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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Medical Error’ Is NOT Proven To Be The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The United States
Full Fact→ Only a third of people first heard of the term ‘cancel culture’ in the past year
The experts found that cancel culture had exploded in the last year — with 82 per cent of people having first encountered it in the past 12 months. The Sun, 29 June 2021. An article in the Sun, published on 29 June, claims that experts found &ld
FactCheck.org→ FactCheck.org Wins Third Sigma Delta Chi Award
FactCheck.org has won its second consecutive Sigma Delta Chi Award for fact-checking from the Society of Professional Journalists. The announcement was made June 12. The winning submission was our 2020 story titled “Trump on the Stump.” In
Logically→ The third wave of COVID-19 in India is inevitable.
India's scientific adviser K Vijay Raghavan said the third wave is inevitable, and the health care system should be prepared for more waves.
Truth or Fiction?→ Agriculture Workers Are Killed on the Job at a Higher Rate Than Cops,’ ‘They Make about a Third as Much Money’
In April 2021, a popular tweet contained the claim that agricultural workers were likelier to die on the job than law enforcement officers, adding that farm labor also generally pays far less: Reminder that agriculture workers are killed on the job
AFP Fact Check→ Nigeria stays third in 2020 global terrorism ranking for fifth year in a row
A misleading graphic about Nigeria's global terrorism ranking, which AFP Fact Check debunked in 2020, is again causing a stir on social media. The graphic, released last September by a Nigerian TV station, showed that the nation placed third on an ind
Full Fact→ The government hasn’t said the vaccine will cause a third wave of deaths
A video spreading on Instagram claims to show evidence of the government saying that the third wave of deaths during the pandemic will come from vaccines. The person recording the video can be heard saying: “People need to read this: ‘The r
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Third Bridge Spanning The Chesapeake Bay Is NOT In Planning Stages: It’s April Fools’
Did Jeff Bezos agree to pay for a six and a half mile long bridge in Maryland in exchange for the rezoning of some land to build an Amazon distribution center and drone launching facility? No, that's not true: A short film produced by Que
Truth or Fiction?→ How Homeless People Can Receive Third Stimulus and an ‘EIP’
On March 15 2021, @Hamdia_Ahmed tweeted about homeless people not having access to the first or second stimulus payments — adding that anyone who is experiencing homelessness could receive the third stimulus with something called an “EIP r
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Campaign Did NOT Win ‘Two-Thirds Of the Cases Adjudicated’ — Unless You Count Pre-Election Day Suits
Has former President Donald Trump won "two-thirds of the cases that have been adjudicated by the courts" in his crusade to overturn the election result? That's only true if you leave out certain cases and add in others. The "two-thirds" c
Snopes→ A Third of US Adults Skeptical of COVID Vaccines in AP-NORC Poll
The poll suggests that substantial skepticism persists more than a month and a half into a U.S. vaccination drive that has encountered few if any serious side effects.
AFP Fact Check→ US military did not arrest two-thirds of Congress
An article claims the US military, including National Guard members deputized on behalf of the US Marshals Service, was set to indict and detain a majority of Congress on January 25, 2021. But Congress is functioning normally, and the US Marshals Serv
AFP Fact Check→ US military did not arrest two-thirds of Congress
An article claims the US military, including National Guard members deputized on behalf of the US Marshals Service, was set to indict and detain a majority of Congress on January 25, 2021. But Congress is functioning normally, and the US Marshals Serv
AFP Fact Check→ Beware false job ads – WHO does not recruit through third-party job portals
A post circulating on Facebook claims the World Health Organization (WHO) is recruiting via a job portal called the Recruitment Trust. But this is false: the UN agency has confirmed it only hires people through its official careers website.
Full Fact→ The laws introducing a third English lockdown do not make the Covid-19 vaccine mandatory
A video on Facebook posted on 4 January claims that on “Wednesday they’re passing a bill to make the Covid regulations law.” The man in the video claims this means that “Mandatory vaccinations, house arrest until you&rsquo
Full Fact→ Full Fact publishes new report on Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking programme
Today we publish our second report on our experience of the Third-Party Fact-Checking programme run by Facebook. We attempt in these reports to create further transparency around the Third-Party Fact-Checking programme, so that people can reach i
Snopes→ Was a Third ‘Monolith’ Found in California?
The mysterious structures have been popping up in various locations.
Poynter→ Brazilian election: Fact-checkers detected 16 electoral hoaxes in 48 hours, a third of the total registered in 2018
In the first round of the 2020 Brazilian local election, three technological errors created an opportunity for disinformation to thrive. An app launched by the Superior Electoral Court to help voters find their voting section or justify their absence (
Logically→ A vote for a third party is a vote for Trump.
