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AFP Fact Check→ This photo of a Singaporean submarine has been doctored to include winning Thai lottery numbers
An image has been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a submarine with winning numbers for a Thai lottery draw inscribed on its side. The claim is false; the image has been doctored from a photo
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook India policy chief cutting tricolour cake? No, it’s an Indian diplomat
A composite image of two photos of a saree-clad woman cutting a cake decorated in the colours of the Indian flag has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts that claim that it shows a Facebook executive in India dishonouri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The King of Bahrain Did NOT Arrive In Dubai With A Robot Bodyguard
Did the King of Bahrain attend a convention with an eight-foot-tall weaponized robotic bodyguard? No, that's not true: This video shows a performer wearing a partially mechanized robot suit in a promotional appearance as "Titan the Robot"
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Fox News Interview
In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired over two days, President Donald Trump made several false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims: Trump falsely took credit for getting the National Guard to Kenosha to help quell violent p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alleged Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Did NOT Have Lengthy Criminal History
Did 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse have a long and violent criminal past before the fatal shootings of two people and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin? No, that is not true. A search of databases in Wisconsin and Illinois revea
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Yesterday, 4 Canadians Died of COVID, 7 Italians, 9 Germans, and 1,263 Americans’
On August 20 2020, a Facebook user shared the following post, which purportedly shows the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States during a single day (“yesterday”): White text against a purple b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Main Stream Media’ Is NOT Silent On Children Rescued From Sex Trafficking In Michigan, Georgia And Ohio
Is the "main stream media" silent on children rescued from sex trafficking in Michigan, Georgia and Ohio? No, that's not true. Accusations have gone viral claiming the mainstream media is ignoring stories about children being rescued from
Truth or Fiction?→ Is This a Chinese ‘Luckiest Birthday’ List?
In August 2020, a nearly year-old post purportedly ranking what Chinese people believe are the “luckiest birthdays” circulated on Facebook: Facebook provided a slightly baffling automatic translation: Chinese made a list of the l
Snopes→ Did Millions of Anti-Maskers and QAnon Supporters March in Germany?
A photograph truly shows a large group of people gathered in Germany … in 1997 … for a music festival.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Facebook Did NOT Ban All Trump Advertising
Did Facebook ban all Trump campaign ads? No, that's not true: Facebook has banned Trump ads with a symbol used by Nazis, that contained a newspaper photo used without permission that was untruthful in what it depicted, that had misleading
Full Fact→ There’s no evidence the number of people taking their own life fell during the Covid-19 pandemic
“Some cautiously positive news announced today by the Office for National Statistics shows that the number of suicides during the peak of the pandemic was down from 10.3 per 100,000 to 6.9 per 100,000”. Matt Hancock MP, 1 September 2020
Logically→ COVID-19 antibodies will last at least for 4 months.
A study by Iceland researchers showed the presence of Covid-19 antibodies for four months post-recovery. Further research is needed to validate fully.
AFP Fact Check→ Video of Indian health minister slapping non-mask wearers? It’s a Pakistani TV programme
A video of a man slapping people who are not wearing face masks has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and Weibo alongside claims that it shows the Indian health minister taking action during the Covid-19 pandemic. The cla
Logically→ India is becoming the world’s new coronavirus epicenter.
Although COVID-19 data shows that India recorded the highest cases on July 31, but it has a 74.28 percent recovery rate compared to other countries.
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading claim circulates on Facebook that Duterte has signed order to open nuclear power plant
Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times in August 2020 claim that President Rodrigo Duterte has signed order to open a nuclear power plant. The claim is misleading; in July 2020, Duterte signed an executive order to conduct a study on the coun
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say Americans Are ‘Going To Die’ When He’s Not President — Lincoln Project Edited Video Deceitfully
Did President Donald Trump claim Americans are "going to die" when he's not president and call his staff "stupid" in a television interview? No, that's not true: a video -- posted by an anti-Trump political action committee -- deceptively
Truth or Fiction?→ Did an Autopsy Reveal That Joseph Rosenbaum Was Shot in the Back Multiple Times?
On August 28 2020, a Facebook user shared the following post about 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with shooting and killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin: It read: BREAKING: Autopsy reveals that Kyle Rittenhouse’s first victim was s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Trump RNC Acceptance Speech Was NOT The First Time The White House Was Used For ‘Purely Political Campaign Event’
Was Donald Trump's Republican National Convention acceptance speech the first time the White House was used for a "purely political campaign event"? No, that's not true. In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his nomination ac
Truth or Fiction?→ Was ‘a Mob’ Trying to Break into the Mayor of Kenosha’s Home?
