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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Does NOT ‘Admit’ More Dead from COVID-19 Vaccine Than Vaccines Over Last 20 Years Combined
Did the CDC "admit" that COVID-19 vaccines have killed more Americans than all vaccines since 2001, combined? No, that's not true: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which monitors vaccine reactions and safety, says the oppos
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ Who Lied More During Their First 100 Days: Biden, Trump, Or Obama?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2021/04/30/who-lied-more-during-their-first-100-days-biden-trump-or-obama/
Top Fact Checks→ More than one million, three hundred thousand new jobs have been created since Biden took to office as the POTUS.
Data suggest that 1.4 million jobs have been created since Biden took office in January 2021.
Top Fact Checks→ More than one million, three hundred thousand new jobs have been created since Biden took to office as the POTUS.
Data suggest that 1.4 million jobs have been created since Biden took office in January 2021.
Snopes→ ‘Real Water’ Brand Linked to More Liver Ailments by Vegas Agency
Health officials in Las Vegas reported six more cases of liver illness believed to be linked to a commercially marketed bottled water brand, Real Water, that faces a U.S. Food and Drug Administration probe and lawsuits by people alleging they were sick
Snopes→ More Tests and Still More Questions About the Tokyo Olympics
The Tokyo Olympics open in under three months and there are still more questions than answers, despite the rollout of new rule books to explain how the games will take place in the middle of a surging pandemic in Japan.
Top Fact Checks→ Prime Minister Boris Johnson used the phrase “let the bodies pile high” on more than one occasion.
In 2017, Boris Johnson made offensive remarks on dead bodies in Libya. His comments on COVID-19 remain unverified.
Snopes→ India Grieves 200,000 Dead with Many More Probably Uncounted
Hospitals are scrambling for more oxygen, beds, ventilators and ambulances, while families marshal their own resources in the absence of a functioning system.
Snopes→ Has White Claw Released a New Hard Seltzer With More Booze in It?
"We know some consumers are looking for a higher alcohol option from White Claw," a company spokesperson said, "that's what White Claw Hard Seltzer Surge delivers."
Snopes→ Was Dakota Territory Split Into 2 States To Get More Republican Senators?
It depends on who you ask.
Snopes→ No, LeBron James Didn’t Lament That ‘A Girl Can’t Even Stab Her Friends Anymore’
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Top Fact Checks→ COVID-19 vaccination at a large scale could produce more deadly variants.
There is no conclusive evidince that the COVID-19 vaccination drive will lead to deadlier mutations of the virus.
Full Fact - All content→ There’s more to the claim only 32 vaccinated people were hospitalised with Covid-19
Only 32 people hospitalised with Covid after having vaccination Telegraph, 21 April 2021. An article in the Telegraph has claimed that only 32 vaccinated people were hospitalised with Covid-19 in recent months. It also said that “of 74,405 Covid
Liste→ False claim circulates on social media that Russia requires male citizens to have more than one wife
A claim that the Russian government has required polygamy for its male citizens has been shared in multiple posts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. This claim is false: polygamy is not allowed under Russian law. The misleading posts appear to be base
WaPo Fact Checker→ Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale.
The South Carolina senator said he went from "Cotton to Congress in one lifetime," but his ancestors owned unusually large amounts of land.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: LeBron James Did NOT Say ‘We’re At The Point Where A Girl Can’t Even Stab Her Friends Anymore’ — It’s Satire
Did LeBron James say, "We're at the point where a girl can't even stab her friends anymore"? No, that's not true. This is a made-up quote from satirical website The Glorious American. Social media accounts picked up the quote as real in t
Snopes→ Guns vs. Teddy Bears: Which Has More Consumer Safety Regulations in the US?
A widely-shared tweet in April 2021 alluded to a striking loophole in U.S. consumer safety regulations.
Full Fact - All content→ We don’t know if the ‘Nigerian variant’ is more deadly
The data in this piece is correct as of the time of publishing, on 21 April 2021. Articles from news outlets, and posts on social media have raised concerns about the risk posed by a Covid-19 variant which has been dubbed the “Nigerian variant&rd
Snopes→ Did Maxine Waters Urge Protesters To ‘Get More Confrontational’?
