With the July Fourth holiday approaching, the White House acknowledged this week that Biden will fall shy of his 70% goal and an associated aim of fully vaccinating 165 million adults in the same time frame.
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Snopes→ Why Does Tom Hiddleston’s Reflection Look Like Loki?
Other than the fact that Hiddleston is the actor who portrays Loki....
Snopes→ Why Was Dave Portnoy’s Twitter Account Briefly Suspended?
The founder of Barstool Sports has more than 2 million followers on the platform.
Snopes→ Why We’re Not Opposed to ‘Why We Oppose Pockets for Women’
Suffragist Alice Duer Miller penned "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" in 1914. Her logic is still sound.
Snopes→ Why the Second Amendment Protects a ‘Well-Regulated Militia’ But Not a Private Citizen Militia
The preamble to the Second Amendment mentions service in a militia as a reason citizens have the right to keep and bear arms.
Snopes→ Why Do Cats Knead with Their Paws?
Have you heard some cat lovers talk about their feline friends “making biscuits” or “kneading dough”?
Snopes→ Why It’s Difficult for Children to Understand Sarcasm
For most children, learning to understand sarcasm is challenging.
Snopes→ Why Does a 1966 Baseball Program Show a Cub Drinking LSD?
Do not attribute to baseball feuds what can be explained by drugs.
Snopes→ COVID-19: Why the Lab Leak Theory Should Be Formally Investigated
We don’t know how the virus arrived in Wuhan, how its sequence evolved to allow human infection, and under what conditions it infected the first people who crossed its path.
Snopes→ What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Are Some People So Mad at It?
We talked to experts who have the answers.
Snopes→ Why Do Women Still Get Judged So Harshly for Having Casual Sex?
Both men and women assume that a woman who has casual sex must have low self-esteem. But that perception isn’t based in reality.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Why did the federal guidance about wearing face masks change?
To say that federal guidance on mask-wearing has been confusing would be an understatement. Back in 2020, during the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., mask-wearing was discouraged. Then officials changed this guidance, citing clea
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ What is critical race theory, and why are conservatives blocking it?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is pushing forward on a reworked civics education curriculum for K-12 students. For DeSantis, the new plan is as much on what it bans, as what it promotes. “Let me be clear, there’s no room in our cl
Snopes→ Italy Investigators Probe Why Cable Car Brake ‘Didn’t Work’
The disaster, in one of the most picturesque spots in northern Italy — the Mottarone mountaintop overlooking Lake Maggiore and other lakes near Switzerland — raised questions anew about the quality and safety of Italy’s transport infrastructure.
Snopes→ Why Has the Price of Bitcoin Been Falling?
Bitcoin has lost about 40% of its value since April 13, when it hit a high of more than $64,606 per coin.
Snopes→ HIV/AIDS Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years?
The biological properties that HIV has evolved make development of a successful vaccine very, very difficult.
Full Fact - All content→ Why is the Nuremberg Code being used to oppose Covid-19 vaccines?
As the UK Covid-19 vaccine roll out has gathered pace, and the use of “vaccine passports” continue to be debated, an increasing number of social media users are voicing their opposition to these moves and claiming they are an infringement o
Full Fact - All content→ Why good statistics are so important for fact checkers
Fact checkers rely on data from national statistics institutes to do their work in fighting misinformation. The Open Data Institute (ODI) and Full Fact interviewed fact checkers around the world about the statistics data they use. In this blog post, An
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Why Arizona Republicans are auditing election results
Nearly half a year after Arizona voted for Joe Biden, Republicans are pursuing an audit of election results in Maricopa County, fueling ongoing conspiracies about the presidential election. Republicans who organized the audit of 2.1 million ballots ack
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Hey Facebook, why wait six months? Just ban Trump permanently now
Earlier this week, while appearing on his own network, CNN’s Jake Tapper said why even interview some guests if they are just going to lie? He’s right. If certain conservative lawmakers are going to perpetuate wild conspiracy theories, including th
Snopes→ Why Does This Calf Have ‘Dumbo’ Ears?
Don't worry, the cow appears to be perfectly healthy.
Snopes→ Why Disneyland’s Indiana Jones Ride Has Such a Long Queue
The long walk to enter Indiana Jones Adventure certainly gave Disneyland a lot to work with when constructing the ride in the 1990s.
Snopes→ Why Do the Bidens Look Giant in Photo With Carters?
This photograph spurred jokes about dollhouses and ventriloquists.
WaPo Fact Checker→ Why are Republicans touting parts of Biden’s covid relief plan?
GOP lawmakers keep tweeting about and celebrating parts of Biden’s coronavirus rescue bill without admitting they voted against it. Here are their reasons.
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Why and how to proactively incorporate public health knowledge into fact-checking
Long before 2003, when Brooks Jackson and I launched FactCheck.org, I stumbled into adjudicating political misrepresentations by happenstance when editors and producers drew me into the 1988 electoral fray because I had written a book titled “Packagi
Snopes→ Why is Epicurious Ditching Beef?
The popular cooking website said it's about "sustainability and being pro-planet."
Full Fact - All content→ What are lateral flow tests, and why do the numbers of false positives keep changing?
PCR tests have been the main test used for Covid-19 during the early part of the pandemic. They can detect Covid-19 very well, but need to be processed in a laboratory. Therefore, they have mainly been used in symptomatic people or people who have been
Snopes→ EXPLAINER: Why is Chauvin Unlikely to Face Maximum Sentence?
It will be two months before the former Minneapolis police officer learns his sentence for George Floyd’s death.
Snopes→ Did Ted Nugent Ask Why There Were No Lockdowns for ‘COVID 1 Thru 18’?
In a 12-minute video, the musician amplified several bogus claims and conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
Full Fact - All content→ Why you can’t compare deaths after a positive Covid-19 test with deaths after a vaccine
We’ve been asked by many readers via email, WhatsApp and Twitter whether there is a double standard in the way that deaths are reported during this pandemic. Specifically, people want to know why deaths after a positive test for Covid-19 are usua
Full Fact - All content→ ‘Why would we suddenly go to them and lie?’: How councils and communities are working together to fight vaccine misinformation
In January, 60 councils across England were given money by the government to help spread Covid-19 vaccine advice through trusted “Community Champions”. We talked to some of them about what they’ve been doing, what’s been workin
Snopes→ Why is Prince Philip Not a King?
Only Queen Elizabeth had the power to give her husband a title.
Full Fact - All content→ What’s a PCR test cycle threshold and why it matters
A post on Instagram claims that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has pronounced PCR tests for Covid-19 as flawed, and all positive tests in the past 14 months ‘invalid’ if a cycle threshold of 35 or above has been used.
Snopes→ Viral Thoughts: Why COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Persist
As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines.
The Dispatch→ Why State Election Reform Bills Don’t Signal a New Jim Crow Era
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Fact-Checking – Poynter→ False COVID-19 vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why.
In the early days of the pandemic, a Facebook page for Earthley promised an easy way to avoid getting COVID-19. The wellness company promoted a vitamin D cream and an elderberry elixir to strengthen the body’s immune response and “help fight of
AllSides - Facts and Fact Checking→ False vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why
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Snopes→ EXPLAINER: Why Is Media Access at the Border an Issue?
Access to government-run facilities housing young immigrants on the border with Mexico has caused one of the first tussles between news organizations and the administration of Joe Biden.
Snopes→ What Is ‘Excited Delirium’ and Why Is It Controversial?
The public most often sees the term invoked in news stories about cases involving deaths in police custody, like George Floyd's.
The Dispatch→ Why Is the Filibuster Only ‘Racist’ When Republicans Use It?
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