On February 21 2021, a screenshot of a purported news article attributed to “Andrea Tonks” and reporting that disinformation purveyor Alex Jones had lost thousands of dollars to a Communist “findom” (financial dominatrix) appea
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Snopes→ Thousands of Service Members Saying No to COVID-19 Vaccine
By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors.
Snopes→ Thousands of Cold-Stunned Sea Turtles Being Rescued in Texas
Texas residents, some of whom lack heat or basic amenities in their own homes due to the unusually chilly weather, have been rescuing cold-stunned sea turtles and taking them to a convention center.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of Dead And Dying Children Were NOT Pulled From Tunnels Under Washington, D.C.
Did the United States National Guard recently conduct an operation in the nation's capital that resulted in the discovery of thousands of dead and dying children in tunnels under the city of Washington, D.C.? No, that's not true: This rec
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy, Have NOT Killed ‘Thousands’ and Vaccinators Are NOT Violating The Nuremberg Code If They Don’t Call It Human Experimentation
Are the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines gene therapy that alters recipients' immune systems, a potential Nuremberg Code violation for doctors and nurses to administer them without telling patients they are part of a drug tri
Snopes→ NY Data Show Nursing Home Deaths Undercounted by Thousands
A report by NY Attorney General Letitia James charged that the nursing home death count could be off by about 50%.
Snopes→ Can You Now Download Thousands of CIA Files on UFOs?
Freedom of Information Act requests opened up decades worth of materials on unexplained and unidentified phenomena.
Snopes→ Were Empty PS5 Boxes Sold on eBay for Thousands?
A truly out-of-the-box idea.
Snopes→ Thousands Party in Streets After Alabama Win, Despite Virus
Thousands of University of Alabama football fans partied in the street near campus after the Crimson Tide defeated Ohio State 52-24 for the national championship, ignoring pleas for safety at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in a celebration a to
Full Fact - All content→ Millions—not thousands—caught Covid last year
We’ve seen many claims on Facebook and on Instagram that just 13,844 people in England and Wales were infected with Covid-19 in 2020. Readers have also asked us to look into it. This claim is not true. It’s a misunderstanding of data
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tens Of Thousands Of Moms Did NOT Watch Their Child Regress Or Die Within 24-To-72 Hours Of Being Vaccinated
Did "tens of thousands of moms ... watch their child regress or die within 24-72 hours" of being vaccinated? No, that's not true: There is no confirmation that tens of thousands of moms watched their children regress or die within 24 to 7
Snopes→ Are Vintage Corningware Casserole Dishes Worth Thousands of Dollars?
We’re not Corningware appraisers, but we're also not holding our breath on this one.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands of Ballots Were NOT Found Floating In Lake Erie
Were thousands of ballots found floating in Lake Erie off the shore of Pennsylvania, a key battleground state? No, that's not true: This is a satirical claim that originated from a known satire website. The claim originated from an articl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ABC-TV’s Phoenix Affiliate Did NOT Report Thousands Of Fraudulent And ‘Non-Citizen’ Votes Found In Arizona Cut Joe Biden’s Lead
Did an Arizona television station report Joe Biden's lead shrank after thousands of votes were found to be fraudulent and that non-citizens were voting? No, that's not true: ABC15 repeated a data error from one county, posted by the Arizo
Snopes→ Did Sen. Cornyn Tweet About ‘Thousands of Uncounted Votes in Puerto Rico’?
Social media users ridiculed the Texas senator for tweeting about uncounted votes in Puerto Rico.
Snopes→ Thousands Rally Behind Trump, Believing He Won Race He Lost
Fervent supporters of President Donald Trump rallied in Washington behind his spurious claim of a stolen election.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sen. Loeffler Did NOT Post On Parler That Stacey Abrams Can’t Be Allowed To Register Hundreds Of Thousands Of Black Georgia Voters Again
Did Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia post on Parler that Stacey Abrams must not be allowed to again register hundreds of thousands of Black voters? No, that's not true: A screenshot showing the purported post was not from Loeffler's offi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lawsuit Does NOT Claim Out-Of-State Vehicles Brought Tens Of Thousands Of Unsealed Ballots To Michigan, All For Dems
Does a lawsuit claim that out-of-state vehicles delivered tens of thousands of unsealed ballots -- all for Democrats -- into Michigan? No, that's not true: A lawsuit alleging voter fraud in Detroit does include a poll watcher's allegation
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: What Appears To Be Detroit TV News Graphic Does NOT Show Evidence Of Thousands Of Dead Registered Voters In The 2020 Election; It’s From 2019
Does an apparent TV news graphic featuring a Detroit voter roll lawsuit indicate that there are thousands of duplicate voter registrations and dead registered voters? No, that's not true: The graphic contains figures from a lawsuit filed
Top Fact Checks→ Bills Joe Biden supported in the eighties and nineties led to mass incarceration of tens of thousands of young black men who had small amounts of drugs in their possession.
