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Truth or Fiction?→ Is Joe Biden’s Brother James Now Being Investigated by ‘the Feds’?

2020-12-11 On December 11 2020, a dubious right wing blog called ThePoliticalInsider.com published an item (“Joe Biden’s Brother Is Being Investigated By The Feds, New Report Says”) which claimed that new information had come to light about the pur Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Cambridge Covid-19 test results don’t mean PCR tests are inaccurate

2020-12-11 In the past few days, claims about Covid-19 testing at the University of Cambridge have been spreading on Twitter and Facebook, specifically relating to the number of “false positive” results.  These claims need some context. It is not Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Brandon Bernard Executed, a Rarity During a Presidential Transition

2020-12-11 The case of Brandon Bernard was a rare execution of a person who was in his teens when his crime was committed. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Are NOT The Eight Deadliest Days In American History

2020-12-11 Is this an accurate list of deadliest days in American history? No, that's not true: While the design of the infographic is clearly well-intentioned, this chart lacks some critical parameters for comparisons. This chart of lethal events s Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tens Of Thousands Of Moms Did NOT Watch Their Child Regress Or Die Within 24-To-72 Hours Of Being Vaccinated

2020-12-11 Did "tens of thousands of moms ... watch their child regress or die within 24-72 hours" of being vaccinated? No, that's not true: There is no confirmation that tens of thousands of moms watched their children regress or die within 24 to 7 Go to site post…»

The Dispatch→ Did Detroit Poll Workers Scan the Same Ballots Over and Over?

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Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates show high efficacy and a safe profile in clinical trials, contrary to claims in viral video

2020-12-10 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 Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ There is no risk of infertility from COVID-19 vaccines, as SARS-CoV-2 proteins and placenta proteins are different

2020-12-10 REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic motivated unprecedented efforts to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the disease. Towards the end of 2020, several vaccine candidates reached the approval phase. However, the rollout of these Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ False claims about first vaccine recipients spread on social media

2020-12-10 Following the first UK vaccinations against Covid-19, various far-fetched falsehoods are spreading on social media about the people who were vaccinated.  One post notified to us by readers on WhatsApp, which has also been shared on Facebook and Tw Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Claims about the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine ingredients lack evidence

2020-12-10 We’ve been asked to check a number of claims about the new Covid-19 vaccine and its ingredients. Several websites have claimed the Pfizer vaccine contains “PEG” which could cause large numbers of allergic reactions, and also that the Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Study on vaccinated and unvaccinated children used a dubious metric for comparing disease incidence in both groups

2020-12-10 REVIEW The claim that unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children is common in vaccine-skeptic and anti-vaccine circles. The claim was recently revived on Facebook after a study was published on 22 November 2020 in the International Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ A Guide to Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine

2020-12-10 The first COVID-19 vaccine that’s likely to go into any American arms is Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, which was designed and developed by the German biotech company BioNTech. Here, we give a rundown of basic facts about the vaccine and an overview of how Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ A Guide to Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine

2020-12-10 The first COVID-19 vaccine that’s likely to go into any American arms is Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine, which was designed and developed by the German biotech company BioNTech. Here, we give a rundown of basic facts about the vaccine and an overview of how Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Eight States Have NOT All Joined Texas AG’s Suit Asking Supreme Court To Overturn Other States’ Election Results

2020-12-09 Have Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and South Dakota all joined Texas's lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn election results in four battleground states? No, that's n Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Supreme Court Did NOT Vote 6-3 To Take Up Texas AG’s Lawsuit Over Election, NOR Did Tennessee Join

2020-12-09 Did the U.S. Supreme Court vote 6-3 to take up the Texas Attorney General's lawsuit seeking to overturn four other states' 2020 election results? No, that's not true: There is no such vote recorded on the Supreme Court's public list of or Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ Would $50,000 of Student Debt Forgiveness Be a ‘Massive Tax Increase’ for Americans?

2020-12-09 On December 8 2020, The Blaze published an article headlined, “Schumer: Biden ‘considering’ cancelation of $50K in student loan debt for every borrower making under $125K a year,” with the subheading, “Translation: A mass Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Bogus Swing State Claim

2020-12-09 At a rally in Georgia, President Donald Trump continued to make baseless claims about the 2020 election being “rigged,” drawing false comparisons at one point between President-elect Joe Biden’s performance in swing states and that of Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 RNA Vaccine Will NOT Change Your DNA

2020-12-09 Does the COVID-19 RNA, also called mRNA, vaccine change a person's DNA? No, that's not true: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines "do not affect or interact with our DNA in any way." The U.S. Foo Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Psychiatrist Is NOT Correct To Claim No Virus, No COVID Pandemic, No Safe Vaccine, Nor Need For Vaccine

2020-12-09 Is the psychiatrist who leads off a video attack on epidemiology and vaccinology correct in saying there is no SARS-Cov-2 virus, no COVID-19 pandemic, no safe vaccine and no need for one? No, that's not true. Neither Dr. Andrew Kaufman, n Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Of 23,000 ‘Fraudulent’ Ballots For Biden Identified In Georgia

2020-12-08 Were 23,000 "fraudulent" ballots for Joe Biden identified in Georgia? No, there's no evidence that's true. An article making that claim cites as its source a video on YouTube, which relies on unofficial results reported in real time. Stat Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ False Claim of ‘Seized’ Voting Machines in Georgia

2020-12-08 Quick Take Viral posts falsely claim that Dominion voting machines were “seized” in Ware County, Georgia, and that votes were found to have been “switched” for Joe Biden. No such seizure occurred and there was no such finding, a Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Named Goya’s ‘Employee of the Month’?

