Quick Take The Federal Emergency Management Agency operates a Disaster Recovery Center on Maui and has approved $7 million in assistance to thousands of wildfire survivors. Online videos, however, are sharing a fabricated tale about FEMA’s op
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Health Feedback→ The FDA continues to recommend against ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19, despite claims to the contrary
REVIEW Since the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many misleading claims have promoted the ability of ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 despite a lack of evidence. Recently, social media claims have suggested that the U.S. Food and Drug
Truth or Fiction?→ Ellen Ochoa Elementary Bomb Threats
On August 23 2023, amid yet another wave of threats directed at public institutions such as schools and libraries, KFOR reporter Kaylee Olivas tweeted about “yet another” bomb threat at Ellen Ochoa Elementary school in Tulsa, Oklahoma:
Truth or Fiction?→ Were Period Products ‘Tested With Blood’ for Absorbency Claims?
In August 2023, amid larger discussions and inauthentically organized narratives about reproductive health care such as abortion, a tweet about whether period products were “tested with real blood” swirled in the context of a claim around r
Health Feedback→ Conspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
REVIEW A TikTok video published in early July 2023 implied that doctors practicing alternative medicine were killed to prevent “Big Pharma” from losing money. In the reel, herbalist Katryna Benson, who has more than 14,000 followers on TikTok, p
FactCheck.org→ Viral Video Repeats Bogus Claim About Vaccines and Visible Ailments
SciCheck Digest A video repeating the claim that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the sudden onset of various visible ailments — such as fainting and facial paralysis — is making the rounds, again. But, just like the other, similar
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Trump Visiting Maui After Wildfires — It’s Alabama In 2019
Does a video show former President Donald Trump visiting the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023 to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires there? No, that's not true: The footage of Trump is from 2019, when Trump visited Alabam
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Fire Crawling On Cement In Maui — It’s Ohio In 2022
Does a video show fire crawling on cement in Maui during the wildfires of August 2023? No, that's not true: The video appeared online more than a year before the Maui fires. It shows a fire in Cleveland, Ohio, in June 2022 that was report
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Explosion Was NOT Caused By Laser From Sky — A Transformer Blew In Macul, Chile
Does a video show a laser beam from the sky, or a Directed Energy Weapon (DEW), cause an explosion in a city, or spark the wildfires in Maui, Hawaii? No, that's not true: This viral video predates the August 8, 2023, Maui wildfires. It sh
Truth or Fiction?→ Maui Fires: How to Help
In early August 2023, deadly wildfires swept through the Hawaiian island of Maui; one of the most upvoted posts on Reddit’s r/all featured a circulating image of the devastation: The destruction of Maui fires by u/Jonny_Boy_808 in
Health Feedback→ Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
REVIEW Vaccines protect against potentially life-threatening infectious diseases. Thanks to vaccination, some infections, like smallpox and polio, that took more than 400 million lives globally and disabled many others are now eradicated or signific
Full Fact→ Experts do not advise cleaning swimming pools with vodka
A TikTok video seen by thousands of people and posted on Facebook shares this DIY pool cleaning “trick”.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: pH Of Soda Is NOT Toxic, Does Not Alter pH Of Human Body
Does the pH of soda (pH 2) make it seriously toxic, "a pH killer," and does it take 32 eight-ounce glasses of alkaline water to reverse the toxic effects of one soda? No, that's not true: A food science professor told Lead Stories that ma
Logically→ No, this video does not show a table tennis match between a robot and a human
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Seedless Watermelons Are NOT ‘GMO’ Or Unsafe To Eat
Are seedless watermelons genetically modified organism (GMO) products, and are they poisonous? No, that's not true: A representative of Walmart, one of many stores that sell seedless watermelons, told Lead Stories that these claims are fa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Africans Were NOT Known To Inhabit North America Before European Contact
Did today's Black Americans descend from Africans who inhabited North America before European colonizers arrived in the 15th century? No, that's not true: Paleontological, archaeological and genetic evidence all suggest that the original
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Little Yikes’ Kid’s ‘Ankle Monitor’ Is NOT Real Toy, Nor Is It Sold By Walmart
Is a children's "ankle monitor" toy a genuine product sold in Walmart stores and manufactured by a company named Little Yikes? No, that's not true: A video of the "toy" shared widely on social media in July 2023 was created by spoof compa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Little Yikes’ Kid’s ‘Ankle Monitor’ Is NOT Real Toy, Nor Is It Sold By Walmart
Is a children's "ankle monitor" toy a genuine product sold in Walmart stores and manufactured by a company named Little Yikes? No, that's not true: A video of the "toy" shared widely on social media in July 2023 was created by spoof compa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Does NOT Face A Chornobyl-Style Disaster From Water Shortage As Of July 2023
by: Evgenia Prodaeva Can "a nuclear explosion like in Chornobyl," the world's worst nuclear accident, now occur at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after the June 6, 2023, explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka dam emptied most o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Does NOT Face A Chornobyl-Style Disaster From Water Shortage As Of July 2023
by: Evgenia Prodaeva Can "a nuclear explosion like in Chornobyl," the world's worst nuclear accident, now occur at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after the June 6, 2023, explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka dam emptied most o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clapping Hands Does NOT Bring ‘Instant Relief’ For Heel Pain
