Were 31 U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan "yesterday"? No, that's not true: Versions of a post that has circulated since at least 2015 use details of a 2011 attack in which 30 U.S. servicemen and eight Afghans were killed when a U.S.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Yale Professor, Ivermectin Maker Say The Horse Dewormer Is NOT Proven Effective Against COVID-19 — Mississippi Hospitalized Man After Dose
Has ivermectin been proven a safe and life-saving treatment for COVID-19? No, that's not true: The manufacturer of the drug, Merck, says its scientists find no evidence ivermectin works as a COVID-19 treatment and are concerned by the lac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence of The FBI Ever Releasing A Study Ranking ‘Most Dangerous Zodiac Signs’
Did the Federal Bureau of Investigation release a study ranking zodiac signs in terms of "dangerousness"? No, that's not true: This is a recycled hoax that has circulated in blog posts as far back as 2017. There is also no publicly availa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: More Than 75 Doctors Did NOT ‘Walk Out Of A South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat The Unvaccinated’ — It Was A Demonstration
Did more than 75 doctors walk out of a south Florida hospital rather than treat unvaccinated COVID-19 patients? No, that's not true: The event was not a "walkout," as the doctors did not interrupt their workday to gather for what one part
Health Feedback→ Janci Chunn Lindsay’s claims that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe are inaccurate and unsupported by scientific evidence
REVIEW In early August 2021, several posts (see examples here, here, and here) claiming that COVID-19 vaccination will cause fertility problems, blood clotting, and increase the chances that the virus bypasses previous immunity to it (immune escape)
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Thatcher Effect’
In August 2021, an October 2018 post about the “Thatcher effect” and “thatcherized images” spread on Facebook, from a post originally shared by a New Hampshire-based optometrist’s office. It read: The Thatcher Effect. T
Truth or Fiction?→ Uncensored Library in Minecraft
On August 23 2021, an Imgur user shared the following meme, which describes a “censored library” that exists within the game Minecraft and explaining its purpose within the popular video game: Text at the bottom of the meme read: There i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Scientifically Speaking,’ The Vaccinated Are NOT The Disease Vectors ‘Spreading The Mutant Variants’ of COVID-19
Are people vaccinated against COVID-19 "superspreaders," serving as the transmitting vectors for the virus that caused the midsummer 2021 increase in hospitalizations, and did the delta variant and other new forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: HIPAA Does NOT Protect People From Having To Reveal Their COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known by its acronym HIPAA, protect people from having to reveal their COVID-19 vaccination status at a restaurant, bar or similar business or organization? No, t
FactCheck.org→ On Facebook, Fake Stories Use Fox News Hosts to Hawk Dubious CBD Products
A round of fictitious stories masquerading as news articles from Fox News — invoking the names and faces of prominent hosts on the channel — and other outlets have been used in recent weeks to hawk dubious products through paid Facebook adv
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nashville’s Daily Press And Times Really DID Print These Female Statistics In 1869
Did Nashville's Daily Press and Times publish this accounting of the unmarried females in the Tennessee city on July 19, 1869? Yes it's true: This image of a newspaper clipping, from an unknown newspaper and date, cites the Daily Press an
Truth or Fiction?→ Bill Nye ‘There’s Already Enough Plastic in the Ocean’ Response Tweet
On August 16 2021, the Facebook page “Super News Supes” shared a screenshot in which science educator Bill Nye purportedly made a misogynistic comment about Kylie Jenner in a screenshot that was circulating as early as July 9 2019: In th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Reporter ‘Bernie Gores’ Was NOT Executed By The Taliban In Afghanistan — The Name, Story And Accounts That Reported It Are Fake
Was a CNN reporter from the U.S. named Bernie Gores executed by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan? No, that's not true: "Bernie Gores" is not a real CNN reporter, and the Twitter accounts that propagated the claim are all fake news accoun
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Woman’s Execution Did NOT Just Happen In Afghanistan — It Was In Syria In 2015
Does this video show a Taliban killing in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021? No, that's not true: This footage of the public execution of a woman accused of adultery was identified in 2015 as having been carried out by Nusra Front jihadis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Images Do NOT Show Kabul After Taliban Took Control — They’re From Call Of Duty Video Game
Were images of a crashed helicopter and destroyed homes taken less than 24 hours after the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city? No, that's not true: The images are stills of multiplayer maps from the video game Call
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prayer Request For 229 Christian Missionaries Is NOT Based On A Verified Current Event
Have 229 Christian missionaries been sentenced to death "tomorrow afternoon" by "Afghan Islamists"? No, that's not true: Variations of this specific prayer request have been circulating since at least 2009 with some changes and various de
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Digital Billboard In Wilmington, NC, Was NOT Hacked To Show Unflattering Memes Of Biden — The Memes Came From A ‘Private Citizen’
Was a digital billboard in Wilmington, North Carolina, hacked to feature memes that were critical of President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to Donald Tedder, owner of the digital billboard, the billboard was not hacked -- the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Miami-Dade Police Department Did NOT Issue Warning About A Sexual Assault Scheme That Uses Children To Target Women
Did the Miami-Dade Police Department issue a warning about a sexual assault scheme that uses children to target women? No, that's not true: A public information officer from the MDPD confirmed with Lead Stories that the letter, which has
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘867-5309’ Is NOT A Number To Call To Report Maskless People — It’s From An Old Pop Song, And The Post Is A Joke
Can people wanting to report someone for not wearing a mask do so by phoning "867-5309"? No, that's not true: The number that appears in the claim is the title of a popular 1980s song, "867-5309/ Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. This number has be
FactCheck.org→ Marine General Supports Vaccinations for Military
