“There’s figures from the Office of National Statistics [sic] that say, what is it? You’re 32,000 times more likely to die if you’ve not been double jabbed from Covid.” Andrew Pierce, 18 November 2021. Speaking on the Jer
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Full Fact→ Covid vaccines have not caused four times as many deaths as all other vaccines combined
An article shared on Facebook claims that in the UK, the number of deaths due to Covid-19 vaccines in 10 months is 330% higher than the number of deaths due to all other vaccines combined over the last 20 years. The article, published by The Expos&eacu
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Kids ‘50 times more likely to be killed’ by COVID-19 vaccines? Pants on Fire
"Children are 50 times more likely to be killed by the Covid vaccines than by the virus itself."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Children Are NOT 50 Times More Likely To Be Killed By COVID Vaccines Than By Virus Itself
Are children 50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID-19 vaccines than by the virus itself? No, that's not true: The person who made the claim offered no proof for the claimed numbers of deaths from the COVID vaccine. As of November
Full Fact→ Covid-19 hospitalisations are below last year, not 14 times higher as NHS CEO claimed
“The NHS is running hot...We have had fourteen times the number of people in hospital with Covid than we saw this time last year” Amanda Pritchard, NHS England CEO, 8 November 2021. The CEO of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, has claimed the
Health Feedback→ Social media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die
REVIEW The number of COVID-19 deaths rose again in the U.S. from July 2021 to mid-September 2021, amid concerns of the Delta variant spreading and vaccine-induced immunity waning over time. While data show that vaccines are safe and effective agains
Full Fact→ Two doctors with same name cause Times letter confusion
A Facebook post claims that a letter published in The Times on 16 October 2021 claims to be from a doctor that died five years ago. The post also gathered a lot of attention on Twitter. The letter writer, Martin Spiro, who spoke about his time as
Full Fact→ The Covid-19 virus has been isolated many times in Spain—and elsewhere
Facebook users have shared an article claiming that Spain’s Ministry of Health “Admits Covid-19 Has Never Been Isolated”. This story is false. The ministry did not say this. As we have said before, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes C
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: A Seattle Times Op-Ed Claimed that CBP Agents Wielded Whips Against Migrants
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AllSides→ 3 times internal docs contradicted Facebook’s public stance
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/politics/facebook-public-internal-contradict-wsj/index.html Over the pas
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Google Search Result Timestamps Are NOT Guaranteed To Be Exact Publication Dates
Are Google search result timestamps guaranteed to be the exact publication dates of web pages? No, that's not true: Google can only approximate the date that a web page was published. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) posted t
Snopes→ Trump Sues Niece, NY Times over Records Behind ’18 Tax Story
Trump’s lawsuit accuses Mary Trump of breaching a settlement agreement by disclosing tax records she received in a dispute over family patriarch Fred Trump’s estate.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Study Does NOT Find Vaccinated Patients Are 27 Times More Likely To Develop COVID Symptoms Than Unvaccinated
Does a study find vaccinated patients are 27 times more likely to develop COVID symptoms than unvaccinated? No, that's not true: The study, based on medical records of the Maccabi Health Service HMO in Israel, found that vaccinated patien
Snopes→ Did Biden Check Watch 13 Times During Transfer of Fallen Soldiers?
After the final dignified transfer of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to briefly glance at his watch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Study Does NOT Say Fully Vaccinated Health Care Workers Carrying 251 Times Viral Load of Unvaccinated Workers Pose Threat To Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers
Does a study say fully vaccinated health care workers carry 251 times the viral load of unvaccinated and pose a threat to unvaccinated patients and co-workers? No, that's not true: This is a distortion of what the published paper actually
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nashville’s Daily Press And Times Really DID Print These Female Statistics In 1869
Did Nashville's Daily Press and Times publish this accounting of the unmarried females in the Tennessee city on July 19, 1869? Yes it's true: This image of a newspaper clipping, from an unknown newspaper and date, cites the Daily Press an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Article On Military Times Website Saying COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Heart Disease — Just A Fake Screenshot
Did Military Times publish an article that revealed a new study saying people who have gotten the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccination were susceptible to heart disease? No, that's not true: The article does not exist, the claim is pos
Snopes→ Yes, ‘There’s Always a Tweet’ — but Sometimes, It’s Fake
Reader beware!
Full Fact→ Vaccinated people sometimes die of Covid-19—but very rarely
A widely shared post on social media claims that Public Health England (PHE) has released a report revealing that two thirds of Covid-19 deaths are people who have been vaccinated. This is missing important context. The risk of death with Covid is very
AllSides→ Kayleigh McEnany claimed she ‘never lied’ as White House press secretary. Here are 5 times she did.
https://www.businessinsider.com/5-times-former-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-lied-2021-6
Washington Post→ McAuliffe doubles down on false budget claim that has been fact-checked three times
The former Virginia governor, who is seeking his old job again, earns Four Pinocchios.
