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Full Fact - All content→ Telegraph headline linking depression and social media isn’t backed up by article
“Doubling of teenage depression rates linked to social media use” Daily Telegraph print edition, 28 April 2021 A headline in the Daily Telegraph has claimed that teenage depression rates doubling is linked to social media use. The article a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn’t Official President
Is Joe Biden not the official president because soldiers at a wreath ceremony did not wear their decorations on their coats and the 21-gun salute was moved to Arlington Cemetery on January 20, 2021? No, that's not true: Biden is the offic
Top Fact Checks→ Joe Biden isn’t President-Elect until Trump concedes the election.
The winner of a presidential election is conventionally known as President-Elect. A concession is not required for the title to be used.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Ban This ‘President Trump Campaign Ad’ — Which Isn’t Really A Trump Ad
Did Facebook ban this "President Trump campaign ad"? No, that's not true. It goes without saying that videos playing on a platform proclaiming they are banned by that platform have not been banned. Those behind such posts use them as a wa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amy Barrett Did NOT Say During Her Confirmation Hearing She Isn’t Using Notes Because ‘I’ve Got Seven Kids … I’m Used To Stupid Questions’
Did Amy Coney Barrett say during her Supreme Court confirmation hearing she s wanot using notes because she has seven kids and is "used to stupid questions"? No, that's not true: The quote was incorrectly attributed to her. In a video of
Full Fact - All content→ It’s not true that data on causes of death isn’t published
“We know that every single death has to be recorded and logged. So what, apart from simple old age (the vast majority and undisputed) are the principal death causes in our society? “Well, there are 20 to 40 diseases and illnesses that have
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Muslamian Council Named ICE Did NOT Say ‘If Pork Isn’t Banned, We’ll Have To Leave America’
Did an organization named "Islamia Coexistence Embassy" (ICE) claim they would leave America if pork wasn't banned? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to fool Trump supporters and Republicans in
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Julia Roberts Did NOT Say ‘Michelle Obama Isn’t Fit To Clean Melania’s Toilet’
Did Julia Roberts say Michelle Obama isn't fit to clean Melania Trump's toilet'? No, that's not true: the story was put out by a site once notorious for taking existing news reports and spicing them up with some invented facts to get a more sp
Fact Check : NPR→ FACT CHECK: Mexico Isn’t Paying For The Border Wall, Military Unlikely To Build It
With a proposed government funding bill not putting money into President Trump's border wall, he's now talking about different ways to complete his long-promised project.(Image credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)
Fact Check : NPR→ FACT CHECK: Mexico Isn’t Paying For The Border Wall, Military Unlikely To Build It
With a proposed government funding bill not putting money into President Trump's border wall, he's now talking about different ways to complete his long-promised project.(Image credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images)
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: Recreational marijuana isn’t legal in Florida
NOT REAL NEWS: Florida lawmakers haven't legalized recreational marijuana use, although some people have access to medical marijuana
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ AP FACT CHECK: Trump says ‘Obamacare’ is repealed. It isn’t.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's report on the death of 'Obamacare' is premature
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Carbon Footprint Of Electric Car Battery Production Is NOT Worse Than Air Travel And Traditional Vehicles
Is the carbon footprint of mining the materials for electric car batteries greater than the carbon footprint of one year's U.S. air travel, are those batteries impossible to recycle and is this proof electric vehicles are worse for the pl
Full Fact - All content→ Scottish taxes don’t subsidise English spending
A post on Facebook claims that income tax and tax raised on whisky sales in Scotland go “straight to England” to be spent on its priorities, and that Scotland subsidises England. This is not true. Firsty, the figures given for tax rev
Full Fact - All content→ CCTV showing woman’s drink being spiked is a dramatisation
A Facebook post shows what appears to be CCTV footage of a woman having her drink spiked in a bar. The film shows two men target the woman. One distracts her while the other slips a substance into her glass. Subtitles on the video claim the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Defense Secretary Did NOT Send Text To All Active Military Telling Them To Get COVID Vaccine Or Be Court-Martialed
Did the Secretary of Defense send a text to all active military personnel telling them to get the COVID-19 vaccine by 10 a.m. or they would be court-martialed, and did 12 F-22 pilots walk off the job because of the text? No, that's not tr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pelosi Did NOT Jail Biden For Making Joke About 9/11 During His Trip
Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi jail President Joe Biden for making a joke about 9/11 during his trip? No, that's not true: This didn't happen. It's a clickbait headline that has nothing to do with the subject matter of the recycled Newsma
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prayer Request For Olivia Is NOT Current
Did the aunt of a 7-month-old baby recently post a prayer request after the baby, Olivia, had open-heart surgery? No, that's not true: While this prayer request was originally posted by Olivia's aunt on October 11, 2017, this post is no l
