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TruthOrFiction→ ‘Under Stalin, Repression Was So Severe That Soviet Gulags Held 22% Of the World’s Prison Population’
On April 8 2021, Imgur user “superscout0233” shared the following meme with a fakeout ending, initially stating that “under [Joseph] Stalin,” the Soviet Union’s gulags held 22 percent of the world’s prison population
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Can Americans Buy ‘Whatever You Want’ Without a Background Check at a Gun Show?
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Snopes→ Did ‘Strangers Things’ Inspire WNBA Team Indiana Fever’s Jersey?
The WNBA unveiled new jersey designs for their 25th season.
Full Fact - All content→ Viral video contains several false pandemic claims
A viral video on Facebook includes a number of false and misleading claims about the Covid-19 pandemic. The video consists of a woman recommending a publication in New Zealand called The Real News, which she summarises and reads from. There are a
Snopes→ No, the Ever Given Cargo Ship Didn’t Get Stuck Again
The headline in question had some people wondering if it was an April Fools' joke.
Snopes→ How to Talk to Believers of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Some bizarre theories about the virus have prompted believers to burn 5G cell towers, shut down vaccination clinics or even ingest poisons touted as cures.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Say Special Operation Boarded The ‘Ever Given’ To Find Weapons, Bodies, Trafficked People
Was an "intel dispatch" released to the public that told of a U.S. military special operation in which U.S. Navy SEALs boarded the cargo ship Ever Given? And did this mission discover heavy weapons as well as 1,366 dead and 1,245 people a
Snopes→ Did US Navy SEALs Rescue Trafficked Children from Ever Given Ship?
A website with a history of publishing dubious content advanced a conspiracy theory about the formerly stuck Suez Canal ship.
Snopes→ MMA Fighter Has Finger Severed in Match; Doctors Reattach It
A mixed martial arts fighter had his finger severed during a match in Philadelphia, but doctors were eventually able to reattach it.
Liste→ Georgia law bars giving voters all beverages, not just water
Facebook posts claim a “loophole” allows beverages other than water to be given out in Georgia, where a new election law restricts items that can be distributed to voters waiting in line. But the text of the law makes clear that the prohibition app
Full Fact - All content→ Everything you need to know about the Home Office’s ‘eyebrow’ spending
A number of posts on Facebook have made claims about Home Office payments to a company called “Beautiful Brows Limited”, in light of an article from Byline Times. The article looked at expenses paid for on the Home Office’s procuremen
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ The coalition for factual information and informed public discourse is stronger than ever
In 2016, during the third Global Fact conference in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the world’s fact-checkers decided to name April 2 as the International Fact-Checking Day to raise awareness of the importance of fact-checking, therefore providing th
Snopes→ Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy
The Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The First-Ever Picture Of A Sunset On Mars Was NOT Taken In 2021
Was the first-ever picture of a sunset on Mars taken in 2021? No, that's not true: NASA published the first image of a Martian sunset in 1976. The claim that the first Martian sunset picture was taken in the 21st century has appeared in s
TruthOrFiction→ ‘Physical Books Continue to Massively Outsell E-Books Every Year’
On March 27 2021, the Facebook page “Little Free Library” shared a screenshot of a tweet by Twitter account @UberFacts: Physical books continue to massively outsell e-books every year — UberFacts (@UberFacts) March 17, 2021 It said
The Dispatch→ How the GOP Can Reverse the Progressive Advance
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Snopes→ Did a Truck Carrying an ‘Evergreen’ Container Block a Chinese Highway?
The visual parallels to the blocked Suez Canal were not lost on social media.
Snopes→ Conspiracy Theorists Try to Connect Ever Given Ship, Hillary Clinton, and Child Trafficking
Not all dots connect.
Snopes→ Beloved Children’s Author Beverly Cleary Dies at 104
Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died.
The Dispatch→ Ron Johnson Is the Same as He Ever Was
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Liste→ Australian military refutes claim of ‘severe side effects’ from Covid-19 vaccines amongst Navy service members
Multiple social media posts claim that 80 percent of Australian Navy service members who received the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are experiencing “severe side effects,” while the remaining 20 percent have “mild side effects”. The claim is fal
Top Fact Checks→ Patsy Stevenson staged her arrest at the vigil for Sarah Everard.
There are reports and video footage of violence and arrests at the vigil in South London on March 13.
Liste→ Math doesn’t add up in claim every American could get $1 million payment
Social media posts claim the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief act includes enough money to pay every American $1 million, and there would still be funds to spare. This is false; it would cost more than $300 trillion for all of the country’s citizens to
Liste→ This video shows Indonesian President Joko Widodo reversing his policy on allowing new alcoholic drinks investments
A video has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows Indonesian President Joko Widodo announcing plans to shut down liquor factories. The claim is misleading; the video shows the Indonesian president talking about revokin
Snopes→ Case of Sarah Everard Who Vanished on Way Home Stirs Grief, Anger
The suspect arrested on suspicion of killing her is a U.K. police officer whose job was protecting top politicians and diplomats.
Liste→ Misleading posts claim US covid relief plan costs every American $5,750
Facebook and Twitter posts shared tens of thousands of times claim that a wide-ranging $1.9 trillion package for Covid-19 pandemic relief will cost each US citizen $5,750. This is misleading; economists say the cost of the plan cannot be attributed to
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Chuck Todd was right when he said ‘the filibuster was never an idea of the Founding Fathers’
With the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate, and the intense partisan polarization embodied by the chamber’s strict party-line vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief bill, there’s been a lot of discussion recently about th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Perseverance’ Landing Craft And ‘Ingenuity’ Helicopter Are NOT Rendered Flightless ‘Fairy Tale’ By Mars’ Atmosphere
Is the atmosphere on Mars too thin for the Ingenuity helicopter to fly and does it lack enough oxygen for combustion to brake any ship on landing? No, that's not true: Mars' atmospheric volume is less than 1% of that on Earth and the Red
Full Fact - All content→ Test and Trace has much larger budget than Mars Perseverance expedition
A post shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook claims that the NHS Test and Trace scheme cost 10 times more than NASA’s latest mission to Mars. The post appears to be a screenshot of a tweet by a sports journalist. The text reads: “A
Snopes→ Clever Cuttlefish Show Advanced Self-Control, Like Chimps and Crows
Finding that cuttlefish are capable of some of the facets that are thought to be fundamental to the evolution of human intelligence is an extreme example of convergent evolution.
Snopes→ Can Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Kids Ever Be US President?
Could the children of British royals make a comeback in the former British colony?
Liste→ Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s late mother never served as a lawmaker
Posts circulating online claim that former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s late mother Shamim Akhtar was made a lawmaker aged 91 but did not attend any assembly sessions, despite taking a salary and benefits. The claim is false; provincial le
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-checking-xavier-becerras-claim During his Senate confirmation
Snopes→ Is Walmart Closing ‘Every Store’ This Year?
There's no requirement that clickbait ads accurately represent the content they advertise.
Snopes→ Does This Photo Show the Milky Way From Perseverance Mars Rover?
The Mars rover is equipped with five cameras.
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
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Top Fact Checks→ Biden is reversing the Trump administration’s laws on transgender rights.
On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order pledging to combat discrimination based on gender identity.
Snopes→ Militia Official: US Strike in Syria Kills 1, Wounds Several
Syria war monitoring groups said the strikes hit trucks moving weapons to a base for Iranian-backed militias.
Liste→ Old panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover circulates online with false claims about its Perseverance Mars rover
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in Twitter, Facebook and Weibo posts alongside a claim it shows visual footage and sound captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover during the US space agency's latest Mars mission in February 2021. The c