An old image of a U.S. fighter pilot has been manipulated to show comedian Sam Hyde’s face. This is not a picture of the "Ghost of Kyiv."
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Poynter→ A viral photo of a girl confronting a soldier is from 2012 in West Bank, not Ukraine in 2022
A nearly 10-year-old photo is being misrepresented on social media as an image from present-day Ukraine. “An 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronts a Russian soldier telling him to go back to […] The post A viral photo of a girl confronting a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NATO And EU Will NOT Transfer Fighter Jets To Ukraine
Do NATO or European Union countries have plans to send combat aircraft to Ukraine? This claim concerns a fluid situation that the original post accurately described: an announcement that, as of March 2, 2022, looks like will not come to p
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking the State of the Union
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address Tuesday night and made a number of misleading and false claims. Here’s a breakdown of what was wrong:Biden claimed in his speech that the tax cut passed un
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Ukrainian Soldiers Leaving Their Wives For War In 2022 – It’s From 2017 Documentary
Does a video show Ukrainian soldiers leaving their wives for war in 2022? No, that's not true: The footage is from a 2017 Ukrainian documentary film titled, "The War of Chimeras." The claim appeared as a video (archived here) on Facebook
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Flooding in Australia Cause a Quad Bike to Get Stuck on a Power Line?
A photograph showing one of the milder effects of fatal flooding in eastern Australia spread online in March 2022, but despite (reasonable) skepticism, it is legitimate. The photograph was first posted by the power company Energex on February 28 2022 a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Defy ‘Biden Regime,’ Did NOT Refuse To Deploy
Did the U.S. military defy President Joe Biden by refusing to deploy? No, that's not true: A duty officer at the Pentagon told Lead Stories, "There is no truth to this claim." Also, this claim was made on a self-described satirical websit
FactCheck.org→ COVID-19 Vaccines Have Prevented Deaths, Contrary to Misleading Graphic on Social Media
SciCheck Digest Studies have shown that COVID-19 vaccines have prevented severe disease and deaths. But bogus claims that they don’t work continue to circulate online. One claim relies on a misleading graph showing cumulative deaths in the U.S.,
FactCheck.org→ EMILY’s List/Women Vote!
Political leanings: Liberal 2020 total spending: $126.5 million EMILY’s List is a political nonprofit that primarily backs Democratic women candidates who support a legal right to abortion. Women Vote!, its affiliated super PAC, uses media campaigns
FactCheck.org→ Club for Growth Action
Political leanings: Conservative 2020 total spending: $71.2 million Club for Growth Action, the super PAC of the conservative Club for Growth, was launched in August 2010. On its website, the organization declares its mission is to “take on any Membe
FactCheck.org→ Lincoln Project
Political Leanings: Republican/Anti-Trump 2020 Spending: $82 million Established in late 2019, the Lincoln Project is a super PAC that initially aimed to “defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box” in 2020 and protect democracy from “the populist nat
FactCheck.org→ Americans for Prosperity
Political leanings: Conservative/Libertarian 2020 total spending: $60.6 million for the super PAC alone Americans for Prosperity, a “social welfare” organization, along with Americans for Prosperity Action and Americans for Prosperity Foundation ar
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Dogfight Between Russian And Ukrainian Fighter Jets
Does a YouTube video show a dogfight between Russian and Ukrainian fighter jets? No, that's not true: There's nothing in the 30-second clip that clearly identifies a warplane from either country and the maneuvers being made by the pilots
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Misrepresent U.S.-Ukraine Threat Reduction Program
Quick Take The U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program has provided technical support to improve and protect Ukraine’s public health laboratories. Social media posts, however, falsely claim the program created ̶
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of Standoff Between Russian And Ukrainian Soldiers Is NOT From 2022 — It Was Crimea In 2014
Does a video show a standoff between Russian and Ukrainian soldiers? Yes, but that alone is misleading. The video is footage of a standoff between the soldiers in 2014 during Russia's invasion of Crimea. It does not show a standoff during
Truth or Fiction?→ Interfax Ukraine: ‘No Need to Declare’ Captured Russian Tanks on Tax Forms
On March 2 2022, at least six posts on Imgur and countless posts on Facebook and Twitter covered a rumor that Ukraine’s tax authorities had issued guidance indicating citizens need not declare captured Russian tanks as taxable income or assets:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Are NO U.S.-Run Bioweapons Laboratories In Ukraine
Did Russian President Vladimir Putin destroy U.S.-run bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine? No, that's not true: There are no U.S.-run bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine, according to the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) Threat Reduction
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukraine’s First Female Fighter Pilot ‘Natasha Perakov’ Did NOT Die In Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Did Ukraine's "first female fighter pilot" Natasha Perakov die after sustaining critical wounds in the 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict? No, that's not true: Not only is a picture used to identify Perakov actually of another service member in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ukrainian Flag Was NOT Draped On Statue Of Liberty — This Is Replica In France
Was the Ukrainian flag draped on the Statue of Liberty? No, that's not true: This is a smaller replica of the Statue of Liberty in Colmar, France. The photo in the Facebook post is from the "Official Twitter account of the city of #Colmar
Logically→ The Russian Army is destroying U.S.-controlled biolabs.
