Did an orange and a lemon test positive for COVID-19? Does using a test improperly, with fruit juice rather than a nasal swab, show that home tests are unreliable and will return false positives for anything? No, that's not true: The Food
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Truth or Fiction?→ ‘One of the Reasons I Drive Right Past Home Depot and Straight to Lowe’s …’
In January 2022, a June 2020 Facebook post purportedly comparing Lowe’s and Home Depot’s chief executive officers continued spreading: One of the reasons I drive right past Home Depot and straight to Lowe’s is because while the co-founder
FactCheck.org→ Q&A on At-Home Rapid Tests
The demand for at-home, rapid COVID-19 tests — sparked by the fast-spreading omicron variant in December — has continued in 2022. With that demand have come questions about the tests’ efficacy, how to use them and where to get them. W
Snopes→ Home COVID Tests to Be Covered by Insurers Starting Saturday
Private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans.
Logically→ Rapid home tests give COVID-19 positive results for tap water samples.
Rapid home tests for COVID-19 are intended to be done using samples from nasal swabs. Testing tap water samples might return false-positive results.
Full Fact→ The Warm Home Discount is £140 for the entire winter, not a week
[There are] 2.2 million people supported with the Warm Homes Discount, Mr Speaker, worth £140 per week. Boris Johnson, 5 January 2022. [Angela Rayner] obviously wasn't listening to the previous answer, let me remind her, the Warm Homes Discount
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hydroxychloroquine CANNOT Be Made At Home By Boiling Grapefruit And Lemon Peels In Water
Can hydroxychloroquine be made at home by boiling grapefruit and lemon peels in water? No, that's not true: This claim is "totally false," Dr. Joseph Fortunak, professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Howard University, told
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BinaxNOW COVID Home Test Kit Is NOT For Use With Water
Did a woman find that there was evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in tap water because she tested the water with a COVID-19 home test kit? No, that's not true: The reading at the end of the video shows an invalid test result, not a positive COVID re
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Macaulay Culkin is Now 4 Years Older than Catherine O’Hara Was When She Played His Mom in Home Alone’
In December 2021, screenshots of a tweet indicating that former child actor Macaulay Culkin was “now” four years older that Catherine O’Hara when Home Alone was filmed began circulating among Facebook users: In the screenshot, the T
Snopes→ Pfizer Pill Becomes 1st US-Authorized Home COVID Treatment
U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.
Snopes→ Was Address in ‘Home Alone 2’ Where McCallister House Was Filmed?
“Don’t you know a kid always wins against two idiots?”
Snopes→ Does Macaulay Culkin’s Real Brother Appear in ‘Home Alone’?
Apparently acting runs in the IRL family.
Truth or Fiction?→ In ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home,’ Disinformation is a Supervillain
Even as it deals with super-powered confrontations, the December 2021 movie Spider-Man: No Way Home introduces a different form of villainy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in depicting the impact of disinformation on its titular hero. This post contai
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Air Force Colonel Joe Jackson Did NOT Die In 2020 Ignored — He Died in 2019 Remembered By Hometown, Dept. of Defense
Did Air Force Col. Joe Jackson die in 2020 with his death ignored by the public and media? No, that's not true: He died on January 12, 2019, according to multiple sources including the obituary from Jackson's hometown newspaper, The Washi
Snopes→ Photo from Tornado-Damaged Home Lands Almost 130 Miles Away
When Katie Posten walked outside Saturday morning to her car parked in her driveway, she saw something that looked like a note or receipt stuck to the windshield.
Snopes→ Beware of ‘$3,600 Stimulus for Homeowners’ Facebook Scam
It might not be a good sign when the bottom of a brand new website displays a list of "disclaimers" in small print addressed to "Facebook reviewers and 3rd party fact checkers."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Klaus Schwab Was NOT Arrested At Home In Switzerland
Was Klaus Schwab arrested at his home in Switzerland? No, that's not true: The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), was not arrested at home in Switzerland both the Swiss Federal Police and the police in Geneva, Switzerland said, ca
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘List Of Privileges’ Was NOT Sent Home With First-Grade Students In Delaware
Were first-grade students attending Nellie Stokes Elementary in the Caesar Rodney School District in Delaware sent home with a "List of Privileges"? No, that's not true: The handout in a photo was not given to all the students, and it is
PolitiFact→ Why you can’t find cheap at-home COVID tests
Why you can't find cheap at-home COVID-19 tests
Snopes→ Did a 5-Year-Old Girl Disappear from Her Home Every Night?
