Will a suburban Chicago high school use a race-based grading system during the 2022-2023 school year? No, that's not true: According to Oak Park and River Forest High School, such a policy has neither been proposed nor implemented at the
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Fibers In Eye Do NOT Indicate Immune System Strength
Do fibers in the eye indicate immune system strength? No, that's not true: The chief of ophthalmology at Yale Health told us, "It is not possible to determine overall immune health or strength by looking at the iris." A Mayo Clinic Colleg
Health Feedback→ “Fibers” in the iris of the eye aren’t associated with the strength of the immune system
REVIEW A meme posted to Facebook showing two pictures of blue eyes claimed that “[one] can see the strength of the immune system from looking at the eyes” and that “The closeness of the fibers reflects the bodies (sic) level of health and stre
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maxwell, Depp NOT Tried Under ‘The Same System’ — Different Court Rules Make For Different Video Access
Did "the same system" determinine that Johnny Depp's defamation lawsuit could be live-streamed while the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell was not broadcast? No, that's not true: There are different media rules for different types of courts. The
Logically→ An elite cult that controls the banking system is also behind the pandemic.
There is no evidence that the coronavirus pandemic was planned to strip the populace's wealth.
PolitiFact→ Tim Westley – Health care systems for detained migrants, veterans are not an apples-to-apples comparison
"We have (people detained by ICE) that have to be seen within 24 hours, while veterans are seen within months.
Logically→ Dominion voting systems are used in elections in France.
Voting machines are rarely used in France and there is no evidence of Dominion's electronic voting systems being used.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Obamacare And Medical Coding Are NOT Part Of A Global System Of Human Trafficking
Are Obamacare and medical coding part of a coordinated global system of human and child trafficking? No, that's not true: Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2
Logically→ The Ukrainian government has created a social credit system which combines Universal Basic Income, a digital identity, and a vaccine passport in one app.
The Ukrainian app 'Diia' allows users to access a digital copy of a number of official documents, but does not feature a 'social credit system.'
Full Fact→ PM’s repeat false claims shows Parliament’s corrections system is failing—we can fix it
Full Fact research shows that 71% of the population believe there was more lying and misuse of facts in politics and media than 30 years ago. Lack of faith in politics is a top 10 concern for the public. And yet, we have a political system that operate
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccines Do NOT Overwhelm A Baby’s Immune System And There Is NO Comparison With Food Allergy Tests
Is the comparison between testing new food items one by one on babies to determine an allergic reaction versus babies being able to safely handle "8 different antigens," presumably in a vaccine, valid? No, that's not true: Dr. James Cherr
Poynter→ Vaccines given to babies do not overload the immune system, despite social media claims
The process of introducing solid foods to a baby can be messy, entertaining and, as any parent who has been through that process knows, deliberate. Cereals should be fortified with […] The post Vaccines given to babies do not overload the immune
Health Feedback→ Infants’ immune systems are perfectly able to safely cope with several vaccines in one day
REVIEW In the last century, infants in the U.S. went from receiving one routine vaccine protecting against a single disease (smallpox) to receiving as many as 26 inoculations that protect against 14 different diseases. In their first year of life, i
Full Fact→ Ensuring honesty in public life needs a new system for correcting mistakes in Parliament
Full Fact welcomes the Committee on Standards inquiry on MPs Code of Conduct, and in particular the proposals to update the descriptors of the Seven Principles of Public Life in the Code so that they better reflect MPs’ roles. Yet the publi
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Apple Pay and Google Pay No Longer Work on Moscow’s Metro System,’ Causing Queues
On February 28 2022, Irish journalist Jason Corcoran tweeted the following image, which was purportedly a photograph of long queues at a Moscow metro station after Apple Pay and Google Pay stopped working in Russia: Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Canada Does NOT Discriminate Against Phoneless With Proof-Of-Vaccination QR Code System
Does Canada discriminate against the phoneless by requiring proof of vaccinations with a printed QR code? No, that's not true: Paper copies of the proof of vaccination QR code are acceptable; they do not have to be on a phone to show proo
Logically→ Wearing a face mask can weaken the immune system.
There is no evidence that face masks weaken the immune system. Evidence shows that masks are effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19.
