Does Gen. John E. Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have an account on Telegram -- the encrypted social media platform -- and did he send some kind of message to followers? No, that's not true: A Telegram account usin
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Snopes→ Did a COVID Vaccine Candidate Produce False Positives for HIV?
The effort was the first COVID-19 vaccine candidate to be abandoned.
Snopes→ Were Capitol Rioters IDed Via Online Dating Apps?
One woman called it her “civic duty” to swipe through dating apps looking for men who had attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Truth or Fiction?→ Is Trump the Only United States President to Have Never Once Hit a 50 Percent Approval Rating?
On January 19 2021, the following screenshot of a tweet appeared on Imgur, featuring claims that outgoing United States President Donald Trump never once went over 50 percent approval during his time in office, and was in fact the “least popular
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Georgia County Meant To Order 250,000 Individual Voter Applications, NOT 25 Million
Did a Georgia county mean to order 25 million voter applications after the 2020 election? No, that's not true: The order was the result of an input error. Officials meant to order 250,000 individual voter applications, not 250,000 packs o
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence This Tonic Recipe Will Change Outcomes For People Infected With COVID-19
Will this tonic routine treat COVID-19 in the way that is claimed, and can it prevent anyone who adheres to this regimen from dying of COVID? No, that's not true: This COVID remedy, which is intended to be used as both an inhaled steam tr
AllSides→ We Fact-Checked 5 Common Bogus Claims About Vaccines and COVID-19
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7axaa/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-claims From the moment COVID-19 e
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: National Guard Commanders Have NOT Confiscated All Ammo And Magazines From Troops Guarding The Capitol
Did National Guard commanders confiscate all ammunition and magazines from troops guarding the U.S. Capitol? No, that's not true: A claim has gone viral that the Biden transition team feared guard members loyal to President Trump "might k
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is NOT A Photo Of Nancy Pelosi Being Arrested By ‘U.S. Marshalls’ — She’s Walking To Her Office
Is this a photo of Nancy Pelosi being arrested by "U.S. Marshalls"? No, that's not true: This is a photo of Speaker Pelosi being escorted by what appear to be U.S. Capitol police as she returns to her office on January 13, 2021, the day o
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Here’s the Letter George H. W. Bush Left Bill Clinton for the First Day of His Presidency’
On January 18 2021, Imgur user SisterMidnight shared an image called, “Here’s the letter George H. W. Bush left Bill Clinton for the first day of his presidency,” with the comment “Classy,” and “I wonder what Presiden
AllSides→ New York Times issues correction after labeling Daily Caller journalist as Capitol Hill ‘rioter’ in photo
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-issues-correction-labeling-daily-caller-journalist-as-capitol-hill-rioter-in-photo
Health Feedback→ People who received the COVID-19 vaccine aren’t more likely to develop facial paralysis than people who didn’t receive the vaccine
REVIEW To date, there have been 95 million cases and two million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. To curb the spread of the disease, several governments initiated massive vaccination campaigns using some of the recently developed and approved vaccine
AllSides→ Fact-checking Biden’s rollout of plan to address ‘twin crises’ of economy, pandemic
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jan/15/biden-terms-vaccine-rollout-dismal-failure-he-unve/ Pres
Full Fact→ Clearing up some of the confusion over free school meals
Last week, social media was full of images of food parcels sent to parents to feed their children. Ordinarily, state schools in England provide meals to eligible children free of charge, including children whose families receive certain benefits, and a
Full Fact→ A kiwi fruit did not test “positive” for Covid
We’ve seen many people sharing a video on social media that seems to show a kiwi fruit testing positive for Covid-19. It follows a similar video, in which a glass of Coca-Cola also appeared to test positive. The people in the videos, and many of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CBS News Did NOT Report A Florida Man Kidnapped 27 People To Force Them To Play Yahtzee
Did CBS News report on Twitter that a Florida man had been arrested for kidnapping 27 people and forcing them to play Yahtzee for 36 hours straight? No, that's not true: the widely viral screenshot of a tweet supposedly sent by @CBSNews i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Broken Link That Included The Word ‘Guantanamo’ On The Site Of The Office Of Military Commissions Did NOT Have Any Special Significance
Did a broken link that included the word "Guantanamo" on the website of the Office of Military Commissions have any special significance? No, that's not true: There's no evidence the link, which took users to a dead page on the site of th
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows an Indian airline plane hit by major turbulence in July 2020
A video has been viewed more than one million times on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok alongside a claim that it shows the last moments of Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air flight before the aircraft crashed in the Java Sea in January 2021. The claim is fa
AFP Fact Check→ Video misleadingly purports to show Covid-19 prevention tips from ‘Thai hospital dean’
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows the dean of a Thai hospital giving Covid-19 prevention tips, including the importance of boosting your immune system. The claim is misleading: the woman
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Photos Are NOT Associated With ‘Chemtrails’
Does this collection of photos show the inner workings of airplanes that spray "chemtrails" and has this information been "declassified"? No, that's not true: These photos do not show "chemtrail spraying equipment." The photos are either
