“India has nearly 1.4 billion citizens. Nearly 800 million of them live in extreme poverty — less than $1.90 per day. Yet EVERY singly (sic) Indian citizen is required to have a valid form of ID to vote in national elections.”
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PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Woman indicted in 1983 Capitol bombing is not a Black Lives Matter administrator
A Black Lives Matter administrator was arrested in a 1983 bombing at the U.S. Capitol.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Joe Biden never said ‘dozens of police were killed’ during the U.S. Capitol attack
Says Joe Biden said “dozens of police were killed” during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol but “exactly zero people” died that day.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No evidence Donald Trump is fluent in Japanese
Former President Donald Trump “is fluent in Japanese.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, putting a stop to COVID-19 testing won't make the pandemic disappear
“If you stop testing (for COVID-19) it all goes away and people just have colds like before.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – ‘10-years challenge’ on climate change exaggerates impact on Greenland ice, polar bears
Images show how climate change destroyed the Greenland ice sheet and harmed a polar bear from 2009 to 2019.
Snopes→ Ellen DeGeneres Facebook Scam Promises $750 in Cash App
Facebook, which rakes in billions in quarterly revenue, allowed the scam to run on its platform for at least several weeks.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The false claim that 100,000 Wisconsin voters registered more than 100 years ago
“The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Social media claims distort CDC director’s comment about COVID-19 deaths and comorbidities
“The CDC director just said that 75% of ‘Covid deaths’ occurred in people with at least four comorbidities.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Medicare ‘flex cards’ are not as advertised
Senior citizens qualify for a Medicare “flex card” that pays for groceries, dental costs and prescriptions.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Washington state isn’t considering involuntary COVID-19 quarantines
Washington’s State Board of Health will discuss mandatory COVID-19 quarantines and vaccine requirements for schoolchildren at a Jan. 12 meeting.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, that wasn't Sotomayor at dinner with Dems. It was Schumer's wife
Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was photographed at dinner with Democratic lawmakers.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, high tech refrigerators at Walgreens aren’t scanning for ‘the mark of the beast’
Walgreens refrigerators are scanning shoppers’ hands and foreheads for “the mark of the beast,” and that “if you don’t have the mark later on, you won’t be able to buy.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – There’s no evidence Ginni Thomas organized Jan. 6 events
"Clarence Thomas’s wife was one of the organizers of Jan 6th"
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – CDC employees aren’t avoiding vaccination, and their director didn’t say they were
"Biden's CDC Director ADMITS Her Own Employees Aren't Getting Vaccinated."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta is alive, but he’s not selling CBD gummies
“A tragic end today” for CNN’s Sanjay Gupta
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, getting the COVID-19 vaccine after you’ve been infected with the virus isn’t more likely to harm
If you have “natural immunity,” getting vaccinated against COVID-19 “is more likely to harm you severely.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The COVID-19 vaccines won’t lead to the deaths of a half million sharks
"Half a million sharks could be killed to make the COVID-19 vaccine."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – There’s no evidence electric vehicles fare worse than gas-powered cars in long traffic jams
Electric vehicles would not have fared well in the Virginia snowstorm traffic jam.
Full Fact→ TikTok joke about masks in Zoom meetings is taken seriously on Facebook
A joke from TikTok about wearing masks in Zoom meetings is being shared on Facebook, where some users seem to believe that it is real. The Facebook post includes a screenshot of an email, which says: “Team, I am writing you all today to inform yo
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Pfizer did not report $37 billion in profit for its latest quarter
Pfizer made $37 billion in profit in its last quarter.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim about omicron risk for the vaccinated is missing key context
“It feels amazing” that unvaccinated people are “4.5 times LESS LIKELY to catch omicron” than people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Other presidents have had lower approval ratings than Biden
President Joe Biden “has the lowest approval rating of any president ever.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – False claims about Jan. 6 insurrection and 2020 presidential election rely on debunked information
“Jan. 6 was NOT an insurrection…but Nov. 4 at 3 a.m. was!”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Judge in Ghislaine Maxwell trial did not seal “all evidence and proof”
A judge sealed “all the evidence and proof of who helped Ghislaine Maxwell sex traffic children.”
Snopes→ Viral Prayer Request Exploits Dead Child, Mother Tells Facebook Like-Farmers: ‘Go Straight to Hell’
Deyse Lene, the mother, said that Sarah, her baby, passed away in 2018. Here's how we found the truth.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, vaccines are not why flights have been canceled
Vaccines are why flights have been shut down worldwide.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – ‘Christmas Carol’ character’s wages not the best comparison to today’s minimum wage worker
“Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Did Betty White say she got her COVID-19 booster days before she died? No, the quote is fake
Says Betty White said Dec. 28, days before she died, “Eat healthy and get all your vaccines. I just got boosted today.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Footage of aircraft firing missiles is from a video game, not Chinese airstrike
A video clip shows a failed attempt by China to launch airstrikes near Taiwan.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ALDI Is NOT Doing A Giveaway On Facebook — The Company Says ‘It Is A Scam’
Did ALDI create a giveaway in which Facebook users who share and comment on a specific post will receive "a bag of Christmas essentials" as well as a $500 voucher for the store? No, that's not true: The post is not from the verified ALDI'
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Fentanyl deaths spike, but Facebook post overstates by how much
“More people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Fact-checking the state of endangered animals, extinctions
"Polar bears have increased 400% in 45 years; whales are nearly fully recovered; extinctions are down 90% past century. Koalas are doing fine. If we could ban wind turbines we could save 85,000 birds of prey/yr in US alone."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – In a sealed room, would snake plants keep you alive? Study doesn’t say that
NASA study says snake plants can produce enough oxygen for humans to live in a sealed room.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Grapefruit comes with some risks, but no evidence it’s fatal with antidepressants
Eating grapefruit, “if you're on antidepressants,” can “cause a fatal overdose.”
FactCheck.org→ Facebook Post Recycles Misleading Assessment of Vulnerable and Endangered Species
Quick Take Climate change and other human-caused factors continue to put many species at risk, according to conservation groups. But a social media post misleadingly claims polar bears, whales and koala populations are “recovered” or increa
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Kellogg’s tweet about striking workers is fake
Says Kellogg’s tweeted, “Oh, so you think it's cool when workers strike jobs? Now replace 'jobs' with 'women.' Still think it's 'cool'?"
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Self-published book on omicron was not copyrighted before variant was discovered
The omicron variant of COVID-19 “came out” in 2021, but “the copyright on this book” about the variant is 2020.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, public health officials aren’t passing off common cold as omicron variant
“Maybe they’re just calling the common cold … the omicron variant.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain ‘wireless nanosensors’
“Moderna patent uncovers horror nanocensor contained in bioweapon.”