A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it shows an Indian politician “threatening mothers and sisters of West Bengal” amid ongoing elections in the state. But these posts omit important conte
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Health Feedback→ Clinical trials and post-trial monitoring show that COVID-19 vaccines reduce the spread and occurrence of the disease
REVIEW Since several COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for use, numerous posts have circulated on social media claiming that these vaccines are experimental or that they don’t prevent the disease or its transmission. Some posts, like this one that w
AFP Fact Check→ Survey findings misrepresented in misleading online posts about Leni Robredo’s 2016 vice presidential win
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in YouTube, Facebook and blog posts that claim a research organisation has “confirmed” Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo received zero votes in the country's Mindanao island. Social media user
AFP Fact Check→ The video shows officers protesting over government handling of police brutality complaints in June 2020
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok posts circulating in April 2021 share a video they claim shows French police throwing their handcuffs to the ground to protest coronavirus lockdowns. The claim is false: the footage actually shows officers protesting
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tilapia Is NOT Boneless, Is Not Inherently Bad For You
Is tilapia boneless, bad for you and can't be overcooked? No, that's not true: This meme has several false and misleading statements, though some of its original language has been toned down. The original version surfaced on Facebook in M
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Appeal To Dog Owners To Stop Using ‘Gendered Language’ Was NOT Authentic
Did a woman named Titania McGrath post a tweet demanding that dog owners stop using gendered terms like "good boy" and "good girl"? No, that's not true: The @TitaniaMcGrath account is a satirical jab at "wokeness." McGrath is a fictional
AFP Fact Check→ No hidden gun control policy in New York marijuana legislation
Facebook posts claim that recently signed New York state legislation legalizing recreational marijuana includes a back-door policy barring cannabis users from purchasing guns. This is false; there was no mention of firearms in the bill, and although fe
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 related deaths are indeed caused by COVID-19 and not by contributing health conditions
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the U.S. since early 2020 and caused nearly 31 million identified cases and 560,000 deaths in the country, and 2.9 million deaths worldwide, as of April 2021. Intensive care units being critically overwhelmed i
Health Feedback→ There is currently no cure for AIDS; reports to the contrary are incorrect
REVIEW Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that infects immune cells. AIDS is the last stage of HIV infection, when the virus has damaged
AFP Fact Check→ This petrol station robbery took place in Zimbabwe, not South Africa
A screenshot from what appears to be part of a newspaper article describing how armed robbers held up a petrol station, posed as staff and sold fuel before pocketing the cash has been shared on Facebook, along with the claim that the incident happened
AFP Fact Check→ This man was arrested at a demonstration supporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in January 2021
Facebook and Instagram posts purport to show a video of an elderly man who was arrested for not wearing a facemask, despite allegedly being vaccinated against Covid-19. The claim is misleading: the man was arrested for breaching coronavirus restriction
AFP Fact Check→ This photo was taken in November 2019, before India detected its first Covid-19 case
A photo of top officials in the Indian capital Delhi has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that it shows them placing a mask on a boy's face while they themselves are not wearing masks, despite rising Covid-19 cases.
AFP Fact Check→ Transgender dogs tweet sparks outrage online
A screenshot of a tweet purportedly asking dog owners to avoid saying “good boy” or “good girl” to their pets because it “delegitimises the lived experience of transdogs” has been shared thousands of times on Facebook. The remarks prompted
AFP Fact Check→ Doctored image falsely purports to show South Korean president holding a satirical painting of former president
Facebook users have shared an image of South Korean President Moon Jae-in purportedly showing him holding a satirical painting of the country’s former president Park Geun-hye. The image, however, has been doctored. The original photo shows Moon hol
Snopes→ Did Wheat Producers in the 1930s Make Flour Sacks To Be Fashioned Into Clothes?
A viral Facebook post in April 2021 described a once common, but now widely forgotten American cultural phenomenon.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kory Terrell Is NOT The Texas Spelling Bee Champion
Is Kory Terrell the spelling bee champion for the state of Texas? No, that's not true: Several years ago, the young man won the spelling bee competition at his school, Davila Middle School, in Bryan, Texas. Its mascot is the Texans, and i
FactCheck.org→ Video Doesn’t Show Buttigieg Staging Bike Ride
Quick Take A video showing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg departing the White House on a bike was misrepresented by conservative commentators online, with some claiming he “staged” the ride. There’s no evidence for that claim
The Dispatch→ Could the mRNA Vaccines Lead to an Increase in Neurodegenerative Disorders?
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The Dispatch→ Could the mRNA Vaccines Lead to an Increase in Neurodegenerative Disorders?
