Celebrity zookeeper and animal TV show host Jack Hanna has been diagnosed with dementia and will retire from public life, his family said.
Snopes→ Is Ja Rule’s Online Platform Auctioning Rights to Viral Fyre Festival Sandwich Tweet?
The tweet was described as a “Meme. Cultural touchstone. Cheese sandwich.”
The Dispatch→ Do Americans Need a Vaccine Passport for Interstate Travel?
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The Dispatch→ Do Americans Need a Vaccine Passport for Interstate Travel?
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Snopes→ Was ‘The Madness of George III’ Retitled for U.S. Audiences?
The film 'The Madness of King George' deals with the political machinations that took place as the monarch's illness incapacitated him.
Snopes→ Did the Trump Campaign Have To Issue Refunds for Recurring Donations?
A report by The New York Times outlines Trump donors who were surprised to find their bank accounts drained.
Snopes→ A Paper Cowboy Rides out His Quarantine in Australian Hotel
By Day 3 of being confined to his Australian hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored.
AFP Fact Check→ Oxford University is not ‘canceling’ sheet music
Articles and social media posts claim that a prestigious British university may pull sheet music from the curriculum due to its ties to white supremacy. But while Oxford plans to broaden its music curriculum, spokespeople for the university said there
Snopes→ Discarded Masks Litter Beaches Worldwide, Threaten Sea Life
To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand.
Snopes→ Did Lily from the AT&T Commercials ‘Confirm Rumors’?
For years, online advertisers have paid to push misleading claims about actress Milana Vayntrub.
Snopes→ Did Anti-Poaching Ranger Take a Selfie With the Gorillas He is Protecting?
The picture has been around since 2019 and has gone viral multiple times since its original publication.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Person In A Body Bag Smoking A Cigarette Is NOT A COVID-19 Deception — It’s A Music Video
Did someone stage a grim scene: an open dump truck piled high with corpses in body bags, to present a false narrative about the COVID-19 pandemic? And was this staged scene revealed to be fake because a video captured one of the "dead bod
Truth or Fiction?→ Midwin Charles ‘Just Got Vaccinated’ Tweet
After the sudden death of commentator Midwin Charles (disclosed on April 6 2021), a tweet attributed to Charles stating that she “just got vaccinated” circulated on Twitter: The tweet, which was dated 10:18 AM on March 1 2021, said: Just g
Snopes→ Is this Michigan University the 1st in the US To Offer a Cannabis Chemistry Scholarship?
Lake Superior State University launched the cannabis chemistry degree program in 2019.
Snopes→ Did Biden Say George Floyd’s Death Had Greater ‘Worldwide Impact’ Than MLK’s?
Remarks attributed to U.S. President Joe Biden saw a resurgence in social media sharing in April 2021.
Logically→ Colorado requires photo ID to vote in person.
Colorado voters may use any of several forms of identification without a photo also. It is not mandatory to carry a photo ID to vote in person.
Snopes→ Does Donald Trump Have a Statue of Himself in Mar-a-Lago Office?
A photo of the 45th president's Florida office shared by former aide Stephen Miller on Twitter contains a panoply of curious Trumpian trinkets.
Logically→ The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest human experiment of all time.
COVID-19 is not a man-made or a controlled phenomenon, but an unexpected, highly infectious disease.
Snopes→ Tiger Woods Was Speeding Before Crashing SUV, Sheriff Says
Tiger Woods was speeding when he crashed an SUV in Southern California less than two months ago, leaving the golf superstar seriously injured, authorities said.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Is NOT Removing Coke From All State-Owned Buildings
Is Georgia removing Coke from all state-owned buildings? No, that's not true: Although a group of GOP state legislators requested that Coca-Cola products be removed from their offices, there is no known effort to spread such a ban to all
Snopes→ Did a Komodo Dragon Get Stuck in a Convenience Store?
Here be dragons?
