Is Brie cheese made with unpasteurized milk illegal in the U.S., while a machine gun with six rotating barrels is legal? No, that's an exaggeration that leaves out important context and relies on semantics. Both Brie and machine guns are
Snopes→ Did Little Caesars Hang a Sign Offering Free Pizza to Dumpster Divers?
An act of generosity by restaurant managers in 2017 has stayed viral.
Snopes→ Monkey Business: 2 Dozen Monkeys Escape German Zoo for a Day
About two dozen monkeys broke out of a southwestern German zoo and spent the day lolling in the sun near a forest before being recaptured.
AFP Fact Check→ Quebec exempt from federal carbon tax due to cap-and-trade system
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim Quebec is exempt from carbon pricing. This is misleading, the province is exempt from Canada’s federal carbon tax because it puts a price on pollution through a cap-and-trade system that was in place yea
Snopes→ Did Phillip Adams Have CTE?
The former NFL player allegedly shot and killed five people in South Carolina before taking his own life.
Full Fact→ 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.
Logically→ Oxford has paused trials of the AstraZeneca vaccine among children and teenagers.
Oxford University has said there are no safety concerns over the vaccine but that it will wait for data on blood clotting before resuming trials.
Snopes→ Does Ghislaine Maxwell Have a ‘Dirty’ Jail Cell and Refuses to Flush Her Toilet?
Prosecutors responded to lawyers' complaints about “horrific conditions” in the jail cell of Jeffrey Epstein's associate.
Snopes→ Did George Floyd Really Yell, ‘I Ate Too Many Drugs?’
The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer on trial in the death of George Floyd tried to show that Floyd yelled "I ate too many drugs” as three officers pinned him to the ground.
Full Fact→ What’s going on with the AstraZeneca vaccine?
A number of announcements have recently been made about use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, also known as Vaxzevria. This is due to a possible link between the first dose of the vaccine and a specific type of extremely rare blood clot, occu
Snopes→ Does John Travolta Have a ‘New Wife’?
Unscrupulous online advertisers claimed that the Hollywood star had remarried after the death of his wife, actor Kelly Preston, in 2020.
Snopes→ Did This Driver Evade Police By Bouncing Off Two Trucks?
According to a viral video, the driver started by jumping the car off an entrance ramp.
Snopes→ Did Alex Jones Stop Smugglers From Illegally Transporting Children at Border?
On video, Jones was screaming and pointing at a vehicle carrying children, but doing little else.
Snopes→ Biden Nominates Gun Control Advocate as ATF Director, Pushes New Exec Orders
Biden has faced increasing pressure to act after a recent series of mass shootings, but the White House has repeatedly emphasized the need for legislative action.
Snopes→ AP Source: NFL Player Phillip Adams Killed 5, then Himself
A York County, South Carolina Sheriff's office official said the investigation is ongoing.
Snopes→ N Ireland Leaders Call for Calm After Night of Violence
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealed for calm, saying “the way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality.”
Full Fact→ Zero hours workers not excluded from self-isolation payments
“We need to support people to self-isolate and there are still many, many people who are excluded from the government’s financial support for self isolation - people who are in insecure work, on zero hour contracts and all the rest of it.&
Logically→ Mexico approved the emergency use of the Covaxin vaccine.
Covaxin is the sixth vaccine to have been approved in Mexico.
AFP Fact Check→ Ethiopian PM has not been banned from travelling over human rights violations
Facebook posts shared in Ethiopia in Oromo and English allege that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been banned from travelling abroad over human rights violations in the restive Tigray region. The claim surfaced after a Amnesty International rep
Poynter→ Factually: India and Georgia look back at COVID-19’s information impact
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it on your email every Thursday. Local impact on global falsehoods Fact-checkers have long known that falseho
Poynter→ Did ’60 Minutes’ selectively edit footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?
