Did aluminum exposure in honeybees grow by 800 percent in the year 2022? No, that's not true: This claim, presented without sourcing, seems to pull this fact from thin air. Lead Stories could not find any evidence reporting statistical ch
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Stephen King’s Book Sales Have NOT Dropped 70 Percent Since He ‘Went Woke’ — This Is Satire Story
Have Stephen King's book sales dropped 70 percent since he "went woke"? No, that's not true: The claim appeared in an article on a satirical website known for publishing fabricated content. The claim originated in an article published by
Logically→ Carbon dioxide is a major cause of climate change, although it makes up just 0.04 percent of the atmosphere
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Does the U.S. Spend 4 Percent of Economic Output Defending NATO Countries?
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s claim about defense spending doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Logically→ Lancet study did not show 74 percent of deaths were caused by COVID-19 vaccinations
Logically→ 64 percent of newly-appointed doctors in Assam are Muslims.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Claim About Biden Having Spent 40 Percent Of His Presidency ‘On Vacation’ Is Missing Context
Is the claim that President Joe Biden has spent 40 percent of his presidency "on vacation" a straightforward statement? No, that's not true: It's missing context. The count includes days the president makes public appearances and days he
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘After No Fault Divorce Was Legalized in 1970, Female Suicide Rates Dropped 20 Percent’
On March 8 2023 — International Women’s Day — an Imgur account circulated with a screenshot of a tweet by attorney Qasim Rashid, claiming that “female suicide rates” fell 20 percent in the years after no-fault divorce wa
Logically→ Dr. Devi Shetty has written an open letter calling to end the 5 percent health service tax imposed by Modi Government.
Logically→ Fifty-eight percent of pregnant women suffered a miscarriage in the Pfizer vaccine trials.
Logically→ Adani Group is being targeted since there are no calls for a Joint Parliamentary Committee into Wipro despite its share price falling by 45 percent.
Adani Group's share price fell abruptly due to fraud allegations, which prompted demands for a JPC investigation. Wipro's share price fell gradually.
Logically→ Africa is only six percent vaccinated, and COVID-19 has practically disappeared from the continent.
A screenshot of an old article is being shared to make false claims. Fresh cases continue to emerge in Africa where vaccinations rate is nearly 30%.
Logically→ Number of FIFA footballers who ‘died suddenly’ in 2021 was 300 percent higher than the previous 12-year average.
No professional football player died in 2021 because of side effects of COVID-19 vaccines. The Exposé has misinterpreted data to suggest the same.
Logically→ Only 0.1 percent of Children in Finnish schools have severe attention problems because of how their school days are structured.
Around 4 - 8 percent of Finnish children have ADHD. Finland's unique school structure may alleviate ADHD symptoms, but not cure them.
Logically→ COP27, the upcoming climate summit in Egypt, will focus on reducing world farmland by 50 percent.
The COP27 summit aims to reduce emissions and plan for climate change. Claims about reducing farmland are part of broader conspiracy theories.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NZ Funeral Director’s ’95 Percent’ Statistic Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Is Causing Mass Death
Does a New Zealand funeral director's statement that 95 percent of the corpses he sees had been vaccinated against COVID-19 prove that vaccines are causing mass death? No, that's not true. This claim was drawn from anecdotal observations
Logically→ Boston University researchers have created a more lethal COVID-19 strain with an 80 percent kill rate.
Many reports miss important context around the findings and purpose of the research which was conducted to study role of the strain's spike protein.
Logically→ Fifty-nine percent of flights in China have been canceled due to a coup against President Xi Jinping.
There is no evidence that the canceled flights are related to a rumored coup, and reports of mass cancellations are unsubstantiated.
Logically→ Indian journalist Ravish Kumar resigned from NDTV after Adani Group acquired 29.18 percent stake in the news channel.
Journalist Ravish Kumar clarified rumors around his resignation are baseless.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in a COVID Vaccine Trial Miscarry?
(Md Rafayat Haque Khan / Eyepix G/Future Publishing via Getty Images)An article from the Florida Standard falsely claims that 44 percent of pregnant women who took part in Pfizer’s COVID vaccine trial miscarried. The claim, the article notes, com
Logically→ Energy bills in the U.K. have risen by 215 percent since 2021.
Although U.K. households are facing a rise in energy bills, the change in percentage from 2021 has been exaggerated and misinterpreted.