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AFP Fact Check→ To date, no tree has been verified to be 6,000 or more years old
An image of a large baobab has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook alongside claims that the tree is 6,000 years old and located in Tanzania. But experts say that to date, no tree in the world has been discovered to date that is this old. The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Unpasteurized Brie Cheese Is NOT More Regulated Than A Six-Barrel Machine Gun In United States
Is Brie cheese made with unpasteurized milk illegal in the U.S., while a machine gun with six rotating barrels is legal? No, that's an exaggeration that leaves out important context and relies on semantics. Both Brie and machine guns are
AFP Fact Check→ Quebec exempt from federal carbon tax due to cap-and-trade system
Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim Quebec is exempt from carbon pricing. This is misleading, the province is exempt from Canada’s federal carbon tax because it puts a price on pollution through a cap-and-trade system that was in place yea
AFP Fact Check→ Ethiopian PM has not been banned from travelling over human rights violations
Facebook posts shared in Ethiopia in Oromo and English allege that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been banned from travelling abroad over human rights violations in the restive Tigray region. The claim surfaced after a Amnesty International rep
AFP Fact Check→ Pakistani social media users share debunked coronavirus myths
A video has been shared tens of thousands of times by Pakistani Facebook users that claims Italian doctors discovered Covid-19 is caused by a bacteria. The video goes on to claim the bacteria is somehow spread through the "poisonous waves of 5G",
AFP Fact Check→ Papua New Guinea posts misrepresent AstraZeneca roll-out in Australia
Facebook posts circulating in Papua New Guinea have shared a screenshot of an Australian news report about the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in Europe over blood clot concerns. The posts claim the vaccine is being "questi
AFP Fact Check→ This video has been edited to add an Indonesian hymn in a clip of a Vatican service
A clip has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim that an Indonesian church hymn was sung during a service at the Vatican in March 2021. The posts also claim the Vatican used woven coconut leaves as a mark of r
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been manipulated from a photo of Tom Hanks wearing a USA soccer jersey
An image of American actor Tom Hanks purportedly wearing a T-shirt that reads “take me to Greece” has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. In fact, the picture has been manipulated from a photo Hanks posted in 2015, in which he was wearing
AFP Fact Check→ Fake survey falsely purports to project winners in West Bengal elections
An image has been shared repeatedly on Facebook and Instagram that purports to show an election survey conducted by a political consultancy group in India. The posts claim the "leaked" image shows the country’s ruling political party will gain se
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev Did NOT Utter This Famous Quote About Americans On September 29, 1959
Did then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev say in a speech, "Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible..." on September 29, 1959? And was this speech on the same day as the day he purportedly banged h
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden’s Approval Rating Is NOT 11% According To Gallup
Is President Biden's approval rating 11% according to Gallup? No, that's not true: Their most recent polling puts his approval rating at 54%, according to Gallup's website. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on April 6,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Person In A Body Bag Smoking A Cigarette Is NOT A COVID-19 Deception — It’s A Music Video
Did someone stage a grim scene: an open dump truck piled high with corpses in body bags, to present a false narrative about the COVID-19 pandemic? And was this staged scene revealed to be fake because a video captured one of the "dead bod
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia Is NOT Removing Coke From All State-Owned Buildings
Is Georgia removing Coke from all state-owned buildings? No, that's not true: Although a group of GOP state legislators requested that Coca-Cola products be removed from their offices, there is no known effort to spread such a ban to all
Full Fact→ Viral video contains several false pandemic claims
A viral video on Facebook includes a number of false and misleading claims about the Covid-19 pandemic. The video consists of a woman recommending a publication in New Zealand called The Real News, which she summarises and reads from. There are a
Full Fact→ Covid-19 is not the same as a common cold
A Facebook post claims to show a medical encyclopedia from 1989 showing that coronaviruses cause the common cold, which could imply that Covid-19 is no different from a cold. This picture needs more context. The word ‘coronavirus’ has
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows a digital animation, not real drones playing volleyball
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Tiktok and Weibo posts that claim it shows actual drones playing volleyball. The claim is false: the video in fact shows a digital animation project created by a
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been doctored from a photo showing stray dogs in an Indian hospital
A photo that shows stray dogs sitting on hospital beds has been shared in multiple Facebook posts that claim it was taken in a hospital in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh. The claim is false: the photo actually shows a hospital in India; the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2017 Fictional ‘SPARS Pandemic Scenario’ Document Is NOT Proof Of A Planned Pandemic
Does the existence of a fictional pandemic exercise scenario conducted by the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University prove that the COVID-19 pandemic is a globalist plot for world domination? No, that's not true: Conspirac
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This ‘Artificial Gill’ Does NOT Support Underwater Breathing
Did developers invent a device that allows divers to breathe underwater without the use of additional gear such as an air tank? No, that's not true: The device, called the Triton, is a prototype that was never launched as a product after
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ted Cruz Did NOT Say ‘The Alien Invasion Is Orchestrated’ Regarding ‘Illegals’ At The Southern Border
Did Ted Cruz say "the Alien Invasion Is orchestrated" in a quote about "illegals" who arrive at the southern border of the United States? No, Cruz did not make the comments. A viral message about the appearances of the people trying to cr
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Spring/Summer PSA’ on Rabbit Nests and Mowing
As spring began in the Northern Hemisphere, screenshots of a post warning readers planning yardwork to be on the lookout for rabbits and their nests began to circulate: We were able to track down what appeared to be the original post (frequently share