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Full Fact→ Andrew Bridgen’s vaccine debate claims fact checked
The Conservative MP made a number of claims about vaccine safety and effectiveness—we’ve fact checked four of them.
Logically→ An RTI reply revealed that ₹30 crores were spent on PM Modi’s visit to Morbi after a bridge collapse killed hundreds.
The viral ' Gujarat Samachar' newspaper clipping mentioning the purported RTI reply on costs incurred during Modi's visit has been digitally morphed.
Full Fact→ Andrew Bridgen wrong to say Covid-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t recommended while pregnant or breastfeeding
Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen made a series of claims about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which use mRNA technology, during Prime Minister’s Questions.
Logically→ MLA Brijesh Merja was seen trying to rescue victims in the river after the Morbi bridge collapsed in Gujarat.
Visuals of former Morbi BJP MLA Kantilal Amrutiya participating in the rescue operation were misattributed as Brijesh Merja.
Logically→ An image shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier met the Morbi bridge contractor.
This is an image of Prime Minister Modi meeting Gujarat Minister of Agriculture Raghavji Patel, not the Morbi bridge contractor.
Logically→ PM Narendra Modi called the collapse of the Morbi cable bridge in Gujarat an act of fraud.
A 2016 video of PM Modi's remarks on the collapse of the Kolkata flyover has been misattributed to the recent incident on the Morbi bridge in Gujarat.
Logically→ The collapse of the Morbi bridge in Gujarat is a pre-planned conspiracy by AAP.
Tweets by AAP political leaders have been shared with false narratives that relate them to the collapse of the Morbi bridge in Gujarat.
Logically→ People jumped and violently shook the Morbi bridge in Gujarat moments before it collapsed.
A three-year-old video of a crowd on Morbi cable bridge was falsely linked to the recent collapse in which 133 people died.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Military Did NOT Execute US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink
Did the U.S. military hang U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink for committing treason? No, that's not true: The story is entirely fabricated and Brink remains an ambassador in good standing. The claim originated on the website Real R
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukrainian Missile Did NOT Destroy Russian Tank Convoy On Crimean Bridge
Did the Ukrainian military fire a missile at the Kerch bridge in Russian-occupied Crimea, taking out a convoy of Russian tanks? No, that's not true: The video with this claim says the damage was caused by a truck that exploded on the brid
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Military Did NOT Arrest US Ambassador To Ukraine Bridget Brink
Did the military arrest the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink? No, that's not true: Real Raw News, the website that posted the story, has a disclaimer saying that their articles are "humor, parody and satire." The site has a histor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO ID Card for Semen Hydenko / Samuyil Hydenko Found At Crimea Bridge Attack Scene
Was a Ukraine ID card in the name of "Semen Hydenko" (or Samuyil Hydenko) found at the scene of the October 8, 2022, explosion on the bridge linking Crimea to Russia? No, that's not true: The spoof ID card shown in online messages has the
Poynter→ Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide
The 2020 presidential election result is clear: Donald Trump lost. But fighting his stolen election narrative is a problem that requires a multipronged solution, three experts said Sept. 27 at […] The post Experts say facts alone won’t brid
PolitiFact→ United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won't bridge the partisan divide
Even amid legal peril, Trump has managed to manipulate the framing of these major events, experts said, and facts alone won't sway his supporters or bridge a widening partisan divide.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of Soldiers Did NOT Deploy On Streets Of London Or Cross Tower Bridge
Did thousands of soldiers deploy on the streets of London, crossing the iconic Tower Bridge in the early hours of September 24, 2022, local time? No, that's not true: Not only were there no news reports of any such deployments in the Brit
Snopes→ Did 79 Die in a Bridge Collapse While Watching a Clown’s Stunt?
"It was just a mad publicity stunt, but as the clown and his geese paddled downstream, the supports of a suspension bridge buckled."
Truth or Fiction?→ Puerto Rico Bridge Washed Away During Hurricane Fiona
A day after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 18 2022, several video clips of storm floods washing a bridge away were shared on Reddit. A post to r/AbruptChaos showed the sudden collapse of a bridge in hurricane floodwaters:
Snopes→ Ruby Bridges, Desegregation Trailblazer, Writes Kid’s Book
Ruby Bridges has authored a picture book about her experience for the youngest of readers.
