A video claims that the WEF has launched an initiative to stop Christmas traditions—but no such initiative exists.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Declare That Pedophiles ‘Will Save Humanity’
Did the World Economic Forum declare, as part of a purported campaign to promote public acceptance of pedophilia, that "pedophiles will save humanity"? No, that's not true: No credible evidence exists that the WEF has made any such statem
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did the World Economic Forum Call for Pets to Be Euthanized to Fight Climate Change?
(Stock photo by Getty Images.) Claims are circulating online that the World Economic Forum has called for pet animals to be slaughtered to combat climate change. These claims are false. The claims appear to originate from two media sources: an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Issue Weekly Bathing Order As Response to Climate Change
Did the World Economic Forum (WEF) issue an order directing the public to bathe once weekly or less as part of an effort to combat climate change and save the planet? No, that's not true: There is no credible evidence that WEF has issued
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Tweet That ‘Christmas Must Be Abolished’
Did the World Economic Forum (WEF) tweet that "Christmas must be abolished" to fight climate change? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that this is a real tweet and it does not appear on the official WEF Twitter account. The claim
Logically→ The World Economic Forum claims that God is dead, that Jesus is fake news, and that they have gained divine powers.
According to an article on the website Newspunch, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said that God is dead, that Jesus is "fake news," that WEF leaders have gained divine powers to rule over humanity, and that they will turn humans into gods
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Special Forces Did NOT Arrest World Economic Forum Chief Klaus Schwab For Ordering Genocide Via COVID-19 Vaccines
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab because he ordered the genocide of 90 percent of the world's population by forcing them to get vaccinated against COVID-19? No, that's not true: A WEF spokesm
Logically→ The World Economic Forum has proposed a new initiative to slaughter pets, aiming to fight climate change by reducing the “carbon pawprint.”
No, the WEF has not called for an initiative to kill pets to fight climate change.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Chief Klaus Schwab Did NOT Suffer ‘Second’ Heart Attack
Did World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab suffer a second heart attack? No, that's not true: A WEF press spokesman said Schwab has never experienced a heart attack and confirmed that he is in "good health." The claim appeared i
Full Fact→ How much of the rise in ‘economic inactivity’ is due to long Covid?
A BBC news bulletin claimed a recent rise in the number of people who are neither working nor looking for work is “largely because of long Covid”. But there are reasons to believe much of the rise is
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dutch Government Is NOT Planning To Quit The World Economic Forum
Is the Dutch government planning to cancel its membership in the World Economic Forum, the Swiss-based international public policy organization? No, that's not true: The claim is based on a press release by a radical-right opposition part
Logically→ Just Stop Oil is funded by the World Economic Forum.
The video makes false claims about the associations between particular individuals and organizations to support the ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy theory.
Logically→ A 2016 video by World Economic Forum confirmed that it wants people to own nothing by 2030.
The prediction in the video is from a blog by a WEF contributor, with their take on the world in 2030. It is not the WEF's declaration of intent.
Full Fact→ The World Economic Forum didn’t say it’s engineering the climate
An out-of-context screenshot of an article from 2018 has led to misleading claims being shared online.
PolitiFact→ In Context: What Stacey Abrams said about the economic aspect of abortion
Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said abortion is an economic issue. But she didn’t claim that having abortions would solve women’s, or families’, inflation-sparked financial challenges.
Logically→ Rishi Sunak is a member of the World Economic Forum.
Rishi Sunak is not a member of the WEF. Its membership base is made up of companies, not individuals.
Snopes→ UK Prime Minister Forced from Office Amid Economic Turmoil, Chaos in Parliament and a Party in Tatters
Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove World Economic Forum Plotting To Force Public To Wear ‘Brain Implants’ So The Elite Can Read Their Minds
Will the World Economic Forum (WEF) soon force people to wear "brain implants" so that the global elite can read their minds? No, that's not true: This claim turns a speculative conversation about possible future technologies into a plot
PolitiFact→ Liz Wheeler – The Great Reset is not a conspiracy to force changes in economic systems
The Great Reset advocates replacing capitalism with an economic system that is “kind of socialism, kind of communism” but “mostly just fascism.”
