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PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claims connecting sudden death in athletes to COVID-19 vaccines fall short of scrutiny
According to International Olympic Committee data, “an average of 29 athletes under the age of 35 suffered sudden death per year from 1966 to 2004. From March 2021 to March 2022, 769 athletes have died or suffered cardiac arrest."
AllSides→ Fact Check-The Atlantic did not publish headline calling President Biden’s bike fall ‘heroic’
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-atlantic-biden/fact-check-the-atlantic-did-not-publish-headline-calling-president-bidens-bike-fall-heroic-idUSL1N2Y826G
Snopes→ Are These Real Jen Psaki Tweets About Trump After Biden’s Bike Fall?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Full Fact→ Labour makes misleading claim about fall in affordable housing under Conservative government
Labour’s claim that affordable housing supply has fallen by 95% misinterprets the statistics.
Snopes→ Snopestionary: The ‘Straw Man’ Logical Fallacy
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.
AllSides→ Fact Check: No, the USDA Is Not Predicting a Dozen Eggs Will Cost $12 by Fall 2022
https://checkyourfact.com/2022/06/09/fact-check-usda-eggs-prediction/ A post shared on Facebook claim
Snopes→ Snopestionary: The ‘Red Herring’ Logical Fallacy
This logical fallacy is sometimes referred to as the fallacy of distraction.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: USDA Is NOT Predicting Egg Prices Will Be $12/Dozen By Fall 2022
Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicting that egg prices will be $12 per dozen by fall 2022? No, that's not true: Although prices are expected to rise in 2022, the expected cost of a dozen eggs is nowhere near $12. The clai
Snopes→ Did USDA Predict Eggs Will Cost $12 Per Dozen in Fall 2022?
We're not sure if this rumor originated with bad math or bad faith.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – U.S. Department of Agriculture did not predict the retail price of eggs this fall
“USDA is predicting egg prices will be $12 a dozen by fall 2022.”
Snopes→ Snopestionary: The ‘Slippery Slope’ Logical Fallacy
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.
Snopes→ Snopestionary: The Ad Hominem Logical Fallacy
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.
Snopes→ Search for Supreme Court Leaker Falls to Former Army Colonel
Her most public role was supposed to be in the courtroom, where the Marshal bangs a gavel and announces the entrance of the court's nine justices.
Snopes→ 4 People Fall off California Cliff; 1 Dead and 2 Badly Hurt
The fourth person, a man who suffered minor injuries, managed to climb back up from the beach below and alert a passing officer.
PolitiFact→ Candace Owens – Claim that most Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority areas by 'eugenicist' design falls short
“79% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods. This is not by accident. That is by its founder, Margaret Sanger's, eugenicist design."
Snopes→ Senate Bid To Save Roe V. Wade Falls to GOP-Led Filibuster
The Senate fell far short Wednesday in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster.
Snopes→ Was Annie Edson Taylor the 1st Person To Run Niagara Falls in a Barrel?
A tethered harness reportedly kept the 63-year-old schoolteacher secure.
PolitiFact→ Don’t fall for these hoaxes about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Distressing posts have filled social media with descriptions that say they show Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While legitimate coverage has shown the invasion’s destruction, other imagery has turned out to be fake, outdated or unrelated to the conf
Full Fact→ ‘Storm Eunice video’ supposedly showing crane fall in Portsmouth is actually from Poland
A video on Facebook claiming to show a violent storm and a crane falling in Fratton, in Portsmouth, has almost 1,000 shares. The video was not taken in the UK. It was most likely filmed in Krakow, Poland. The video shows a lot of rubbish swirling aroun
Truth or Fiction?→ Mysterious Black Liquid Falling in Las Vegas
On February 10 2022 an Imgur user shared a screenshot of the following tweet about a “mysterious black liquid” that had reportedly been falling from the sky in Las Vegas: A mysterious black liquid has been falling on people in East Las V
Snopes→ SpaceX Satellites Falling out of Orbit After Solar Storm
Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No evidence COVID-19 vaccine caused comedian Heather McDonald’s fall
Comedian Heather McDonald collapsed on stage as a result of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Snopes→ Strained US Hospitals Seek Foreign Nurses Amid Visa Windfall
With American hospitals facing a dire shortage of nurses amid a slogging pandemic, many are looking abroad for health care workers.
PolitiFact→ Scott Fitzgerald – Lawmaker's claim that mask mandates harm early childhood development falls short of scientific proof
"Mask mandates on children lead to learning loss that harms early childhood development."
Full Fact→ Is income inequality falling?
“If we look at the statistics, we see that economic inequality is down in this country.”Boris Johnson, Boris Johnson, 5 January 2021. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson claimed economic inequality is falling. However, the d
Snopes→ Coast Guard Diver Pulls Body from Car Above Niagara Falls
A U.S. Coast Guard diver braved death to enter a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just yards from the brink of Niagara Falls.
Snopes→ Bidens Honor Pearl Harbor’s Fallen in Visit to WWII Memorial
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with a somber visit to the World War II Memorial in the nation’s capital.
Washington Post→ The claim that crime falls when states relax gun-control laws
The research on this is all over the place, but a conservative lawyer argued before the Supreme Court that it goes down. The answer is much more complex.
Snopes→ UN: Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit a New Record, Cuts Fall Short
Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade despite a temporary reduction during pandemic lockdowns.
Snopes→ Rod Stewart’s Plea Deal on Battery Charge Falls Through
He and his adult son are again scheduled to stand trial on charges they battered a security guard during a New Year's Eve bash nearly two years ago.
Health Feedback→ No evidence that the fall in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia is linked to the use of ivermectin
REVIEW Between July and August 2021, Indonesia experienced a second surge in COVID-19 cases that caused over 50,000 deaths in the country. National Geographic reported that Indonesia had become a new major epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly
Snopes→ Unemployment Claims Fall to Lowest Level of Pandemic
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest level since the pandemic began, a sign the job market is still improving even as hiring has slowed in the past two months.
Snopes→ Did a Meteor Fall Into a Volcano?
This is a genuine photograph, but the stated destination of this meteor was likely off by a few miles.
Full Fact→ Falling crime is related to pandemic lockdowns
“Crime has been falling, and not just, by the way, because we took the precaution of locking up the public for much of the last 18 months, but because you have a Conservative government that understands the broken windows theory of fighting crim
Snopes→ Did Bobby Leach Survive Niagara Falls, Only To Die After Slipping on Orange Peel?
Bobby Leach was the second person in history to survive the plunge over Niagara Falls.
Snopes→ Why Climate Change is Making It Harder to Chase Fall Foliage
For a cheery autumnal activity, leaf peeping is facing some serious threats from the era of climate change.
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
Snopes→ Jason Derulo Didn’t Fall Down Met Gala Stairs
He didn't fall down last year or the year before, either.
Snopes→ 20 Years Later, Fallout from Toxic WTC Dust Cloud Grows
Two decades after the twin towers’ collapse, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to the attacks.