Logically→ Pregnant woman at an 85 percent risk of having a miscarriage after receiving COVID-19 vaccine.
Netizens spreading this claim have wrongly considered a very selective sample size from a study to draw the conclusion.
Logically→ A confidential Pfizer document reveals that 82-97 percent of pregnant women who received the company’s COVID-19 vaccine “lost their babies.”
Faulty calculations were used to compute the percentage 82-97 to imply that expectant mothers lost their babies after receiving the Pfizer shot.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NOT True That ‘Radiation And Chemotherapy Actually Causes Cancer,’ Except In Tiny Percentage of Cases
Is it true that chemotherapy and radiation "actually causes cancer"? No, that's not true: Both treatments are rigorously studied, evidence-based effective therapies against this disease: They cure cancer, not cause it. Some people do deve
Logically→ The 1994 population conference in Cairo mandated a reduction in the world population by 95 percent as part of a plan to bring in a New World Order.
The Cairo conference was aimed at setting demographic targets for humans' well-being. It is unrelated to any of the depopulation conspiracy theories.
Logically→ The 1994 population conference in Cairo mandated a reduction in the world population by 95 percent as part of a plan to bring in a New World Order.
The Cairo conference was aimed at setting demographic targets for humans' well-being. It is unrelated to any of the depopulation conspiracy theories.
Snopes→ Did Biden Say July 2022 Inflation Was ‘Zero Percent’?
It’s a statement that is both technically true and somewhat misleading.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ronald Reagan Lower the Top Tax Rate from 70 to 28 Percent and Introduce Income Tax on Social Security Benefits to Offset It?
On July 21 2022, a Twitter user shared a meme claiming that former United States President Ronald Reagan lowered the top tax rate from 70 percent — and then introduced a tax on Social Security benefits to offset the cut: Friendly reminder… p
Logically→ Seventy percent of the staff deployed at Lulu Mall in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, is from the Muslim community.
The Lulu Mall management has clarified that 80 percent of their staff members are Hindus and 20 percent are from other communities.
Logically→ Udaipur’s Muslim population has grown from 3.5 percent in 2011 to 15.67 percent in 2021.
Logically→ Ninety-nine percent of cancers are caused by parabens found in cosmetics.
FactCheck.org→ Ad Misleads on Percentage Increase in Fentanyl Seizures Under Biden
The overall increase in fentanyl seized at the southwest border under President Joe Biden is nowhere near as high as a Republican ad misleadingly claims. U.S. border officials seized 13,021 pounds of the drug in Biden’s first full 15 months in office
Logically→ At the World Economic Forum 2022, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla revealed that one of his goals for 2023 was to reduce the global population by 50 percent.
The video has been edited to misrepresent Bourla's comments. He was actually speaking about providing affordable medicines to low-income countries.
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccines prevent infection in just 12 percent of those vaccinated.
Most COVID-19 vaccines are found to provide protection against the transmission of COVID-19 in around 50 percent of recipients.
Logically→ A 2013 study found that coconut oil kills 93 percent of colon cancer cells.
A study on colon cancer by Adelaide University used lauric acid. This was incorrectly stated to be coconut oil, which contains lauric acid.
Logically→ Fifty-two percent of Americans support overturning Roe v Wade.
According to Gallup, 52 percent of those who are anti-abortion-rights support overturning Roe v. Wade, not the US population overall.
Logically→ Fifty-two percent of Americans support overturning Roe v Wade.
According to Gallup, 52 percent of those who are anti-abortion-rights support overturning Roe v. Wade, not the US population overall.
Logically→ The Guttmacher Institute admits that almost 99 percent of abortions are just birth control.
A 2015 report notes that 92 percent of abortions were "elective." This is not the same as birth control, which prevents pregnancies.
Truth or Fiction?→ What Percent of Americans Believe Abortion Should Be Illegal?
On May 4 2022, a Reddit user shared a chart to r/dataisbeautiful amid ongoing, extremely fraught discourse about a leaked Supreme Court decision that aims to overturn Roe v. Wade: [OC] The Percent of Americans Who Believe Abortion Should Be
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Is Elon Musk’s Tax Rate Only 3 Percent?
(Photograph by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.)Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed in a recent tweet that billionaire Elon Musk paid an effective tax rate of only 3.27 percent from 2014 to 2018.Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapalJust a reminder that from