On March 9 2022, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet, which contained a photograph with remarkably artistic qualities: This is not a renaissance painting. This is a picture someone in Poland took of the window of a train from Lviv… pic
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Russia Did NOT Go Back To Using A Gold Standard In Early March 2022
Did Russia go back to using a currency that operates on a gold standard? No, that's not true: Although Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced the abolition of the value-added tax (VAT) on precious metals in March 2022, this ch
Full Fact→ Government has not backed up Russian sanction claims
On 5 March 2022 a number of Conservative MPs, including the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg, tweeted a chart claiming that the value of Russian bank assets sanctioned by the UK was higher than those sanctione
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Russia Has Given Humanitarian Aid To Ukraine
Did Russia start offering humanitarian aid to Ukraine, according to this video? No, that's not true: This video does not talk about humanitarian aid once. It is from a Russia-controlled television network, RT, that the U.S. State Departme
Poynter→ A story that claims Putin bombed a Biden-owned villa and ‘hammered’ biolabs, pedophile rings is bogus
As Russia continues its attack on Ukraine, misinformation continues to spread about the conflict. “Putin bombs Biden-owned villa in Ukraine while hammering biolabs & pedophile rings,” reads the headline of a […] The post A story
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nathaniel Rothschild Did NOT Write To British Government Calling Putin ‘The Most Dangerous Man Since The Defeat Of Hitler’
Did Nathaniel Rothschild write a letter to members of the British government calling Russian President Vladimir Putin "the most dangerous man since the defeat of Hitler"? No, that's not true: "This is utterly untrue and completely fabrica
FactCheck.org→ Rothschild & Co. Has Office in Russia, Contrary to Conspiracy Claim on Social Media
Quick Take Rothschild & Co. has an office in Moscow and has been operating in Russia since the mid-1990s. Yet posts on social media falsely claim that Russia has barred the Rothschild banking family from doing business in the country. The claim is
FactCheck.org→ What We’ve Learned About So-Called ‘Lockdowns’ and the COVID-19 Pandemic
SciCheck Digest Plenty of peer-reviewed studies have found government restrictions early in the pandemic, such as business closures and physical distancing measures, reduced COVID-19 cases and/or mortality, compared with what would have happened withou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Many US Megachurches DO Offer Relief And Support To The Ukrainian People
Have American megachurches failed to offer help to the Ukrainian people? No, that's not true: An informal survey by Lead Stories shows several of America's largest congregations and denominations are actively soliciting and distributing r
Truth or Fiction?→ St. Jude Ukrainian Translators Request
On March 8 2022, an Imgur user posted a Facebook screenshot claiming that children’s hospital St. Jude sought Ukrainian translators to aid in efforts to treat children evacuated from Ukraine: It wasn’t clear when the post was shared to Fac
Logically→ This map shows other countries that were hit by airstrikes within 48 hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The map contains inaccuracies and was created by a Kremlin-backed news outlet.
Full Fact→ Nuclear weapons do exist
A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about nuclear bombs, culminating in the falsehoods that “nukes don’t exist”, and are “a technological impossibility”. Nuclear weapons not only exist but have been used, bot
AllSides→ Post Misconstrues Public Health Awareness Campaigns About Blood Clots
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/scicheck-post-misconstrues-public-health-awareness-campaigns-about-blood-clots/
AllSides→ A Video Claiming to Show Ukrainian ‘Crisis Actors’ Is Fake
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-a-video-claiming-to-show?s=r A viral video claims to sho
Full Fact→ £24bn in extra defence spending will be spread over four years
“Asked whether he supported an overall increase in spending, Mr Wallace insisted that he had already secured £24 billion of additional defence funding” Sunday Telegraph, 6 March 2022. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has claimed the gov
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence NATO Laptop With Intelligence Found At Headquarters Of Ukrainian Nationalists — Computer Is NATO Surplus
Was a NATO-labeled laptop with intelligence found at the headquarters of Ukrainian nationalists? No, that's not true: NATO told Lead Stories the unit appears to be one of their old surplus laptops that was sold years ago, and one that wou
FactCheck.org→ Priorities USA Action
Political leanings: Democratic/liberal 2020 total spending: $138.3 million Priorities USA Action, a super PAC, was formed in 2011 by former White House staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney to help reelect then-President Barack Obama in 2012. Priorit
FactCheck.org→ Future Forward USA PAC (FF PAC)
Political leanings: Democratic 2020 total spending: $150.8 million Future Forward USA PAC, legally known as FF PAC, is a liberal political action committee created in 2018 to support the presidential election of Joe Biden. The group is what’s known
FactCheck.org→ Senate Majority PAC
Political leanings: Democratic 2020 total spending: $372 million The Senate Majority PAC is a super PAC that describes its “one mission” as helping Democrats “win Senate races.” The super PAC is headed by J.B. Poersch, a forme
FactCheck.org→ National Victory Action Fund
Political leanings: Republican 2020 total spending: $4.8 million The National Victory Action Fund was established in 2020 by several Republican political strategists. The group is what’s known as a hybrid PAC or “Carey committee,” meaning
FactCheck.org→ Senate Leadership Fund
Political leanings: Conservative/Republican 2020 total spending: $476 million The Senate Leadership Fund is a Republican super PAC that was established in 2015 by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The group says its purpose is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NOT Russia Vs. Ukraine Tank Battle — Video Shows Abrams Tank Training
