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PolitiFact→ Chris Coons – How strong is consumer confidence under Joe Biden?
“Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”
Health Feedback→ Herpes is a sexually transmitted infection; no strong evidence that herbs cure herpes
REVIEW A claim that herpes isn’t a sexually transmitted disease (STD, also referred to as sexually transmitted infections or STIs for short) and that a commercially available herbal product could cure it circulated on social media in April 2022. T
PolitiFact→ Stanley Litow – Strong support for notion that a bachelor’s degree means $1 million more in lifetime income
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
PolitiFact→ Immunity from COVID-19 infection is strong and lasting, but carries risks, research finds
A new study found that infection-induced immunity for COVID-19 provides strong, lasting protection from severe disease that is on par with vaccine-induced protection. But experts caution that vaccination remains the safest route to immunity.
Logically→ Video shows man exposing astronaut Neil Armstrong for the ‘fake’ moon landing.
Neil Armstrong's refusal to swear on the Bible is not evidence that the moon landing was faked.
The Dispatch→ A Weak Speaker Is a Good Step Toward a Stronger Congress
Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds the gavel after ending the 117th Congress. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.)The chamber has operated on a top-down approach for too long.The post A Weak Speaker Is a Good Step Toward a Stronger Congress appeared first
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Soursop Fruit Has NOT Been Proven To Be 10,000 Times Stronger Than Chemotherapy And Is NOT In Use As Cancer Treatment
Is soursop fruit 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy? No, that's not true: Soursop has not been proven in any clinical trials to be stronger than chemotherapy to any degree. According to a cancer professor at Harvard, this is "not a p
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Strong winds blew paratroopers off course in Honduras, not Uganda
Video shows paratroopers crashing in Uganda.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Maps Do NOT Show Strong Connection Between Fluoride In Drinking Water And Alzheimer’s, Dementia
Do maps of the world show a strong connection between where fluoride is added to drinking water and dementia? No, that's not true: While there is some correlation between countries that fluoridate their drinking water and countries that h
Snopes→ Did Darwin Say It Is ‘Not the Strongest of Species That Survives’ but the ‘Most Adaptable’?
The English naturalist has often been the subject of misattributions.
Snopes→ Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico´s Pacific Coast; 1 Killed
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes.
Snopes→ Congress Eyes Strongest Response Yet to Jan. 6 Attack
Lawmakers in both parties have said they want to change the arcane law before it is challenged again.
Washington Post→ Biden’s flimsy claim he has the ‘strongest’ manufacturing jobs record
The president inherited an economy on the upswing — and he's using a strange metric to make his case.
Snopes→ Biden Sounds Newly Strong Alarm: Trumpism Menaces Democracy
President Joe Biden summoned Americans of all stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy.
Logically→ Collective radiation from cell phones strong enough to make popcorn
The video of cell phone radiation popping popcorn was part of a marketing campaign by Cardo company. These radiations are not hazardous to humans.
PolitiFact→ How strong are HIPAA protections in a post-Roe world?
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, some are wondering whether governments in states that are newly outlawing abortion could use medical records to surveil for possible abortions. Experts say the idea is by no means far-fetched.
PolitiFact→ Doctors ‘strongly discourage’ using herbs to induce a miscarriage
There’s little scientific evidence to back claims that various herbs can be used to safely end pregnancies. Many of the herbs mentioned in an online post can imperil the health of the person using them if taken in large amounts.
Snopes→ Did Louis Armstrong Perform for his Wife at Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt?
Armstrong performed across Africa, including a tour in Egypt, where he went to the Sphinx and pyramids.
Logically→ President of France Emmanuel Macron intends to introduce stronger vaccine policies if re-elected.
The available evidence suggests that President Macron's government is in the process of removing restrictions, rather than tightening them.