President Donald Trump was referring to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's history of backing "tough on crime" policies. While overseeing the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden over the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
Top Fact Checks→ Trump: Unsolicited ballots are being given out by the millions, and thousands of them are dumped in dumpsters.
Most states allow voters to cast mail-in voting and isolated incidents of lost ballots are not indicative of a widespread problem.
Full Fact - All content→ Royal Navy sailors died while preventing the slave trade, but not tens of thousands
We’ve seen multiple claims online and in the media that 17,000 to 20,000 members of the Royal Navy died while “liberating slaves.” This claim seems to have history; repeats of it date back to at least 2010. It seems to refer to the We
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tens-Of-Thousands Of Chinese Soldiers Are NOT Quietly Massing On The Canadian Border Readying For Invasion Of The United States
Is China using a treaty with Canada to mass tens-of-thousands of Chinese soldiers on the Canadian border in preparation for a military invasion of the United States? No, that's not true: Local and Canadian officials say there are no Chine
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots For Registered Republicans In Pennsylvania Were NOT Destroyed
Were thousands of mail-in ballots for registered Republicans in Pennsylvania destroyed? No, that's not true. The paper items shown in the video are mailers from the Pennsylvania Republican Party to encourage people to request a mail-in ba
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of 2020 Mail-In Ballots Were NOT Discovered Dumped In A Sonoma County, California, Landfill
Were thousands of mail-in ballots for the 2020 election found dumped at a Sonoma County, California, landfill in September 2020? No, that's not true: Sonoma County voting officials issued an alert Friday to shoot down the claim, noting th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Did NOT Witness UFO Over New Jersey On September 14, 2020
Did thousands of people witness a UFO over New Jersey September 14, 2020? No, that's not true: While there may have been some excitement and confusion about what they saw, it was not a flying saucer from outer space, but just one of the f
Top Fact Checks→ Trump administration built a six-million-pound rocket and launched it thousands of miles into space.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket weighed roughly around 3 million pounds and after its launch, it traveled around 248 miles into space.
Top Fact Checks→ When Joe Biden was in house, Minnesota lost half of its mills, thousands of jobs, and experienced a decade of decline.
The decline in Minnesota's mill industry and its economy was a direct result of the 2008 housing market crash.
Top Fact Checks→ Judge grants Trump campaign’s request to block thousands of Iowa absentee ballot requests.
A state judge in Iowa county ordered to invalidate more than 50000 applications for absentee ballots because of problems with the original forms.
Top Fact Checks→ Trump brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs to America.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of manufacturing jobs rose consistently under the Trump administration until February 2020.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands of Seattle Democrats Did NOT Unsafely Gather To Demand Protection From COVID-19 Risks of In-Person Voting
Does a photo posted on social media show thousands of Seattle Democrats crowded onto downtown streets to demand mail-in voting as a safe alternative to in-person voting during a pandemic?No, that's not true: The photo was taken at Black L
TruthOrFiction→ Did Thousands of Seattle Democrats Gather to Demand Mail-In Voting Because Voting in Person Is Too Dangerous?
On August 18 2020, a photograph purportedly showing “thousands of Seattle Democrats” (at least, according to random people online) circulated on Twitter: This is a photo of thousands of Seattle Democrats gathering to demand mail in votin
Snopes→ Harleys Everywhere, Masks Nowhere: Sturgis Draws Thousands
Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life, despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.
FactCheck.org→ Trump Didn’t Tweet In 2009 That He ‘Would Never Let Thousands’ Die in Pandemic
Quick Take An image on social media falsely purports to show a tweet from Donald Trump in 2009, saying he “would never let thousands of Americans die from a pandemic while in office.” There is no evidence Trump ever posted that tweet. Ful
Snopes→ Virus Vaccine Put to Final Test in Thousands of Volunteers
The world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine study is underway with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the U.S. government.
Snopes→ Thousands to Walk Off Job to Protest Racial Inequality
Dubbed the "Strike for Black Lives," labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions.
Snopes→ Thousands to Walk Off Job to Protest Racial Inequality
Dubbed the "Strike for Black Lives," labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Thousands Upon Thousands’ Of Children Purportedly Kidnapped By A Satanic Pedophile Ring Have NOT Been ‘Pulled From Underground Bunkers’
Have thousands of children been pulled from secret pedophile bunkers and underground cities in a massive rescue operation led by President Trump and Russian President Putin? No, that's not true: It is a false conspiracy theory unsupported by r
Snopes→ As Trump Urges Reopening, Thousands Getting Sick on the Job
An Associated Press analysis shows spikes in new infections from industries that return to work, including meatpacking, construction workers, and more.
Snopes→ Did Trump Tweet in 2009 That He Would ‘Never Let Thousands of Americans Die From a Pandemic’?
Seems like there's a tweet for everything ... but that doesn't make it real.