Logically→ The Delta variant is 2.5 times more likely to lead to hospitalization than the Alpha variant.
Early data released by Public Health England suggests an increased risk of hospitalization with the Delta variant compared to the Alpha variant.
Poynter→ A New York Times photo error provoked social media criticism about a Gazan child
Nearly 70 children were reported to have been killed during an 11-day battle in May between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. 67 were killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Two children were killed in Israel from rockets sent by
Snopes→ ‘Eggs for Hotel Breakfast’ Video Viewed 17M Times in 6 Days
Not the first TikTok video to go viral after revealing how food was prepared in a commercial kitchen.
Snopes→ Will Using Twitter’s Tip Jar Sometimes Send Recipient Your Address?
Product testers warned of a potential security issue.
Climate Feedback→ CO2 coalition sponsored article in The Washington Times presents list of false and misleading statements about the impacts of CO2 and climate change
SUMMARY In April 2021, Gregory Wrightstone published a “sponsored” article in The Washington Times titled “There is no climate emergency”. Scientists who evaluated the article found that it included numerous false and misleading claims about
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘How To Hit A Woman So No One Knows’ Was NOT Googled 163 Million Times During 2020
Was the phrase "How To Hit A Woman So No One Knows" Googled 163 million times during 2020 as reported in an article in The Journal of General Psychology and subsequent articles about those findings? No, that's not true: The author of the
Snopes→ Was ‘How To Hit a Woman So No One Knows’ Googled 163M Times in 2020?
A researcher looking into the trend said the purported findings shocked her.
Snopes→ Lawyers: Pathologist Says Andrew Brown Jr. Shot 5 Times by Deputies
A family lawyer who viewed a 20-second portion of body camera footage shown to the family says law enforcement officers opened fire on Brown while he had his hands on the steering wheel.
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Birth Control Pills 1000 Times More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Than The J&J Vaccine?
An April 13 2021 Facebook screenshot of a tweet was part of disordered discourse surrounding a “pause” by the Biden administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for COVID-19. As conspiracy theories about and disinformation about the eff
Washington Post→ Biden’s claim that the ‘average rapist rapes about six times’
The president cites a statistic derived from a two-decade-old study that has come under attack by other experts on sexual assault.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘End Times’ Expert’s QAnon And COVID-19 ‘Zombie’ Claims On Jim Bakker Show Are NOT True
Are zombies created by COVID-19 and do the world's richest people drink the blood of tortured children? No, that's not true. A guest on the show of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, conspiracist Stephen Quayle, peddles multiple untrue c
Snopes→ Did the New York Times Suppress Advance Reporting on the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
The Bay of Pigs suppression myth makes for a timeless lesson about the perils for news organizations in yielding to government pressure and withholding vital if sensitive information, ostensibly because of national security implications.
AllSides→ Three times Mark Zuckerberg misled Congress about extremism and misinformation on Facebook
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/three-times-mark-zuckerberg-misled-congress-about-extremism-and-misinformation-facebook
Logically→ While there were 58 motions between 1917 and 1971 to break filibusters, it was five times more in 2020 alone.
There were 58 motions for cloture between 1917 and 1970. In 2020, there were only 118, which is about twice as 58, and not five times more.
Washington Post→ The sometimes-fuzzy $400,000 threshold in Biden’s tax plan
Biden has insisted that nobody making less than $400,000 will face higher taxes, but some officials have suggested that level could apply to families, not individuals.
Snopes→ Warp-Speed Spending and Other Surreal Stats of COVID Times
How high can you count? At one turn after another, that may be the rhetorical question of these COVID-19 times.
Snopes→ Tucker Carlson, NY Times Tussle Over Online Harassment of Journalist
Tucker Carlson's belittling of a reporter for The New York Times for publicly discussing how she had been harassed reveals both a toxic online culture and bad blood between the newspaper and Fox News Channel host.
Climate Feedback→ Atlantic ocean circulation system is slowing down, as accurately described in The New York Times article
SUMMARY The article published in The New York Times discusses findings from a study published in February 2021 that reconstructed the evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean circulation system that strongly infl
AFP Fact Check→ New York Times denies making pro-Modi statement
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a purported statement from “Joseph Hope, editor-in-chief of The New York Times" that praises Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The claim is false; there is no “Joseph Hope” listed as an employee at The New