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AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts mislead on meaning of ‘AstraZeneca’
Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim AstraZeneca, the name of a British-Swedish drugmaker, means "weapon that kills" in a combination of three languages. The posts circulated online after millions of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines wer
AFP Fact Check→ These billboards were put up by a nonprofit Hindu organisation, not the Canadian government
Photos of billboards in Canada thanking India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending Covid-19 vaccines to the country have been shared thousands of times in Facebook and Twitter posts which imply that the billboards were installed by the Canadian
AFP Fact Check→ US doctor makes false claims in video about Covid-19
A video from a Texas doctor warning against Covid-19 immunizations and touting drugs he says can treat the disease has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media. But medical experts say the physician’s claims about the safety and efficac
FactCheck.org→ Pfizer CEO Got Vaccinated, Contrary to Claim in Video
SciCheck Digest A video making the false claim that the Pfizer CEO “refuses” to get a COVID-19 vaccine has been circulating on Facebook. But the pharmaceutical company’s chief executive has said that he’s gotten his first shot.
Full Fact→ Viral instagram video falsely claims Covid-19 was planned
A video on Instagram that has been viewed more than 20,000 times claims that a second wave of Covid-19 has been planned, and Covid-19 vaccines are going to be fatal. Both claims are false. Conspiracy theories about the planning of Covid-19 have been sh
Full Fact→ Covid-19: Behind the death toll
We see the scale of this pandemic in another way if we look at the death toll alongside how many years of life are being lost—including among people who don’t die. Readers have been asking us different versions of the same question for man
Health Feedback→ Bill Gates quoted out of context about injecting kids with genetically modified organisms in discussion on GM crops
REVIEW A video posted on YouTube showed a clip of Bill Gates speaking about injecting children with genetically modified organisms. The video has been viewed more than 15,000 times and shared more than 3,000 times on Facebook, according to the social
The Dispatch→ The Morning Dispatch: Biden Meets the Press
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Full Fact→ Travel to Spain requires negative Covid test
On Instagram, businessman Wayne Lineker has claimed that, once international travel resumes, people will not need to have been vaccinated in order to travel to Spain and will only require proof they have tested negative with a PCR test in the 72 hours
Full Fact→ Sky News video does not say ‘UK jab causes clots’
A video of a Sky News segment has been shared on social media by a group called ‘Mysteries, Truths, and Conspiracies’, with the caption: “UK jabs causing blood clots, but denied as you would expect”. This caption is false, and a
Full Fact→ Here’s exactly what Nadine Dorries said on Woman’s Hour about nurses’ salaries
A widely-shared tweet, also reposted on Facebook, claims that health minister Nadine Dorries “just said that most nurses will understand and accept the 1% pay rise BECAUSE THEY HAVE HUSBANDS AND PARTNERS WHO ARE BRINGING IN SALARIES.” This
Logically→ West Bengal is among the top 4 States in India for the cumulative coverage of the COVID-19 vaccination.
Bengal stands in 5th place among all states after administering 48,66,734 doses of the COVID vaccine as of March 29, 2021.
The Dispatch→ Ron Johnson Is the Same as He Ever Was
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AFP Fact Check→ Film portraying a pandemic’s devastation is not set in 2021
A Facebook post claims the years-old movie “I Am Legend,” which depicts the world devastated by a deadly virus after a cancer cure goes wrong, is set in 2021 -- an attempt at linking the sci-fi thriller’s plot with coronavirus and Covid-19 vacc
Full Fact→ AstraZeneca does not translate to ‘weapon that kills’
A post on Facebook claims that the name of Covid-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca translates to ‘weapon that kills’. This is not accurate. On the subject of its name, AstraZeneca has previously explained that it was formed in 1999 aft
Health Feedback→ Both viruses and bacteria cause disease; pathogenic viruses aren’t naturally created in the body as a response to damage
REVIEW In March 2021, a series of Facebook posts (see examples here, here, and here) discussing what viruses are and if viruses and bacteria can cause diseases were posted by chiropractor Melissa Sell. The posts made a number of inaccurate and misle
Snopes→ Man Accused of Holding National Guard Members at Gunpoint
An Arizona man is accused of forcing off the road a National Guard convoy transporting COVID-19 vaccines in West Texas and then holding 11 guard members at gunpoint.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘BLM Trapped 100 Shoppers’ in Wegman’s in Rochester, Explained
On March 23 2021, right-wing websites started pushing claims that Black Lives Matter protesters had “trapped” more than a hundred grocery shoppers inside a Rochester, New York Wegman’s supermarket: BREAKING: BLM Protesters Mob Stor
Snopes→ Will a COVID-19 Vaccination Get You a Free Krispy Kreme Doughnut?
In case you need another reason to get the vaccine.
