not low for an infectious disease, public health experts
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Unvaccinated People Do NOT Need To Stay Away From Vaccinated People — mRNA Vaccines Don’t Deliver Virus
Should unvaccinated people stay away from vaccinated people because the COVID-19 vaccine sheds and causes problems including miscarriages in pregnant unvaccinated people? No, that's not true. "This claim is false," Dr. George Rutherford,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy, Have NOT Killed ‘Thousands’ and Vaccinators Are NOT Violating The Nuremberg Code If They Don’t Call It Human Experimentation
Are the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines gene therapy that alters recipients' immune systems, a potential Nuremberg Code violation for doctors and nurses to administer them without telling patients they are part of a drug tri
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
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Marine Corps Did NOT Rebuke Nancy Pelosi, Did NOT Tell Her: ‘WE DON’T WORK FOR YOU!’
Did the Marine Corps rebuke the Speaker of the U.S. House, telling her "We don't work for you," in response to a request for troops to protect the Capitol during the Inauguration? No, that's not true: Both the Marine Corps and the House S
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don’t Have Modems
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Despite Claims In Georgia Senate Hearing, Dominion Voting Machines Were NOT Hacked Because They Don’t Have Modems
Did someone hack into the electronic voting system being used in Georgia for the January 5, 2020, U.S. Senate runoff races? No, Georgia election officials say that's not true: The digital poll book was not even in use on December 30, 2020
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: America’s Frontline Doctors Did NOT Prove Their Claims That Masks Don’t Work
Did an anti-mask group of doctors prove its claim that masks are "irrelevant" to the prevention of COVID-19? No, that's not true: The 19 people in white lab coats who stood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to make the claim did not prov
Top Fact Checks→ Individuals don’t have two Y chromosomes, Y can’t recombine with itself and thus it has become smaller and smaller over millions of years of evolution.
In humans and mammals, males have a single X and a Y chromosome. Y combines with only the X-chromosome, and it has reduced in size over the years.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pelosi Does NOT Want To Remove Votes From Soldiers Overseas, Did NOT Say ‘They Don’t Even Live Here’
Did Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi realy say soldiers deployed overseas shouldn't be able to vote because "They don't even live here"? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Don’t Mark your calendars — Mars Will NOT Look Like A Second Moon On August 27
Will Mars look as big as the Moon in the night sky on August 27? No, that's not true: This is an old hoax that has circulated at least since 2003. The size of Mars would have to magnify about 140 times to match the size of a full
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Claiming ‘Multiple Scientific Studies’ Show Masks Don’t Work Uses Old Data, Ignores Current Science On COVID-19
Does current science say that face masks don't work to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus that leads to COVID-19? No, this is not true. First, a video making the claim that masks -- from N95 to cloth ones -- don't work relies on dated
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kansas City Chiefs’ Clark Hunt Did NOT Threaten To Fire Players And Staff If They Don’t Stand For The National Anthem
Did Kansas City Chief's boss Clark Hunt threaten to fire players and staff if they do not stand for the national anthem? No, that's not true: This is a made-up statement that has been falsely attributed to the CEO and part-owner of the NFL tea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: OSHA Did NOT Say Cloth Masks Don’t Work And Will Reduce Oxygen To Danger Levels
Did the Occupational Safety and Health Administration say cloth face masks offer no COVID-19 protection and lower the wearer's available oxygen to dangerously low levels? No, that's not true. Numerous OSHA publications recommend the masks as a
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pelosi DID NOT Say Dems Will ‘Shut It All Down’ If They Don’t Get Their Way On Impeachment
Did Nancy Pelosi say Dems will 'shut it all down' if they don't get their way on impeachment? No, that's not true. Pelosi never said such a thing, and the story - taken from a satire site known to be ripped off and copied by fake news sites wh
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Bob Marley NOT Singing ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’
Did Bob Marley record the song "Don't worry be Happy"? No, that's not true: The Jamaican singer-songwriter died in 1981, which was seven years before American jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin composed and recorded the hit song. McFerrin used an af
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Priest Pushed From Stage in Brazil Did NOT Say "Fat Women Don’t Go To Heaven"
Did the priest who got shoved off the stage in Brazil say "las gordas no van al cielo" ("fat women don't go to heaven")? No, that's not true: priest Marcelo Rossi was pushed from the stage on July 15, 2019 in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo but
Lead Stories→ Fake News: OK Patrol Captain George Brown Did NOT Say ‘Ladies, If You Don’t Want To Get Raped By A Cop, Then Follow The Law’
Did Oklahoma State Patrol Captain George Brown advise women that if you don't want to get raped by a cop, 'then follow the law in the first place so you don't get pulled over'? No, that's not true: It is a false quote taken from a real TV inte
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Bernie Sanders DID Say Whites ‘Don’t Know What It’s Like To Be Poor,’ But 70% Of Americans In Poverty Are NOT White
Did Sen. Bernie Sanders say 'When you're white, you don't know what it's like to be poor' and are 70% of Americans living in poverty white? Yes, the quote is true, but no, the statistics is wrong: Sen. Sanders did say that during a presidentia
