A Facebook post claims to have proof an actor was contracted to pretend they were a hospital patient with Covid-19. The post includes a screenshot of a tweet. It says the actor “shows her contract detailing her role” and that it requi
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Full Fact→ What we know about the alleged Downing Street parties so far
The biggest political story of the last month has been a series of reports on parties allegedly held late last year in Downing Street and Westminster at a time when strict Covid-19 restrictions were in force. Much of the coverage so far has been based
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Stillbirths Are NOT Rampant Among Fully Vaccinated Mothers
Are stillbirths rampant among fully vaccinated mothers? No, that's not true. The claim that there is a spike in stillbirths among mothers who had received a full COVID-19 vaccine is not supported by any evidence. It was made by a doctor i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Presents NO Evidence Ivanka Trump Is Joining The Democrats To Run Against Her Dad
Does this video prove Ivanka Trump is joining the Democrats to run against her dad? No, that's not true: The video contents do not match the title. Also, there is no evidence the former first daughter is anything but politically loyal to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Blood Clots And Heart Issues ARE Caused By Cold Weather And Stress
Is it false to blame blood clots and heart issues on cold weather and stress? No, that's not true: Heart issues can be caused by both cold weather and stress as reputable doctors and heart organizations have stated. The implication in a s
Snopes→ Did Dr Pepper Publicly Denounce Vaccine Mandates?
Contrary to popular belief, people shouldn't take health advice from a soda can.
Health Feedback→ Inaccurate clickbait headline in Forbes article used to promote the false claim that COVID-19 vaccines change our DNA
REVIEW On 29 November 2021, Forbes published an article written by Steven Salzburg, a professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, bearing the headline “Yes, The Vaccine Changes Your DNA. A Tiny Bit. That’s A Good Thing”. T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Gibraltar NOT Planning 2021 Holiday Lockdown Despite High COVID-19 Vax Rate — Government Events Canceled
Is Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, undergoing a lockdown during the 2021 holiday season despite having a 100% COVID-19 vaccination rate? Not exactly: Although Gibraltar -- which has vaccinated most of its adult population and the
Climate Feedback→ PragerU video on climate change repeats a range of misleading claims by Steven Koonin
SUMMARY A popular PragerU video (viewed more than 1 million times) outlines a range of claims on climate change by Steve Koonin, a theoretical physicist and professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. The claims, many of which Koo
Health Feedback→ Claim that the COVID-19 vaccine is riskier than the disease for children is based on an economist’s incorrect calculation of the metric “number needed to vaccinate”
REVIEW On 1 November 2021, political economist Toby Rogers published an article on Substack claiming that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine would kill more children than it would save. Rogers arrived at this claim based on his calculation of a me
FactCheck.org→ Virginia Lt. Gov.-Elect Sears Distorts Facts on COVID-19 Vaccines
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Virginia Lt. Gov.-Elect Winsome Sears spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines that we have previously debunked. CNN Host Dana Bash, Nov. 21: So, why is it OK to mandate childhood va
Health Feedback→ Claim that previously infected people don’t transmit COVID-19 is unsupported, originates from misinterpretation of CDC’s FOIA response
REVIEW On 11 November 2021, Gateway Pundit published an article titled “CDC Admits It Has No Record of an Unvaccinated Person Spreading Covid After Recovering From Covid”. The article claimed that “natural immunity provides better protection a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Stunt Development Of Children’s Immune Systems
Do messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines instruct cells to produce "non-human" proteins -- spike proteins -- that would stunt the development of children's immune systems? No, that's not true: On the contrary, the purpose of spike protei
FactCheck.org→ Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine Formulation Tweaked to Improve Stability
SciCheck Digest With the release of its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer switched the buffer used in its formulation to increase the stability of the product, allowing it to remain at refrigerator temperatures for longer. The Food and Drug Administra
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Doom Boxes’
A viral November 16 2021 Facebook post from “Our Neurodivergent Life” described a phenomenon called “doom boxes,” a purportedly shared trait among individuals with ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder): Across four s
Truth or Fiction?→ Ulmer Nest
On October 23 2021, the Facebook page “Scientific Facts” shared a meme which purportedly describing the “Ulmer Nest” in the German city of Ulm; a Twitter user shared the same meme on November 14 2021: The ulmer nest would be
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Data to Falsely Claim Italy Reduced Its COVID-19 Death Count
SciCheck Digest The vast majority of people who have died with COVID-19 had other medical conditions that put them at risk of severe disease, or other conditions caused by COVID-19. But internet posts misinterpret data about those conditions to falsely
Full Fact→ Study doesn’t show tea and coffee cause lower dementia and stroke risk
“Keeping the cuppas coming reduces risk of stroke and dementia” The Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2021. “Stroke risk: The drink to make at home that slashes your risk of the condition by 32%” The Daily Express, 17 November 2021
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fauci Does NOT Admit ‘Vaccines Did Not Work As Advertised And That Vaccinated Are In Great Danger Today’
Did Dr. Anthony Fauci admit that COVID vaccines did not work as advertised and that the vaccinated are in great danger? No, that's not true. The director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Biden admi
Health Feedback→ Pfizer CEO’s wife didn’t die from vaccine complications; Myriam Bourla is alive and well
REVIEW On 10 November 2021, the Conservative Beaver, an anonymously run Canadian website that routinely publishes “false information and actual fake news”, published a piece claiming that “Myriam Bourla—the wife of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
Health Feedback→ Tromethamine in the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children acts to improve the stability of the vaccine; it isn’t in the vaccine as a heart medication