Snopes→ Does Photo Show Air Florida Flight 90 Crashing into Bridge?
In our research, we were less concerned with the fairly obvious fact that it didn't show the 1982 crash than we were with finding the origins of the image.
Snopes→ FBI: No Sign of Jimmy Hoffa Under New Jersey Bridge
The Pulaski Skyway now becomes another dead end in the decadeslong mystery that has stretched from a Michigan horse farm to the East Coast: Where are the remains of one of America's most powerful labor leaders?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Ukraine Attacking Kerch Strait Bridge in Crimea
Did Ukraine attack the Kerch Strait Bridge, connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula to Russian territories, on July 13, 2022? No, that's not true: The video that makes such a claim does not include a single shot capturing such an attack.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Image of ‘Trump Train’ truck crashed into bridge is digitally edited
An image shows an “all aboard the Trump train” truck crashed into a bridge.
Poynter→ How digital media literacy training can help bridge conversations
Since February, Poynter’s social-first digital media literacy initiative MediaWise has launched a microlearning course in four languages around the world. The course is designed to help people become more critical […] The post How digital media
Snopes→ Yellowstone Floods Wipe out Roads, Bridges, Strand Visitors
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone’s gateway communities in southern Montana.
Logically→ Chair of the U.K.’s Social Mobility Commission Katharine Birbalsingh said working-class people should aim lower than Oxbridge.
Headlines suggesting that Birbalsingh said this are inaccurate. Birbalsingh commented that we need to rethink our approach to social mobility.
Logically→ A video shows a bridge collapsing in Assam due to floods in May 2022.
The video showing a bridge collapsing is not from the recent Assam floods but from flash floods that hit Eastern Indonesia in April 2021.
Logically→ This image shows a bridge that was destroyed in the Kursk region in Russia on May 1, 2022.
An old image from 2020 of a railway bridge collapse in the Murmansk region, Russia, has been incorrectly attributed to the recent incident in 2022.
Snopes→ Darwin Notebooks Missing for 20 Years Returned to Cambridge
Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
FactCheck.org→ American Bridge 21st Century/AB PAC
Political leanings: Democratic/liberal 2020 total spending: $84.7 million American Bridge 21st Century is a liberal super PAC that conducts opposition research to aid Democratic candidates and organizations. The group changed its name to AB PAC in No
Snopes→ In Photos: Children’s Toys Left on Historic Bridge Connecting Ukraine and Romania
A bridge in the Romanian town of Sighetu Marmației was said to have been turned into a “toy bridge.”
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Vitaly Skakun Sacrificed His Life to Explode a Bridge and Stop the Russian Advance’
On February 25 2022, posts about a young Ukrainian soldier named Vitaly Skakun circulated on social platforms like Imgur: Vitaly skakun sacrificed his life to explode a bridge and stop the russian advance. may his memory be a blessing In the above po
Snopes→ Key US-Canada Bridge Reopens As Ottawa Protest Persists
The busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing was open after protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 measures blocked it for nearly a week.
Snopes→ Yacht Reportedly Built for Bezos Too Big for Dutch Bridge
A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos faces a delivery problem.
Snopes→ Human Chain Formed to Help After Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet (46 meters) while others formed a human chain to help rescue occupants of a dangling bus.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘The New Mural on the Side of the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, MD’
On December 9 2021, a Facebook user shared the following image of a mural depicting Harriet Tubman: Text at the top of the image read: The new mural on the side of the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, MD. At the bottom, a signature appeared. It rea
Snopes→ Anti-Government Protesters Block Bridges, Roads in Serbia
The demonstrators pledged further protests if the laws on property expropriation and referendum weren't withdrawn.
Washington Post→ A bridge too far: Jefferies doubles the number of ‘structurally deficient’ bridges
Jeffries also suggested that 100,000 bridges may be close to collapse — a number that's way too high.
Washington Post→ Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg referred to a famous anecdote in Robert Caro's biography of master builder but historians increasingly question whether it is correct.
Snopes→ Is a Train Locomotive Embedded in the Foundation of the Golden Gate Bridge?
The famous suspension bridge took around five years to construct.