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Snopes→ Detectives Find Cause of Tiger Woods Crash But Won’t Reveal
The Los Angeles County sheriff would not release details, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star.
The Dispatch→ A Different Kind of Capital
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FactCheck.org→ Viral Posts Misuse VAERS Data to Make False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Social media posts repeatedly misuse unverified data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, and even lethal. But the government database is not designed to determine if vac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Voting Law Does NOT Include A Non-Water Loophole Allowing People To Give Tea, Soda Pop, Milk To Voters Standing In Line
Does Georgia's new voting law allow people to hand out drinks to voters waiting in line, so long as the drink isn't water? No, that's not true: The text of the law says "food and drink," which would include beverages like iced tea, chocol
Snopes→ COVID-19 Pushed Total US Deaths Beyond 3.3 Million Last Year
The coronavirus caused approximately 375,000 deaths and was the third leading cause of death in 2020, after heart disease and cancer.
The Dispatch→ The Walls Are Strong, but the Cannon Fire Is Real
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The Dispatch→ Infrastructure Push and Bumpy Roads
President Biden introduced a massive $2 trillion infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh, and the gang is wondering what type of fight the GOP is going to put up against the bill. Steve asks, “You’d think this might be something Republicans would
Snopes→ Italy Orders 2 Russian Embassy Officials Expelled for Spying
Police arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after they caught the officer allegedly giving classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money.
Snopes→ No, England’s University of Oxford Isn’t Banning Sheet Music
Internet outrage is sometimes based on false assumptions.
The Dispatch→ Is Nike Producing ‘Satan Shoes’ With Lil Nas X?
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The Dispatch→ Is Nike Producing ‘Satan Shoes’ With Lil Nas X?
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Snopes→ Archbishop: Harry, Meghan Didn’t Wed Before Windsor Service
The archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed that he legally married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle in May 2018.
Snopes→ Did Michael Strahan ‘Say Goodbye’ to His Gap?
We're not calling the "Good Morning America" host a liar, but a prankster .... maybe.
Snopes→ France Announces 3-Week School Closure, Domestic Travel Ban
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a three-week nationwide school closure and a month-long domestic travel ban in an effort to fight the rapid spread of the virus.
Logically→ Amazon delivery workers in the US have to urinate in bottles.
There is widespread evidence to prove that Amazon delivery workers in the US have no resort but to pee in bottles.
Snopes→ ‘Cool but Weird.’ Macy’s Store Transformed into School
Students who once shopped at a downtown mall in Burlington, Vermont, are now attending high school in the former Macy’s department store
The Dispatch→ The Suez Canal Debacle Reveals Less—and More—About ‘Globalization’ Than You Think
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AFP Fact Check→ Mass Covid-19 vaccination will not lead to ‘out of control’ variants
A scientist’s open letter to the World Health Organization claims that the large-scale Covid-19 vaccination drives currently underway around the world should cease before they produce the catastrophic appearance of more deadly variants of the coronav
Snopes→ Reversing Trump, Pentagon to Release New Transgender Policy
The Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Truth or Fiction?→ Harvard’s ‘Anti-Asian Racism Resources’: ‘You May Wish That You Weren’t Asian’
Just before midnight on March 30 2021, Harvard student and journalist Matteo Wong published a tweet thread about a Harvard University “anti-Asian racism resources” page — primarily, a purported section offering that readers “m
Snopes→ Ruh Roh! Biden Pooch Drops Doggie Doo in White House Hallway
It was unclear which pooch — Major or Champ — dropped the poo.
Full Fact→ Lateral flow tests are not unsafe
In England, secondary school and college students and staff, and their households, are being asked to regularly take a lateral flow test to check for Covid-19. We’ve seen a large number of posts on social media warning people not to use Covid-19
Snopes→ Did Breastfeeding Baby Die After Mother Received COVID-19 Vaccine Dose?
Health experts do recommend the vaccine be given to breastfeeding parents.
Snopes→ Some Capitol Riot Suspects Apologize as Consequences Sink In
Dozens of rioters have apologized and expressed regret as the consequences of their actions have started to sink in.
Snopes→ A Cryptocurrency Expert Explains NFTs
Nonfungible tokens prove ownership of a digital item – image, sound file or text – in the same way that people own crypto coins.
Snopes→ New York State Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
New York could become the largest legal marijuana market on the East Coast — generating a potential $2.3 billion in annual sales by its fourth year.
Snopes→ Did Matt Gaetz Retweet ‘There’s No Age That You Can’t Be Sexy’?
Some of the congressman's old tweets resurfaced amid a March 2021 sex trafficking scandal.
Full Fact→ Government communications should serve the public
Today's news agenda is being driven by government led discussion of a carefully selected preview of a 258 page report and then 24 unknown recommendations. By the time the actual report was released, media lines had been taken, and much of what the publ
AFP Fact Check→ Recent posts about 34 children found in a truck in South Africa are false, harking back to older incidents
Multiple posts on Facebook claim that a truck carrying 34 kidnapped children was found in Rustenburg, a city in South Africa. The claim is false, according to local police, who said while there have been incidents in the past of undocumented children f
Snopes→ Suspect in Attack on Asian American Woman in NYC is Arrested
The victim was walking to church in midtown Manhattan when police said a man kicked her in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, stomped on her face, shouted anti-Asian slurs before calmly walking away.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA after clinical trials demonstrated that they are safe and effective; COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimenta
REVIEW The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines allowed the U.S. to initiate a nationwide campaign of vaccination against the disease in December 2020. More than 138 million vaccine doses were administered as of 24 March 2021. U.S. president Joe B
Logically→ PayPal will allow payments with cryptocurrency.
The payment vendor has announced that customers in the US will be able to convert cryptocurrencies into fiat currencies to make purchases.
Snopes→ Eager to Build Infrastructure, Biden Plans to Tax Business
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the plan is “about making an investment in America — not just modernizing our roads or railways or bridges but building an infrastructure of the future.”
Snopes→ Pfizer Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Younger Teens
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla expressed “the hope of starting to vaccinate this age group before the start of the next school year" in the United States.
The Dispatch→ The Morning Dispatch: The Border Crisis Worsens
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AFP Fact Check→ Embassy denies that Russian leader ridiculed Ethiopia’s prime minister about rainfall technology
A post featuring an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been shared alongside a claim that he mocked the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, in a UK newspaper for attributing rainfall in the dry, northern Shewa region to the use of cloud se
Poynter→ False COVID-19 vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why.
In the early days of the pandemic, a Facebook page for Earthley promised an easy way to avoid getting COVID-19. The wellness company promoted a vitamin D cream and an elderberry elixir to strengthen the body’s immune response and “help fight of
The Dispatch→ The Paradox That Fuels Our Divided Politics
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Hoax-Slayer→ Old ‘Crabzilla’ Giant Crab Hoax Image Still Circulating
In 2014, the interwebs were all abuzz concerning an image that appears to depict a gigantic crab - quickly dubbed 'Crabzilla' - just offshore from the seaside town of Whitstable in the UK. The post Old ‘Crabzilla’ Giant Crab Hoax Image Stil