Did Ted Cruz lose all his Marriott points? No, that's not true: The story making the claim about the Texas senator is satirical. It wasn't meant to be real, although some social media users appeared to take it as such. The claim appeared
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The Dispatch→ Did Joe Biden Revoke the Keystone Pipeline Permit to Help Warren Buffett?
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The Dispatch→ Does Mask-Wearing Cause Hypoxia or Pneumonia?
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Full Fact→ Agenda 2030 conspiracy just describes UN sustainability goals
We’ve been asked by readers on Whatsapp to look at claims about something called “Agenda 2030”, and its links to claims that Covid-19 is being used to begin the “enslavement of humanity”. Agenda 2030 for Sustainable
Full Fact→ Agenda 2030 conspiracy just describes UN sustainability goals
We’ve been asked by readers on Whatsapp to look at claims about something called “Agenda 2030”, and its links to claims that Covid-19 is being used to begin the “enslavement of humanity”. Agenda 2030 for Sustainable
AllSides→ Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-checking-xavier-becerras-claim During his Senate confirmation
Full Fact→ The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex
“The death rate in Andalucía almost halved following the introduction of their Vitamin D policy. Tragically, here in the UK our death rate more than doubled over the same period, despite us having 5x the vaccinations.” David Davis MP
AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts mislead on UK’s Covid-19 vaccination data
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim the British government blocked the UK’s Office for National Statistics from releasing data on deaths related to Covid-19 vaccinations. The claim, however, is missing context: the ONS is not the
FactCheck.org→ A Guide to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the third COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. Here, we give a rundown of basic facts about the vaccine and an overview of how it works. Quick Summary Vaccine name: Ad26.COV2.S Desi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT True There Is "No Evidence" Masks or Lockdowns Slow COVID-19 Spread
Is there "still no evidence masks or lockdowns slow the spread of COVID-19"? No, that's not true: The claim was posted with no citation of studies disproving the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns. On the other hand, there are now dozen
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Xavier Becerra’s Claim That He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns’
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AFP Fact Check→ Covid-19 measures won’t be lifted on March 1 in Canada
Social media posts claim that all public health measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Canada, including lockdowns, mask mandates and social distancing, will end on March 1, 2021. This is false, according to provincial governments which are respon
Full Fact→ Government advise special precautions for disposing of infectious PPE
A Facebook post asks why, if SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) is so infectious, there are no biohazard bins for disposing of masks and gloves which may potentially be contaminated. Whilst it’s correct that biohazard or clinical w
Full Fact→ There is evidence vaccines reduce risk of Covid-19 illness
A post on Facebook has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine “doesn't stop you getting [Covid-19] or spreading it”. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, which have been approved for use in the UK, have both been shown in m
Full Fact→ There is evidence vaccines reduce risk of Covid-19 illness
A post on Facebook has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine “doesn't stop you getting [Covid-19] or spreading it”. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, which have been approved for use in the UK, have both been shown in m
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Vaccines Impact Fertility
Q: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility? A: There’s no evidence that approved vaccines cause fertility loss. Although clinical trials did not study the issue, loss of fertility has not been reported among thousands of trial participants nor
Poynter→ How does COVID-19’s toll compare with heart disease, cancer and other causes of death?
Now that the coronavirus has been in the United States for roughly a year, new numbers are revealing the scale of COVID-19’s impact on American health: COVID-19 has become the country’s third leading cause of death, and could be on its way to outpa
AFP Fact Check→ Indian social media posts, media reports falsely claim WHO approved herbal medicine as Covid-19 treatment
Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared hundreds of times claim the World Health Organization (WHO) approved Coronil, an Indian herbal medication, as a Covid-19 treatment. The claim was also shared in multiple Indian news reports. The claim is fals
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Is NOT Withholding Information About Post-Vaccination Deaths, NOT Lacking A Data Category For Them
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withhold data that showed a federal vaccine reaction-reporting database -- VAERS -- was under-reporting the number of people who have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? Does the CDC
FactCheck.org→ Biden Hasn’t Reduced COVID-19 Testing at the Border
Quick Take The Biden administration has made no changes to COVID-19 testing policies for either U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. But a claim circulating online falsely suggests that the administration has stopped t
The Dispatch→ Did Neera Tanden Criticize Joe Manchin’s Daughter for Raising the Price of EpiPens?
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Full Fact→ The NAO didn’t claim there was never a national PPE shortage
"Yes there were individual shortages of logistics of getting PPE to the front line [back in Spring last year] - and when demand goes up 10 times, that's what happens - but as the NAO investigated and found, there was never a national shortage.”
