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Full Fact→ Viral pictures of Pope Francis wearing puffer jacket are AI-generated

2023-03-27 The apparent pictures of Pope Francis have been shared tens of thousands of times. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, this isn’t a real Charles Darwin quote about what it means to be ‘woke’

2023-03-22 Charles Darwin predicted a sub-species of humans “will deny biology” and “attempt to undo the centuries of human development by rewriting history.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about his possible arrest don’t include this one

2023-03-22 Former President Donald Trump said “any indictment of me is an indictment of you.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Fake statement attributed to Donald Trump about Kevin McCarthy emerges amid flurry of arrest posts

2023-03-21 Former President Donald Trump issued a statement threatening to leak “interesting videos” of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Elon Musk didn’t tweet this about The Joint Commission

2023-03-20 Elon Musk tweeted he would “buy Joint Commission and let nurses have drinks at their station.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo doesn’t show Magic Johnson donating blood

2023-03-20 Photo shows Magic Johnson donating blood “to help underprivileged communities help fight COVID-19.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Former President Donald Trump didn’t tweet this QAnon phrase

2023-03-20 Former President Donald Trump tweeted, “The storm is upon us.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Russian posters showing Biden direct people to U.S. Embassy, not ‘dementia care facilities’

2023-03-15 “Russian dementia care facilities are using Biden on their poster.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Ditch those crucifixes; video doesn’t prove Secret Service agents are demons

2023-03-14 Video shows U.S. Secret Service agents are demons. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Social media post announcing WHO arrests in pandemic is Pants on Fire!

2023-03-14 “Emergency injunction and tribunal order was served to WHO … to immediately cease and desist a criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – You didn’t hear that accurately: Audio of discussion of Michelle Obama’s gender is fabricated

2023-03-14 Audio captures former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama debating Michelle Obama’s gender. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Earth is round and Elon Musk didn’t say it was flat

2023-03-13 Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Bank run in 'The Simpsons' episode didn’t foretell Bank of America account glitch

2023-03-13 “The Simpsons” predicted money missing from Bank of America customers’ accounts in January. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – That video is altered; Elon Musk isn’t endorsing an anti-aging remedy

2023-03-09 Video shows Elon Musk endorsing “an anti-aging remedy.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Bill Gates didn’t declare himself a valid pharmaceutical industry proxy. The video was altered.

2023-03-09 Bill Gates claims to be a “valid representative of the pharmaceutical industry” because he “read a lot of books about that topic.” Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Viral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation

2023-03-07 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 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Video misleads on the ‘single word’ President Joe Biden used to describe the United States

2023-02-28 Joe Biden described America as “the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping.” Go to site post…»

Poynter→ Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.

2023-02-28 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 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – The war in Ukraine isn’t ‘fake,’ and these photos don’t prove that it is

2023-02-27 Photos of an apartment building in Kyiv are evidence the war in Ukraine “is fake.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Social media posts distort Trump, Biden child sex trafficking records

2023-02-27 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.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t say Republicans shouldn’t vote. A viral video was altered.

2023-02-27 Says Elizabeth Warren said, “Allowing Republicans to vote could threaten the integrity of an election.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Did these Medal of Freedom recipients fly on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane? Not according to flight logs

2023-02-23 “Every single one” of former President Barack Obama’s Medal of Freedom recipients in this video “was on Epstein’s flight logs.” Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ EPA Chief, Ohio Gov. Drink Tap Water in Viral Video

2023-02-23 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”): Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – How do you count school shootings in Canada? Depends on how you classify the incidents

2023-02-23 Canada has only “had 11 school shooting deaths … in history.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Don’t fall for this promise of a ‘leaked’ recording of Biden and Zelenskyy

2023-02-22 “Leaked audio recording of Biden and Zelenskyy talking in private.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Biden, Zelenskyy holding hands was altered

2023-02-22 A photo shows President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding hands. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, KFC didn’t tweet a chicken drumstick for Black History Month

2023-02-17 KFC tweeted an image of a chicken drumstick for Black History Month. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – No man buns were harmed as fake news about a vigilante cutting them off spread on social media

2023-02-17 “Criminal caught after cutting off 37 man buns.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Atlanta isn’t banning the word ‘women,’ despite social media post claims

2023-02-17 The city of Atlanta is banning the word “women.” Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Viral ‘average energy cost’ Europe price list is not what it seems

2023-02-17 The list, which has been retweeted by a Labour MP, shows wholesale prices of electricity for a single hour in December 2022. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Did Joe Biden profanely mention pacemakers in speech? No; this video was altered

2023-02-16 President Joe Biden said “this s--- will turn your pacemaker off.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dog Howling In Viral Video Was NOT In The Region Of Earthquake Destruction, Though It Was In Turkey

2023-02-13 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 Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Gen. Mark Milley served multiple combat tours, despite claims otherwise

2023-02-10 Gen. Mark Milley “never served in combat.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Puppy rescue filmed in India in 2019, not in Turkey or Syria after the recent earthquake

2023-02-10 A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Have COVID-19 vaccines caused all COVID-19 deaths in Canada? No

2023-02-10 “100% of COVID deaths in Canada now due to mRNA vaccine.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Donald Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing is altered

2023-02-10 Photo shows former President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – The Mars Curiosity rover photographed rocks, not Third Reich relics

2023-02-10 “NASA Curiosity finds Nazi helmet on Mars." Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Viral video does not show tsunami in Turkey following 2023 earthquake

2023-02-07 The footage is from Durban, South Africa, in 2017. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Videos of people ‘dropping suddenly’ aren’t related to COVID-19 vaccines

2023-01-31 Video shows people collapsing because of COVID-19 vaccines. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Viral image – Cause of Hillandale Farm fire is unclear, but claims of government plot are unsubstantiated

2023-01-31 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.” Go to site post…»

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