A meme attempting to mock Eric Trump's intelligence used a doctored photograph to make its point.
Snopes→ Did Canada Ban ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Chants?
Conservative Trump supporters aren't cheering on random Brandons.
Snopes→ Israeli Scuba Diver Discovers Ancient Crusader Sword
An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.
Snopes→ France Returns Marble Angels Stolen from Italy Church in ’89
A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th-century marble angels from an antiques shop has returned the winged “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church.
Full Fact→ Bill Gates’ £400m claim about green investment was wrong
Boris Johnson: So together we’re putting in £200 million, I think Bill [Gates]’s putting in £200 million if I’ve got the numbers right, just checking. Bill Gates: £400 [million] each. Global Investment Summit broadc
Logically→ Keir Starmer refused to charge Jimmy Savile, an English DJ who sexually abused children.
Starmer was not directly responsible as he was not the reviewing lawyer on the Jimmy Savile case.
Full Fact→ Viral tweet overstates UK’s lead in Covid-19 cases
A tweet with over 5,000 retweets claimed on 18 October: “There were 229,000 new cases of coronavirus in the world yesterday. The UK provided 20% of them. 1 in 5 of the new cases in the whole world was on our little island.” That’s not
Full Fact→ Concerns about animal welfare are just one reason Sainsbury’s stopped selling fireworks
A post shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter claims that Sainsbury’s will no longer sell fireworks due to animals being frightened by the products. Some people have long campaigned for firework sales to the general public to be
Snopes→ Grammys Release Inclusion Requirement to Ensure Diverse Show
The Grammys will stick to its word with the public release of the full inclusion rider to ensure equity and inclusion in hiring on all levels of production for next year’s ceremony.
AllSides→ The COVID-19 Recession Officially Ended Before Biden Took Office
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/the-covid-19-recession-officially-ended-before-biden-took-office/ The
Snopes→ Soul Train Awards Headed to Apollo for the First Time
The annual Soul Train Awards will be presented for the first time at New York City's Apollo Theater, the legendary Harlem performance venue, as two icons of Black culture team up.
Logically→ Haribo gummy bears are made from boiled skin, skeletons, and the connective tissues of animals.
Although most ingredients in Haribo gummy candies are plant-based, gelatin is made by boiling animal skin, tendons, ligaments, and bones with water.
Snopes→ More Than 90 Snakes Found Under Northern California Home
Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses.
Logically→ Public Health England: Vaccinated people in their forties are reporting double the infection rate compared to those unvaccinated.
Vaccinate does not raise the risk of catching COVID-19. The study quoted by Daily Sceptic has been misrepresented.
Snopes→ Rapper Formerly Known As Kanye West is Now Just Ye
A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name.
Full Fact→ NHSX website doesn’t reveal vaccine passport roll out
Posts on social media, YouTube and an article on the website The Exposé, have used a passage of text from the NHSX website as evidence to claim that the government will “definitely” be introducing vaccine passports “in the UK&r
Poynter→ WHO database is not proof that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful
While more than 6 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to people across the globe, social media users continue to cite the number of reported adverse reactions to the vaccines to cast doubt on their safety. A video shared on I
Washington Post→ Ad exaggerates potential impact of Biden estate-tax plan
A rancher claims that Biden's plan would force the sale of many family farms — but few farms face an estate-tax liability.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spanish High Court Did NOT ‘Confirm’ That COVID-19 Does Not Exist
Did Spain's high court confirm that COVID-19 does not exist? No, that's not true: The Spanish Ministry of Health was not taken to court, there was no hearing and the "proof" offered is an informational reply letter the government issued t
Snopes→ Carole Baskin Gets To Tell Her Side of the Story in Upcoming Show
More wild animal drama is headed our way.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Spiked by Injection’ Warnings on Social Media
In October 2021, rumors warning that people — mostly women – were being “spiked by injection” spread virally across social media, with several high-engagement versions on Twitter: you’ve been outsmarted by us, we cover our d
FactCheck.org→ The COVID-19 Recession Officially Ended Before Biden Took Office
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially lasted just two months and ended in April 2020. But Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrongly credited President Joe Biden for guiding “this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying r
Snopes→ Biden Plans to Reinstate Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
The Biden administration said it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, complying with a judge's order.
