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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ An 18-year-old MMA fighter’s death was unrelated to the COVID vaccine
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No one has been sentenced to 20 years for filming the Jan. 6 riots, contrary to congressman’s claim
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Logically→ No, Türkiye did not lease Al-Khums Port from Libya for 99 years to build a military base
Full Fact→ Conservative estimate that UK would take 100,000 migrants a year under Labour plan is not reliable
It’s not clear how many more migrants might come as a result of any future returns agreement with the EU, but the 100,000 figure is based on a number of assumptions.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Study Did NOT Confirm ‘COVID Jab Lowers Male Life Expectancy By 24 Years’
Did a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirm that men who receive COVID-19 vaccines "will tragically suffer a 24-year loss in their life expectancy"? No, that's not true: Dr. Nabin Shrestha, an inf
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Walmart isn’t refunding $500 to anyone who shopped there last year, despite online claims
“Walmart must pay $500 to U.S. families who made purchases in 2022.”
Full Fact→ NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation
A Times column claimed the NHS in England paid more than double its £3 billion maternity budget in maternity clinical negligence payments. But last year these payments totalled just £1.1 billion.
The Dispatch→ The Supreme Court Can Fix Its Oldest Mistake This Year
The court long ago gutted the Privileges or Immunities Clause. A new case would give the court a chance to restore it.
Full Fact→ The number of band 3-5 prison officers increased by 701 in the year to 30 June 2023
Justice secretary Alex Chalk claimed that the number of full-time equivalent band 3-5 prison staff had increased by over 700 “since 30 June 2023”.
Full Fact→ House prices haven’t fallen to a 14-year low
A since-deleted post from the Daily Telegraph wrongly claimed house prices had fallen to “14-year lows”.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Is Joe Biden right that a new Medicare drug law will save $160 billion over 10 years?
“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to senior
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘The Richest 1% Evade $163 Billion in Taxes Every Year, the United States Literally Has a Yacht Tax Deduction’
On August 28 2023, an unlinked post by former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich was shared to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter; it alleged that the “richest 1%” of Americans “evade $163 billion” in taxes each year
Full Fact→ Great Western Railway is not giving away a free year of travel for £1.69
Hundreds of people have shared a Facebook post advertising the implausibly good deal.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amtrak Does NOT Offer $1 Card For All US Residents That Lets Them Ride Trains For A Year Without Extra Fees
Does Amtrak have a promotion for a $1 card that allows every U.S. resident to ride their trains with no extra charges for a year? No, that's not true: An Amtrak spokesperson told Lead Stories that the card is a scam offer. The claim appea
Logically→ Edited video of BBC news clip shared as President Biden’s ‘confession’ that Buhari died 6 years ago
The Dispatch→ The Afghanistan Withdrawal, Two Years Later
‘Admit to your mistakes, learn from them, so that this doesn’t happen ever, ever again.’
Full Fact→ Data doesn’t seem to back up PM’s claim that A&E waits are ‘the best in two years’
Rishi Sunak claimed A&E waiting times are at their best in two years. But experts say this is hard to reconcile with public data, which shows that June 2023 was not the best month in the last 24.
PolitiFact→ Why did it take the DOJ more than two years to indict Donald Trump in the 2020 election case?
Donald Trump’s case is unusual because he’s a former president, and “no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case unless and until they were confident they had an extensive and comprehensive factual record,” one legal expert told PolitiFact.
PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – New law lets you remove old debts from your record after only two years? Sorry, no
A new law allows people to permanently erase unpaid debt older than two years from their credit records.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Skin cancer didn’t emerge in the last 60 years. It dates to at least 1804
“Skin cancer is a relatively new phenomenon in the last 60 years or so.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ The sun might swallow the Earth, but not for another 5 billion years
CLAIM: Scientists have warned that the “Earth will be swallowed by the sun.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it
A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Congress didn’t pass law allowing consumers to erase negative credit information after two years
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Man Attacks 86 Year Old Woman … Because He Thought She Was Transgender’
On July 20 2023, a blurry screenshot of tweet and an apparent news headline — ” Man beats up 86-year-old woman with dementia because he thought she was transgender” — made it to Reddit’s r/WhitePeopleTwitter: WT
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show ‘8-Year-Old Coal Miner In Utah Or Colorado In The Early 1900s’
Does a photo in a social media post accurately portray an "8-year-old coal miner in Utah or Colorado, USA, in the early 1900s"? No, that's not true: A representative of the Helper's Mining and Railroad Museum, where the photo originated,
Full Fact→ Hoax post about missing six-year-old girl shared on Facebook
The picture used in the post is of a girl from the US, not Lancashire.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Financial Times Did NOT Report That Man Was Arrested After ’17 Years Traveling … With A Hacked Debit Card’
Did the Financial Times report that a man was "arrested after he spent 17 years traveling the country with a hacked debit card that gave him the exact amount of money needed for any purchase"? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the F
AllSides→ No, Ron DeSantis’ high school yearbook quote does not mention ‘Sir-Mixes-a-Lot’
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-ron-desantis-yearbook-quote-mixes-567798280436 CLAIM: The quote b
AllSides→ Social Media Posts Fabricate DeSantis High School Yearbook Quote
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/07/social-media-posts-fabricate-desantis-high-school-yearbook-quote/ Ear
AllSides→ Fact Check: No, Image Does Not Show Ron DeSantis’ Yearbook Quote
https://checkyourfact.com/2023/07/14/fact-check-no-ron-desantis-yearbook-quote/ DeSantis recently state
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ This photo from the 1900s doesn’t show an 8-year-old miner, just a kid in a costume
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Fabricate DeSantis High School Yearbook Quote
Quick Take Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ high school yearbook photo was posted to Reddit by a person claiming to be a former schoolmate. But Instagram posts show an altered version of the yearbook entry that includes a fake qu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Quote Under Ron DeSantis’ Yearbook Photo
Did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' high school yearbook photo have a quote underneath that reads, "My Mount Rushmore is Jesus, Sir-Mixes-a-Lot, and Nintendo 64"? No, that's not true: The photo in a post making that claim is real, but "there i
Full Fact→ Money spent on Test and Trace couldn’t fund 15% NHS pay increase for 35 years
A resurfaced claim that the money spent on the Test and Trace scheme would pay for a 15% pay rise for health service staff until 2058 is incorrect.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Baby got bad info: Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t misspell Sir Mix-a-Lot’s name in his yearbook
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in his yearbook that his “Mount Rushmore is Jesus, Sir-Mixes-a-Lot, and Nintendo 64.”
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ No, Ron DeSantis’ high school yearbook quote does not mention ‘Sir-Mixes-a-Lot’
CLAIM: The quote below Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ high school yearbook photo reads: “My Mount Rushmore is Jesus, Sir-Mixes-a-Lot, and Nintendo 64.”
Full Fact→ Government figures don’t show 140,000 children were ‘completely missing’ from formal schooling last year
Labour MP Ian Mearns told us his claim was based on a Sky News report which said around 140,000 were “never in class”. But that’s not what the data shows, and both have corrected their claims.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘600,000 Americans Per Year’ Are NOT ‘Dying From COVID Shots’ — The Vaccines Save Lives
Are "600,000 Americans Per Year Are Dying From COVID Shots"? No, that's not true: COVID-19 vaccines have undergone rigorous testing and monitoring for safety and efficacy before being approved for use. While vaccines can have side effects
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Atlantic Did NOT Publish ‘A Man Exposed His Genitals To My 6 Year Old’ Article — Spokesperson Denied It
Did The Atlantic magazine publish an article titled, "At this weekend's Pride parade a man exposed his genitals to my 6 year old. She was horrified. Am I raising a bigot?"? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the magazine told us that