Unlike the 2016 election result, votes to third-party candidates are likely to have little significance this presidential race.
Logically→ Gold prices fall for the third day in a row from August 31, 2020.
The future price of gold was ₹51,024 on September 02, 2020, which continues to fall the third day in row ₹51,405.
Washington Post→ Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 Republican National Convention
The third night offered yet another cascade of false claims, especially in Vice President Pence's speech. Here are 19 statements that caught our attention.
Snopes→ 3 Shot, 2 Killed in Third Night of Unrest Over Blake Shooting
Police fired tear gas for the third straight night to disperse protesters who had gathered outside the courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Washington Post→ Fact-checking the third night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention
The Democrats aren't breaking the fact-check meter in their virtual convention.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Third-Party Fact Checkers Did NOT Rate The Bill of Rights as False Information
Did Facebook's independent fact checkers rate an image of the Bill of Rights as "False Information"? No, that's not true: an image circulating on social media that appears to show a fact checking overlay on the Bill of Rights is a crude forger
Snopes→ Is This Horse Living in a Third-Floor Apartment?
A horse needs a house, of course, of course.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Hillary Clinton Did NOT Claim Russians ‘Grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard As Third-Party Candidate
Did Hillary Clinton claim Russians are "grooming" Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as a third-party presidential candidate in 2020? No, that's not true: Clinton suggested in a podcast that the Trump campaign -- not Russians -- was "grooming" a woman who was
Washington Post→ Fact-checking the third Democratic presidential debate
Here's a roundup of eight claims from the third Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign.
Snopes→ Did U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders Say Baltimore Was Like a ‘Third World Country’?
Like U.S. President Donald Trump, Sanders criticized living conditions in Baltimore (in 2015), just in a different context.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Third World Country? Nah, LA California’
In June 2019, a Facebook user shared the following image (archived here), purportedly illustrating the poor state of affairs in Los Angeles in particular and California overall: Third world country? Nah, LA California. This is exactly what socialism i
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Somali Muslim Man Did NOT Throw 5 Year Old Off The Third Floor Balcony At Mall Of America In Minnesota!
Did a Somali Muslim man throw a 5-year-old off the 3rd floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota? No, that's not true: The suspect identified by police as the man who threw little Landen Hoffman over the railing 40-feet above the groun
Truth or Fiction?→ Will Earth Lose Two-Thirds of its Animals by 2020?
In early March 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot (archived here) of a tweet sent the same day, which admonished followers of a scandal involving the Kardashian family. That post claimed that while readers were busy on Kardashian gossip, two-t
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories Joins Facebook’s Third Party Fact Checking Partnership
COLORADO SPRINGS - Lead Stories is happy to announce we are now part of Facebook's partnership with various fact checking organisations around the world which aims to fight misinformation on the platform. Lead Stories will continue using its
Truth or Fiction?→ Do Two-Thirds of Millennials Not Know What Auschwitz Is?
In late December 2018, the Facebook page for Yahoo! Now shared a link to an article with a comment that two-thirds of millennials “don’t know what Auschwitz was”: The post linked to an article aggregated to Yahoo! from Newsweek on Apr
Snopes→ Are ‘One-Third’ of Caravan Migrants Sick with HIV, Tuberculosis, and Chicken Pox?
Many caravan migrants are dealing with assorted health complaints, but not these specific communicable diseases.
Internet Archive→ Third Way Discussion on Democrats Looking Ahead to 2020 : CSPAN : November 17, 2018 4:57pm-6:29pm EST
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) joined Third Way for a panel discussion on lessons learned from the 2018 midterm elections and looking ahead for Democrats in 2020. Sponsor: Third Way.This item belongs to: movies/TV-CSPAN.This item has files of the following
Snopes→ Democrats and Republicans Rush to Avert Third Party Spoilers
Both major parties are worrying about so-called “spoilers” as election day nears.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: No Fears About Vigilante Serial Killer, NO Third Pedophile Murdered In 1 Week
Is a serial killer on the loose and did he murder three pedophiles in one week? And did this happen in Macomb County, Michigan or Longview, Texas? No, that's not true: a network of fake news sites is simply recycling the same fake story using
Snopes→ Third Kavanaugh Accuser Submits Allegation to Senate Panel
President Trump tweeted that Avenatti was a "third-rate lawyer" pushing "false accusations."
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Is the United States third in murders and are outlier cities to blame? No.
The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! | Is the United States third in murders and are outlier cities to blame? No. A viral meme shared on social media following the Parkland, Fla., shooting claimed the United States has the third-highest count of