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Psychologists Did NOT Warn Parents Don’t Allow Children To Watch Peppa Pig
Did pyschologists in a Harvard study warn parents not to let children watch Peppa Pig because it causes autism? No, that's not true: It is a hoax first published in 2015 and that cites a scientific study that does not exist to scare parents in
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Photo Showing Two Men "Smiling" In Front Of Burning Notre Dame Is NOT Doctored (But We Still Don’t Know If They Are "Laughing Muslims")
By Alan Duke and Maarten Schenk - Did the Russian news agency Sputnik digitally insert two smiling men into a photograph taken near the burning Notre Dame cathedral and then publish it as part of their breaking news coverage of the fire? No, t
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: EPA chief sees good in warming, experts don’t
AP FACT CHECK: Head of EPA says global warming not necessarily bad, but scientists, government reports say it is dangerous
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Don’t cry for Henry Kissinger
AP FACT CHECK: Don't cry for Henry Kissinger. Trump stretched to make a point about 'Obamacare' when he professed concern about the foreign policy maven's insurance bills
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mounted Border Patrol Did NOT Use Whips To Round Up Haitian Refugees Amid Surge of Migrants
Did U.S. Border Patrol agents use whips to round up Haitian migrants and refugees who were crossing a river at the Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas? No, that's not true: While photos and video circulating show mounted border patrol agen
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Some Circulating Photos of Public Health Officers Are NOT The Original Version — Photo Manipulations Carry Message
Does this photo accurately portray the appearance of Canadian Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam? No, that's not true: This photo, which originally appeared in the Toronto Star on April 23, 2020, has been digitally altered in sev
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: You Can NOT Update Voicemail In An Emergency With No Phone Service
Can you change your voicemail on your landline or cellphone when the phone has no service, data or connection to Wi-Fi? No, that's not true: Both T-Mobile and AT&T said that that was not possible. The claim appeared in a Facebook post
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Carbon Footprint Of Electric Car Battery Production Is NOT Worse Than Air Travel And Traditional Vehicles
Is the carbon footprint of mining the materials for electric car batteries greater than the carbon footprint of one year's U.S. air travel, are those batteries impossible to recycle and is this proof electric vehicles are worse for the pl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Kabala’ Harris Did NOT Admit COVID Vaccine Doesn’t Work
Did Vice President Kamala Harris "admit" that COVID-19 vaccines don't work? No, that's not true: Her tweet that is the basis for the claim is a summary of public health recommendations that reflect reality: No vaccine is 100% effective an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hurricane Hunters Did NOT ‘Abandon Their Mission’ After Crack In A Plane’s Window A Day Before Ida Made Landfall
Did the hurricane hunters of the Air Force Reserve "abandon their mission" because their aircraft suffered cracked windows while chasing Hurricane Ida in late August 2021? No, that's not true: An aircraft used by the hurricane hunters had
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2019 CDC Memo On Ivermectin Does NOT ‘Blow A Hole’ In News Reports Discouraging Self-Medication With Horse Dewormer
Does a 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guideline for treatment of refugees "blow a hole" in the widely reported warnings against use of veterinary ivermectin to treat COVID-19? No, that's not true: The human formulat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Defense Secretary Did NOT Send Text To All Active Military Telling Them To Get COVID Vaccine Or Be Court-Martialed
Did the Secretary of Defense send a text to all active military personnel telling them to get the COVID-19 vaccine by 10 a.m. or they would be court-martialed, and did 12 F-22 pilots walk off the job because of the text? No, that's not tr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pelosi, Schumer And Many Others Did Not Make Confessions In Military Tribunals
Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and many others make confessions in military tribunals? No, that's not true: A video does not show a military tribunal with Pelosi and Schumer on trial. Instead, it's a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Martin Scorsese Is NOT Holding Zack Snyder’s Justice League In Instagram Post
Did American film director Martin Scorsese endorse the Zack Snyder version of the movie "Justice League"? No, that's not true: The photo of Scorsese holding "Zack Snyder's Justice League" is nowhere to be found on Scorsese's verified Inst
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Arizona Republican’s Estimates Do NOT Document ‘173,104 Lost Votes and 96,389 Ghost Votes’ In 2020 Election
Has an Arizona Republican's door-knocking campaign and back-of-the-envelope estimate proved there were "173,104 lost votes and 96,389 ghost votes" in Maricopa County's 2020 election? No, that's not true: Even if every person answering eve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Oklahoma Doctor’s Comments About Ivermectin Overdoses, Gunshot Victims and Hospital Backups Were NOT Reported As Stated
Did Oklahoma gunshot victims wind up having to wait to be seen at the hospital because there were too many people who had overdosed on the horse worming medication ivermectin? No, that's not true: Reports in various outlets painted a high
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ivermectin Deworms Livestock AND Treats Human Parasites, But Manufacturer Does NOT Recommend It For COVID-19
Does the use of ivermectin as a dewormer for horses mean it is only a veterinary medicine? No, that's not true: There are ivermectin doses for 1,000-pound animals and different doses and forms to treat rosacea and parasites in humans. But