The number of deaths reported via systems like VAERS is exaggerated and doesn't reflect the actual number of deaths caused by vaccines.
Search Results (2022) for: killed
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Report That Russian Influencer Hasbulla Was Killed By Nerf Football Drone Strike in Ukraine
Did a U.S.-based cable news network publish a story stating that Russian influencer Hasbulla Magomedov died in a drone strike while fighting in Ukraine? No, that's not true: The story is a satirical fake created to look like a credible ne
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Was NOT Killed In SpaceX Rocket Test
Was billionaire Elon Musk killed in a rocket testing mishap at his space exploration company, SpaceX? No, that's not true: Musk has been active on his verified Twitter account since the claim was published and news organizations were not
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Rapper Takeoff Was Killed By A Sniper Shot
Did gunfire from a sniper in Houston hit and kill Takeoff, a member of the rap group Migos? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, officials have presented no evidence that suggests that a sniper fired at Takeoff, the stage name of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Martin Luther King Jr. Was NOT ‘Killed By His Doctor’
Was Martin Luther King Jr. "killed by his doctor" and "not the bullet" that wounded him? No, that's not true: The official autopsy confirms that King's cause of death was a fatal gunshot wound. The claim that King was killed by his doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Boston University COVID-19 Strain Killed 20% FEWER Mice Than Wild Strain — ‘80% Kill Rate’ Did NOT Refer To Humans
Does a Boston University (BU) study of a COVID-19 strain with an "80% lethality" have implications for humans? No, that's not true: The kill rate refers to mice used in the lab tests, and BU's manipulated virus was less lethal than existi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Drinking Breast Milk Containing Vaccine mRNA Killed 6 Babies
Did six babies die after drinking breast milk that contained traces of a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: There is no evidence to support such claims and alleged cases are unverifiable. In September 2022, vaccine skeptics misre
Logically→ Iranian father who vowed to dance at his daughter’s wedding danced at her funeral after she was killed for protesting the government’s hijab rules.
The scene is from an Azerbaijan television series titled "Ata Ocağı" and has been available online since at least January 2018.
Snopes→ Police Uncertain if Girl Killed in Shootout Was Abducted
Anthony John Graziano and his daughter, Savannah Graziano, were killed in a shootout with law enforcement on a highway in the high desert east of Los Angeles.
Snopes→ At Least 9 Killed As Iran Protests over Woman’s Death Spread
Protesters in more than a dozen cities — venting anger over social repression and the country’s mounting crises — continue to encounter security and paramilitary forces.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Republicans DID Thank Biden For Drone Strike That Killed Al Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Did no Republicans thank U.S. President Joe Biden for taking out the leader of Al Qaeda? No, that's not true: Several GOP members of Congress publicly acknowledged Biden for the July 31, 2022 drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed
Snopes→ Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico´s Pacific Coast; 1 Killed
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
Snopes→ Iowa Teen Who Killed Rapist Sentenced, Ordered to Pay $150K
Pieper Lewis, 17, pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines.
Snopes→ Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor to Be Laid to Rest, at Last
A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor.
Snopes→ Australian Man Killed by Kangaroo in Rare Fatal Attack
A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Queen Elizabeth’s Corgis Will NOT Be Killed Now That She Has Died
Did Queen Elizabeth II make it known that she does not wish any of her dogs to go on living in the event of her death? No, that's not true: Suggestions that the queen wanted all surviving dogs euthanized at the time of her death are satir
Logically→ Michael Jackson was killed for saying that history is a lie.
Jackson's words have been taken out of context to lend credibility to conspiracy theory narratives.
Logically→ Anne Heche’s death was not an accident. She was killed for making a film on human trafficking.
According to medical and police reports, actor Anne Heche died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Woman Found Dead In Arkansas River Is NOT Provably Linked To Clinton Advisor Who Apparently Killed Self
Was a woman found dead in the Arkansas River linked to the "suspicious death" of former Clinton advisor Mark Middleton? No, that's not true: A report in radaronline.com quoted an anonymous source -- purportedly an associate of Middleton's
Snopes→ Man Killed Himself After Ramming US Capitol Barrier
A man drove his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol early Sunday and then began firing gunshots in the air before fatally shooting himself.
