Did Jennifer Lopez appear on TV with Dr. Oz to promote a weight-loss "Rice Hack"? No, that's not true: A promotion on Facebook contains old video footage of Lopez which has an altered audio track, putting words in the singer's mouth and t
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The Dispatch→ The Left’s Whackjob Problem—and Ours
On the asymmetric nuttiness between the right and left.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Amazon Was Hacked With Hub Lockers Added As Default Delivery Address — Company Claims Glitch
Were Amazon user accounts hacked when Amazon Hub lockers were added as a default delivery address? No, that's partly false: Amazon users did have their default delivery addresses changed to Hub lockers but Amazon said that was an error ca
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Amazon locker addresses were added to customers’ accounts in error. The company wasn’t hacked
“Amazon got hacked. … Hackers added Hub lockers as your default delivery addresses.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Arrest CDC Official Karen Hacker
Did the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps place Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Dr. Karen Hacker under arrest for committing "treason, abuse of office, and defrauding the country"? No, that's not true: A Pentago
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Handmade Contraption ‘Hack’ Does NOT Save Fuel, Could Be Dangerous — Clickbait Video Skit
Does a video on social media show a "hack" that will "slash your gas expenses"? No, that's not true: This video fails to deliver what is promised in seven minutes of drawn-out instructions on how to make a nonfunctional contraption. How t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Financial Times Did NOT Report That Man Was Arrested After ’17 Years Traveling … With A Hacked Debit Card’
Did the Financial Times report that a man was "arrested after he spent 17 years traveling the country with a hacked debit card that gave him the exact amount of money needed for any purchase"? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the F
The Dispatch→ Where Every Hack Knows Your Name
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PolitiFact→ Sawyer Hackett – Texas schools can still teach the works of Martin Luther King Jr.
Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Iranian Whistleblower’ Did NOT Reveal Successful Hack Of Voter Registration Database To Create Fraudulent Military Ballots
Does a video show an "Iranian whistleblower" revealing how they hacked a federal voter registration database during the U.S. 2020 election and created fraudulent overseas ballots? No, that's not true: The footage -- shown at an election i
Snopes→ Thieves Key on Hack That Leaves Hyundai, Kia Cars Vulnerable
Some Hyundai and Kia cars and SUVs are missing a “key” anti-theft device, and thieves know.
Snopes→ Photo of Boy in Handcuffs Does Not Show ‘GTA VI’ Hacker
A YouTube video showed a thumbnail of a young boy being placed into handcuffs, but it had nothing to do with the leak of "GTA VI."
Snopes→ Serious Breach at Uber Spotlights Hacker Social Deception
The ride-hailing service Uber said there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
Snopes→ Do Car Grab Handles Have a ‘Hidden Purpose’ or ‘Hack’?
An online advertisement claimed that a TikToker discovered the secret purpose behind car grab handles that are located above windows.
Snopes→ Hunter Biden’s iCloud Account Allegedly Hacked by 4chan User
A "data dump" supposedly revealed the contents of an iCloud account associated with an iPhone and iPad owned by U.S. President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
Logically→ Video shows Indian television anchor Arnab Goswami dancing after Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray’s resignation.
Full Fact→ No evidence Facebook hackers sending ‘offensive comments’ to your friends which you can’t see
A popular Facebook claim warning that hackers are posting “offensive comments” which account owners can’t see has been repeatedly debunked.
Snopes→ Facebook Posts About Homeland Security Memos and ‘Hacked’ Cellphones Are Misleading
"Don't know if this is true but better safe than sorry," one Facebook user posted.
Logically→ Yuval Noah Harari has a plan to control people with “organism hacking.”
Harari's comments have been edited and misrepresented. He is actually warning against a world being controlled by elites.
Snopes→ Bad Deepfake of Zelenskyy Shared on Ukraine News Site in Reported Hack
One way to tell that this video is fake is that the size of Zelenskyy's head is disproportionate to that of his body.
Snopes→ Antarctic Explorer Shackleton’s Ship Found After a Century
Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice.
Poynter→ Jesse Watters spins facts beyond recognition with claims that Hillary Clinton paid to hack and frame Trump
Fox News host Jesse Watters falsely accused Hillary Clinton of paying hackers to break into former President Donald Trump’s computers and plant fabricated evidence that would frame Trump for collusion with the […] The post Jesse Watters spins
PolitiFact→ Jesse Watters – Jesse Watters spins facts beyond recognition with claims Hillary Clinton paid to hack, frame Trump
“Durham’s documents show that Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked into Trump’s home and office computers” and “planted evidence, fabricated evidence connecting Trump to Russia.”