AllSides→ Vulnerable Democrat Tom Malinowski Says the Economy is ‘Incredibly Strong,’ ‘Booming’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/25/fact-check-vulnerable-democrat-tom-malinowski-says-the-economy-is-incredibly-strong-booming/
Snopes→ WHO ‘Strongly Recommends’ 2 New Drugs to Treat Severe COVID-19
One of the drug types is commonly used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
PolitiFact→ The facts of a fair US election have only gotten stronger since Capitol attack
Biden denounced Trump’s persistent election lie in a speech from the Capitol on Jan. 6. In the year since, the facts about the fair election have only gotten stronger.
Health Feedback→ The COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against hospitalization and death; number of vaccinated people in hospital does not indicate evidence against this
REVIEW Almost 80% of people aged 12 and over in the U.K. have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The level of protection provided by the vaccines means that the number of COVID-19 deaths is about 10% of the level seen in the previous wave (120 de
Snopes→ Strong Quake Hits Greek Island of Crete; 1 Dead, 20 Injured
Repeated aftershocks — described by witnesses as feeling like small explosions — rattled the area, adding to damage in villages near the epicenter.
Snopes→ Nicholas Gets Stronger, Threatens to Hit Texas As Hurricane
Tropical Storm Nicholas gathered strength and threatened to blow ashore in Texas as a hurricane that could bring up to 20 inches of rain to parts of the Gulf Coast, including the same area hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and storm-battered Louisiana.
Logically→ Natural COVID immunity is stronger than protection induced through vaccines.
A COVID-19 infection can severely harm a person. It is not clear that "natural" immunity is stronger than the protection induced through vaccines.
Logically→ The U.S. trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.
There is no consensus on the size of the Afghan military force.
Logically→ The U.S. trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.
There is no consensus on the size of the Afghan military force.On 16 August, President Joe Biden made a speech in the light of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the chaos that Afghanistan has plunged into since. He said, "We spent ov
Snopes→ Did a Jewish Family Inspire Louis Armstrong’s Nickname, ‘Satchmo’?
"I shall always love them," Armstrong once wrote of the Karnofskys of New Orleans.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Public Health Experts Do NOT Say Natural Immunity To COVID Is Stronger Than Vaccine-Based Immunity
Does medical research show natural immunity to COVID-19 is stronger than that gained from vaccines, and that those vaccines are ineffective against emerging variants of the virus? No, that's not true: The person making these claims, altho
Snopes→ Did Michael Collins Joke That Neil Armstrong Should ‘Scream and Cut Your Mic’ During Moon Landing?
Evidence is lacking for the authenticity of a zinger included in a 1998 TV series about the Apollo 11 mission.
Truth or Fiction?→ Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Still Going Strong on Social Media: Report
Just twelve accounts are responsible for fully two-thirds of online disinformation about vaccines — but social media platforms still aren’t doing much about them. In a follow-up to a report tracking a majority of disinformation about vaccin
Poynter→ The coalition for factual information and informed public discourse is stronger than ever
In 2016, during the third Global Fact conference in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the world’s fact-checkers decided to name April 2 as the International Fact-Checking Day to raise awareness of the importance of fact-checking, therefore providing th
The Dispatch→ The Walls Are Strong, but the Cannon Fire Is Real
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Snopes→ AstraZeneca Confirms Strong Vaccine Protection After US Rift
Even before the latest spat, experts had expressed concern that missteps in the vaccine's rollout could undermine confidence in the shot, which is crucial to global efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic since it is cheap, easy to store and a pillar o
AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows a Ukrainian strongman carrying a horse to demonstrate his strength
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a photo they claim shows a man carrying a horse on his shoulder for three kilometers to hospital after the animal was bitten by a snake. The claim is false: the photo actually shows Ukrainian strongman Dmytro Vasili
AFP Fact Check→ False ‘boot print’ comparison shared in Facebook posts about Neil Armstrong’s Moon landing
An image has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts that purports to show a comparison between the boot tread of a spacesuit worn by US astronaut Neil Armstrong for his 1969 mission to the Moon and a boot print he apparently left on
Snopes→ Did Texas Mayor Say ‘Only the Strong Will Survive’ Amid Winter Storm?
We should say former Texas mayor, since he resigned.
Logically→ Nancy Pelosi said that she thinks it’s important to have a strong Republican party.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the comment during a press conference.