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Snopes→ MLB Moving All-Star Game to Denver’s Coors Field
Major League Baseball plans to relocate the All-Star Game to Coors Field in Denver after pulling this year's Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to sweeping changes to Georgia's voting laws.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof Justice Clarence Thomas And His Wife Ginni Thomas Chartered Buses For January 6, 2021, Capitol Protesters
Did Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife charter buses for January 6, 2021, protesters in Washington, D.C.? No, there is no proof of that. Justice Thomas's wife, Ginni Thomas, did promote the rally that evolved into proteste
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts make misleading claims about the Sun and rainbows
A photo collage has surfaced on Facebook in South Korea alongside various claims about the Sun’s distance from Earth and the formation of rainbows. Experts told AFP that the posts’ claims were misleading.
Snopes→ Is It a Bad Idea To Laminate Your COVID-19 Vaccine Card?
As of early April 2021, more than 62 million Americans had been fully vaccinated.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There’s NO Evidence Sex Crime Defendant Jason Pope Trafficked ‘Nearly 700 women, All Black’
Is there evidence or criminal charges that say South Carolina sex crimes defendant Jason "DJ Kidd" Pope trafficked "nearly 700 women, all black"? No, that's not true: Social media posts have taken out of context Pope's Facebook boast that
Snopes→ Harvey Weinstein Appeals Conviction, Blames ‘Cavalier’ Judge
More than a year after Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, his lawyers are demanding a new trial, arguing in court papers that the landmark #MeToo prosecution that put him behind bars was buoyed by improper rulings from a judge who was “cavalier”
Snopes→ Prayer Vigil Held Outside NY Hospital for Rapper DMX
Supporters and family of the rapper DMX chanted his name and offered up prayers outside the New York hospital where he remained on life support.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Say Special Operation Boarded The ‘Ever Given’ To Find Weapons, Bodies, Trafficked People
Was an "intel dispatch" released to the public that told of a U.S. military special operation in which U.S. Navy SEALs boarded the cargo ship Ever Given? And did this mission discover heavy weapons as well as 1,366 dead and 1,245 people a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Rushed To The Hospital
Was Joe Biden rushed to the hospital April 5, 2021? No, that's not true. Joe Biden had not been hospitalized in days leading up to and including April 5, 2021. He spent Easter Sunday at Camp David, as a photo on his daughter Ashley Biden'
FactCheck.org→ Biden, Buttigieg Exaggerate Projected Job Gains in Infrastructure Plan
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is projected to add 2.7 million jobs over 10 years, according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Biden and members of his administration have cited the Moody
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Link Between Milk Casein And Cancer Is NOT Proven
Does casein -- the main protein in milk -- cause cancer? No, that's not true: casein is not listed as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer or the U.S. National Toxicology Program. The claim originated from a vid
Snopes→ Did Agents Confiscate 3,000 US Stimulus Checks at the Border?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Snopes→ Arkansas Governor Vetoes Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pete Buttigieg Did NOT Stage A Short Bike Ride For a Photo Op
Did Pete Buttigieg stage a short bike ride for a photo op? No, that's not true: The claim was made without proof, based on a short video clip that did not document his whole trip. The transportation secretary biked both to and from a Cabi
Snopes→ Is Oakland Offering “Guaranteed Income” Only to People of Color?
The experimental program originally described itself as solely for families who are Black, indigenous, and people of color, but that has since changed.
Snopes→ Did a Gymnast Celebrate by Showing Off Vaccination Card?
Move over touchdown dance, it's time for the vaccination card wave.
Snopes→ Is This the Real Obituary of Margaret Groening, Mother of ‘Simpsons’ Creator Matt Groening?
Margaret was reportedly married to a man named Homer.
Snopes→ Matt Gaetz Says He Won’t Resign over ‘False’ Sex Allegations
Rep. Matt Gaetz said he will not leave Congress and denied accusations that he had sex with an underage girl, suggesting that he's being targeted by political foes because he “loathes the swamp.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Special Forces Did NOT Arrest John Podesta and Huma Abedin
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest former Hillary Clinton campaign aides John Podesta and Huma Abedin? No, that's not true: There's no credible corroboration for an article that makes the claim, which rests on a purported single unnamed sourc
Snopes→ No, Ilhan Omar Wasn’t Wearing an Odal Rune
Omar is the frequent target of hoaxes and smears.
Truth or Fiction?→ Politicians Claim That Deaths By Suicide Increased During Lockdowns; Mortality Report Says Otherwise
On April 4 2021, Twitter user Elizabeth Jacobs PhD (@TheAngryEpi) tweeted about political claims involving quarantine-related suicides in 2020, contrasted with March 2021 data about mortality rates for the year before: Politicians told us repeatedly
Snopes→ ER Doc Theorized That Lack of Oxygen Stopped Floyd’s Heart
The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified that he theorized at the time that Floyd's heart most likely stopped because he didn't get enough oxygen.
Snopes→ Did DMX Say He Was ‘Tricked’ Into Smoking Crack?
DMX opened up about his struggles with addiction during a 2020 interview.
Snopes→ Was Disney Guest Arrested After Refusing Temperature Check?
"Do you know how much stock I own in Disney?"
Snopes→ Supreme Court Nixes Alex Jones’ Appeal in Sandy Hook Case
The families and an FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are suing Jones and his show over claims that the massacre was a hoax.
Snopes→ Are These the Sons of the Three Tenors?
You do not have to be related to Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, or Luciano Pavarotti to have a great singing voice.
Snopes→ Are These the Children of the Three Tenors?
You do not have to be related to Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, or Luciano Pavarotti to have a great singing voice.
Snopes→ High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle
To create Android, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that’s part of Oracle’s Java platform.
Snopes→ Was an Asian American Woman Attacked on NYC Street but No One Helped Her?
The Internet likened a March 2021 assault near Times Square to the notorious death of Kitty Genovese 57 years earlier.
Snopes→ Was Raiders’ Bruce Campbell Involved in a Walmart Fight?
A third-party's misidentification caused a false rumor to go viral.
Snopes→ Supreme Court Dismisses Case over Trump and Twitter Critics
The case concerned the @realdonaldtrump account with more than 88 million followers and Trump's argument that it is his personal property.
Snopes→ Utah Dads to Be Required to Pay Half of Pregnancy Costs
Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, recently signed the proposal, which received widespread support in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
Snopes→ Florida Works to Avoid ‘Catastrophic’ Pond Collapse
“What we are looking at now is trying to prevent and respond to, if need be, a real catastrophic flood situation,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said
The Dispatch→ The Morning Dispatch: The Ohio Senate Race Gets Trumpy
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Poynter→ The Gateway Pundit falsely claimed two vaccines used in the US caused deaths and injuries in Europe
As states across the U.S. expand the eligibility for getting a COVID-19 shot, a conservative website blasted out a warning from Europe. The Gateway Pundit claimed two of the vaccines being used in the United States are behind thousands of deaths and in
The Dispatch→ Imbeciles Amok
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The Dispatch→ Biden’s Infrastructure Proposal Is a Giant Boondoggle
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The Dispatch→ ‘This Race Needs To Be About Ohio’
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AFP Fact Check→ The Sri Lankan protest banner featured in this image has been digitally manipulated
An image has been shared repeatedly by Sri Lankan Facebook users that shows opposition party members protesting against deforestation. The photo purports to show some protesters holding a banner that contains profanity. The banner, however, has be