Putin has not ordered the Russian Army to destroy "U.S. biolabs" in Ukraine as part of an operation against the "Deep State."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Footage Of Train Carrying Tanks Is NOT Headed To Ukraine — Shows California In 2017
Does this video show a train carrying tanks to Ukraine? No, that's not true: This train was filmed from several locations as it was crossing through the Tehachapi Mountains in California on April 22, 2017. The video was originally posted
AllSides→ FactChecking Biden’s State of the Union Address
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/factchecking-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/ In his first State of
Logically→ Still from a video shows people in Ukraine running for their lives.
The video is from a film scene shot in Birmingham in 2013. It has been incorrectly attributed to Russia's invasion in Ukraine.
Logically→ Russia unveiled a nuclear missile dubbed “Satan 2” amid the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia unveiled RS-28 Sarmat, colloquially known as Satan 2, in 2016. It has no connection to the current invasion of Ukraine.
Logically→ The Ukrainian army has trained cats to spot sniper lasers.
Ukraine has not trained cats to help its military. An image of a soldier with a cat has been captioned to suit this narrative about the current war.
Logically→ Drones displayed an aggressive message next to Ukraine’s Motherland Monument against Russian warships.
The image of the Motherland Monument was photoshopped and shared with a false narrative on Twitter.
Full Fact→ Map of Russian nuclear targets in UK dates back to the Cold War
A map being shared on Facebook claims to show the locations of potential Russian nuclear targets in the UK. Twenty towns and cities are highlighted on the map including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. As far as we can tell, the map was first pu
AllSides→ Vulnerable Democrat Tom Malinowski Says the Economy is ‘Incredibly Strong,’ ‘Booming’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/25/fact-check-vulnerable-democrat-tom-malinowski-says-the-economy-is-incredibly-strong-booming/
AllSides→ Fact-checking Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address
https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/mar/02/fact-checking-joe-bidens-2022-state-union-address/ Presi
Logically→ The media wants us to hate Putin because he rejected the New World Order.
Putin is facing criticism because Russia is invading its neighbor Ukraine. This has nothing to do with the New World Order conspiracy theory.
Health Feedback→ Short identical gene sequence in SARS-CoV-2 and a gene sequence patented by Moderna can be found in other organisms; not evidence that virus was engineered
REVIEW Claims that the virus responsible for COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, was engineered in a lab went viral again in February 2022, after a Daily Mail article reported the findings of a study published in the journal Frontiers of Virology on 22 February 2
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s State of the Union Address
Summary In his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, before turning to his accomplishments and agenda for the coming year. Some of his statements didn’t square with the facts. Biden
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pornhub Did NOT Stop Service To Russia
Did Pornhub block users in Russia with a Ukrainian flag and a message supportive of Ukraine? No, that's not true: This claim is a joke or a prank. At the time of writing, the Canadian-owned pornography website pornhub.com has not canceled
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Kari Lake’s Speech at CPAC
Moments before Donald Trump took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday night, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake addressed the audience and delivered one of the most dishonest speeches of the entire eve
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Wife Of Ukraine’s Vice President — It’s Soldier From 2021 Military Parade Rehearsal
Does a photograph show the wife of the vice president of Ukraine in military fatigues with a weapon fighting for her motherland? No, that's not true: Ukraine does not have a vice presidential position in its government, and the image is a
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did a Ukrainian Girl Confront a Russian Soldier?
(Photo by ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images)A viral video, shared widely on both Facebook and Twitter, claims to show a Ukrainian girl confronting “Putin’s army.”The caption of the Facebook video, which has been viewed close to 60,000
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putin’s Daughter Is NOT Involved In Ruse To Drive Traffic From Instagram To OnlyFans
Did Vladimir Putin's daughter break a world record for the most subscribers in 24 hours on a free OnlyFans account? No, that's not true: This one-second-long video posted on Instagram is a ruse to drive traffic to an OnlyFans account and
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Digital Billboards in Ukraine’
On March 1 2022, a popular Imgur post titled “Digital billboard in Kyiv: ‘Russia soldier, stop! Putin has lost. The whole world is with Ukraine. Leave without blood on your hands'” purportedly showed messages on Ukraine billboards vis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Heavy Fighting Between Russia And Ukraine — It’s US, Afghan Forces In Taliban Territory In 2011
Does a Facebook video show heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces? No, that's not true: The video shows U.S. and Afghan National Army (ANA) forces fighting the Taliban in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, during Operation Creat
FactCheck.org→ Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccination Outweigh the Rare Risk of Myocarditis, Even in Young Males
SciCheck Digest Rare cases of myocarditis have been reported following the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, particularly among young males after a second dose. Most cases resolve quickly without the need for advanced therapies, although research on any potentia