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An Online Certificate May NOT Qualify A Person For A Permit To Carry A Concealed Firearm
Does an online course completion certificate qualify a person to obtain a concealed carry permit in a specific state mentioned in a targeted ad campaign? That's frequently not true: Individual state laws on carrying concealed weapons vary
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Man Touted By Others As ‘Ph.D., Oxford’ Did NOT Make True Statements About COVID-19 Vaccines To A School Board — Did NOT Attend Oxford University
Does a doctor share evidence of vaccine harm to an Ohio school board? No, that's not true: A man who appeared at a school board meeting in Ohio repeated multiple COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories that Lead Stories has previously debunk
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Fact-Checking Biden’s Latest Statements on the Afghanistan Withdrawal
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ICU Nurse Offers NO Proof Ivermectin Is Effective At Treating COVID-19
Does an ICU nurse give proof that ivermectin is effective at treating COVID-19? No, that's not true: Ivermectin, which is frequently used to treat or prevent parasites in animals, is not approved for treating or preventing COVID-19 in hum
Full Fact - All content→ What we know about Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages
We’ve seen a number of claims over the last few months about the Covid-19 vaccines and miscarriages. Here we debunk a few of the most common ones. What we know so far There is no scientific reason the vaccine might be expected to affect pregnancy
Snopes→ Misleading Ad Does Not Show Nelly’s Abandoned Mansion
The picture isn't even from the United States.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Harvard Did NOT Terminate A Student’s Admission ‘As A Result Of Speculating Your Social Media Accounts’
Did Harvard terminate a student's admission "as a result of speculating your social media accounts?" No, that's not true: The letter from "Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Education" is a hoax, a Harvard spokesperson told Lead Stor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A McDonald’s In Rome, Georgia, Is NOT Offering A Starting Wage Of $31 An Hour
Is a McDonald's in Rome, Georgia, offering a starting wage of $31 an hour? No, that's not true: The claim is posted on a satirical site and is not meant to be real. A manager at a McDonald's in Rome told Lead Stories it's a hoax. Pay at t
Full Fact - All content→ Higher deportation rates don’t necessarily demonstrate ‘disproportionate targeting’ of Jamaicans
“People from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica appear to be disproportionately targeted for deportation from the UK if they commit crimes” The Guardian, 25 July 2021. The Guardian recently reported that data it had obtained via the Free
FactCheck.org→ Pfizer CEO Got the COVID-19 Vaccine
SciCheck Digest The CEO of Pfizer posted a photo of himself getting the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine on March 10. But an Aug. 5 tweet from Newsmax reporter Emerald Robinson misleadingly suggested he isn’t vaccinated. She updated the tweet
Snopes→ Does This X-Ray Show a Gymnast Performing a Trick?
It isn't a stretch to say that this image is real.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Letter Rejecting AARP Membership And Criticizing Biden’s ‘Socialist Politics’ Is From 2009, NOT 2021, And It’s Been Altered
Is a letter rejecting AARP membership and criticizing President Joe Biden's "Socialist politics" from 2021? No, that's not true: The letter was written in 2009 during the administration of former President Barack Obama. A copy of the lett
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Interview Does NOT Prove There’s No Variants, No Novel Coronavirus, No Pandemic — It Recycles Debunked Conspiracy Theories
Does a podcaster's online video prove there are no SARS-CoV-2 variants, that there's no pandemic and that COVID-19 isn't a novel disease? No, that's not true: coronavirus conspiracist David Martin's claims fly in the face of the establish
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence That Edward Mordrake Was A Real Person
Was Edward Mordake a man born with a second face on the back of his head that could laugh, cry and whisper horrible things to him? No, that's not true: The legend of Edward Mordake, sometimes called Mordrake, appears to have begun as a wo
FactCheck.org→ Meme Spreads Falsehood About Vaccine Transfer Through Eating Meat
SciCheck Digest Livestock and poultry are not being vaccinated against COVID-19. But a meme is spreading the falsehood that those who eat meat from vaccinated animals will get “VAXXED” by consuming the meat. That simply isn’t possible
Snopes→ Did Abraham Lincoln Jump Out a Window to Prevent a Quorum?
Surprisingly, this isn't the only story about Abraham Lincoln jumping out of a window for political purposes.
Snopes→ Did Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Restaurant Receive a PPP Loan?
Boebert isn't the only one to own a "Shooters" restaurant.
TruthOrFiction→ OGX DMDM Hydantoin Facebook Post
On July 5 2021, a Facebook account shared a post warning people about OGX brand shampoo and DMDM hydantoin, writing: **UPDATED** If you are not aware, these are some of the OGX shampoos that Johnson & Johnson is being sued over. They have a chemica
FactCheck.org→ Second Ladies in Combat Zones
In several recent speeches to members of the military, President Joe Biden has sprinkled in a curious piece of trivia about his wife, Jill, saying he thinks she is the only second lady to visit a war zone. She isn’t. Jill Biden accompanied then-V
Snopes→ July 4, Juneteenth and the Meaning of National Holidays
Federal holidays are fixtures in the American calendar, but their presence isn't only a story of continuity. They reflect how the U.S. has evolved.