A post spread widely on social media claims that eating honey alone can sustain human life. This would actually lead to serious life-threatening nutrient deficiencies.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Have NOT ‘Killed 20 Million People’
Have COVID-19 vaccines "killed 20 million people" since their rollout? No, that's not true: The article making this claim cited a 2022 study that estimated COVID vaccines had saved -- not killed -- nearly 20 million lives in the first yea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEMA Does NOT Have Prison Camp Just Outside Fairbanks, Alaska, That Can Hold Up To 2 Million People
Does FEMA have a prison camp just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, that can hold up to 2 million people at a time? No, that's not true: "That is absolutely false," an official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Lead Stories. The ag
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – FEMA’s emergency alert test won’t activate graphene oxide in people
An emergency broadcast system test will “send a specific high-frequency signal … with the intention of activating graphene oxide” in people.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NYPD Officers Did NOT Arrest Two Young People For Sleeping Near Times Square — They Were Charged With Theft
Did "undercover NYPD" officers "arrest two young people for sleeping on the concrete blocks a short distance from Times Square"? No, that's not true: the persons in question were not trying to sleep in a noisy, well-lit area on top of con
Logically→ Election Commission won’t fine people ₹350 for not voting in the 2024 general elections
Health Feedback→ CDC data didn’t show an increased risk of hospitalization in people vaccinated against COVID-19, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
REVIEW Casting doubt on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines has been a recurring theme of misinformation since the vaccination rollout in December 2020. Health Feedback has covered this subject in several previous reviews, explaining why claims t
Health Feedback→ Yale University researchers reported a technology to deliver mRNA vaccines in the nose, not a way to remotely vaccinate people
REVIEW Researchers from Yale University, Suberi et al., published a study in August 2023 on a new technology for mRNA vaccine delivery[1]. In early September 2023, a video from the Epoch Times claimed that this technology could be used to “dissemi
Logically→ Old video shared as people praying as quake struck Morocco
PolitiFact→ Viral image – More than 60 people missing after Maui fires, not 1,000 children
“Over 1,000 missing children in Maui.”
FactCheck.org→ Video Falsely Claims 850 People Died of Myocarditis in Mexico
SciCheck Digest Cases of myocarditis have been reported following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, but they are rare and usually mild. Yet, a viral video distorts news reports to falsely claim 850 people died in Monterrey, Mexico, in June due to myocardi
Full Fact→ How many people died while on waiting lists?
Apparently contradictory research from Labour and the Times suggests that either 121,000 or 340,000 people died while waiting for treatment in England last year.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 5G Is NOT Causing Vaccinated People’s Heads To Explode — Video Shows Iraqi Protesters Shot With Tear Gas Grenade
Are the heads of vaccinated people exploding and combusting when the 5G signal in Israel is turned up? No, that's not true: These video clips are real, but the headline is baseless as the video clips have nothing to do with Israel, COVID-
Full Fact→ Most people under 55 don’t have undiagnosed high blood pressure
A poll by Blood Pressure UK suggests that most 30-50s don’t know their blood pressure—but other evidence suggests that it won’t be high in most cases.
Logically→ Recent U.K. airport technical failure was not a deliberate attempt to stop people from traveling
Logically→ No, vaccinated people are not more vulnerable to BA.2.86 coronavirus variant
The Dispatch→ Leopards Eating People’s Faces
Turns out populists have faces too.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 78,000 People Are NOT Under The Water In Great Britain — Old Video Clips Are Misrepresented
Are 78,000 people "under the water" right now in Great Britain? No, that's not true: This video is a compilation of flood and storm video clips from years past, and in some cases from other places such as Canada and South Africa. These ar
Logically→ No, Bill Gates did not say people who resist ‘mRNA tsunami’ will be excluded from society
PolitiFact→ Viral image – CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are likelier to get the new COVID-19 variant than unvaccinated
“CDC says new COVID variant is more contagious among vaccinated people than those unvaccinated.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Video doesn’t show ‘Great Britain now’ with people underwater. Clips are misrepresented
Video shows the state of “Great Britain now,” with “78,000 people under the water.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The CDC didn’t say vaccinated people are more at risk of a new COVID variant than the unvaccinated
CLAIM: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that a new COVID-19 variant is more contagious among vaccinated people than those who are unvaccinated.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Say People Resisting ‘mRNA Tsunami’ Will Be ‘Excluded From Society’ — Misattributed And Distorted Quote
Did Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggest on the social media platform X that people who resist a coming "mRNA tsunami" will be punished by exclusion from society? No, that's not true: There's no record the billionaire ever wrote it on
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show People Chanting ‘Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden’ in Maui — It Was Digitally Altered
Did the "entire population" of Hawaii chant "Fk (Fuck) Joe Biden" during the president's visit to Maui on August 21, 2023? No, that's not true: A short clip on social media did not show any supposed protesters, and footage of the same eve
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Fauci didn’t say that unvaccinated people must be locked down this winter
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Dr. Anthony Fauci did not say unvaccinated people should be ‘locked down’ this winter
“Fauci declares that all unvaccinated citizens must be locked down this winter.”
Washington Post→ Vivek Ramaswamy says ‘hoax’ agenda kills more people than climate change
We puzzled till our puzzler was sore — this claim makes no sense.
Logically→ Old protest video shared as Baloch people ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s Independence Day
Full Fact→ ONS data shows lower death rates in people vaccinated against Covid-19
A video from the US is circulating on social media again, claiming that mortality data in the UK shows Covid-19 vaccines to cause a large increase in deaths. This is not what the data shows.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – It’s not a cover-up: Maui arrests made after people allegedly trespassed in disaster area
Maui, Hawaii, police chief arrests “witnesses” in part of wildfire cover-up.
Health Feedback→ England mortality data shows a lower COVID-19 mortality risk among vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated ones, contrary to claim by Slay News
REVIEW Large clinical trials and post-marketing real-world data showed that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe forms of the disease[1-5]. Despite this evidence, there have been misleading claims that the higher number of COVID-19 d
Full Fact→ Around 60% of people in poverty live in households where at least one adult is in work
Dame Angela Eagle claimed 60% of people in poverty are in work. This isn't quite right. The percentage of working age adults who are in relative poverty and who are also in work is substantially lower
Logically→ No, Obama didn’t say he wants ordinary people to ‘surrender to powerful sovereign’
Full Fact→ People in the UK illegally cannot apply for council housing
A Facebook post has suggested that council houses are readily available for people who are in the UK illegally, but this is not true. People in the UK illegally can't apply for council housing.
Full Fact→ Pope did not say disabled people should be ‘euthanized’ to fight climate change
The leader of the Catholic church has repeatedly condemned euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Logically→ 2022 video shared as people welcoming Burkina Faso’s leader after 2023 Russia-Africa summit
Full Fact→ How many people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats?
Oliver Dowden’s claim that there had been a 40% increase in interceptions in the Channel refers to the number of people prevented from crossing in small boats in 2022, compared to 2021.
The Dispatch→ Soylent Green Is Wrong, People
The 50-year-old dystopian flick was hardly prescient.
Logically→ Pope Francis has not called for euthanizing people with disabilities and alcoholics to combat climate change
Logically→ Pope Francis has not called for euthanizing people with disabilities and alcoholics to combat climate change