REVIEW On 29 October 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11. This vaccine for children has a slightly different formulation from the one approve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Thousands Of 2020 Ballot Images Required By Law CANNOT Be Produced By Georgia Election Officials — But They Still Have All 5 Million Originals
Did Georgia election officials fall short of producing all the 2020 election ballot images required by law? Yes, that's true: A top Georgia election official says not all the scans of original ballots were transferred into the election ma
FactCheck.org→ Electric Vehicle Tax Credits in Democratic Plan
The House’s current Build Back Better plan calls for extending a $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles, and it includes an additional $4,500 credit for electric vehicles built in the U.S. by union labor. In a press conference bl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Merriam-Webster Did NOT Change Definition of ‘Vaccine’ To Exclude Portion About Immunity — It Was Rephrased
Did Merriam-Webster change its definition of "vaccine" and remove a previous portion that mentioned "immunity" due to the controversy over COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: Although Merriam-Webster did update its long-held definitio
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that luciferase is an ingredient in the COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW On 1 November 2021, Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted a warning: “Dear Christians: the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked”. She also recommended that Christians
Climate Feedback→ Marc Thiessen’s column in The Washington Post relies on incorrect and cherry-picked claims by Bjorn Lomborg; scientists provide needed context
On 2 November 2021, columnist Marc Thiessen published an article in The Washington Post’s opinion section commenting on climate change and the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. Thiessen argues that climate change
FactCheck.org→ Aaron Rodgers’ Inaccurate COVID-19 Claims
Aaron Rodgers, the star quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, made headlines when he contracted COVID-19 and then defended his decision not to get vaccinated with a string of false and misleading claims that fact-checkers have frequently debunked. The
Full Fact→ Study linking sleep time and heart disease risk shows correlation not causation
“Going to bed between 10 and 11pm every night cuts your risk of getting heart disease by up to 25%, study claims” Daily Mail, 9 November 2021. The Daily Mail has reported on a new study and in the headline claimed it shows going to bed bet
FactCheck.org→ DeSantis, Social Media Posts Mislead on COVID-19’s Toll in Florida
SciCheck Digest Florida’s total COVID-19 case rate is higher than the national average and 10th highest in the U.S. But social media posts and the state’s governor point to a recent decline in daily cases as evidence of Florida’s succ
FactCheck.org→ Japan Continues to Use Vaccines, Not Ivermectin, to Fight COVID-19
SciCheck Digest More than 70% of Japan’s population has received the COVID-19 vaccines, and the government is moving ahead with a booster shot in December. But a conservative radio host in the U.S. falsely claimed, “Japan drops vax rollout,
Health Feedback→ Social media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die
REVIEW The number of COVID-19 deaths rose again in the U.S. from July 2021 to mid-September 2021, amid concerns of the Delta variant spreading and vaccine-induced immunity waning over time. While data show that vaccines are safe and effective agains
Truth or Fiction?→ Lincoln Project Reveals It Staged Tiki Torch Stunt at Right-Wing Republican Rally
Cconservative group The Lincoln Project revealed itself on October 29 2021 as the organizers of a stunt criticizing a far-right gubernatorial candidate in Charlottesville, Virginia. The group, which claims to represent Republican Party members who oppo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Field In Madison, Georgia, Does NOT Store ‘Disposable Coffins’ And Is Not Owned By CDC Or FEMA
Did the CDC pay someone to store up to 500,000 "disposable coffins" in what had been a soybean field in Madison, Georgia? Does this indicate that there is a "plan" that might include "FEMA Camps" and an impending need to bury hundreds of
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Spin NIH Letter About Coronavirus Gain-of-Function Research
Republicans say a letter from a National Institutes of Health official is an admission that the agency funded so-called gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China, with some falsely linking the work to the pandemic coronavirus. But the res
Health Feedback→ Claims that a Harvard study showed COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective misrepresent the conclusions from the authors; fail to account for the study’s limitations
REVIEW This video published by The Jimmy Dore Show on 17 October 2021 claimed in its title that a Harvard study showed that COVID-19 surged among most vaccinated communities. The cited study, which was published in the European Journal of Epidemiolo
FactCheck.org→ Already Had COVID-19? Vaccines Boost Immunity, Not ‘Wipe Out’ Antibodies
SciCheck Digest Studies show the COVID-19 vaccines boost the antibody levels and improve the immune response of those who previously had COVID-19. The vaccines do not “wipe out” the antibodies developed by a person who had recovered from th
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain graphene or parasites
REVIEW Several videos have gone viral claiming that COVID-19 vaccines contain certain kinds of synthetic organisms. On 1 October 2021, a video was published by The Stew Peters Show, in which osteopath Carrie Madej claimed to have discovered “s
Truth or Fiction?→ 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics: Minimum Wage and Immigrant Labor
On October 18 2021, a screenshot of a tweet about the 2021 Nobel prize in economics was shared at least twice to Facebook, on the pages Coffee Party USA and Labor 411. The depicted tweet was first published on October 11 2021: The 2021 Nobel Prize in
FactCheck.org→ Merck, Pfizer COVID-19 Antivirals Different From Ivermectin
SciCheck Digest Merck and Pfizer are each developing a new oral antiviral drug that might prevent or treat COVID-19. The pills are very different from the antiparasitic medication ivermectin, contrary to claims online that they are “suspiciously simi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Washington, D.C., Commercial Flights Were NOT Canceled on October 11, 2021
Were all commercial flights to and from Washington, D.C., canceled on October 11, 2021? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that happened. Flights still were moving as planned in the morning and early afternoon on October 11, accord