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Liste→ Indian social media posts, media reports falsely claim WHO approved herbal medicine as Covid-19 treatment

2021-02-26 Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared hundreds of times claim the World Health Organization (WHO) approved Coronil, an Indian herbal medication, as a Covid-19 treatment. The claim was also shared in multiple Indian news reports. The claim is fals Go to site post…»

Liste→ These photos have circulated in reports about an earthquake in Turkey in 2020, not Afghanistan

2021-02-24 Two photos have been shared in multiple Facebook and Instagram posts that claim they show destruction in Afghanistan following an earthquake in February 2021. The claim is false: both photos were taken from Associated Press reports about an earthqua Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about the aftermath of flooding near Jakarta in 2020

2021-02-23 A video has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows the aftermath of floods that hit a residential area on the outskirts of Jakarta in February 2021. The claim is misleading; the scenes in the footage match with video Go to site post…»

Snopes→ How Safe Is Your Baby Food? Company Reports Show Arsenic, Lead and Other Heavy Metals

2021-02-22 Heavy metals including lead, arsenic and mercury can be found in commercial baby foods at levels well above what the federal government considers safe for children, a new congressional report warns. Go to site post…»

Liste→ The photo has circulated online since 2013 in reports about members of the RSS helping flood victims in Uttarakhand

2021-02-19 Multiple Facebook posts share a photograph they claim shows members of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh group carrying food and medicine to the survivors of a deadly flash flood in a remote Indian Himalayan valley on February 7, 2021. Go to site post…»

Liste→ Miscarriage reports are not proof of Covid-19 vaccine danger to pregnancy

2021-02-18 Social media posts warn of miscarriages following Covid-19 shots, citing data from a US government reporting system. But a causal link between the two has not been established: the reports are not proof that a vaccine caused a problem, and the US Cente Go to site post…»

Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ Misleading to compare the safety of COVID-19 and flu vaccines based solely on VAERS reports; VAERS reports alone cannot demonstrate that a vaccine caused an adverse event

2021-02-17 REVIEW With the worldwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, claims that the vaccines caused severe adverse events or deaths spread on social media. A meme published on 15 February 2021 claimed that a person is 300 to 900 times “more likely to die” a Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Of Informal COVID-19 Vaccine Reaction Reports is NOT Evidence Deaths Were Caused By Vaccines

2021-02-16 Does this list of reports from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) prove COVID-19 vaccines are causing sudden deaths in a surprising number of young and middle-aged people? No, that's not true: The individual cases Go to site post…»

Liste→ False video reports of Shanghai earthquake use old images of past disasters

2021-02-10 Videos viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter purport to show the aftermath of a major earthquake in the Chinese city of Shanghai on January 31, 2021. The claim is false: the images in the clips show var Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video reports on a fatal shooting in China’s Hunan province in 2010

2021-02-09 A video news report about a fatal shooting of three judges has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim that the shooting occured in China in December 2020. The claim is misleading; the video news report in fact Go to site post…»

Liste→ The image has circulated since 2019 in reports about a woman arrested for murder in Argentina

2021-02-03 A photo has been shared in multiple news articles and social media posts in January 2021 alongside a claim it shows a woman who was arrested in Mexico after stabbing her husband. The claim is false: the image has circulated online since 2019 in repo Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports since 2018 about a nurse trying to give a Chinese man an injection

2021-02-02 A video of a man crying in fear while a nurse attempts to give him an injection has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook, Twitter and YouTube posts alongside a claim that it shows Thailand's health minister receiving the Covid Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Are NO Corroborating Reports Of Indiana Woman’s Claim That Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Caused Her Convulsions

2021-01-28 Does the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine cause full-body convulsions? No, there is no evidence proving that convulsions are a potential side effect of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a spokesperson from the U.S. Food and Drug Administ Go to site post…»

Liste→ Hoax news reports claim Pakistani government hired former army general to head medical regulatory body

2021-01-26 Multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter claim that the Pakistani government has appointed a retired army general as the head of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), a regulatory agency that oversees the county’s entire medical profession. The claim, Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: National Guard Troops Do NOT Need Hotel Rooms Despite Reports President Trump Has Given Permission For National Guard Troops To Stay In His Hotel In DC

2021-01-22 Do National Guard troops need the hotel rooms President Trump reportedly offered them in DC? No, that's a claim that's missing context and an assertion without evidence: Photos of troops reportedly forced into the garage of the Capitol Bu Go to site post…»

The Dispatch Fact Check→ Do Reports That Militia Members Planned to Storm the Capitol ‘Undermine’ the Case for Impeachment?

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Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ VAERS reports alone don’t demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccines caused adverse events; evidence does not indicate vaccines caused Bell’s palsy and deaths

2021-01-19 REVIEW An article published in mid-January 2021 by Children’s Health Defense, an organization which opposes vaccines, claimed that thousands of adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine, including deaths, were reported in December 2020. The o Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated online in reports about pro-Punjabi language demonstrations since 2019

2021-01-14 A video of a Sikh man blackening Hindi text on a sign has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter in January 2021 alongside a claim it shows the Indian farmers’ protests, which began in November 2020. The post Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports since 2016 in reports about a woman assaulted in China

2021-01-14 A video has been viewed more than one million times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows CCTV footage of a violent attack on a flight attendant in the Philippines on December 31, 2020, shortly before she died. The claim is false; the video has circu Go to site post…»

Liste→ These photos have circulated since 2017 in reports about pro-Punjabi language demonstrations