The mayor of Kenosha, Wisconsin rebuffed a lie from United States President Donald Trump on September 1 2020 — after Trump called him “foolish” prior to visiting the city against the wishes of both local and state leadership. The pre
Truth or Fiction?→ Tinkerbell ‘Dotting the I’ Mandela Effect
In late August and early September 2020, discussion of Tinkerbell “dotting the i” in Disney’s animated logo became a hot topic on social media, with one apparently-removed Facebook post racking up a six-figure share count: On Faceboo
FactCheck.org→ CDC Did Not ‘Admit Only 6%’ of Recorded Deaths from COVID-19
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t drastically reduced the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, but posts making that bogus claim have been circulating widely — with the help of President Donald Trump, who retweeted
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Larry Bird Did NOT Tell NBA Players To ‘Shut Up And Play The Damn Game’
Did Larry Bird say NBA players should "just shut up and play the damn game"? No, that's not true. The famed Boston Celtic basketball player did not give a quote calling players "radical fundamentalists who dishonor the flag and cross and
Poynter→ No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths from 153,504 to 9,210
If your time is short President Donald Trump retweeted multiple posts that falsely claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decreased the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths to 9,210. Those posts misconstrue data from the CDC, which shows t
Truth or Fiction?→ Were 94 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Caused by ‘Underlying Conditions’?
A false interpretation of new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spread online in late August 2020, buoyed by both social media and various local television news outlets. The result was a slew of posts and stories pushing t
FactCheck.org→ Trump Retweets Dated, Racially Charged Post
President Donald Trump retweeted a video, which had been posted under the misleading heading “Black Lives Matter/Antifa,” of a Black man shoving a white woman into a stopped subway car. The incident occurred on Oct. 23, 2019, and there is n
FactCheck.org→ Unproven Nepotism Allegation in Montana Senate Race
Republican ads aimed at Facebook users in Montana make the unsubstantiated claim that Gov. Steve Bullock “steered 14.3 million Montana dollars to his brother’s company.” William Bullock sold his shares in Pioneer Technical Services fo
Health Feedback→ False claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC-reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning
REVIEW The claim that only 6% of COVID-19 deaths officially recorded in the U.S. were actually due to the disease started circulating on social media in late August 2020, and was shared on Twitter by U.S. President Donald Trump. The author of this cla
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘How is Finding 39 Missing Children in a Double Wide Trailer in Georgia NOT the Biggest News Story in America?’
An August 28 2020 Facebook post claiming authorities in Georgia found 39 missing children in a double wide trailer in Georgia went massively viral, apparently by pondering why it was not the biggest story in the United States: That post racked up
Snopes→ Did Kyle Rittenhouse Punch a Woman in This Video?
A video of a fight in Kenosha, Wisconsin, supposedly shows the 17-year-old accused of killing two people at a protest assaulting a woman.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Jeepers Creepers Rises Every 23 Years and Last Woke Up in 1997’
On August 29 2020, the Facebook page “90’s Kids Only” shared the following post concerning the film Jeepers Creepers — and purported film lore that holds its monster “rose every 23 years,” most recently in 1997:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Admit That Only 6% Of Deaths In COVID Toll Were From COVID-19
Did the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly admit this week that only 6% of all people in the COVID-19 death tally actually died from COVID-19? No, that's not true: The chiropractor who made the claim has misstated the
Snopes→ 3-Year-Old Girl Safe After Being Lofted by Kite in Taiwan
Video shot at the scene showed her twisting several times above a crowd of adults who struggled to pull the kite back to earth.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An ‘Antifa’ Website Is NOT Affiliated With The Biden/Harris Campaign
Is the campaign to elect former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris connected to a website belonging to Antifa, or anti-fascists? No, that's not true: The URL antifa.com, a domain name which could have been pu
The Dispatch→ What This Viral Post Gets Wrong About the Kenosha Shootings
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 39 Missing Kids Were NOT Found In A Double Wide Trailer In Georgia — But ‘Operation Not Forgotten’ Was Covered Extensively In The Media
Were 39 missing kids found in a double wide trailer in Georgia, and is the media ignoring this story? No, that's not true. The U.S. Marshals announced in a press conference that they had rescued 26 missing children, found 13 others in a m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN DID Use The Chyron ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting’
Did CNN use the words "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING" as the caption on video of a building and car-lot torched by protesters? Yes, this is true. The cable news network used the chyron -- a type of caption super
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: WHO Tests For Coronavirus Do NOT Automatically Deliver False Positive Every Time
Is it true that the World Health Organization's test for COVID-19 contains a flaw that "should" deliver a false positive on every test, skewing data about the pandemic? No, that's not true. The claim, made by a conservation blogger with n
Truth or Fiction?→ Did an RNC Speaker Say Her Biracial Son ‘Might Grow Up to be a Large Intimidating Brown Man,’ and Her ‘Biological Kids’ to be ‘White and Nerdy’?
On August 26 2020, the Facebook page “This American Carnage” shared the following meme, which purportedly shows a quote from Republican National Convention (RNC) speaker Abby Johnson on her biracial son growing up as a “large, intimi
FactCheck.org→ Video: FactChecking Trump’s Big Speech
In this video, we review five false, misleading or exaggerated claims from President Donald Trump’s acceptance speech on Aug. 27 at the Republican National Convention. Here are the claims that we cover in our video: Trump falsely labeled COVID-