Logically→ Google hired a Bihari named Rituraj with a ₹3.66 crores pay package for hacking its servers for 51 seconds.
Rituraj Choudhary took part in a bug hunt set up by Google, where he reported a bug. Google did not hire him in return.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Research into ‘fit hacks’ could help improve future mask design, but recommendations haven’t changed
Binding masks to your face with gauze and wrapping pantyhose around your face and mask are now “suggestions to make your mask more ‘effective.’”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hackers Did NOT ‘Crack’ Pfizer, Moderna Servers And Reveal Vaccine Death Data
Did hackers "crack" the servers of COVID-19 vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna and reveal vaccine death data from those companies? No, that's not true: The data used to make that claim is from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VA
Snopes→ Apple Fixes Security Hole Reportedly Used to Hack an IPhone
Apple released a critical software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action.
Truth or Fiction?→ Facebook Hacked, Email Changed
An unknown and apparently large number of Facebook accounts appear to have been hacked in 2021 in a specific fashion — specifically, the account’s email address is changed (often to a Hotmail address), two-factor authentication (2FA) is ena
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Digital Billboard In Wilmington, NC, Was NOT Hacked To Show Unflattering Memes Of Biden — The Memes Came From A ‘Private Citizen’
Was a digital billboard in Wilmington, North Carolina, hacked to feature memes that were critical of President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to Donald Tedder, owner of the digital billboard, the billboard was not hacked -- the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Your Wake Up Call’ Film Does NOT Back Extraordinary Claims Of Election Hack, Chinese Control, With Commensurately Solid Evidence
Was the fifth Mike Lindell election fraud video correct in claiming a major American voting machine company is controlled by Chinese Communist Party investors and that voting machines used in the 2020 election were hacked via the internet
Snopes→ Turn Off, Turn On: Simple Step Can Thwart Top Phone Hackers
The NSA issued a “best practices” guide for mobile device security last year in which it recommends rebooting a phone every week as a way to stop hacking.
The Dispatch→ Did HBO ‘Kill’ or ‘Hide’ a Documentary About Election Hacking?
Right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich claimed recently that HBO has “killed” a documentary about the the cyber vulnerabilities of American elections: Cernovich @CernovichHere is HBO in May 2020 promoting a documentary they produced on
Snopes→ Microsoft Exchange Email Hack Was Caused by China, US Says
The Microsoft Exchange hack was first identified in January and was rapidly attributed to Chinese cyber spies by private sector groups.
Snopes→ Can Women ‘Hack’ Disney Parks for Free Shirts by Showing Their Boobs?
"Absolutely show your boobs when you go to Disney World if you want a free shirt," a park guest recommended on TikTok.
Snopes→ John McAfee’s ‘$WHACKD’ Tattoo Provides Conspiracy Fodder
The former tech entrepreneur was found dead in his prison cell hours after Spain approved his extradition to the U.S. to face tax evasion charges.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Shackled Teen Is NOT A Hacker Who Broke Into A Swiss Bank’s Computer System And Stole Billions
Did a kid hacker break into a Swiss bank's computer system and transfer $75 billion to his father's bank account? No, that's not true: there is no evidence that such an act occurred in the U.S. or abroad. Additionally, the images used to
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Ashleigh Shackelford Teaching Critical Race Theory’ Video
On June 13 2021, Twitter user @ConceptualJames shared a video which purportedly shows artist and activist Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford teaching critical race theory: "All white people are racist…" "No, you're always going to
Snopes→ US Has Recovered Ransom Payment Made After Pipeline Hack
The Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Limits Prosecutors’ Use of Anti-Hacking Law
Justice Amy Coney Barrett writing for the majority that the government's interpretation of the law “would attach criminal penalties to a breathtaking amount of commonplace computer activity.”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Fabuloso in Toilet Tank’ TikTok Hack
A March 13 2021 Facebook post featured a TikTok #CleanTok tip involving Fabuloso in a toilet tank: @sheiskd_Tik Tok made me do it ##fabuloso ##fyp ##stimuluscheck ##tax ##covidrelief ##foryou ##foryoupage♬ original sound – allierockk The