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PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a real Charles Darwin quote about what it means to be ‘woke’
Charles Darwin predicted a sub-species of humans “will deny biology” and “attempt to undo the centuries of human development by rewriting history.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his possible arrest don’t include this one
Former President Donald Trump said “any indictment of me is an indictment of you.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Fake statement attributed to Donald Trump about Kevin McCarthy emerges amid flurry of arrest posts
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement threatening to leak “interesting videos” of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Elon Musk didn’t tweet this about The Joint Commission
Elon Musk tweeted he would “buy Joint Commission and let nurses have drinks at their station.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo doesn’t show Magic Johnson donating blood
Photo shows Magic Johnson donating blood “to help underprivileged communities help fight COVID-19.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump didn’t tweet this QAnon phrase
Former President Donald Trump tweeted, “The storm is upon us.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Russian posters showing Biden direct people to U.S. Embassy, not ‘dementia care facilities’
“Russian dementia care facilities are using Biden on their poster.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Ditch those crucifixes; video doesn’t prove Secret Service agents are demons
Video shows U.S. Secret Service agents are demons.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Social media post announcing WHO arrests in pandemic is Pants on Fire!
“Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO … to immediately cease and desist a criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – You didn’t hear that accurately: Audio of discussion of Michelle Obama’s gender is fabricated
Audio captures former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama debating Michelle Obama’s gender.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Earth is round and Elon Musk didn’t say it was flat
Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Bank run in 'The Simpsons' episode didn’t foretell Bank of America account glitch
“The Simpsons” predicted money missing from Bank of America customers’ accounts in January.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – That video is altered; Elon Musk isn’t endorsing an anti-aging remedy
Video shows Elon Musk endorsing “an anti-aging remedy.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Bill Gates didn’t declare himself a valid pharmaceutical industry proxy. The video was altered.
Bill Gates claims to be a “valid representative of the pharmaceutical industry” because he “read a lot of books about that topic.”
Health Feedback→ Viral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
REVIEW In late February 2023, posts and memes stating “we were right about everything” and listing several COVID-19-related topics went viral on social media platforms. Almost identical iterations of the list circulated widely on Facebook, Insta
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Video misleads on the ‘single word’ President Joe Biden used to describe the United States
Joe Biden described America as “the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping.”
Poynter→ Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has spoken out against voter suppression, but a recent video circulating social media appears to show her putting a thumb on the election scales. “Allowing […] The post Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say
PolitiFact→ Viral image – The war in Ukraine isn’t ‘fake,’ and these photos don’t prove that it is
Photos of an apartment building in Kyiv are evidence the war in Ukraine “is fake.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Social media posts distort Trump, Biden child sex trafficking records
Former President Donald Trump “was the 1st president in U.S. history to acknowledge that children are being sold for sex in the U.S.” while President Joe Biden “rescinded Trump’s executive order that helped combat child sex trafficking.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.
Says Elizabeth Warren said, “Allowing Republicans to vote could threaten the integrity of an election.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Did these Medal of Freedom recipients fly on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane? Not according to flight logs
“Every single one” of former President Barack Obama’s Medal of Freedom recipients in this video “was on Epstein’s flight logs.”
Truth or Fiction?→ EPA Chief, Ohio Gov. Drink Tap Water in Viral Video
On February 22 2022, a Reddit account shared the following video to r/therewasanattempt (the attempt was, in the words of the post, “by the Ohio Governor and EPA Chief to prove the tap water was safe by pretending to drink it”):
PolitiFact→ Viral image – How do you count school shootings in Canada? Depends on how you classify the incidents
Canada has only “had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Don’t fall for this promise of a ‘leaked’ recording of Biden and Zelenskyy
“Leaked audio recording of Biden and Zelenskyy talking in private.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Biden, Zelenskyy holding hands was altered
A photo shows President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding hands.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, KFC didn’t tweet a chicken drumstick for Black History Month
KFC tweeted an image of a chicken drumstick for Black History Month.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No man buns were harmed as fake news about a vigilante cutting them off spread on social media
“Criminal caught after cutting off 37 man buns.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Atlanta isn’t banning the word ‘women,’ despite social media post claims
The city of Atlanta is banning the word “women.”
Full Fact→ Viral ‘average energy cost’ Europe price list is not what it seems
The list, which has been retweeted by a Labour MP, shows wholesale prices of electricity for a single hour in December 2022.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Did Joe Biden profanely mention pacemakers in speech? No; this video was altered
President Joe Biden said “this s--- will turn your pacemaker off.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dog Howling In Viral Video Was NOT In The Region Of Earthquake Destruction, Though It Was In Turkey
Did a dog howl into the night trying to warn people in an eastern Turkish town of the coming earthquake disaster? While it's not possible to know why the dog was howling, and the date of the video has not been verified -- this video does
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Gen. Mark Milley served multiple combat tours, despite claims otherwise
Gen. Mark Milley “never served in combat.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Puppy rescue filmed in India in 2019, not in Turkey or Syria after the recent earthquake
A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Have COVID-19 vaccines caused all COVID-19 deaths in Canada? No
“100% of COVID deaths in Canada now due to mRNA vaccine.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Donald Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing is altered
Photo shows former President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – The Mars Curiosity rover photographed rocks, not Third Reich relics
“NASA Curiosity finds Nazi helmet on Mars."
Full Fact→ Viral video does not show tsunami in Turkey following 2023 earthquake
The footage is from Durban, South Africa, in 2017.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Videos of people ‘dropping suddenly’ aren’t related to COVID-19 vaccines
Video shows people collapsing because of COVID-19 vaccines.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Cause of Hillandale Farm fire is unclear, but claims of government plot are unsubstantiated
The government caused a fire at Hillandale Farms in Connecticut “so that they can force us into eating their fake GMO meats, or starve us into compliance.”