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An ‘Emergency Broadcast Alert’ Has NOT Been Issued Revealing Donald Trump Has Invoked The Insurrection Act
Did an Emergency Broadcast Alert reveal Donald Trump invoked the Insurrection Act? No, that's not true: A video makes the baseless claim that President Donald J. Trump informed the mayor of Oklahoma City that the "Insurrection Act has bee
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Doctored Video Does NOT Show That Joe Biden ‘Has No Idea Where Or Who He Is’
Does this video show Joe Biden confused and not knowing where he was at the end of an event? No, that's not true: The edited excerpt from a video of the president-elect announcing members of his Science Team shows him pausing and looking
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Much Of The ‘What Is Happening?’ Post Is NOT Happening: It’s Either Old Or Fake News
Does the "What is Happening?" Instagram post offer some alarming news, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel resigning and also the unrelated matter of Italian officials interfering with the U.S. presidential elections? No, that's not t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell Interview On Alleged Election Fraud Relies On Debunked ‘Data’
Does Mike Lindell's interview on alleged election fraud contain only factual and proven statements? No, that's not true: The interview with the MyPillow CEO is based almost entirely on a discredited report. As Lead Stories has already deb
Truth or Fiction?→ How to Fight Disinformation: Part II — Gaslighting
This is part of an ongoing series about how communities can fight back and protect themselves against weaponized disinformation. You can read Part I here. On January 6 2021, a mob of Donald Trump supporters, enraged by corrosive rhetoric and lies fr
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Before Capitol Rioters Beat an Officer to Death, BLM Protesters Formed a Human Barricade Around a Cop Separated From Other Police’
After a Capitol police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher during the January 6 2021 insurrection, a photograph from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests circulated, which contrasted the death of one officer at the hands of insurrection
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Alex Trebek Listed as Part of Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’?
Two days before the end of his one-term presidency, Donald Trump’s administration released a wide-ranging list of public figures it ordered to be included as statues in its proposed “National Garden of American Heroes” — includ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Viral Photo Of Doctors And Nurses In Italy Does NOT Show Them Holding A Sign Saying, ‘Jesus Stops This Virus’
Did a viral photo of doctors and nurses in Italy, who were treating COVID-19 patients, show them holding up a sign, which begins "Jesus Stops this Virus"? No, that's not true: The sign doctors and nurses are holding in the original photo,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Raw Data Analytics’ Posted By The American Report Does NOT Prove China, Russia Hacked 2020 Election
Does an article posted by The American Report prove China and Russia hacked the 2020 Election and does it show IP addresses from China, Russia, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada and the Czech Republic hacking "PA, NV, MI, GA Battleground States"
Snopes→ Did Ice Cream Test Positive for COVID-19?
Considering its cold temperature and fatty ingredients, one virologist said ice cream could harbor conditions for the virus to survive.
Full Fact→ In 2021 you can reach us on WhatsApp
In September 2020 Full Fact launched a pilot WhatsApp service aiming to tackle misinformation on the platform. It’s particularly hard to combat misinformation on a platform like WhatsApp because the network is entirely private and peer-to-peer. I
AllSides→ Are Undocumented Immigrants Ineligible For the COVID-19 Vaccine?
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-are-undocumented-immigrants-ineligible-covid-19-vaccine-1562061 Pre
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John F. Kennedy Jr. Is NOT Working To Expose His Father’s Killers — President Kennedy’s Son Died In A 1999 Plane Crash
Is John F. Kennedy Jr. actively working to expose his father's killers, even if it means he has to bring down the whole government? No, that's not true: JFK Jr. has been dead since crashing his small plane into the Atlantic Ocean on July
Snopes→ Did MLK Jr. Say the Purpose of Education Is To Sort Fact From Fiction?
One of the chief aims of education, according to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is to "save man from the morass of propaganda."
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccines are made from aborted fetal cells.
None of the Covid -19 vaccines contain cells from an aborted fetuses
AFP Fact Check→ Hoax warning about ‘WhatsApp virus’ resurfaces online in Pakistan
Multiple social media posts shared in January 2021 claim that a malicious video entitled “Argentina” is circulating on WhatsApp and will hack your phone within 10 seconds. Most of these posts attribute the warning to Pakistan’s National Informa
Health Feedback→ Lower flu activity this season likely due to COVID-19 restrictions, increased flu vaccination, and other factors, not to misdiagnosis of flu cases as COVID-19
REVIEW So far, the 2020-2021 flu season has seen fewer cases than in previous years, leading to allegations that flu cases are being misdiagnosed as COVID-19. These claims started circulating on social media in late 2020 and early 2021, including th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Marine Corps Did NOT Rebuke Nancy Pelosi, Did NOT Tell Her: ‘WE DON’T WORK FOR YOU!’
Did the Marine Corps rebuke the Speaker of the U.S. House, telling her "We don't work for you," in response to a request for troops to protect the Capitol during the Inauguration? No, that's not true: Both the Marine Corps and the House S
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Military Combat Helicopters, Including Blackhawks And Osprey, Flying Low Over Washington, D.C. On January 15, 2021
Did an assortment of military combat helicopters, including Blackhawks and Ospreys, buzz Washington, D.C. on the morning of January 15, 2021 as shown in an online video? No, that's not true: The video posted on Friday that purported to be
Snopes→ Is the Barbie Ouija Board in This Photo Real?
Could one of Barbie’s countless hobbies involve the occult?