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AFP Fact Check→ Videos purporting to show violence during recent elections in Zanzibar are old and unrelated
Two videos claiming to show recent violence in Zanzibar following a disputed election have been viewed thousands of times on Twitter. The claims are false: one of the video clips dates back to 2005 while the other was debunked earlier this year by AFP
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Toddler Lost Amid ‘Violent Riots’ In Philadelphia — Child Was Pulled From SUV During A Police Stop
Does a photograph show a police officer rescuing a toddler wandering alone amid "violent riots" in Philadelphia? No, that's not true: Officers pulled the barefoot child from the backseat of an SUV after smashing its windows and removing t
Snopes→ Facebook Shutters Pro-Trump Group Posing as ‘Official Kayleigh McEnany Fan Page’
The social network previously shut down a different but similarly named group after discovering it was managed from North Macedonia.
Health Feedback→ The percentage of excess deaths in the U.S. not directly caused by COVID-19 range from 14% to 33%; it remains unclear how lockdowns influenced excess mortality
REVIEW A claim that COVID-19 only caused two third of the excess mortality observed in the U.S. in 2020 and that lockdowns are in part responsible for the remaining third circulated in October 2020. One article containing this claim was published by
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Voting Machine Message Voters Received Did NOT Keep Them From Voting
Were a handful of early voters in Utah who went to cast ballots told they had already voted? Yes, that's true: But it happened to only a few people and was due to a technical error by a poll worker. Once the problem was fixed, they able t
FactCheck.org→ Nothing Untoward About Counting Ballots After Election Day
In recent days, President Donald Trump has repeatedly and baselessly suggested that counting mail-in ballots after Election Day will result in fraud. The president, who has relentlessly attacked mail-in ballots as being rife with fraud, warned about po
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Ban This ‘President Trump Campaign Ad’ — Which Isn’t Really A Trump Ad
Did Facebook ban this "President Trump campaign ad"? No, that's not true. It goes without saying that videos playing on a platform proclaiming they are banned by that platform have not been banned. Those behind such posts use them as a wa
Snopes→ Is This the World’s Oldest Cat Photo?
Photographers have been trying to get cats to sit still for almost two centuries.
Truth or Fiction?→ As U.S. Election Looms, Agitprop Floods Social Media Platforms
In the days leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the disinformation that has been a hallmark of the Trump campaign, then administration, then campaign again reached new heights with political smears, Soviet-style weaponized conspiracy t
FactCheck.org→ Trump Baselessly Suggests COVID-19 Deaths Inflated for Profit
During a campaign rally in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump questioned the reported numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. by describing a purported “incentive” to report cases and deaths, because “doctors get more money an
Full Fact→ £24,000 doesn’t represent what most Universal Credit claimants receive
In a Facebook post, Conservative MP Lee Anderson gave an estimate of the yearly Universal Credit entitlement for a single-parent of three based in his constituency of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. We’ve been asked to check this by readers. In the po
Full Fact→ No, we are not on track for a normal number of deaths this year
A Facebook post shares a Twitter screenshot which claims to show the UK death toll in selected years. It suggests that the 2020 death toll will be comparable to previous years based on the number of deaths so far this year. This figure is wrong, becaus
Poynter→ Fact-checkers head to the War Rooms to battle last minute invasion of conspiracy theories
Don’t be surprised if your social media feeds and your messaging apps become filled with conspiracy theories until Nov. 3, the U.S. Election Day. For a group of highly respected fact-checkers this is totally predictable. “Everything indicat
Snopes→ France Raises Its Alert Level to Maximum After Nice Attack
The knife attack was the third incident in two months in France amid a growing furor over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that were re-published by the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Poynter→ The cynical campaign to turn human error into ballot ‘fraud’
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press Institute’s Accountability Project. Sign up here. Planting the seeds of election doubt Humans make mistakes
AFP Fact Check→ Viral video claiming Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo compared herself to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern omits important context
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo compared herself to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The posts, however, omit important context; the vide
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It is NOT True That All Ballots Arriving After Election Day Will Be Thrown Out
Is it true that all mail-in ballots received after Election Day will not be counted in the upcoming election? No, that's not true: 22 states have extended mail-in ballot receipt deadlines beyond Election Day. However, almost all other sta
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Scientific American Did NOT Warn That 5G Is Unsafe, An Op-Ed Guest Writer Did
Did Scientific American warn that 5G technology is not safe? No, that's not true: That's the opinion of one guest columnist of many. The magazine has not taken a stand on the safety of 5G. The claim appeared in an article published by Nat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hobby Lobby DOES Sell Jewish Holiday Items
Does Hobby Lobby not sell Jewish holiday items? No, that's not true: Hobby Lobby sells Jewish holiday items -- just as it did seven years ago when a now-recirculating post on Facebook appeared, accusing the company of religious bias. The
Full Fact→ The number of doctors working for the NHS in England has increased in the past year
