Quick Take The U.S. announced it had conducted a drone strike on July 31 killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. But social media posts make unfounded claims that al-Zawahiri had died in 2020 from asthma. The posts cite an unconfirmed story
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FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccination Increases Immunity, Contrary to Immune Suppression Claims
SciCheck Digest The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines teach the immune system to recognize and fight the coronavirus, greatly reducing the likelihood of severe disease if a person is infected. There is no evidence the vaccines impair immunity, as some, including
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t weaken the immune system; Lancet study misrepresented in Virology Journal comment
REVIEW On 21 July 2022, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that “it’s looking likely that [COVID-19] vaccines suppress the immune system”. To support that assertion, Carlson cited a review article by Seneff et al. and a comment in Virology J
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Russia Did NOT Destroy 2 HIMARS On July 6, 2022
Did Russia destroy two U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) operated by Ukrainian forces on July 6, 2022? No, that's not true: Kyiv immediately refuted the claim, and two weeks later, the Pentagon confirmed that all 1
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Explosion In City Of Shakhty In Russia On July 19, 2022
Does a Facebook video show the consequences of a Ukrainian missile attack on the Russian city of Shakhty on July 19, 2022? No, that's not true: The clip consists of footage from the Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine and more-than-decade-old image
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Ukraine Attacking Kerch Strait Bridge in Crimea
Did Ukraine attack the Kerch Strait Bridge, connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula to Russian territories, on July 13, 2022? No, that's not true: The video that makes such a claim does not include a single shot capturing such an attack.
Snopes→ No, Darth Vader Didn’t Actually Say ‘Luke, I Am Your Father’
For decades, people have misconstrued the pivotal line of dialogue between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in "The Empire Strikes Back."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Ukrainian Or NATO Planes Bombing Russia On July 14, 2022
Does a Facebook video show Ukrainian and NATO planes bombing Russia on July 14, 2022, resulting in a gigantic blaze? No, that's not true: The video manipulates information and uses irrelevant images. The claim was posted on Facebook on Ju
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Crimes WERE Committed, Arrests WERE Made Inside Capitol Building On January 6, 2021
Was nobody arrested inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021? No, that's not true: People were arrested inside the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, and they have been charged with crimes including "entering a restricted building and viol
Snopes→ Ukraine Reports Striking Russian Ammunition Depot in South
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said a rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sam Hyde (or Seth Sergio) Is NOT The Shooter At The Highland Park, Il 4th of July Parade Shooting
Was Sam Hyde (or someone named Seth Sergio) the shooter at the July 4, 2022 shooting during a parade in Highland Park, Illinois? No, that's not true. Pictures of comedian Sam Hyde being shared on social media do not depict the shooter. In
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Moscow Was NOT Blown Up By Rockets
Was Moscow blown up by rockets? No, that's not true: Video posted in support of the claim actually shows footage from a Russian airstrike on a mall in central Ukraine. The claim appeared in a Facebook post on June 28, 2022. It includes a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Failed Russian Missile Did NOT Return To Exact Site Of Launch
Did a Russian missile do a complete U-turn and return to strike the troops who fired it? No, that's not true: This missile launch was a failure, but the missile did not return precisely to the site of its launch. It exploded in a field ne
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This is NOT Russian Flagship Moskva (Moscow) Sinking In Black Sea
Is this video of the Russian warship, Moskva -- the English-letter spelling of the Russian term for Moscow -- sinking in April 2022 after an ammunition explosion while being towed back to Sevastopol, a major maritime port in the Black Sea
Truth or Fiction?→ $7250 ‘Westwood Lake’ Housing Advertisement from 1955
On June 20 2022, Twitter user @glory_manz shared a purported old advertisement for “Westwood Lake,” featuring houses priced at $7450: They really had it easy back then pic.twitter.com/VQmizZlO5R — King Glocky (@glory_manz) June 20,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Russian Plane Crashing Due To Missile In June 2022
Did a Russian airplane get hit with a missile, killing 50 people, in 2022? No, that's not true: A fatal plane incident happened on May 6, 2019, before the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian war. Forty-one people died as a passenger plane crash-landed
Truth or Fiction?→ Gas Boycott July 3 to 5 2022
On June 19 2022 a Facebook user posted a concise status update, encouraging others to participate in a June 3 to 5 2022 gas boycott; it read: Do NOT Buy gas July 3-5!! Do NOT Buy gas July 3-5!! Do NOT Buy gas July 3-5!! As of June 22 2022, the post rac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UFO In Video Was NOT Filmed By US Marines Training In Arizona Desert — It Was Added With CGI
Did U.S. Marines film a giant UFO in the Arizona desert? No, that's not true: 2017 footage of U.S. Marines conducting a training exercise during a weapons and tactics instructors course was edited to include a large hovering UFO. The orig
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Princess Leia’s Droid Named After Carrie Fisher’s Bird?
A photo of sci-fi icon Carrie Fisher in her youth made some fans assume it was linked to a new entry in the Star Wars canon. But while the photograph is legitimate, it has its own story. The photograph, which shows the young Fisher holding a bird, bega
Snopes→ No, TikTok Video Doesn’t Show a Joe Biden ‘Double’
The "body double" conspiracy theory strikes again.