Does this video show a battle between Russian and Ukrainian tanks? No, that's not true: This video shows American-made Abrams tanks in a training exercise. The video was posted on TikTok by an account called @mzhoneybunn81 and also posted
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Ukraine Looters Taped to Poles’
On March 7 2022, a screenshot of the following reply tweet purportedly depicting a Russian soldier caught looting in Ukraine appeared on Imgur and elsewhere: My favorite….this Russian soldier was marking buildings for rocket hits…and was doing a
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: A Video Claiming to Show Ukrainian ‘Crisis Actors’ Is Fake
A viral video claims to show a newscast from Ukraine in which one of the supposedly deceased Ukrainians in a body bag in the background moves.Lashes Clay💅🏾 @HELDbytheBELLESooo is he dead or ? March 6th 20224,915 Retweets18,512 LikesOne
Truth or Fiction?→ Kharkiv Railway Station Image
Amid an ongoing attack on Ukraine by Russian forces, Imgur posts on March 6 and March 7 2022 purportedly showed photographs of a crowded railway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, illustrating residents’ attempts to flee to safety: “Photo of Kha
FactCheck.org→ Post Misconstrues Public Health Awareness Campaigns About Blood Clots
SciCheck Digest The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Pfizer tweeted in February about the dangers of blood clots in veins, which are relatively common and affect as many as 900,000 Americans each year. A story shared on social media, howe
Full Fact→ Boris Johnson’s claims on UK accepting people fleeing conflict miss vital context
I think we have taken more vulnerable people fleeing theatres of conflict since 2015 than any other country in Europe. Boris Johnson, 2 March 2022 . Boris Johnson claimed during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) that the UK has “taken more
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Putin Bombed ‘Biden-Owned 200-Acre Villa’ in Ukraine Or ‘Biolabs & Pedophile Rings’ — Or That Any Of Those Exist in Ukraine
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin bomb a villa in Ukraine that U.S. President Joe Biden owned? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that this happened or that Biden owns a villa in Ukraine. When searching for credible articles abo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Destroyed City Does NOT Show ‘Present Situation’ In Ukraine
Does a video showing a destroyed city highlight the "present situation" in Ukraine during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict? No, that's not true: The video used as evidence of the "present situation" is footage from at least 2020 that s
Health Feedback→ Study by Lund University researchers didn’t show that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines change our DNA
REVIEW A study published by researchers at Lund University in Sweden made the rounds in late February 2022[1], with many social media users sharing it as evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines change our DNA (see examples here and here). Articles, lik
Snopes→ Did CDC Lower Speech Milestones for Kids Due to Effects of Masking, Lockdowns?
Children who are 30 months old should have a vocabulary of around 50 words, the new CDC guidelines say.
Snopes→ ‘Putin Bombs Biden-Owned Villa’ Claim Comes from Far-Right Fantasy Website
The news on "Real Raw News" isn't real, raw, or news.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alex Jones DID Predict War Months Ahead Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine In February 2022 — But Said ‘Smart Money Is On A War With China’
Did Alex Jones predict war about four months ahead of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022? Yes, that's true: But the American conspiracy theorist said nothing about the two European neighbors during his InfoWars show on October
FactCheck.org→ Hunter Biden Left Ukrainian Company in 2019, Contrary to Ted Nugent Post
Quick Take Hunter Biden served on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019. But Ted Nugent posted a Facebook meme falsely insinuating that Hunter’s payments from the company ended with the Russian invasi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Threaten Nigeria For Sending Troops To Ukraine During Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin threaten to "level the whole nation" of Nigeria for sending troops to Ukraine during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict? No, that's not true: In the clip used to make the claim, which was published in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo of Sylvester Stallone Wearing Trump T-Shirt Is NOT Authentic — It Has Been Altered
Did actor Sylvester Stallone wear a T-shirt featuring former President Donald Trump's face, the continental United States in red, white and blue, and text that read, "I'd Love A Mean Tweet And 1.79 Gas Right Now"? No, that's not true: The
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Mystery About Who Is Seated At This UN Meeting
Was there some sort of "thing" representing the United States in the U.N. Security Council meeting on January 31, 2022? No, that's not true: This grainy video still shows the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
Full Fact→ Photo of wounded Ukrainian woman near Kharkiv is genuine
Posts being shared on Facebook claim that widely-used images depicting the impact of Russian air strikes on Ukraine residential areas have in fact been faked. The posts allege that photographs of an injured Ukrainian woman which featured on
Full Fact→ Video of explosion aftermath is from Lebanon in 2020, not Ukraine
A Facebook post viewed more than 230,000 times features a TikTok video of the aftermath of an explosion in a city, showing destroyed buildings and smoke rising from the explosion site. The caption alongside reads “Omg pray for Ukraine”. Thi
Full Fact→ Using coin tossing to make our crowdsourcing more efficient
A couple of weeks ago, we launched our second crowdsourcing project, asking thousands of generous supporters to help train up our new Stats Checker tool. Supporters have so far answered over 81,000 questions to help identify numbers in statement