“Boris Johnson & Matt Hancock just tweeted its [sic] “fantastic” news 7,810 more doctors are now working in our NHS than a year ago. “Both “forget” to mention that figure includes thousands of medical students n
AFP Fact Check→ Hoax embassy pages falsely claim Trump made visa announcements for Kenya and Liberia
Posts claiming that the US has announced permanent “E-visas” for Kenya and Liberia have been shared multiple times on Facebook. The claim is false; the claim was shared by Facebook pages impersonating those of the two African nations' embassies,
AFP Fact Check→ These photos have circulated in reports since 2015 about a rally after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris
Two photos have been shared repeatedly in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show protesters rallying in the French capital of Paris in October 2020 over the murder of a school teacher who was beheaded in a terrorist attack. The claim i
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates that World Bank and IMF were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook claim the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal. The claim is misleading; the World Bank and the IMF we
FactCheck.org→ In Pennsylvania Rallies, Trump Distorts Voting Issues
In the swing state of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump repeatedly rattled off false and misleading claims about ballots and voting in arguing to his supporters “the only way we can lose, in my opinion, is massive fraud.” On Oct. 26, Tru
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Dubious Plan to Pay for Free State College
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has twice botched a talking point on an already dubious claim that his proposal for a minimum corporate tax would pay for his free-tuition plan. Several independent tax groups that have analyzed Biden’s t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Over 220 Million Americans Have NOT Died From COVID-19 In The Last Several Months
Did over 220 million Americans die in the last several months from COVID-19? No, that's not true: That number is way too high. According to data provided by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Johns Hopkins University
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trash Can Plastered With ‘Ballot Box’ Sign In Philadelphia Was NOT Intended To Get People To Toss Their Ballots In The Trash
Did a worker in Philadelphia disguise trash cans so that people would throw away their ballots? No, that's not true: The posters proclaiming "Ballot Box" on sidewalk solar-powered trash compactors were created to advertise "Ballot Box" an
Lead Stories→ Student’s Chart Explaining Wild Conspiracies Trolled To Spread More Conspiracies
Abbie Richards, a climate science student in the Netherlands, was looking with bewilderment at the state of her home country of the United States. So many conspiracy theories echoing, particularly ahead of the election. Struggling to wran
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Does NOT Own One Of The Largest Mansions In Delaware
Does this photo of one of the largest homes in Delaware show the home of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden? No, that's not true: "Marimon" is one of the largest mansions in Delaware, but has never been the home nor property of B
Truth or Fiction?→ “As Trump Attacks Lesley Stahl, Remember He Said: ‘I Do It to Discredit [and] Demean You All So … No One Will Believe You’”
In late October 2020, just after United States President Donald Trump abruptly walked out of an election with longtime broadcast journalist Lesley Stahl, an older statement of his appeared: As Trump attacks Lesley Stahl now, remember his comments to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Data Do NOT ‘Reveal’ Hospitals Have Counted Heart Attacks as COVID-19 Deaths
Does Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data "reveal" that COVID-19 death totals have been exaggerated by hospitals counting heart attacks as COVID deaths? No, that's not true: Hospitals don't fill out death certificates, doctors
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Democrats Tried to Slip a Law Banning Pledge of Allegiance Into Aid Package’
In late October 2020, a number of people on Facebook appeared to share screenshots of what looked like an article headlined, “Democrats Tried to Slip a Law Banning Pledge of Allegiance Into Aid Package”: Spread Out Examples As a matter
Full Fact→ This figure for flu deaths is wrong
A block of text making comparisons between the number of deaths from flu and the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic has been shared on Facebook. The text claims that “a real pandemic would be self-evident” with “bodies piling up on the st
AFP Fact Check→ This road was vandalised in South Africa and not by protesters in Nigeria
Two images showing sections of a road being dug up have been shared hundreds of times on Facebook claiming the people who can be seen in the pictures are anti-police brutality protesters in Nigeria destroying public roads. However, the claim is false:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Wind Turbines Do NOT Need Their Oil Changed Every 500 Hours, Some Can Go Years
Do wind turbines need the oil in their gearboxes changed every 500 hours? No, that's not true: Based on model types and in what geographical areas the turbines are located, oil change intervals can range from three to 10 years. The claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Belgian Mayor Did NOT Refuse To Entertain Demands From Muslim Parents To Remove Pork From School Lunch Menu
Did a Mayor in Ath, Belgium (or Dorval, Quebec, Canada; the London, England, borough of Harrow; Maryborough, Victoria, Australia; the Perth suburb of Joondalup; or a number of cities in France) write a lengthy letter in response to Muslim
Snopes→ Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Fake Melania’ Rumor Spreads Again After Photograph From White House Lawn
On October 24 2020, Twitter user Zack Bornstein shared a photograph of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump… or was it? The only thing I'll miss from this administration is them swapping in new Melanias and just pretending we won
Full Fact→ Matt Hancock got the evidence about long Covid wrong
“We have two points of evidence; one is the evidence from King’s College London that shows that approximately one in 20 people with coronavirus is likely to have long-term symptoms, but the other evidence implies that in adults under 50, t