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Truth or Fiction?→ Are Birth Control Pills 1000 Times More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Than The J&J Vaccine?
An April 13 2021 Facebook screenshot of a tweet was part of disordered discourse surrounding a “pause” by the Biden administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for COVID-19. As conspiracy theories about and disinformation about the eff
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Under Stalin, Repression Was So Severe That Soviet Gulags Held 22% Of the World’s Prison Population’
On April 8 2021, Imgur user “superscout0233” shared the following meme with a fakeout ending, initially stating that “under [Joseph] Stalin,” the Soviet Union’s gulags held 22 percent of the world’s prison population
Snopes→ N Ireland Leaders Call for Calm After Night of Violence
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealed for calm, saying “the way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Say Special Operation Boarded The ‘Ever Given’ To Find Weapons, Bodies, Trafficked People
Was an "intel dispatch" released to the public that told of a U.S. military special operation in which U.S. Navy SEALs boarded the cargo ship Ever Given? And did this mission discover heavy weapons as well as 1,366 dead and 1,245 people a
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t hamper the function of the immune system and are likely to limit the generation of variants; no evidence that they produce more lethal variants
REVIEW On 13 March 2021, Vernon Coleman posted a video on the platform BrandNewTube, in which he claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines are “dangerous” and caused numerous health problems like strokes. Within two weeks, the video reached 240,000 views
The Dispatch→ After Failing on the Pandemic, the WHO Seeks More Power
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccinated People Are NOT ‘Walking Biological Time Bombs’
Are people who received a COVID-19 vaccine "walking biological time bombs"? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence the vaccines help create "superstrains and superbugs." Contrary to what the video post claims, the va
Health Feedback→ Heart attack victims shouldn’t use “cough CPR” on themselves, contrary to chain email dating back to 1999
REVIEW A Facebook post published in 2013 that went viral on Facebook in March 2021, titled “How to survive a heart attack alone”, claimed that heart attack victims “can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Physical Books Continue to Massively Outsell E-Books Every Year’
On March 27 2021, the Facebook page “Little Free Library” shared a screenshot of a tweet by Twitter account @UberFacts: Physical books continue to massively outsell e-books every year — UberFacts (@UberFacts) March 17, 2021 It said
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Colorado Suspect Is ‘Islamic Extremist’ — Senators Did NOT Demand ‘Anti-White’ Ban On Cabinet
Is the Colorado shooting suspect an "Islamic extremist"? Did Democratic senators demand a "ban on further cabinet appointments for white people" one day after that mass killing? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
REVIEW On 6 March 2021, the independent consultant Geert Vanden Bossche published an open letter to the World Health Organization on Twitter. In it, Vanden Bossche claimed that COVID-19 vaccines “should not be used amid an epidemic” and
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccine exports and the UK
A viral tweet claims that the EU has exported 41.6 million vaccines, mostly to the UK, while the US and UK have exported none. A screenshot of the tweet has also been spreading on Facebook. This 41.6 million figure and the graph in the image come
Health Feedback→ No evidence that the milk protein casein causes cancer; claim is based on animal studies involving other well-known risk factors for liver cancer like hepatitis B virus infection
REVIEW An article published by Collective Evolution in January 2019 claimed that the milk protein casein is a carcinogen and “turns on cancer”. According to the article, the claim is supported by a book titled “The China Study”, authored by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Father ‘Who Identifies As Tooth Fairy’ Is NOT Tied To A Real Incident
Did a buff father who "identifies as the tooth fairy" knock the teeth out of a man pretending to identify as a woman who followed his daughter into a public restroom? No, that's not true: The meme is a mash-up of fabricated events that mo
Snopes→ Case of Sarah Everard Who Vanished on Way Home Stirs Grief, Anger
The suspect arrested on suspicion of killing her is a U.K. police officer whose job was protecting top politicians and diplomats.
Climate Feedback→ Atlantic ocean circulation system is slowing down, as accurately described in The New York Times article
SUMMARY The article published in The New York Times discusses findings from a study published in February 2021 that reconstructed the evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an ocean circulation system that strongly infl
Snopes→ Meghan’s Racism Claims Come as No Surprise to Black Britons
Ethnic minorities in the U.K. say racist attitudes and structures of discrimination are pervasive — and all too often denied by society at large.
Health Feedback→ The U.S. leads the world in number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, but not in the proportion of the population vaccinated
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the world since early 2020, causing more than 100 million confirmed cases and more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide to date, 500,000 of which happened in the U.S. Since the first COVID-19 vaccines were authori
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
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
Truth or Fiction?→ Can You Mop Your Floors With Tide Powder?