Snopes→ Trump Files Lawsuit to Block Release of Jan. 6 Documents
Trump claims in the lawsuit that the request “is almost limitless in scope,” and seeks records with no reasonable connection to that day.
Snopes→ Winter Heating Bills Rising by up to 54% This Year
Now that the economy is returning to life, demand has grown faster than production, meaning costs are much higher.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hunter Biden Was NOT Hanged At Gitmo
Was Hunter Biden hanged at Guantanamo Bay on October 15, 2021? No, that's not true: A duty officer at the Pentagon told Lead Stories, "this is false." Also, this claim was made on a self-described satirical website whose disclaimer says i
Snopes→ DC Suspends Most of Its Metro Trains over Safety Issue
The ruling promises to complicate daily travel and commutes for thousands of riders for an unspecified length of time.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Rent to Own is For the Financially Illiterate’
On October 13 2021, a Facebook user published the following warning about rent-to-own appliances and large purchases, describing the manner in which such transactions functionally served as a tax on low-income people: STAY AWAY FROM RENT to Own Places
Snopes→ Are Container Ship Backups and Supply Chain Disruptions a Communist Plot?
Rumors abound that October 2021 supply chain interruptions across the U.S. were deliberate.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Public Health England Data Does NOT Suggest That COVID-19 Vaccines Cause AIDS
Does Public Health England (PHE) data suggest that COVID-19 vaccines cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)? No, that's not true: The data is misinterpreted, and a spokesperson from the United Kingdom Health Security Agency -- wh
Snopes→ New ‘Superman’ Announces New Super Motto
The announcement came a week after the DC hero's son came out as bisexual.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Claims that the Pfizer Vaccine Is Not Yet Approved
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Brian Laundrie Was Found Alive in Mexico — Claim Is From A Fake Article
Did U.S. authorities find Brian Laundrie, fiance of the late Gabby Petito, alive in Mexico? No, there's no evidence of that: The site where the claim was made, Conservative Beaver, is known for creating false stories that are bound to get
Snopes→ British Museum to Display the World’s Oldest Map of Stars
The 3,600-year-old “Nebra Sky Disc,” first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations of the cosmos in the world.
Snopes→ Photo of $123K Frozen Turkey at Target Is from 2015
Some Facebook commenters took the matter seriously and referenced politics, despite the fact that the joke or mistake showed a weight of 9,999.99 pounds.
Full Fact→ NASA didn’t paste a picture of the Earth into photos from the moon
A video on Instagram suggests that a number of images of the Earth from space have been altered or “faked” by NASA. The video, taken from a much longer interview with conspiracy theorist Dave Murphy, presents four images produced by N
Snopes→ How Facebook’s Failures Line Up With Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Docs
We connected the dots between some of our own past investigations and the internal Facebook research that whistleblower Frances Haugen made public.
Full Fact→ Nigel Farage understates renewable energy generation
“On a good day wind energy can bring us 24%, 25% of our electricity needs… back in September there was a three week period when renewables produced between 2% and 3%.” Nigel Farage, 14 October 2021. During his show on GB News, forme
Full Fact→ No evidence Tesco is sacking 4,300 workers
A post shared 29,000 times on Facebook claims that Tesco is sacking 4,300 staff and relates this to the use of self-service checkout machines. There is no evidence that this is happening. Tesco also confirmed that this was false. The post may refer to
Full Fact→ The Joe Rogan podcast misused English Covid-19 data
On 12 October 2021, Alex Berenson, an American journalist appearing as a podcast guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, used data from the now replaced Public Health England (PHE) to claim that people over 40 are more likely to catch Covid-19 if they are v