Previously, U.S. and European health authorities didn't recommend mask-wearing. However, we now know mask-wearing can reduce COVID-19 transmission.
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Logically→ Dr. Anthony Fauci admits that vaccine’s don’t work against COVID-19.
Dr. Fauci has regularly encouraged people to get vaccinated and supports the use of booster shots.
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t work because most people in U.K. hospitals with the virus are vaccinated.
Vaccines are not 100 percent effective. As most people are now vaccinated, some vaccinated people in hospitals with COVID-19 is to be expected.
Logically→ Face masks don’t stop the transmission of COVID-19.
Scientific evidence shows that masks can suppress the transmission of COVID-19 by preventing respiratory droplets from infecting others.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: In UK, Fully Vaccinated ARE 82% Of COVID-19 Deaths, 66% Of Hospitalizations — But Percentages Don’t Tell Full Story
Do fully vaccinated people account for 82% of recent COVID-19 deaths and 66% of hospitalizations in the UK? Yes, that's true. The figures are found in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report - Week 43 by the UK Health Security Agency pub
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Alec Baldwin Wearing A ‘Guns Don’t Kill People’ T-Shirt Is NOT Real — It Has Been Altered
Is a photo of actor Alec Baldwin wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Guns Don't Kill People Alec Baldwin Kills People," real? No, that's not true: This photo has been digitally altered. The text on the T-shirt was taken from the merchandise we
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cherry-Picked ‘Studies’ Do NOT Prove COVID Vaccines Don’t Work
Does a collection of "new studies" on COVID-19 prove vaccines are not working as claimed? No, that's not true: The claim rests on the false premise that vaccine makers and public health officials promised 100% prevention. No responsible s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Numbers Don’t Support Public Commenter Claiming ‘We Are Killing More People Than We Are Saving’ During FDA VAX Panel
Did a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee say, "We are killing more people than we are saving with the shots"? No, that's not true: A member of the public said this. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It’s NOT True That Whether Vaccines Work Or Don’t Work For Others, You Don’t Need One
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
Logically→ 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.
Logically→ 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
Logically→ 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: 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: 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: Video’s Purported ‘Morgellons’ In Respirator Masks Could NOT Be Nano-Robots — ‘Nano’ Is Not Visible To Human Eye
Do respirator masks prescribed to reduce viral spread contain nano-robot parasites called Morgellons? No, that's not true: "Nano" describes structures one billionth of a meter across, which makes the video images impossible, since it show
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: MIT Scientist Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Has Possible Long-Term Side Effects
Did an MIT scientist prove that the COVID-19 vaccines have possible long-term side effects? No, that's not true: The "scientist" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a computer scientist who offered no proof that the COVID-19 v
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Home Kits Are NOT Designed To Test Food Or Beverages
Did an orange and a lemon test positive for COVID-19? Does using a test improperly, with fruit juice rather than a nasal swab, show that home tests are unreliable and will return false positives for anything? No, that's not true: The Food
Full Fact→ Argos isn’t selling microwaves for £1.78
A Facebook post claims Argos is offering Samsung microwaves for £1.78, alleging the electronics manufacturer had broken a contract “with the famous retailer”. The post, published by a Facebook group which uses the Argos logo as
Full Fact→ Cheetahs race greyhounds, sometimes
A post on Facebook claims that an experiment was conducted to race a cheetah against greyhounds with a picture appearing to show a cheetah sitting in the starting box while the dogs run ahead. The post says that when the cheetah didn’t both