SciCheck Digest The secretary of defense announced that COVID-19 vaccination will be mandatory for all service members by mid-September. But social media posts have shared an article from a dubious website that falsely claimed that the leader of the Ma
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tweet That Parents Divorced Over Debt And U.S. Medical System Does NOT Exist
Did a Twitter user named "Becky Lynn Paige" tweet that their parents divorced over $288,000 in debt and "the American medical system"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that such a Twitter account ever existed, plus the counterfei
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘King George VI Having Fun’
On August 15 2021, the Facebook page “Classical Art Memes” shared an image titled “King George VI Having Fun”: Although the image was popular and generated engagement, no additional information was included alongside it. A rev
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Does NOT Take Gallons Of Water To ‘Flush’ Energy Drinks Out Of The Kidneys
Is it true that for every 20 ounces of Monster Energy that you drink, you'll need 6.3 gallons of water to flush it out of your kidneys? Is it also true that for every 20 ounces of Red Bull you drink, you'll need a gallon of water to flush
Truth or Fiction?→ Flight Out of Afghanistan
Just before 5PM on August 16 2021, high-profile Facebook accounts shared an image labeled as a “flight out of Afghanistan”; the same image had been shared to Reddit’s r/pics two hours prior: One of the flights out of Kabul.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Of A Walnut Is NOT The ‘Lungs Of A Marijuana User’
Is this the image of a marijuana user's lungs? No, that's not true: It's half of a walnut kernel. Also, this same post was in found in 2018 on a satirical Facebook account. The claim appeared in an August 5, 2021, Facebook post (archived
Snopes→ QAnon Still Thrives on Facebook Nearly a Year After ‘Ban’
Even when various QAnon-themed posts were manually reported, Facebook's support team responded to say the content didn't violate company policies.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putative Colorado Computer Backups Do NOT Prove Dominion Deleted Election Logs From Voting Machines After 2020 Election
Did a set of computer backups released at Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium prove Dominion Voting Systems erased "election logs" from Mesa County, Colorado, voting machines after the 2020 election? No, that's not true: Independent cybersecur
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Republican Party Webpage Praising Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Disappear?
As right-wing political figures scrambled to attack U.S. President Joe Biden for the devastation accompanying the Taliban advance across Afghanistan in August 2021, an official Republican Party webpage praising his predecessor for setting up the United
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Praise Taliban For Wearing Masks During Attack
Did CNN praise the Taliban for wearing masks in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: The image of a CNN chyron claiming Taliban fighters were wearing masks as they attacked is fake -- it is from the Babylon Bee, a conservative satire website
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Military Dogs Being Evacuated From Afghanistan
On August 16 2021, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand shared an image on Twitter which puportedly showed dogs with the United States military dogs as they were getting moved out of Afghanistan as its cities rapidly fell to the Taliban: U.S. military dogs
Truth or Fiction?→ The Wismer House $10 ‘Fine’ for Overnight Parking
On August 15 2021, an Imgur account shared what looked like a parking ticket from “The Wismer House,” in a post titled “$10 gift certificate for parking over night instead of drinking and driving”: Although the yellow citatio
Health Feedback→ U.S. prison releases complemented other strategies to limit the spread of COVID-19 in jails and prisons, including face masks
REVIEW It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began advising individuals to wear masks in public to help limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus respons
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A 1912 Newspaper Really DID Publish A Note On Effect Burning Coal Could Have On Earth’s Temperature
Did New Zealand's Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette publish a paragraph on "Coal Consumption Affecting Climate" in the Science Notes and News section of the paper back on August 14, 1912? It's TRUE! This paragraph p
Truth or Fiction?→ California Officials Attempt to Quell Confusion Around Gubernatorial Recall Election
As mail-in ballots began to go out in advance of the September 2021 gubernatorial recall election in California, a spokesperson for the California Secretary of State’s office attempted to quell disinformation and confusion around the often confus
Health Feedback→ Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated individuals are more protected against the Delta variant
REVIEW The U.S. initiated a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in mid-December 2020 after clinical trials showed that COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective. As of 7 August 2021, more than 166 million people (50.1% of the population) were f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AOC Was NOT Photographed Wearing $3,900 Sunglasses — It’s Satire
Was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez photographed wearing $3,900 sunglasses? No, that's not true: She was wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses that are priced at less than $200 on the eyewear company's website. Also, this claim was on a know
FactCheck.org→ Misinformation About Face Masks
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a raging — sometimes ill-informed — debate over the effectiveness of face masks as protection against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Full Fact→ Post makes misleading claims about Covid vaccines and animal trials
A post on Facebook incorrectly claims that vaccines are unapproved and experimental, and that all the animals used in trials died. The author does not specify that they are discussing the Covid-19 vaccines, but the claims are very similar to ones
Full Fact→ Registering as a car’s keeper doesn’t automatically mean you don’t own it
A post on Facebook incorrectly claims that car registration documents reveal car owners in the UK don’t actually own their vehicles. The document, known as a V5C, describes the named driver as the “registered keeper” which, the
Health Feedback→ Family physician Daniel Stock repeated previously debunked misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and control strategies in a Mount Vernon School Board Meeting
REVIEW A viral Youtube video featured a speech by Daniel Stock, self-described as a functional family medicine physician, at a 6 August 2021 Board Meeting of the Mount Vernon Community School Corporation in Hancock County, Indiana. The video receive