Does clapping your hands three times instantly relieve pain in the heel of your foot? No, that's not true: A podiatrist who is a spokesperson for the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) told Lead Stories "without hesitation" tha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Good Harvest’ Does NOT Produce ‘Human Steak’ — That Company Doesn’t Exist And There’s No Human Steak Factory
Is there a "Good Harvest" company that produces "human steak" for human consumption? No, that's not true: Good Harvest and its "human steak" is an invention of the creators of a spoof documentary. The mockumentary is meant as a satirical
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Footage Does NOT Show First President Bush Dying On Live TV — He Lived For Decades After Throwing Up, Fainting Incident
Does video footage show when then-President George H.W. Bush died on live TV? No, that's not true: The president lived for 26 more years after an incident in Japan in 1992 when he vomited and fainted at a banquet hosted by the Japanese pr
Truth or Fiction?→ Antidepressants and Hot Weather Warning
In late July 2023, a year-old warning about “antidepressants and hot weather” recirculated on Facebook (and other platforms like Reddit and TikTok): As its getting warmer in the Northern Hemisphere at least. Be careful with dehy
Health Feedback→ Flawed preprint based on autopsies inadequate to demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines caused 74% of those deaths
REVIEW On 5 July 2023, a manuscript titled “A systematic review of autopsy findings in deaths after COVID-19 vaccination” was uploaded to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a preprint server associated with The Lancet. The review analyz
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Tornado Forming Is NOT Real Or New York City — VFX Edit Over Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive
Did a dark and menacing stormcloud rotate over the New York City harbor, threatening to form a tornado? No, that's not true: This video of turbulent cloud effects is the work of a TikTok video creator and tutor, @insanepatient2. It was po
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Nye Did NOT Say There Was ‘No Place To Go’ In Reference To Space Exploration — Quote Was About Space Trash
Did "Science Guy" Bill Nye state that there was "no place to go" in reference to space exploration, seeming to support claims that NASA, the International Space Station (ISS) and related space exploration programs were a hoax? No, that's
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Video Shows Children Who Are Sex, Organ Trafficking Victims
Are the children shown being removed from the back of a semi-trailer in a video on social media, purportedly in London, the victims of sex or organ trafficking? No, that's not true: There's no substantiated evidence or credible sources su
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Was NOT Struggling To Speak During MSNBC Interview — Video Is Heavily Edited
Does a video show President Joe Biden struggling to speak during an MSNBC interview? No, that's not true: The video has been heavily edited to only show when the president stumbled over his words and it is not a true depiction of what he
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Barbie’ Was NOT Banned In Serbia Because Of ‘Greater Albania’ Map — Such A Map Isn’t In Movie
Was the film "Barbie" banned in Serbia because of a scene containing a map of "Greater Albania"? No, that's not true: The film was not banned in Serbia and such a map doesn't appear in the movie. The claim appeared in a video (archived he
FactCheck.org→ Posts Spread False Claim About Luke Bryan After CMT Pulls Jason Aldean Video
Quick Take A video by country singer Jason Aldean was pulled by Country Music Television after critics called it offensive and racist. Some Aldean fans have responded by calling for the “Bud Light treatment” of CMT and falsely claiming
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show UK Military Robot Sent To Help Ukraine In War — It’s Digitally Edited
Did the United Kingdom send a "'Robot Royal Force' 🇬🇧 Type-C robot" to help Ukraine with the war in July 2023? No, that's not true: There was no information or credible report online to corroborate the claim that the United Kingdom
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NOT All Autoimmune Diseases Are Caused By Parasites
Does having an autoimmune disease mean a person also has a parasite? No, that's not true: An infectious disease specialist told Lead Stories that "parasitic infections are not causes or triggers of autoimmune disease." While some evidence
Truth or Fiction?→ Jesse Waters’ Mom Called During His Fox News Show to Remind Him Not to Lie?
On July 19 2023, a post on Reddit’s r/TikTokCringe — a forum dedicated, as its name indicates, to cringe-inducing videos — purportedly depicted an on-air phone discussion between Fox News personality Jesse Watters and his mother:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Audio Clip NOT A Recording Of Biden Talking About Bank Collapse — It’s A Fake
Is a social media post featuring an audio recording of President Joe Biden talking about the banks collapsing real? No, that's not true: Experts in digital forensics and deepfakes told Lead Stories that the recording is not authentic. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Military In West Hollywood In 2023 — Footage Is From 2020
Does a video show military vehicles and personnel moving through West Hollywood during the summer of 2023? No, that's not true: This footage is from the summer of 2020. The video was posted on TikTok on June 2, 2020, around the time that
Climate Feedback→ Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, long before vaccines became available, many countries acted to curb the spread of the virus by imposing restrictions on people’s movement called lockdowns. Lockdowns have saved lives by reducing the physica
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Performing Belly Dance In 2006 — It’s A Dancer From Argentina
Did a viral video show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy performing a belly dance on camera? No, that's not true: The footage portrays a different person, a professional belly dance instructor from Argentina, and Zelenskyy's face se