Full Fact→ We can’t say if Test and Trace has cost more than the Channel Tunnel—yet
A widely shared Facebook post compares the cost of the NHS Test and Trace programme with the cost of constructing the Channel Tunnel. It seems to be a screenshot of a post on Twitter from 14 February. The post says that “the failing Test and Trac
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Misleading Vaccine Boasts
In remarks at a Pfizer manufacturing site, President Joe Biden made misleading claims while boasting about his administration’s progress in getting Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. Biden claimed that the Trump administration had “fai
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Life Insurance Policies Being Canceled Because of the COVID-19 Vaccine?
As an example of how disinformation can get laundered through Facebook, witness the attempt to spread a lie about the current vaccination efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic. The claim originated with a post from a user based in England reading: Che
Full Fact→ Mask wearing doesn’t cause bacterial pneumonia
A post on Facebook suggests that wearing a mask causes people to contract bacterial pneumonia and that the government manipulated Covid-19 statistics to create fear when Covid-19 is no longer classified as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts falsely claim Vietnam has recorded no deaths from Covid-19
Multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter claim that Vietnam has recorded no deaths from Covid-19 due to widespread consumption of hot lemon tea in the population. The claim is false: as of February 22, 2021, Vietnam has recorded 35 coronavirus deaths.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Since 1980 California Built 22 Prisons, 1 University’
On February 22 2021, an image was shared to both r/pics and Imgur, which contained the claim that the state of California has built 22 prisons, but only one university, since 1980: A sense of priorities from pics On Reddit, th
Health Feedback→ More evidence needed for the claim that vitamin D supplements reduce risk of COVID-19 infection
REVIEW An Instagram post claimed that a study had shown that vitamin D supplements reduced the risk of COVID-19 infections by 34 percent. The study[1], published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, used data from the U.K. Biobank, a large
The Dispatch→ Is Pfizer Recommending a Switch to a Single-Dose Policy?
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Health Feedback→ The number of new COVID-19 cases fell and daily vaccination increased in early 2021, but no indication that it was due to U.S. president Biden taking office
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the U.S. since early 2020 has caused almost 28 million identified cases and 500,000 deaths in the country. In the midst of this major health crisis, the U.S. have seen an important political shift with
Snopes→ Washington Taps Pastors to Overcome Racial Divide on Vaccine
Health officials in the nation's capital are hoping Black religious leaders will serve as community influencers to overcome what officials say is a persistent vaccine reluctance in the Black community
AFP Fact Check→ The CDC did not illegally change mortality count rules, inflate Covid-19 toll
Articles shared thousands of times on Facebook claim the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) increased the Covid-19 death toll by 1,600 percent because they illegally altered rules for reporting mortality data. This is false; the CDC
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Send National Guard To Texas – He Can Only Send Homeland Security & FEMA
Did Joe Biden send the National Guard to Texas with food, water and temporary shelter? No, he did not: Each state's National Guard unit is under the command and control of the governor, not the president, and Governor Abbott of Texas has
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Vaccination Goal
President Joe Biden this week boasted on Twitter about his promise to administer 100 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office, “With the progress we’re making I believe we’ll not only reach that, we’ll break it.R
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the incidence of poor outcomes during pregnancy, according to current safety data on COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW Facebook posts claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a healthcare worker to have a miscarriage went viral in early February 2021. These posts (see example) show a photo of a healthcare worker receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and tweets by phy
Full Fact→ Covid-19 survival rate is less than 99.8%
A post on Facebook claims that Covid-19 vaccines are “experimental”, do not incur any liability, and are used to treat a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. These aren’t all correct. The vaccines have been tested for safety It’s n
FactCheck.org→ Instagram Post Makes Invalid Comparison Between COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines
Quick Take A tweet shared on Instagram baselessly claims that a person is 300 to 900 times more likely to die “after getting the #Covid vaccine than the flu vaccine.” But the comparison is faulty — and there is no proof that people are dyin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Shows NO Scientific Proof That Antibodies Produced By COVID-19 Vaccines Will Turn Deadly
Does a video by an anti-vaccine physician show conclusive scientific evidence that the antibodies produced by the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines will cause severe harm and even death if a vaccinated person is exposed to the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Phone Number For FEMA To Pay For Hotel Rooms Is NOT Correct Number For Cold Weather Victims
Does the number offered in a Facebook post connect to a line to secure FEMA disaster relief to pay for a hotel room? No, that's not true: The number listed is indeed a FEMA number, but it is a helpline for internet problems -- not a numbe