Truth or Fiction?→ Yes, Krispy Kreme Is Giving Free Donuts to Vaccinated People in 2021
On March 22 2021, a number of outlets reported that Krispy Kreme was supporting the drive to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 with an interesting promotion — one free donut per vaccinated person per day in 2021. On that date, a WAGA-TV articl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Turn Gates Foundation Into A Corporation To Carry Out U.S. Plot To Depopulate Developing Countries
Is the Gates Foundation a multinational corporation that profits from vaccines as part of a U.S. government plot hatched in the 1970s to depopulate developing countries? No, that's not true: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a re
Snopes→ AstraZeneca Vaccinations Resume in Europe After Clot Scare
The suspensions came after reports of blood clots in some recipients of the vaccine, even though international health agencies urged governments to press ahead with the shot, saying the benefits outweighed the risks.
AFP Fact Check→ This footage circulated before the Covid-19 pandemic in reports about students fleeing tear gas at a school in Nigeria
Footage of students fleeing a building has been shared in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim that it shows children running from a school where “live virus” Covid-19 vaccines were being forcibly administered to black kids. The claim, however
Snopes→ Biden Plans to Send COVID Shots to Mexico, Canada
The U.S. is planning to send a combined 4 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico and Canada.
Snopes→ EU Regulator Reviews AstraZeneca Shot and Blood Clot Links
Concerns over the clotting led more than a dozen European countries to suspend use of the vaccine, even though the company and international health agencies said there was no indication the vaccine caused the clotting and recommended continuing inocula
Poynter→ When will we reach herd immunity? Here’s what the experts say.
It’s been a long, dark winter of COVID-19 concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mass Vaccination Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic Does NOT Create An ‘Irrepressible Monster’
Does mass vaccination amid the COVID-19 pandemic create an "irrepressible monster" of disease? No, that's not true: Vaccines represent one of our best hopes of stopping the spread of the virus and its variants, according to medical expert
AFP Fact Check→ Covid-19 vaccination does not impact Canada life insurance coverage
Social media posts claim that Canadian company Manulife will deny life insurance payments to people who have been immunized against Covid-19 because the vaccines are “experimental.” This is false; both the firm and the Canadian Life and Health Insu
FactCheck.org→ Hagler’s Widow Refutes Rumors About How He Died
Quick Take Hall of Fame boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler “died on March 13 of natural causes,” according to a statement posted on his official website. In a Facebook post, his widow, Kay Hagler, wrote that his death was not the result
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Israel’s Vaccination Data Do NOT Reveal A ‘Frightening’ Death Rate
Does Israel's vaccination data reveal a "frightening" death rate for elderly patients injected with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: This "new holocaust" conspiracy theory is contradicted by peer-reviewed medical studies and
AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts falsely claim link between AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab and Australian minister’s skin infection
A claim that Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt has suffered cellulitis caused by an AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter. The claim is false: according to medical experts, cellulitis is a skin infectio
Snopes→ Did Marvin Hagler Die From COVID-19 Vaccination?
Hagler's wife was forced to intervene amid unfounded rumors that the Hall of Fame former middleweight had succumbed to the "after effects" of a COVID-19 vaccine.
AFP Fact Check→ Doctored newspaper front page claims medics advise against Covid-19 jab
An image has been shared in multiple Facebook posts that purportedly shows a headline in the February 16, 2021 edition of The Times that reads “Doctors and experts advise against taking experimental jab”. The posts circulated amid widespread mi
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Prime-Time Address
In his remarks to the nation after signing the latest COVID-19 relief legislation, President Joe Biden stretched the facts, particularly when boasting of the increase in vaccinations on his watch. Biden spoke on March 11, marking a year since the natio
Full Fact→ Addressing Health Misinformation: Lessons from 2020
In early December 2020, Full Fact co-hosted with Facebook a virtual conference titled ‘Addressing Health Misinformation: Lessons from 2020’. This event brought together representatives from industry, academia, media, healthcare and governme
Poynter→ You’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19. What can you do now?
Tens of millions of Americans who have received their COVID-19 vaccines can now entertain the prospect of boldly going places, seeing people and doing things again, even if a return to normal life remains a ways off. The first set of public health rec
AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows South Korea’s governor taking part in a Covid-19 vaccination simulation exercise
A photo has been shared on multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Naver blog alongside a claim that Kim Kyoung-soo, the governor of South Korea’s South Gyeongsang province, received a Covid-19 vaccine shot on his jacket. The claim is misleading: t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Actor Anthony Hopkins Did NOT Fake Receiving A COVID-19 Shot In A Video
Did Anthony Hopkins fake receiving a COVID-19 shot from a staffer at a California hospital in the video the actor posted on Instagram? No, that's not true: In a March 10, 2021, email to Lead Stories, a spokeswoman for CHA Hollywood Presby
Logically→ Pakistan to receive 45 million doses of Covaxin from India.
Pakistan will be receiving 45 million doses of the Covishield vaccine from India under the United GAVI Alliance.