“Quarancleaning” became a major trend as the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to shelter in (and in many cases, work from) their homes. As stressed-out people traded “hacks” for keeping living spaces clean, mopping with powdered
FactCheck.org→ Video Makes Bogus Claims About ‘War Crimes’ and COVID-19 Vaccine Safety
Quick Take A video falsely claims that people receiving authorized COVID-19 vaccines are taking part in a deadly clinical trial and that those administering the doses are war criminals under the Nuremberg Code. That’s bogus. People getting the
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines protect individuals from developing the disease and are necessary tools to end the pandemic along with physical distancing measures
REVIEW To date, more than two million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide. Several vaccines against COVID-19 received emergency use authorization and countries have started their vaccination campaigns. Around the same time, claims that COVID-19
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use prevent the disease and are generally safe based on rigorous clinical trials and ongoing monitoring
REVIEW A video claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and that healthcare workers who administer them are “war criminals” was published on 2 February 2021. The author of the video, titled “old man in a chair”, is Vernon Coleman, a for
Health Feedback→ Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
REVIEW A video of an interview, published by The New American on 15 January 2021, featured Lee Merritt, an orthopedic surgeon and former president of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The AAPS has previously published misin
Snopes→ China Derecognizes British National Overseas Passport
Under a proposed plan, as many as 5.4 million Hong Kong residents could be eligible to live and work in the U.K. for five years then apply for citizenship.
Snopes→ Was Boris Johnson’s Great-Grandfather a Well-Known Turkish Muslim?
The conservative U.K. prime minister is rumored to have an unusual family history.
FactCheck.org→ Viral Video Makes False and Unsupported Claims About Vaccines
Quick Take A viral video makes a series of inaccurate and unfounded arguments for why people should not receive any vaccines, including those for COVID-19. Full Story As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the globe, anti-vaccination activists try t
Health Feedback→ Overwhelming weight of scientific evidence demonstrates that vaccines are safe and effective, contrary to claims in video by chiropractor Steve Baker
REVIEW On 13 January 2021, the chiropractor Steven Baker posted this video on Facebook, titled “the top five reasons to not vaccinate”. The 15-minute long video contains several claims regarding vaccine safety which have been debunked many times
FactCheck.org→ What Do the New Coronavirus Variants Mean for the Pandemic?
Q: What are the risks of the newly identified coronavirus variants? A: There’s no clear evidence yet that mutant versions cause more severe disease, although some are likely more contagious. Scientists expect vaccines will work but are monitoring t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: U.S. Governors’ Names Are NOT On Leaked List Of Chinese Communist Party Members
Are U.S. governors' names on a leaked list of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members? No, that's not true: Although there are credible reports of a leaked CCP database, people with direct knowledge of the list told Lead Stories no governor
The Dispatch→ Does the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine Cause Infertility?
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Snopes→ UK First in World to Start Using Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine
The U.K. is in the midst of an acute outbreak, recording more than 50,000 new coronavirus infections a day over the past six days.
Snopes→ Several EU Nations Halt UK Flights, Fearing Virus Variant
Several European Union nations moved to banned flights from the U.K. on Sunday and others were considering similar action, in a bid to block a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from establishing a strong foothold on the continent.
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates are generally safe and effective at preventing disease; ongoing studies investigate whether the vaccine can also reduce transmission
REVIEW The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to the general population, in particular healthcare workers, having received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S Food and Drug Administrat
Health Feedback→ The Krippin virus in “I Am Legend” was intended as a cancer cure, not used as a vaccine
REVIEW A meme containing a screenshot from the 2007 American sci-fi/postapocalyptic film “I Am Legend” carries the caption: “Remember, in ‘I Am Legend,’ the sickness didn’t make the zombies. The vaccination did.” The meme went viral on
Health Feedback→ Cases of Bell’s palsy and death observed during Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine clinical trials were within expected background range of general population
REVIEW Following the publication of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech, social media posts and articles went viral on Facebook, claiming that the vaccine was responsible for causing adve
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates show high efficacy and a safe profile in clinical trials, contrary to claims in viral video
REVIEW This 7 December 2020 video shows a series of 34 clips from individuals from different countries, claiming that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous and unnecessary because the COVID-19 pandemic is not real. First published on YouTube, the platform
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: First Brit To Receive Approved COVID Vaccine Is NOT A Crisis Actor
Did the United Kingdom's National Health Service hire a "crisis actor" to play the part of the first person to receive Pfizer's approved COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: A visual comparison of the Irish granny who got a needle in th