A Facebook post shows what appears to be CCTV footage of a woman having her drink spiked in a bar. The film shows two men target the woman. One distracts her while the other slips a substance into her glass. Subtitles on the video claim the
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Logically→ If there are lots of bubbles in your drink, your drink is murky, changes color, or the ice sinks, then your drink has been spiked.
The drugs typically used in drink spiking are tasteless, odorless, and colorless.
Snopes→ Spike Lee Re-Edits Documentary Series on 9/11 After ‘Truther’ Conspiracies Controversy
An episode in the series featured interviews with members of a conspiracy theorist group.
Snopes→ Report Shows Big Spike in Mail Ballots During 2020 Election
Fewer than one-third of voters casting ballots in last year’s U.S. presidential election did so at a polling place on Election Day as the coronavirus pandemic led states to greatly expand mail-in balloting and early voting, according to a federal rep
Snopes→ Evictions Expected to Spike As Pandemic Moratorium Ends
Most expect the wave of evictions to build slowly over the coming weeks and months as the bureaucracy of removing people from their homes restarts.
Snopes→ Cannes’ Top Honor Mistakenly Announced Early by Spike Lee
The awards ceremony for the 74th Cannes Film Festival has started where it should have ended, with jury president Spike Lee mistakenly announcing that the serial killer odyssey “Titane” as the winner of the Palme d'Or.
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccine-Generated Spike Protein is Safe, Contrary to Viral Claims
SciDigest Hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered safely in the United States in the last six months. There is no evidence to indicate that the spike proteins generated by human cells following vaccination are a toxin or t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Consensus Acceptance Of Untested Assertion The Spike Protein Created By mRNA COVID Vaccine Is ‘Very Dangerous’
Is this video correct in suggesting there's a "we know" consensus that mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 cause the body to create "very dangerous" toxic proteins? No, that's not true: There's no peer-reviewed medical study proving this asser
Full Fact→ Claims that Covid vaccine spike proteins are harmful are unevidenced
An article published by website The Conservative Woman reports on an interview with a Canadian scientist who claimed researchers had made a “big mistake” and were “inadvertently inoculating” people with a “toxin” via
Health Feedback→ Byram Bridle’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines are toxic fails to account for key differences between the spike protein produced during infection and vaccination, misrepresents studies
REVIEW In late May 2021, the claim that COVID-19 vaccines could cause blood vessel damage to vaccinated people went viral on social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Twitter. Many posts and articles (see examples here, and
Snopes→ Biden Signs Bill to Counter Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crime
President Joe Biden signed legislation to curtail a dramatic rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and expressed pride that lawmakers who seem to agree on little else came together against hate and racism.
AFP Fact Check→ Posts misrepresent US study on dangers of coronavirus spike protein
Multiple Facebook posts have shared parts of a study by US-based scientists that analysed spike proteins of the novel coronavirus. The posts suggest the study is evidence that some Covid-19 vaccines could be harmful. The claim is misleading: both the r
Snopes→ Cop Runs Over His Own Spike Strip After It Falls Out of Trunk
A TikTok video that was viewed more than 600,000 times in 24 hours showed various objects falling out of the trunk of a police vehicle in Minneapolis.
Snopes→ CDC Director Has Feeling of ‘Impending Doom’ Amid New Spike
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an impassioned plea to Americans not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19, warning of a potential fourth wave of the virus.
Poynter→ Gun violence spiked during pandemic, even as the deadliest mass shootings waned
A week after a gunman shot and killed eight people in Georgia, a gunman opened fire in a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, including a police officer. After a year of social distancing and closures from the COVID-19 pandemic, the t
Logically→ Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have shut schools till May 2021 due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Both states have reopened schools again, and officials have denied news of shut down due to an increase in COVID -19 cases.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spikes On Schumann Resonance Readout Do NOT Show Dangerous Disturbance In Ionosphere
Were the large red spikes recorded on a spectrogram on December 1, 2020 a dangerous "Schumann Resonance Explosion"? No, that's not true: The spikes on the spectrogram readout were caused by snow falling on the antenna of a monitoring stat
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading viral posts shared in Myanmar warn of ‘Zombie deer virus’ outbreak after Covid-19 spike
Multiple Facebook posts shared in Myanmar claim that health experts have expressed “great concern” over a “Zombie deer virus” which they claim is “scarier than the coronavirus” and can spread among deer. The posts, which circulated onlin
AFP Fact Check→ Claims of pandemic spike in suicides are not backed by data
Posts spread by celebrities and liked about 250,000 times on Instagram claim suicides have risen 200 percent since pandemic-linked lockdowns in America began. This is false; there is no data to support such a statement, the timing of which coincides w
Snopes→ Did Searches for “Change My Vote” Spike After Final Prez Debate or Hunter Biden Controversy?