Snopes→ Russia Hits Kyiv with Missiles; Putin Warns West on Arms
Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad.
FactCheck.org→ ‘WHO Has No Authority to Dictate U.S. Health Policy’
SciCheck Digest The World Health Organization can make recommendations after the declaration of a global emergency, but it has no control over any nation’s decisions. Yet conservatives in the U.S. falsely claim that amendments proposed by the Biden a
Poynter→ This college ‘nerd’ investigates the Ukraine war from the digital front lines
I first stumbled across The Intel Crab in 2021. The anonymous Twitter account shared videos showing an Israeli airstrike hitting Associated Press offices in the Gaza Strip. The footage that […] The post This college ‘nerd’ investigates the Uk
Snopes→ No, the US Military Didn’t Hang Tom Vilsack
A prodigious purveyor of junk news strikes again.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Viking Was a Job … Not a Race or Ethnicity’
In May 2022, screenshots of a tweet about Netflix, Vikings, and white supremacy circulated on Facebook. In tweet seen in the screenshot, user @YasmineJibril retweeted another user’s commentary about Netflix’s purported casting of a woman of
Truth or Fiction?→ A ‘Homemade Baby Formula’ Recipe from 1960 is Viral — and Dangerous
An April 26 2022 Facebook post featuring an emergency “homemade baby formula” recipe spread virally on platforms as a baby formula shortage worsened — and as experts pleaded with parents not to experiment with diluted or homemade form
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Still not true: Kentucky Derby jockey wasn’t invited to White House, didn’t insult President Biden
"148th Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike jockey Sonny Leon just turned down a White House invite, saying 'If I wanted to see a horse's ass, I would have came (sic) in second.’"
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kentucky Derby Winning Jockey Did NOT Reject White House Invitation By Referring To ‘A Horse’s Ass’ — It’s Old Fake Quote
Did winning Kentucky Derby jockey Sonny Leon turn down a White House invitation, saying he didn't want to see "a horse's ass"? No, that's not true: This is a fake quote that has been recycled since at least 2018 and previously debunked by
Snopes→ Official: US Gave Intel Before Ukraine Sank Russian Warship
It was a high-profile embarrassment for Russia's military, but the Pentagon denied that it played a direct role in the strike.
Truth or Fiction?→ Was the Original Roe v. Wade Decision Leaked?
On May 5 2022, popular posts claimed that the “original Roe v. Wade decision was leaked, too,” addressing assertions that the May 2022 leak of a Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was “unprecedented”: Fact-ch
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘ … 4/25/1886: The New York Times Called the Eight-Hour Workday Movement “Un-American”‘
On May 2 2022, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet which claimed that on April 25 1886, the New York Times called the eight-hour workday movement “un-American,” and “blamed the ‘labor disturbances’ on ‘for
FactCheck.org→ Attack Ad Leaves Misleading Impression on Vance’s View of Trump Voters
It’s well known that JD Vance — Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate in the Ohio Republican primary for U.S. Senate — was no fan of the former president just a few years back. Vance’s past quotes practically write his opponen
Logically→ This image of an explosion was taken in Gaza during Ramadan in 2022.
The image was taken in Gaza during an Israeli airstrike in March 2019, not during Ramadan in 2022.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Great Britain Did NOT Threaten To Nuke Russia As Of Late April 2022
Did Great Britain threaten to use nuclear weapons against Russia during the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict? No, that's not true: A spokesperson at the press office of No. 10 Downing Street in London -- the office of U.K. Prime Minister Bori
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Claims That the Bidens Faked Celebrating Easter at the White House
A popular right-wing Facebook account made a series of claims about the Bidens’ Easter celebrations at the White House and suggested the 2022 Easter egg roll was staged. Both the president and first lady gave remarks at the event, which were
Poynter→ The Ukraine war has fueled a surge of fake content impersonating BBC and CNN coverage
In the days after a deadly missile strike blasted a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, a viral online video — dressed as a news report — […] The post The Ukraine war has fueled a surge of fake content impersonating B
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ISIS DID Exist Before Obama
Did the militant group ISIS not exist before Barack Obama became president of the United States in 2009? No, that's not true: Since 2006 ISIS has existed, according to a former member of the National Security Council and according to The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Russian Warship Moskva Being Hit By Ukrainian Missile
Does a video on social media show the Russian warship Moskva -- the English-letter spelling of the Russian term for "Moscow"-- being hit by a missile before later sinking in the Black Sea? No, that's not true: The 10-second clip comes fro
Truth or Fiction?→ Is the Damaged Russian Warship Moskva the ‘Snake Island’ Ship?
On April 14 2022, several Imgur posts referenced the Russian warship Moskva — typically in conversations related to an earlier incident on Snake Island and discussions around conflicting claims about whether it “sank” after coming und
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BBC Did NOT Post Video Alleging Ukraine Fabricated Kramatorsk Train Station Attack In 2022 Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Did the BBC release a video suggesting Ukraine has spread fake news about a train station attack in the country? No, that's not true: The BBC stated that the video was fake. The claim appeared in a tweet (archived here) on April 13, 2022.