Snopes→ Armed Man Killed After Trying to Breach FBI Office, Standoff
An armed man clad in body armor who tried to breach the FBI’s Cincinnati office on Thursday was shot and killed by police after he fled the scene and engaged in an hourslong standoff in a rural part of the state.
Snopes→ Indiana Rep. Walorski, 2 Staffers Killed in Head-On Crash
Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed in a car crash in her northern Indiana district along with two members of her congressional staff and another person.
Logically→ Nishank Rathore, an engineering student, was killed in Bhopal for supporting former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma.
Preliminary probe by the Special Investigation Team confirmed that Nishank was not murdered but died by suicide possibly due to high indebtedness.
Snopes→ AP Sources: US Operation Killed Al-Qaida Leader Al-Zawahri
The house Al-Zawahri was in when he was killed was owned by a top aide to senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to a senior intelligence official.
AllSides→ Fact Check: Bennie Thompson Falsely Claims Police ‘Killed’ in Capitol Riot
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/21/fact-check-bennie-thompson-falsely-claims-police-killed-in-capitol-riot/
Snopes→ Emmett Till Accuser, in Memoir, Denies Wanting Teen Killed
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she neither identified him to the killers nor wanted him murdered.
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccines have not killed twice as many people as the virus
This claim is based on a survey which is unlikely to be representative of the US population.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Anthony Bourdain and other celebrities weren’t killed while working on a film about pedophilia
Anthony Bourdain and Chris Cornell were killed while working on a documentary about “widespread pedophilia.”
Snopes→ 3 Killed, Dozens Hurt in Amtrak Train Crash in Missouri
An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides
Snopes→ 4 Killed when Stands Collapse During Colombian Bullfight
Part of the wooden stands collapsed during a bullfight in central Colombia, sending spectators plunging to the ground and killing at least four people and injuring hundreds.
Poynter→ Extreme heat killed cattle in Kansas, not chemtrails or a food shortage scheme
Thousands of cattle died in mid-June in Kansas — deaths that state officials and animal experts have said were caused by intense heat. But some social media posts are casting […] The post Extreme heat killed cattle in Kansas, not chemtrails or
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Extreme heat killed cattle, not chemtrails or a food shortage scheme
Thousands of cattle that recently died in Kansas weren’t killed by the heat.
Logically→ Thousands of cows were killed in Kansas to shorten the food supply as part of the New World Order.
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Snopes→ Nigerian Forces Hunt for Gunmen Who Killed 50 at Church
The gunmen who killed 50 people at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria opened fire on worshippers both inside and outside the building in a coordinated attack before escaping the scene.
Snopes→ Police Fatally Shoot Texas Escapee Who Killed 5 While on Run
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, died in a shootout with police in Jourdanton, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of San Antonio.
AllSides→ Tactical Unit, Not Off-Duty Officer, Killed Uvalde Gunman
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/tactical-unit-not-off-duty-officer-killed-uvalde-gunman/ Jacob Albara
FactCheck.org→ Tactical Unit, Not Off-Duty Officer, Killed Uvalde Gunman
Quick Take Jacob Albarado, who has been described in media reports as an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer, helped students escape the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24. But online rumors falsely claim he was the CBP officer who k
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Jacob Albarado Killed Gunman In Texas School Shooting
Did Jacob Albarado, an off-duty Border Patrol agent, kill Salvador Ramos, the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school? There's no such evidence: Albarado, whose wife worked at the school and child atten
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The US government is not creating food shortages, despite claim about buffalo killed in the 1800s
The U.S. government’s inaction over buffalo killing that harmed Native American populations in the 1800s shows it is now “is creating food shortages” so that Americans are more “dependent on the government.”
Snopes→ Al Jazeera Reporter Killed During Israeli Raid in West Bank
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian reporter for the broadcaster's Arabic language channel who is also a U.S. citizen, was shot and died soon afterward.