Full Fact→ Viral video contains several false pandemic claims
A viral video on Facebook includes a number of false and misleading claims about the Covid-19 pandemic. The video consists of a woman recommending a publication in New Zealand called The Real News, which she summarises and reads from. There are a
Snopes→ EU Agency: Rare Clots Possibly Linked to AstraZeneca Shot
It said most of the cases reported have occurred in women under 60 within two weeks of vaccination — but based on the currently available evidence, it was not able to identify specific risk factors.
Logically→ Centre: Kumbh Mela is becoming a super spreader event.
The Indian government clarified that the media report quoting the Centre as saying that the ongoing Kumbh Mela is a COVID-19 super-spreader is fake.
Snopes→ Are These ‘Monster Fish’ Exchanging an Eel Meal?
This bizarre video appears to feature two dead fish.
Snopes→ Was a Miami Stripper Arrested for Squirting Vaginal Fluids at Police?
A piece of satire went viral because an image of this alleged stripper resembled actress Amy Poehler.
AllSides→ MLB All-Star Lineup: Colorado vs. Georgia
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Snopes→ Rare Superman Comic Sells for Record $3.25M
One of the few copies of the comic book that introduced Superman to the world has sold for a super-sized, record-setting price.
Snopes→ Report: Pandemic Amped Up Anti-Semitism, Forced It Online
“Anti-Jewish hatred online never stays online," said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.
Snopes→ Los Angeles Sheriff Will Reveal Cause of Tiger Woods Crash
The sheriff for Los Angeles County plans to announce what caused golf icon Tiger Woods to crash an SUV in Southern California earlier this year.
Snopes→ Minneapolis Officers Line Up to Reject Chauvin’s Actions
Several experienced officers, including the police chief himself, have testified that Floyd should not have been kept pinned to the pavement for close to 9 1/2 minutes by prosecutors’ reckoning as the Black man lay face-down, his hands cuffed behind
Logically→ The audience for NBC’s Golden Globe awards 2021 was down by 60% this year.
Figures suggest that the number of viewers for the prestigious awards event sunk to a 13 year low.
Logically→ Prime Minister Narendra Modi breached the election protocol by addressing a rally in Howrah on April 6.
Modi addressed a rally in Cooch Behar and Howrah’s Dumurjola on April 6, where polls were held on April 10. The silence period was not breached.
Full Fact→ Covid-19 is not the same as a common cold
A Facebook post claims to show a medical encyclopedia from 1989 showing that coronaviruses cause the common cold, which could imply that Covid-19 is no different from a cold. This picture needs more context. The word ‘coronavirus’ has
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts misleadingly claim only one politician has died from Covid-19
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a claim that “not a single politician in the world” died of Covid-19 except John Magufuli, a former president of Tanzania known for downplaying the scale of the pandemic. The claim is misleading: at least seven
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Florida Stripper Resembling Amy Poehler Arrested For Squirting Bodily Fluids At Police in Self-Defense
Was a Florida stripper using the name Britney Simmons arrested at the Camel Toe strip club in Miami and did she squirt vaginal fluids at the officers in self-defense? No, that's not true: The story was made up by a Canadian entertainment
Washington Post→ Biden says suicides are up because of covid. That may not have happened.
New data suggests suicides fell in 2020, but overdoses and other “deaths of despair” are up during the pandemic.
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been doctored from a photo showing stray dogs in an Indian hospital
A photo that shows stray dogs sitting on hospital beds has been shared in multiple Facebook posts that claim it was taken in a hospital in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh. The claim is false: the photo actually shows a hospital in India; the
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows a digital animation, not real drones playing volleyball
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Tiktok and Weibo posts that claim it shows actual drones playing volleyball. The claim is false: the video in fact shows a digital animation project created by a
Snopes→ Family Sues After California Man Dies in Taco Eating Contest
The son of a California man who choked to death during an amateur taco eating contest at a minor league baseball game is suing the event’s organizers for negligence.