According to a story, the father called the police after he found out why the little girl was walking away from their home every night.
Snopes→ Homer Plessy, Key to ‘Separate but Equal,’ on Road to Pardon
A Louisiana board voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.
Snopes→ Videos of Ahmaud Arbery Roaming Vacant Home Shown to Jury
Jurors in the trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing watched security camera videos that show other people entering a home under construction in the months before the 25-year-old Black man was chased and gunned down after running
Truth or Fiction?→ Cannibal Corpse ‘My Home is Full of Skulls’ Meme
On November 7 2021, a Twitter meme about a Cannibal Corpse guitarist and the band’s purported songs (“I Have Guns in My House, For Murder” and “My Home is Full of Skulls”) received significant engagement: pic.twitter.com
Snopes→ Soldier Surprises Younger Sis with Homecoming at Georgia IHOP
The video was viewed close to 1 million times in just four days.
Snopes→ Nor’Easter Cuts Power to over Half-Million Homes, Businesses
A nor’easter that battered the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force wind gusts left more than a half-million homes and businesses without power and forced the closure of bridges, ferries and schools.
Snopes→ Former MLB Manager Valentine Runs for Mayor in Hometown
Former Major League Baseball manager and player Bobby Valentine scoffs at any suggestion he might be out of his league running for mayor in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: HUD Homeowner Incentive Does NOT Give Up To $3,300 Back To Homeowners
Does the U.S. government have a "HUD Homeowner Incentive" that gives thousands of dollars to homeowners? No, that's not true: No federal government program by that name exists -- and that's according to HUD itself. The website listing the
Snopes→ Ed Sheeran Has COVID, Will Do Performances from Home
British pop star Ed Sheeran has tested positive for COVID-19 and will do interviews and performances from his house while he self-isolates.
Snopes→ Lego Selling ‘Home Alone’ House Set
The set includes tiny replicas of Kevin McAllister's malevolent traps set for would-be burglars.
Snopes→ Alabama Football Team Lost 21-0 at Home 21 Years Ago
The storied program had a dark period prior to its recent success, including a rare shutout loss at home to an unranked, nonconference opponent.
Snopes→ More Than 90 Snakes Found Under Northern California Home
Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses.
Snopes→ Meteorite Hits Canadian Woman’s Home
It was a 100 billion-to-one shot.
Snopes→ Winter Heating Bills Set to Jump As Inflation Hits Home
Get ready to pay sharply higher bills for heating this winter, along with seemingly everything else.
Snopes→ Plane Crash Kills 2, Burns Homes in California Neighborhood
The Cessna 340 smashed into a UPS van, killing the driver, and then hit houses in Santee, a suburb of 50,000 people.
Snopes→ At Least 2 Dead in Santee Plane Crash That Burned Homes
A small plane crashed in a densely populated San Diego suburb, killing at least two people, including a UPS driver, and leaving a trail of destruction that sent neighbors scrambling to help neighbors.
Snopes→ Elderly Brown Bear Takes Home ‘Fattest Bear’ Title
Katmai National Park resident 480 Otis beat out younger bears to become the champion of chonk.
Snopes→ Are NY Hospitals Not Letting Unvaccinated Parents Take Their Newborn Babies Home?
Current research says that the risk of a newborn getting COVID-19 from a parent is low.
Snopes→ Did FedEx Fire a Driver Who Refused To Deliver to Pro-Biden Homes?
Vincent Paterno bragged online about refusing to deliver packages to left-leaning customers. Online reports say he was fired as a result. He says otherwise.
Snopes→ ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Sashays Home with 10 Tony Awards
The show about the goings-on in a turn-of-the-century Parisian nightclub, updated with tunes like “Single Ladies” and “Firework” alongside the big hit “Lady Marmalade,” won 10 Tonys.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Don’t Get Vaccinated’ Funeral Home Truck
On September 19 2021, images of a truck appeared on social media, appearing to show a purported funeral home’s box truck advertisement reading, “don’t get vaccinated”: @RexChapman @davenewworld_2 This truck is making laps a