2021-01-13 A collage of photos showing men blackening Hindi and English text on traffic signs has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter in January 2021 alongside a claim it shows Sikh farmers protesting against the Hindi langua Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about turbulence on an Etihad Airways flight in 2016

2021-01-13 A video filmed inside a passenger plane has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook, YouTube and Tencent Video alongside a claim it shows the moments before an Indonesian aircraft carrying 62 people crashed into the sea on Januar Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video circulated online in reports about an Ethiopian Airlines crash in 1996

2021-01-12 A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows footage of the Sriwijaya Air flight that crashed into the sea on January 9, 2021. The claim is false: the clip has circulated in reports about an Ethiopian Go to site post…»

Full Fact - All content→ There are excess deaths in England and these PHE reports don’t prove otherwise

2021-01-11 “The two most recent Public Health England All-Cause Mortality Surveillance reports (31 December and 7 January) show no statistically significant excess all-cause mortality.” The Critic, 11 January 2021. “We do NOT have EXCESS DEATH Go to site post…»

Claim-Reviews – Health Feedback→ The CDC reports more than 2.9 million deaths in the U.S. in 2020; at least 377,000 more deaths in 2020 compared to previous years

2021-01-07 REVIEW A screenshot of a tweet made by rapper and activist Maj Toure on 31 December 2020 (see the original tweet archived here), claiming that there were fewer deaths in America in 2020 compared to 2019, was published in numerous Facebook posts and Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Reports of Mike Pence Arrest NOT Confirmed — Contradicted By Tweets

2021-01-06 Was Vice President Mike Pence arrested during the chaos engulfing Capitol Hill on January 6, 2020? No, despite what social media posts are saying there is no evidence for this. Pence is still tweeting from his @VP account. An example of t Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video circulated online in 2019 in reports about Indian celebrities celebrating a Hindu festival

2020-12-29 Footage of celebrities and politicians attending an event at the home of an Indian billionaire has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts in December 2020 alongside a claim that the gathering breached social dista Go to site post…»

Liste→ This photo has circulated since 2015 in reports about Narendra Modi greeting an Indian philanthropist

2020-12-28 A photo of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowing to a woman has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that she is Priti Adani, wife of Indian industrialist Gautam Adani. The claim is false; the ph Go to site post…»

Liste→ This photo has circulated online since 2019 in reports about gun violence — it does not relate to the coronavirus pandemic

2020-12-24 An image has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it shows a television report about violence breaking out at a US hospital after patients were vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. The claim is false; th Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated online since 2015 in reports about a protest in Indian-administered Kashmir

2020-12-23 A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim it shows Sikhs chanting in support of Pakistan at a protest in India. The posts were shared as farmers in India demonstrated against new a Go to site post…»

Liste→ This photo has circulated online since 2013 in reports about a protest in London, not India

2020-12-21 A photo of a man trampling on the Indian flag has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim it shows Sikh farmers desecrating the flag during protests in India over new agriculture laws. The claim, however, is false; Go to site post…»

Liste→ This photo has circulated online since 2019 in reports about heavy rain during monsoon season in Pakistan

2020-12-16 A photo of flooding at a national monument in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter days ahead of a planned political opposition rally in the venue in December 2020. The photo w Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated online in reports since 2016 about Hillary Clinton appearing to faint

2020-12-03 A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows Gina Haspel, the current director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), being arrested. The claim is false: the footage is actuall Go to site post…»

Liste→ This photo has circulated in reports about Leni Robredo visiting a landslide site in 2018

2020-12-02 A photo that shows Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo standing among a crowd of people has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows her staging a PR stunt in the aftermath of Typhoon Vamco in November 2020. The Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in news reports about an incident in Brazil

2020-11-27 A clip of a fatal shooting has been viewed hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it happened in the US city of San Gabriel. The claim is false; this video has circulated in media reports about a fatal shooting in Brazil in Go to site post…»

Liste→ These photos circulated in 2019 in reports about destruction caused by Storm Wipha in Vietnam

2020-11-27 Two photos of women weeping amid flood-ravaged homes have been shared in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim that it shows the aftermath of Typhoon Vamco, which slammed the Philippines in November 2020. The photos, however, have been shared in Go to site post…»

Liste→ This image has circulated in reports since 2018 about Sri Lanka’s former prime minister opening a restored Buddhist temple

2020-11-27 A photo showing former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe pouring water into a pond has been shared multiple times in Facebook posts that claim it shows him performing a ritual for re-election in 2020. The posts circulated online after Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about Indonesian residents rejecting an Islamist group in 2017

2020-11-27 A video has been viewed millions of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok, alongside a claim that it shows an Islamist group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), being expelled from the Indonesian city of Semarang. The video w Go to site post…»

Liste→ These photos have circulated in reports since 2019 about a Myanmar minister marking Prophet Mohammed’s birthday

2020-11-24 Two photos have been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts which claim it shows Myanmar’s Religious Affairs Minister attending a large gathering to mark the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday in Yangon, flouting social distancing Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports about supermarket workers disposing of spoiled dairy products in Saudi Arabia

2020-11-23 A video has been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim that it shows Kuwaitis throwing away French products after boycott calls triggered a standoff between France and some Muslim countries over Go to site post…»

Liste→ This video has circulated in reports since 2018 about a crowded railway station in West Bengal

2020-11-23 A video that shows a huge crowd on a railway station platform has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter that claim the scene was filmed in the Indian city of Kolkata in November 2020. The posts claim train passenge Go to site post…»

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