Did “60 Minutes” selectively edit video footage of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to portray the state’s coronavirus vaccine in a negative light? That’s what DeSantis and some of his supporters are saying. The report by “60 Minutes
AFP Fact Check→ Pakistani social media users share debunked coronavirus myths
A video has been shared tens of thousands of times by Pakistani Facebook users that claims Italian doctors discovered Covid-19 is caused by a bacteria. The video goes on to claim the bacteria is somehow spread through the "poisonous waves of 5G",
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading Facebook posts claim Covid-19 vaccine increases risk of catching the novel coronavirus
Multiple Facebook posts share a claim that people become more prone to Covid-19 infection after they receive their first of two vaccine doses. The claim is misleading: while people who have received the Covid-19 jab can still contract the virus, gettin
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts falsely tout bean sprouts as dementia cure
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that bean sprouts are a “cure” for dementia. The claim is false: a health expert at South Korea's Central Dementia Center told AFP bean sprouts are not proven to be a cure for dementia; sprouts are also n
AFP Fact Check→ Papua New Guinea posts misrepresent AstraZeneca roll-out in Australia
Facebook posts circulating in Papua New Guinea have shared a screenshot of an Australian news report about the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Europe over blood clot concerns. The posts claim the vaccine is being "questi
AFP Fact Check→ This video has been edited to add an Indonesian hymn in a clip of a Vatican service
A clip has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that an Indonesian church hymn was sung during a service at the Vatican in March 2021. The posts also claim the Vatican used woven coconut leaves as a mark of r
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been manipulated from a photo of Tom Hanks wearing a USA soccer jersey
An image of American actor Tom Hanks purportedly wearing a T-shirt that reads “take me to Greece” has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. In fact, the picture has been manipulated from a photo Hanks posted in 2015, in which he was wearing
AFP Fact Check→ Fake survey falsely purports to project winners in West Bengal elections
An image has been shared repeatedly on Facebook and Instagram that purports to show an election survey conducted by a political consultancy group in India. The posts claim the "leaked" image shows the country’s ruling political party will gain se
Snopes→ How Often Did the 1960s Dodgers ‘Steal’ 1-0 Victories?
The answer is probably surprisingly less than you would think.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev Did NOT Utter This Famous Quote About Americans On September 29, 1959
Did then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev say in a speech, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible..." on September 29, 1959? And was this speech on the same day as the day he purportedly banged h
Snopes→ Is Biden Admin Restarting Border Wall Construction?
Joe Biden promised not to build "another foot of wall" during his 2020 campaign.
Snopes→ MSNBC Apologizes for Showing Wrong Video of Congressman
MSNBC apologized for mistakenly airing video of another Black congressman while reporting a day earlier on the death of U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida.
Snopes→ Did an Abandoned CA Military Base Lead to an Incredible Find?
The Devil’s Slide lookout bunker was the site of a military triangulation station and observation site used during World War II.
Snopes→ Was the Personal Info of a Half-Billion Facebook Users Leaked Online?
Facebook said the data breach happened in 2019.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden’s Approval Rating Is NOT 11% According To Gallup
Is President Biden's approval rating 11% according to Gallup? No, that's not true: Their most recent polling puts his approval rating at 54%, according to Gallup's website. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on April 6,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Belgian Health Minister Getting Vaccinated Without a Needle
Does a viral video show Bart Somers, the "Health Minister of Belgium," getting vaccinated with a syringe that is missing the needle? No, that's not true: Somers was never the health minister in Belgium, and the video was taken from a news
AllSides→ Do Americans Need a Vaccine Passport for Interstate Travel?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/do-americans-need-a-vaccine-passport A widely shared Instagram post
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘A 1916 Propaganda Map Created by the Allies During World War I’
On April 6 2021, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of an undated tweet that purportedly depicted a “propaganda map” created by the Allied powers during the first World War: A 1916 propaganda map created by the Allies during World War I.
Snopes→ Lawyer: Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Has Spinal Hernias
A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, said that doctors have found him to be suffering from two spinal hernias.
Logically→ U.K. adults under 30 have been advised to take an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The U.K.'s government vaccines advisory board has suggested alternative vaccines are given to younger adults due to a small risk of blood clots.