Rep. Waters answered questions from reporters while marching with protesters ahead of a verdict in the trial of the police officer accused of killing George Floyd.
Top Fact Checks→ There are more cases of COVID-19 among children and young people than the rest of the population in India.
Children and youth ventured out of their homes & interacted more publicly in recent months after the pandemic protocols were relaxed compared to 2020.
Liste→ This photo shows former East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao visiting a cyclone-struck area in his country
A photo has been shared in multiple posts on Facebook along with a claim that it shows former East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao carrying an aid box in a cyclone-struck area in neighbouring Indonesia. The claim is false: the photo actually shows Xa
TruthOrFiction→ Are Birth Control Pills 1000 Times More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Than The J&J Vaccine?
An April 13 2021 Facebook screenshot of a tweet was part of disordered discourse surrounding a “pause” by the Biden administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for COVID-19. As conspiracy theories about and disinformation about the eff
Snopes→ Did Pelosi Say Nobody Was More Deserving of Consequences Than Matt Gaetz?
The GOP congressman is the subject of a Justice Department investigation related to sex trafficking.
The Dispatch Fact Check→ Is the South African COVID Variant More Resistant to the Pfizer Vaccine?
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The Dispatch Fact Check→ Is the South African COVID Variant More Resistant to the Pfizer Vaccine?
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Full Fact - All content→ The weekend Covid-19 death figures need more context
Several major UK media outlets have reported that seven UK Covid-19 deaths had been announced as of Sunday, 11 April 2021. This figure was featured by the Daily Mail newspaper on Monday, 12 April, alongside “calls to lift all curbs&rd
Snopes→ Biden Tightens Some Gun Controls, Says Much More Needed
President Joe Biden announced a half-dozen executive actions aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment."
Liste→ To date, no tree has been verified to be 6,000 or more years old
An image of a large baobab has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook alongside claims that the tree is 6,000 years old and located in Tanzania. But experts say that to date, no tree in the world has been discovered to date that is this old. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Unpasteurized Brie Cheese Is NOT More Regulated Than A Six-Barrel Machine Gun In United States
Is Brie cheese made with unpasteurized milk illegal in the U.S., while a machine gun with six rotating barrels is legal? No, that's an exaggeration that leaves out important context and relies on semantics. Both Brie and machine guns are
Snopes→ Facebook Data on More Than 500M Accounts Found Online
The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites.
Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t hamper the function of the immune system and are likely to limit the generation of variants; no evidence that they produce more lethal variants
REVIEW On 13 March 2021, Vernon Coleman posted a video on the platform BrandNewTube, in which he claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines are “dangerous” and caused numerous health problems like strokes. Within two weeks, the video reached 240,000 views
The Dispatch→ After Failing on the Pandemic, the WHO Seeks More Power
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The Dispatch→ The Suez Canal Debacle Reveals Less—and More—About ‘Globalization’ Than You Think
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Snopes→ Firearm Suicides Are Much More Common Than Mass Shootings
Every year, homicides – one person killing another – make up about 35% of gun deaths. More than 60% of gun deaths are suicides.
Top Fact Checks→ While there were 58 motions between 1917 and 1971 to break filibusters, it was five times more in 2020 alone.
There were 58 motions for cloture between 1917 and 1970. In 2020, there were only 118, which is about twice as 58, and not five times more.
Top Fact Checks→ The Netherlands has closed more than 23 of its prisons since 2004.
The Dutch government has closed more than 23 prisons as the number of prisoners halved in a decade.
Top Fact Checks→ Under the Pradhan Mantra Awas Yojana, more than 24 lakh families received pucca (permanent) houses in West Bengal
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana's progress report revealed the completion of less than three lakh houses in West Bengal until March 2021.
Liste→ US border authorities apprehended many more than 9,000 people in 2020
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim only 9,000 migrants illegally passed through the United States border in 2020 during the administration of former Donald Trump, while more than 100,000 have entered the country unlawfully under President
Full Fact - All content→ Germany has spent far more than £48m on test and trace
A Facebook post shared thousands of times claims the cost of the UK’s Test and Trace system was £32 billion, compared with £48 million for the system in Germany. This despite Germany having a larger population and about half as many C