2020-12-08 On December 7 2020, right-wing “personality” Candace Owens (among others) asserted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was selected as “employee of the month” at Goya because her calls to boycott the brand purport Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Trump Thought Courts Were Key to Winning. Judges Disagreed.

2020-12-08 President Donald Trump and his allies say their lawsuits aimed at subverting the 2020 election and reversing his loss to Joe Biden would be substantiated, if only judges were allowed to hear the cases. Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ No evidence Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine affects women’s fertility

2020-12-08 We’ve been asked by a number of readers about claims that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, which has been approved for use in the UK, could lead to infertility in women. The reason given for this is that the vaccine works by igniting an immu Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Head Of Pfizer Research Did NOT Say COVID Vaccine is Female Sterilization

2020-12-08 Did the head of Pfizer research say the COVID vaccine is female sterilization? No, that's not true: This clickbait headline doubles up on false claims. The person the claim refers to is Michael Yeadon, who nearly a decade ago held a high Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sidney Powell Election Fraud Witness Navid Keshavarz-Nia Cites Debunked Election Hoaxes

2020-12-07 Is a cybersecurity expert's testimony about election fraud based on verified incidents? No, the major examples Navid Keshavarz-Nia cites in a written legal declaration lack proof or direct evidence and are based on his speculation. The al Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Trump Ratchets Up Pace of Executions Before Biden Inaugural

2020-12-07 As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons. Go to site post…»

Washington Post→ Trump touts misleading video as ‘proof’ of Georgia voter fraud

2020-12-07 In his never-ending quest to overturn an election he lost, the president seizes on a bogus claim about video surveillance of “suitcases” hidden under tables. Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Polio vaccine plays a critical role in eradicating polio; polio is caused by a virus, not by DDT

2020-12-06 REVIEW An Instagram post containing a video, published on 2 December 2020, received more than 35,000 views. The post claims that vaccines did not get rid of polio and, “between 1955–1963 [the] CDC admits 98 million Americans received the polio v Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night

2020-12-06 Did Republican campaign staffers assigned to observe at the Fulton County, Georgia, vote counting center on election night swear under oath in affidavits that they were told to leave before the ballot counting ended on election night? No, Go to site post…»

Snopes→ California’s San Joaquin Valley Enacts Stay-Home Order

2020-12-05 Faced with a dire shortage of hospital beds, California’s San Joaquin Valley was placed under a sweeping new lockdown in an urgent attempt to slow the rapid rise of coronavirus cases. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Pipe Break’ At Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center Did NOT Happen At The Same Time As Alleged Late Night ‘Ballot Dump’

2020-12-05 Did a "pipe break" on Election Day force evacuation of the Fulton County, Georgia, vote-counting center at the same time that "totes full of ballots" were "dumped"? No, that's not true. A pipe leak in Atlanta's State Farm Arena happened " Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Judge Calls Trump Request in Wisconsin Lawsuit ‘Bizarre’

2020-12-05 A judge hearing President Donald Trump's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin said that the president's request to “remand” the case to the GOP-controlled Legislature to pick new electors was “bizarre.” Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ NRSC’s Dual Attack on Warnock and Ossoff

2020-12-04 A TV ad from a Republican group accuses the Democratic candidates in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections of having “radically dangerous” ideas on the criminal justice system and the environment. But there’s more to their positions than wh Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ ‘If You Buy a Discounted Advent Calendar the Day After Christmas, It Will Count Down to Inauguration Day’

2020-12-04 On December 3 2020, a Facebook post proposed a novel use for obsolete Advent calendars — namely, repurposing them for a new countdown to President-Elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day: That post was a screenshot of a December 1 2020 tweet Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ How to Fight Disinformation — Part I: Firehosing

2020-12-04 This is part of an ongoing series about how communities can fight back and protect themselves against weaponized disinformation. Any anthropologist can tell you that human lives are created, bounded, and defined by stories: the stories we tell ourselv Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Vaccine approval isn’t quicker because of Brexit

2020-12-04 “Because of Brexit we’ve been able to make a decision [to approve the Pfizer vaccine] based on the UK regulator, a world class regulator, and not go at the pace of the Europeans who are moving a little bit more slowly. We do all the same s Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A COVID-19 Vaccine Is NOT Likely To Kill You

2020-12-04 Will taking a COVID-19 vaccine kill you or lead to "debilitating" illness? No, that's not true: There is an abundance of evidence to the contrary. For one, between the two farthest along and most robust vaccine trials out of Moderna and P Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine candidates are rigorously tested for safety during clinical trials, unlike thalidomide; misleading to equate the two

2020-12-04 REVIEW The relatively short timeline in which COVID-19 vaccine candidates have reached the advanced stages of clinical trials have led many members of the public to express concerns about their safety. Following the announcement of the U.K.’s appr Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Polio Vaccine Worked And The CDC Did NOT Admit 98 Million Americans Received Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer Agent

2020-12-04 Did the CDC admit 98 million Americans received the polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963 when it was "contaminated with cancer-causing virus 'SV 40'"? No, that mis-states what the public health agency said and over-states the number expose Go to site post…»

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