Full Fact→ The government hasn’t admitted Covid-19 vaccines damage your natural immune system
A screenshot of a tweet posted on Instagram claims: “The UK government now oddly admits the vaccines have damaged the natural immune system of those who have been double-vaccinated”. A paraphrased version of the claim has also appeared on F
Health Feedback→ The COVID-19 vaccines don’t weaken the immune system and are unrelated to the HIV VB variant
REVIEW In February 2022, there was a proliferation of social media posts claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines destroy the immune system (see here, here, and here). On occasion, these posts are accompanied by additional claims stating that the recentl
Health Feedback→ The COVID-19 vaccines protect people from severe COVID-19 and don’t weaken the immune system
REVIEW An article published by the website The Exposé on 22 January 2022 made a number of claims, one of which was that the COVID-19 vaccines lead to a weakened immune system. However, as we will explain below, this is based on misleading and misin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: UK Does NOT Admit COVID Vaccine Damages Natural Immune System
Did the United Kingdom admit the COVID-19 vaccine damages the natural immune system? No, that's not true: The claim in the National Daily Newspaper misconstrues information in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report - Week 42 by the UK H
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – India requires voter ID, but its system still leaves some citizens disenfranchised
“India has nearly 1.4 billion citizens. Nearly 800 million of them live in extreme poverty — less than $1.90 per day. Yet EVERY singly (sic) Indian citizen is required to have a valid form of ID to vote in national elections.”
Snopes→ Does Infrastructure Bill Require Surveillance System in New Vehicles to Track Drivers?
The bill was said to require a "kill switch" that law enforcement could use to "shut your car off."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Covid Boosters Are NOT Weakening Immune System — European Agency Says Remarks Were ‘Misunderstood’
Are COVID-19 boosters weakening the immune system? No, that's not true: Articles and social media reports saying that Marco Cavaleri, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) vaccine strategy chief, fears repeated booster shots would weaken th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Smoking Weed Benefits Respiratory System
Does smoking weed benefit the respiratory system, including the lungs? No, that's not true: While researchers believe that more research is needed to determine both the health benefits and adverse effects of cannabis smoke inhalation, the
PolitiFact→ Bloggers – No, getting the COVID-19 vaccine won’t weaken your immune system
The COVID-19 vaccines "suppress the immune system" and make people more susceptible to HIV, shingles and herpes.
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccines are weakening immune systems.
Vaccines do not weaken immune systems.
Health Feedback→ Natural News, others jump to conclusions unsupported by the study they cite to claim COVID-19 vaccines destroy the immune system and cause cancer
REVIEW On 5 November 2021, Natural News published a post in which they claimed a recent scientific study showed that the spike protein in the COVID-19 vaccines accumulated in the nucleus of cells and destroyed “DNA repair pathways, paving the wa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The ‘Emergency Broadcast System’ Has NOT Been Activated
Has the "Emergency Broadcast System" been activated? No, that's not true: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) confirmed to Lead Stories that the Emergency Alert System (EAS) has not been activated. If it had been, the protocol
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
Logically→ COVID-19 booster shot weakens the immunity system in a vaccinated person.
After the initial vaccination series, studies have demonstrated that a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine can improve protection.
Snopes→ Facebook to Shut Down Face-Recognition System, Delete Data
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by governments, police and others.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 23,000 Voters Registered With Same Wisconsin Number Is NOT Proof Of Election Fraud – It’s Glitch From State Registration System
Are 23,000 Wisconsin voters registered at a prison address with the same phone number proof of election fraud? No, that's not true: Some Wisconsin voter records have the same phone number due to a glitch that occurred when the state imple
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Patent Documents Do NOT ‘Expose Medical Devices’ In COVID Vaccines, Including Injectable Tracking And Computing System
Do patent documents "expose" the existence of microscopic computing, tracking and medical devices in the COVID vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer? No, that's not true: The patents described are for the lipids used to send mRNA instructio
Snopes→ Is This the First Photo of Another Solar System?
While the image is special, according to astronomers it's not as novel as a Reddit post claimed.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 48,000 Did NOT Die Within 14 days Of COVID-19 Vaccination, And There Is NO ‘Medicare Tracking System’
Did more than 48,000 people die within 14 days of receiving COVID-19 vaccines, according to data revealed in the "Medicare Tracking System"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that there have been that many deaths caused by COVID v
Snopes→ Physics Nobel Rewards Work on Complex Systems, Like Climate
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Health Feedback→ No scientific evidence for claim by pathologist Ryan Cole that COVID-19 vaccines weaken the immune system
REVIEW An article published by LifeSiteNews on 13 September 2021, claiming that an Idaho doctor observed a 20-fold increase in cancer occurring in people who had received the COVID-19 vaccine. The article received more than 9,000 engagements on Face
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dermatopathologist Ryan Cole Does NOT Back With Data His Claim That Pfizer Vaccine Weakens Patients’ Immune Systems
Did an Idaho doctor trained in skin-test analysis prove his claims that Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine weakens the immune system and seems to be causing cancer? No, that's not true: The claims are supported only by anecdotes, not by data and h
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tweet That Parents Divorced Over Debt And U.S. Medical System Does NOT Exist
Did a Twitter user named "Becky Lynn Paige" tweet that their parents divorced over $288,000 in debt and "the American medical system"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that such a Twitter account ever existed, plus the counterfei