Trendception: A master class in the use of spurious data to make bogus and self-referential political talking points unsupported by empirical evidence.
Logically→ Biden: “Look at the states having a spike, they are the red states, the states in the Midwest, in the upper Midwest, that is where the spike is occurring significantly.”
An analysis of coronavirus data by the Associated Press in July 2020 shows that in the first phase of the pandemic, Democrat-run states were harder hit by the virus but spread into Republican areas quickly, with their new cases eventually ac
Logically→ India has recorded its worst-ever single-day spike of about 75,995 coronavirus cases.
India has recorded around 75,760 new cases of COVID-19, and it is the biggest rise recorded in a single day.
Snopes→ South Korea Pastor Tests Positive Amid Virus Spike at Church
More than 300 virus cases have been linked to the Rev. Jun Kwang-hun's huge church in northern Seoul.
Snopes→ White House Turns on Fauci as Trump Minimizes Virus Spike
The White House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert, playing down the danger as President Donald Trump pushes to get the economy moving before he faces voters in November.
Health Feedback→ The June 2020 spike in U.S. COVID-19 cases indicates a rising percentage of infections and is not simply an artifact of more testing
REVIEW Dozens of Facebook posts circulated on social media in late June and early July 2020 claiming that the spike in the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. during the second half of June 2020 was due to increased testing, and not to an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NOT A Spike In Coronavirus Cases Just Because There’s An Increase In Testing
Did the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. spike in recent days because of increased testing? No, that's not true: It's an assertion made without supporting evidence. Data clearly show there is no simple cause-and-effect relationship between
AFP Fact Check→ As COVID-19 cases spike in US, mask misinformation also spreads
Social media posts shared thousands of times in the United States contain multiple false or misleading claims about face masks used to stop the spread of COVID-19, including that they violate federal standards for oxygen supply, cloth masks “do not
AFP Fact Check→ As US faces COVID-19 spike, outdated mask info spreads online
A Facebook post shared more than 25,000 times says face masks should only be worn by medical professionals or people who have become ill during the coronavirus pandemic. This is misleading; the World Health Organization guidance cited in the post is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Media Outlets DID Suggest George Floyd Protests Could Cause A COVID-19 Spike
Have no media outlets questioned if all of the protests in the wake of George Floyd's death could cause a spike in COVID-19 cases? No, that's not true: The concern about the lack of social distancing and wearing of face masks has been raised i
Snopes→ Lock Your Cars! Vehicle Theft Spikes in COVID-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus hasn’t been kind to car owners.
Snopes→ Virus Spikes Could Emerge Weeks After US Economic Reopenings
U.S. states are beginning to restart their economies after months of paralyzing coronavirus lockdowns, but it could take weeks until it becomes clear whether those reopenings will cause a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Snopes→ Jobless Rate Spikes to Highest Since Great Depression
The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April. It was at a record low of 3.5% as recently as February.
Snopes→ India Reports Biggest One-Day Coronavirus Spike as Lockdown Eased
India, which has some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world, has eased some restrictions on agriculture and manufacturing.
Snopes→ Wisconsin Worried About Spike in Virus Cases Due to Election
The decision to forge ahead with Wisconsin’s election amid a pandemic has stirred fears about a possible spike in the state’s coronavirus cases.
Snopes→ Virus Fears Fuel Spike in Sales of Guns and Ammunition
Just as grocery stores have been stripped bare by Americans panicked by coronavirus, guns and ammunition have started flying off the shelves.
Snopes→ Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimages over virus; Iran cases spike
Saudi Arabia banned foreign pilgrims from entering the kingdom to visit Islam's holiest sites over the new coronavirus, potentially disrupting the plans of millions of faithful ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and as the annual hajj pilgrim
Snopes→ China Reports Spike in Virus Cases with New Way of Counting
China reported a sharp spike in deaths and infections from a new virus after the hardest-hit province of Hubei applied a new classification system that broadens the scope of diagnoses for the outbreak.
Snopes→ US Director Spike Lee to Lead Cannes Film Festival Jury
Festival organizers hope the provocative American director will “shake things up” at the gathering of the world's cinema elite.
Snopes→ Phone-In-Cheek: Spike Seen in Cellphone-Linked Face Injuries
Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them.
Snopes→ Military Sees Frustrating Trend as Suicides Spike
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all saw the rate of suicides go up as well as the overall numbers, with only the Air Force showing a decrease, according to data released by the Pentagon.