A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mexico, causing at least two deaths, damaging buildings and setting off landslides.
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Snopes→ Mexico’s Earthquake Coincidence Drives Anxiety for Many
Three powerful earthquakes have struck Mexico on Sept. 19 — in 1985, 2017 and now 2022. The unlucky coincidence has driven anxiety high for many.
Snopes→ Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico´s Pacific Coast; 1 Killed
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
Snopes→ Expert: Super-Earths Are Bigger, More Common and More Habitable Than Earth Itself
Research has shown that the best chance astronomers have of finding life on another planet is likely to be on a so-called "super-Earth."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Earth Is NOT Hollow
Is the interior Earth actually hollow, with access points at the North and South Poles that lead to a mythical land that is home to superhumans and extraterrestrial beings with advanced technology? No, that's not true: Though treated as a
PolitiFact→ Viral image – The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth, though unfounded theories claim otherwise
“The sun is not 93 million miles away … it is local and under a firmament dome.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The UN Flag Does NOT Show Flat Earth
Does the United Nations flag prove that the Earth is flat? No, that's not true: According to the UN website, its flag shows a projection of the planet, centered on the North Pole. Like three-dimensional school globes, the UN emblem propor
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, there isn’t an unlimited supply of water being made underneath the Earth
There’s an unlimited supply of water being generated “deep within the Earth.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The Earth spun a little faster recently, but scientists aren’t ‘gravely concerned’
“The Earth just started spinning faster than ever before and scientists are gravely concerned.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Russia and China Did NOT Team Up To Create ‘New Global Reserve Currency’ Based On Rare Earth Minerals
Are Russia and China creating a "new global reserve currency" based on "rare earth minerals" as videos on social media claim? No, that's not true: The original source of the story, Russian President Vladimir Putin, brought up the idea of
Logically→ Google Earth shows a sunken plane off the coast of the Bahamas.
The image is not proof of a plane crash and is likely to be an image capture of a live plane caught by satellites.
Logically→ Earth is motionless and flat.
Earth revolves around the sun, and rotates on its axis. Notions that the Earth is flat are conspiracies already debunked by scientists.
Snopes→ Hessian Remains Unearthed at Revolutionary War Battle Site
Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the Revolutionary War.
Logically→ A video shows the entire Chicago skyline, as seen from the Indiana dunes because the Earth is flat.
The atmospheric condition is the scientific reason behind this view of the Chicago skyline. The Earth is not flat.
Logically→ The aphelion phenomenon will cause extreme cold weather on Earth till August 22, 2022.
Aphelion happens every year. It does not and will not cause extreme cold weather.
Snopes→ China Says Remains of Rocket Booster Fall to Earth
Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit fell into the sea in the Philippines.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – A trick of perspective in NASA photos of the moon and Earth do not prove that space is fake
NASA photos of the moon and Earth show that “space is fake.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Fact-checking the ‘hollow earth’ conspiracy theory
Antarctica has “an entrance to a different world” — a “mythic land” with green forests, giant animals, and “extraterrestrial technologies.”
Logically→ NASA deliberately cut the live feed on UFO sightings on the Earth’s horizon.
NASA has previously explained that the live feed from the ISS gets disrupted due to signal loss, and has denied searching for UAPs.
Logically→ The reactivation of the Large Hadron Collider has created a new hole in the Earth’s ozone layer.
The paper reporting on the 'new' ozone hole has been disputed, alongside multiple reasons as to why the LHR could not possibly be responsible.
Logically→ The Georgia Guidestones monument collapsed due to an earthquake.
The Georgia Guidestones was damaged in a bombing and later destroyed by authorities out of safety concerns. It was not due to an earthquake.
Logically→ An image shows a five-story building collapsed due to a 7.3 MG earthquake that hit Pakistan on June 22, 2022.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Hand Over Control Of ISS To Russia After They Threatened To Crash It Into Earth
Did NASA hand over control of the International Space Station (ISS) to Russia after a Russian official threatened to crash it into Earth? No, that's not true: A NASA spokesperson told Lead Stories that a long-established ceremonial change
Logically→ The lack of long-haul flights in the southern hemisphere proves that the Earth is flat.
Full Fact→ Photo of astronaut floating above Earth is real
The iconic photo shows astronaut Bruce McCandless II untethered from the Challenger space shuttle.
Poynter→ Is Russia threatening to let the International Space Station crash into Earth?
Some social media users worry that the United States’ support for Ukraine in its war with Russia could backfire. This tweet claims that Russia said it might allow the International […] The post Is Russia threatening to let the International Spa
Logically→ Humanity’s inability to access the Earth’s core is a clue that the Earth is flat.
The inaccessibility of the Earth’s inner layers are explainable by science and not proof of a design to stop humans from discovering the flat Earth.
Logically→ Planet Earth is a flat plane covered by a dome that acts as a nature preserve.
There is no evidence that the world is flat, nor that it was intentionally designed to be difficult but not impossible to detect whether it is flat.
PolitiFact→ Tweets – No, Biden didn’t give Americans the ‘cheapest’ gas prices on Earth.
Biden gave Americans “the cheapest gas prices on Earth.”
Snopes→ Is America the ‘Safest Country on Earth’?
After 19 children were killed in the 27th U.S. school shooting of 2022, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas claimed that America was the "safest country on Earth."
Logically→ Global temperature data shows the Earth is cooling.
This post misrepresents data from a short period to claim the earth is cooling. Long-term data indicates a steady rise in temperature.
Logically→ The Azimuthal Equidistant map of the world, used by the USGS and the United Nations, is a clue that the Earth is flat.
The Azimuthal Equidistant projection is helpful, but like all 2D maps, it creates distortions because the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this image of Earth isn’t from an Elon Musk/NASA leak
Photo from “data leak at Elon Musk AND NASA … are said to be from one of Elon Musk’s Space-X satellites.”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘NASA’ Warns Asteroid Headed Toward Earth?
On May 13 2022, an item from a site called American Military News (“NASA warns asteroid larger than Empire State Building headed towards Earth this weekend”) appeared on Trendolizer, indicating significant social media traction: NASA war
Logically→ Robert E. Byrd’s expedition to Antarctica is a clue that the Earth is flat.
Byrd did not confirm the existence of an ice wall surrounding a Flat Earth.
Snopes→ No, a ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Isn’t Buzzing Earth in May 2022
We're not getting another Chelyabinsk, despite what some say.
Logically→ The lack of films made about actual moon missions is because the moon landing was faked and the Earth is flat.
Few films having been made about the space program is not evidence of a staged moon landing or flat Earth.
AllSides→ Biden’s Earth Day Exaggerations
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/bidens-earth-day-exaggerations/ On Earth Day, President Joe Biden tou
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Earth Day Exaggerations
On Earth Day, President Joe Biden touted his administration’s environmental initiatives, but his rhetoric made efforts to reduce methane emissions and drinking water contamination sound more expansive than they actually are. Global Methane Pledge
Snopes→ Climate Progress Remains Elusive for Biden on Earth Day
The gap between the scale of the global warming crisis and the president’s initiatives seemed wider than ever.