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PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Offering Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan migrants does not ‘grant voting rights’
“Joe Biden grants voting rights to 500,000 invaders.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, this project isn’t proof your money will be confiscated and replaced with a ‘digital dollar’
Under Project Hamilton, “every dollar you hold in your bank account, your wallet and even your retirement” will be confiscated and “replaced with a dangerous new totally digital dollar.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Ukraine support during a shutdown does not mean an end for essential services in the U.S.
U.S. aid to Ukraine will continue during a government shutdown, but programs for food stamps, transportation, education, justice, environmental protection and homelessness will not.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Casual Friday at the U.S. Capitol? Perhaps. But this isn’t Sen. Rand Paul in a bathrobe
Image shows Sen. Rand Paul in a bathrobe on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – El glaucoma y las cataratas no se pueden eliminar con un ‘remedio casero’
Una receta casera "restaura la visión en 7 días, el glaucoma y las cataratas quedan en el pasado".
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, California no separará a padres de hijos por debates de identidad de género
“El estado de California podría quitarte a tus hijos si no aceptas cambiarles el sexo".
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Tales of ‘unearthed and documented’ giant human skeletons don't have a leg to stand on
Giant human skeletons as large as 36 feet have been “unearthed and documented” in historical records.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Es falso que a partir de octubre se requerirá tapabocas para volar, dice portavoz de TSA
Supervisores del TSA de Estados Unidos tuvieron una junta y "para mediados de octubre van a decir que cualquiera persona que vaya a volar, va a tener que usar el tapabocas otra vez".
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Poland hasn’t declared war on Russia
"Poland declares war on Russia.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Video shows tiny homes for homeless residents, not FEMA concentration camps
Video shows a Federal Emergency Management Agency “concentration camp” in Hawaii.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Altered video puts words in the mouths of Elon Musk and a Canadian journalist
Video shows Elon Musk promising $45,000 in Canadian currency for participating Canadian citizens.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Social media post recasts celebrity deaths as part of conspiracy
Princess Diana, actor Heath Ledger and musician John Lennon were “killed for exposing the truth.”
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.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasn’t executed, but these zombie claims won’t die
Photo shows Hillary Clinton on a “lethal injection medical table.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Estudio de garrapatas financiado por Bill Gates no tiene que ver con reportes de alergia a la carne
“Bill Gates financió la investigación sobre garrapatas de ganado modificadas genéticamente" y ahora 450,000 estadounidenses "tienen alergias a la carne por el síndrome alfa-gal, causado por picaduras de garrapatas”.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Viral NYC arrest video connected to theft, not sleeping in public, police say
Video shows New York City police “arrest two young people for sleeping on concrete blocks.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wasn’t arrested
“Janet Yellen arrested for treason.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Video of Missouri lawmakers using flamethrowers ignites false book burning claims
Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.
FactCheck.org→ Posts Push Unproven ‘Spike Protein Detoxification’ Regimen
SciCheck Digest Serious side effects after COVID-19 vaccination are rare, and there isn’t evidence people need to undergo a “spike protein detoxification” regimen after getting vaccinated, contrary to claims made online. Nor
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Did you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Good news: You’re still a human
“People who took the jab are technically ‘non human species.’”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wasn’t arrested, despite online claims
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi was arrested.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Social media posts exaggerate real stories about plasma transfusions to suggest something sinister
“World leaders & elite businessmen are ingesting the blood of young children in order to achieve ‘eternal youth,’ a CBS report warns.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Social media posts misrepresent CDC data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in teens
CLAIM: Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that COVID-19 vaccines will not prevent any deaths among teenagers and lead to 100,000 to 200,000 severe side effects.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Story about Navy SEALs saving missing kids in Maui is fabricated
“Navy SEALs Save Missing Maui Children” who were padlocked in cages.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Don’t believe the social media circus. A clown attack didn’t happen in Paris
Video shows an April 2023 clown attack in Paris.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No proof the World Economic Forum called for ‘COVID-19 concentration camps’
The World Economic Forum is calling “for COVID concentration camps.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Don’t fall for social media posts promising free money from Walmart
“Walmart must pay $500 to customers who made purchases in the last 180 days.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Videos of LGBTQ+ arguments aren’t real. They’re from skits
Videos show confrontation over LGBTQ+ representation.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, this California bill doesn’t make it illegal for employees to confront shoplifters
“California Democrats have proposed Bill 553, which makes it ILLEGAL to confront or fight back against looters, burglars and shoplifters.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Walmart isn’t refunding $500 to anyone who shopped there last year, despite online claims
“Walmart must pay $500 to U.S. families who made purchases in 2022.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, former President Barack Obama didn’t reveal how his personal chef died
“Obama finally reveals how personal chef drowned in mysterious pond accident.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, there aren’t COVID-19 monitoring drones in Connecticut. Pilot program was scrapped in 2020
In Westport, Connecticut, drones are “scanning (people) for COVID-19 symptoms.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No proof of Oprah Winfrey hiring a private firefighting team before Maui wildfires
Oprah Winfrey “managed to hire a private firefighting team” to protect her Maui properties before the August wildfires occurred.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – This World Economic Forum video doesn’t prove any COVID-19 conspiracy. It employed an analogy.
A World Economic Forum video reveals conspiracy behind COVID-19 spread.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Old baseless rumors about Clinton snuff film persist on social media
“Hillary Clinton in trouble as her dark web video leaked.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Biden’s remarks about extreme weather events were taken out of context
President Joe Biden’s comments confirm that the government is going to “increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Este video del derrumbamiento de un edificio en Marruecos es del 2020
Estas son imágenes del “sismo de gran magnitud” en Marruecos.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Hawaii isn’t home to tons of lithium, despite baseless claims linking wildfires and lithium access
Hawaii wildfire was intentionally set because there’s “120 million tons of lithium in Maui.”
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Use of Floodgates at Southern Border
Quick Take To avoid damage from heavy rains, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have opened floodgates along Arizona’s border fencing during monsoon season since 2009. But social media users, including Sen. Ted Cruz, shared posts wi