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Misleading Claims About the Economic Recovery and Unemployment
When President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law in March 2021, U.S. gross domestic product had increased for three quarters straight, and the unemployment rate had decreased nearly nine percentage points from its pandemic peak. Bu
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The World Economic Forum did not say people shouldn’t own cars
The World Economic Forum has called for the end of “wasteful private car ownership.”
Full Fact→ World Economic Forum has not said private vehicle ownership should be restricted to ‘elites’
The WEF has proposed shared car ownership as a way to reduce material usage. But not for private vehicle ownership to be ended or restricted.
Full Fact→ The World Economic Forum didn’t say it’s racist to not want to eat bugs
A digitally-manipulated tweet claiming to be from the WEF has been shared on social media.
Logically→ Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum are the real reason the U.K. has an energy crisis.
The energy crisis is primarily the result of recent changes to the energy market following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Logically→ The World Economic Forum wants to microchip humans with augmented reality, including healthy adults and children, in order to control society.
The WEF has not claimed they want to microchip humans; this belief and the idea they want to control the world is tied to the Great Reset conspiracy.
Logically→ The World Economic Forum wants to end private car ownership.
In an article, WEF discussed how to reduce metal demand by sharing products like cars. It did not suggest ending private car ownership altogether.
Full Fact→ Leaked report doesn’t ‘vindicate’ view that most people crossing the Channel on small boats are ‘economic migrants’
The Mail on Sunday recently published an article stating that four in 10 people crossing the Channel in small boats are from Albania.
Full Fact→ The World Economic Forum has not planned for a future without pets or animal charities
A Facebook post claims that the WEF has said there will be no need for animal charities in the future as people won’t have pets or eat meat. It hasn’t said this.
PolitiFact→ Cavalier Johnson – Mayor Johnson overestimates economic benefit of hosting RNC
The RNC is “a $200 million economic infusion into our communities.”
Logically→ The World Economic Forum is going to freeze the bank accounts of meat-eaters.
The WEF's support for Doconomy's credit card has been misrepresented to show that meat-consuming customers' bank accounts would be frozen.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Economic Forum Will NOT ‘Freeze Bank Accounts’ Of Meat Eaters To "Educate Them" — Doconomy Does NOT Enforce Consumer Spending Limit
Will the World Economic Forum (WEF) "freeze" the "bank accounts of "meat eaters to 'educate them,'" and does the Doconomy credit card refuse to let a consumer buy items when they are "deemed to be a net polluter"? No, neither are true: Th
Full Fact→ Zero evidence airport disruption planned by World Economic Forum
A Facebook post claims travel disruption has been deliberately planned.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Fact-checking Joe Biden on inflation rates among US’s economic peers
“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”
Logically→ Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla introduced ingestible pills with a dissolvable chip during the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit.
A 2018 video of Bourla referring to the ingestible pill monitoring technology by Otsuka Pharmaceutical has been used to claim Pfizer introduced it.
Logically→ At the World Economic Forum 2022, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla revealed that one of his goals for 2023 was to reduce the global population by 50 percent.
The video has been edited to misrepresent Bourla's comments. He was actually speaking about providing affordable medicines to low-income countries.
PolitiFact→ Charlie Kirk – World Economic Forum does not have its own police force
The World Economic Forum has its own police force.
Logically→ The World Economic Forum has its own paramilitary force.
WEF does not have a paramilitary force of its own. The Swiss Police forces wore a temporary WEF patch for the event in Graubünden, Switzerland.
Snopes→ Does the World Economic Forum Have Its Own Police Force?
Photos of police badges with a WEF logo have made the rounds online.
Logically→ These images show 1,500 private jets parked in Davos ahead of the 2022 World Economic Forum meeting.
Old images of parked jets from 2015 and 2016 have been falsely linked to the recent 2022 World Economic Forum meeting.
Full Fact→ The World Economic Forum does not have its own paramilitary force
An Instagram post which claims the World Economic Forum (WEF) has its own paramilitary force armed with military-grade weapons is not correct. The post features a photograph of a man in uniform with two patches on his upper left sleeve. The lower