AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
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ABC News / AP Fact Check→ Years-old video of empty store on Black Friday was filmed in London, not the US
CLAIM: A video of only one shopper turning up for a Black Friday sale this year shows how President Joe Biden’s economic policies have negatively impacted consumer spending in the U.S.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Norwegian Newspaper Did NOT Report That 5 Years Old Was Average Age Of Palestinians Killed In Gaza
Did VG, a Norwegian newspaper, report that the average age of Palestinians killed in Gaza was 5 years old, as claimed by an image on social media? No, that's not true: The newspaper reported that 5-year-olds represented the age group with
AllSides→ The Evil Origins of 60 Years of JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories
https://spectator.org/the-evil-origins-of-60-years-of-jfk-assassination-conspiracy-theories/ Sixty year
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Infant mortality rose for first time in 20 years, but no evidence ties it to COVID-19 vaccines
Rise in U.S. infant mortality rate connected to COVID-19 vaccines.
Full Fact→ London’s white population did not go from 86% to 36% in ten years
Census data shows that this claim, which has been circulating on social media, is false.
Full Fact→ How has UK aid spending for Palestinians changed in recent years?
We’ve looked at the figures after the Prime Minister announced the government has doubled its aid funding for Palestinian civilians.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Israel ‘Blowing Up People In Hospitals’ After Hamas Attack in October 2023 — Scenes Are From Syria’s Civil War Years Earlier
Does a video on social media show Israel "blowing up people in hospitals" in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023? No, that's not true: The video shows scenes that can be traced to Omar bin Abdulaziz Hospital in Aleppo, Sy
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Switzerland has distributed iodine tablets to residents for years, and not because of nuclear war
Switzerland’s distribution of iodine tablets means the government is worried about nuclear war.
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ News outlets didn’t ignore Korean leaders’ historic summit. A video of the meeting is 5 years old
CLAIM: A new video shows a historic meeting between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea at their border, but the mainstream media isn’t covering it.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Wind turbine generators typically don’t fail after three to four years. That’s just hot air.
The life span of a wind tower generator lasts just three to four years.
PolitiFact→ Mike Johnson – Have prices increased by over 17% in two years, as new Speaker Mike Johnson said?
“Prices have increased over 17% in the last two years.”
The Dispatch→ Four Years of The Dispatch
To have a group blog or to not.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Of Palestinian Children Killed During 2023 Israel-Hamas Conflict — It’s From 10 Years Earlier In Syria
Does a photo published on social media show Palestinian children killed during the Israel-Hamas conflict that began on October 7, 2023? No, that's not true: While the image does depict children who lost their lives in the Middle East, it
PolitiFact→ Joe Manchin – Has West Virginia received a record amount of federal funding over the last four years?
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
Logically→ Old footage used to claim Indira Gandhi hosted G20 summit in India 40 years ago
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
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→ 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
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.
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
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.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Comer Admits Nobody Has Heard From Biden Informant in Three Years’
On June 16 2023, a Reddit user shared a post (“Comer admits nobody has heard from alleged Biden informant for three years”) to r/politics: Comer admits nobody has heard from alleged Biden informant for three years by u/Deroc
Full Fact→ Boris Johnson did not win the largest Conservative majority in 44 years
Lord Cruddas is also not correct to say Boris Johnson has never lost an election or campaign.
Full Fact→ Hoax posts about missing dog use photograph that has appeared in blogs for years
The posts all have the same image and wording but appear in community groups across the UK.
Full Fact→ Emergency alerts system set to cost £25 million over three years, government finally reveals
The Cabinet Office had previously declined to give any figures after claims about the cost of the emergency alerts test were made on social media.
Full Fact→ The suicide rate may not have been rising in recent years
Sir Keir Starmer claimed the suicide rate is “going up”, based on a rise since 2007. But data for the last few years gives a mixed picture.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Study Does NOT ‘Show’ People Fully Vaccinated For COVID-19 Lose 25 Years Of Life Expectancy — There’s No Such Study
Do people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 shorten their average lifespan by a quarter century? No, that's not true: There is no scientific evidence or credible research to support the idea that being fully vaccinated for COVID-1
The Dispatch→ Still Crazy After All These Years
The flaws and benefits of CNN’s deplorable town hall.Continue reading Still Crazy After All These Years »
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Professional Athletes HAVE Lived To Be 100 Years Old — Exercise Is Shown To Increase Lifespan
Has a professional athlete never lived to be 100 years old, thus evidencing that exercise "doesn't increase lifespan" and "in fact, exercise can shorten lifespan"? No, that's not true: Globally, there are a number of professional athletes
Logically→ No, the UK government is not planning to eliminate all forms of cash in the next three years.