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Truth or Fiction?→ Gorilla Glue Hair Lawsuit, Explained
On February 8 2020, a social media rumor about a woman (Tessica Brown, or @im_d_ollady) purportedly intending to “sue” Gorilla Glue for damage to her hair began circulating: “Your honor, I’m suing Gorilla Glue for pain & sufferin
Truth or Fiction?→ Law Professor Refutes Trump Attorneys’ Attempt to Cite Him in Impeachment Defense
An effort to sow weaponized disinformation benefiting former United States president Donald Trump ahead of his second impeachment trial was blunted in early February 2021, when the legal scholar cited by his attorneys publicly debunked their claims. T
FactCheck.org→ Schumer, Warren Misstate Student Loan Debt Disparity
In a press conference in which they called on President Joe Biden to use his executive authority to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt for individuals, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren misstated a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Newly Discovered Video Does NOT Show Late-Night Deliveries Of Illegal Ballots In Detroit, Michigan
Does a newly discovered video show late-night deliveries of illegal ballots in Detroit, Michigan? No, that's not true: The ballots were legal votes. The 8 p.m. Election Day deadline was for casting ballots not counting them. The Michigan
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof Found That John D. Rockefeller Paid to Have Petroleum Designated a Fossil Fuel to Drive Price Up
Did 19th century industrialist John D. Rockefeller pay scientists at the 1892 Geneva Congress on Organic Nomenclature to have petroleum designated a fossil fuel to make it appear scarce, to drive the price up? No, there's no evidence that
The Dispatch→ Did the World Health Organization Say We Don’t Need to Wear Masks?
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Truth or Fiction?→ MyPillow Guy ‘Lindell: Capitol Rioters Were Drugged By Antifa Sluts’
On February 5 2021, “Business Standard News” published an item with the headline, “Lindell: Capitol Rioters Were Drugged By Antifa Sluts,” which claimed — true to its headline — that MyPillow’s chief executive
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk And Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Announce ‘Trump Force One,’ A New Social Media Platform
Did Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr. announce they have joined forces to create a new social media platform called "Trump Force One"? No, that's not true: Trump Jr. did ask Musk to create a new social media platform after Twitter and Facebo
Logically→ An article in Time Magazine proves there was a “conspiracy” to influence the 2020 Presidential Election.
The use of the word “conspiracy” in Molly Ball’s controversial op-ed has been used to claim that Biden’s campaign equates to electoral fraud.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Deer DID Carry Severed Head Of Dead Rival Entangled With His Antlers On Island of Hokkaido, Japan
Did a deer wind up carrying the severed head of a dead "relative" stuck to his antlers, on the island of Hokkaido Japan? Yes, this is a real photo. The word "relative" used in the caption is likely a translation of a word meaning "one of
Full Fact→ Evidence doesn’t show 20,000 people ‘sick with Covid’ fail to self-isolate every day
“Confirmation that 20,000 people a day sick with Covid are not isolating confirms our repeated warnings that without decent sick pay and support we won’t break chains of transmission.” Jonathan Ashworth MP, 3 February 2021. It has be
AFP Fact Check→ Alleged tweet by Nigerian opposition party vowing not to steal again is a hoax
A screenshot shared in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram claims to show a tweet from Nigeria’s main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) promising to stop stealing if voted into power in the 2023 general elections. But this i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Super Bowl Champions Did NOT Refuse Invitation To ‘Stolen White House’
Did the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers refuse a congratulatory invitation to the White House because the team believes the election victory was "stolen" by the current administration? No, that's not true: This is a false claim m
Logically→ The Pfizer vaccine could affect women’s reproductive health.
Claims that the Pfizer vaccine could impact women's reproductive health are based on misunderstandings of how the vaccine functions.
Logically→ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she was in the main Capitol building and came face-to-fact with rioters.
AOC was in the Cannon building; but she never claimed she was in the main building or that she came face-to-face with the rioters.
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been enhanced from a photo of Venus taken by Soviet spacecraft Venera 13
An image has been shared widely on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter alongside a claim it shows "the only clear photo ever taken from the surface of Venus by Soviet spacecraft Venera 13". The claim is misleading: the image was originally created by a
AFP Fact Check→ This video reports on a fatal shooting in China’s Hunan province in 2010
A video news report about a fatal shooting of three judges has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim that the shooting occured in China in December 2020. The claim is misleading; the video news report in fact
Full Fact→ False death figures go viral
A post on Instagram lists the number of deaths in England and Wales each year from 2013 to 2019. It claims that up to week 47 of 2020 there were only 511,883 deaths which is “almost 20,000 less deaths since last year.” It asks “so exa
AFP Fact Check→ This image has been doctored — it does not show Hillary Clinton wearing an electronic ankle monitor
An image purportedly showing former US First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wearing an electronic ankle monitor has been shared repeatedly on Facebook in February 2021. The posts claim the photo is evidence that Clinton "may have been arre
AFP Fact Check→ Facebook posts falsely report ‘arrest’ of discredited US researcher who featured in ‘Plandemic’ video
Multiple Facebook posts shared in February 2021 claim police have detained discredited US researcher Judy Mikovits for "discovering evidence that deadly retroviruses are transmitted through vaccines". This is false: Mikovits has not been arrested in
FactCheck.org→ Misleading DCCC Ads Link Republicans to QAnon
The campaign committee for House Democrats is running ads that claim eight House Republicans “stood with Q, not you,” because they voted against impeaching then-President Donald Trump for inciting the violent insurrection at the Capitol. But none
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Unmasked’ Video Does NOT Uncover The Truth About The 2020 Presidential Election
Does the "Unmasked" video uncover the truth about the 2020 presidential election? No, it doesn't: The video remixes previously debunked claims of vote fraud and election theft. Chief among them were allegations that "vote spikes" in battl
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Fun Fact … If a Fire Starts in the [Yale] Library, All the Oxygen Leaves the Building,’ ‘Killing [People] … to Protect the Rare Books’
On February 7 2021, a Facebook user shared a Twitter screenshot with a “fun fact” about a library at Yale University that involved a mechanism that would “protect the rare books” from the effects of a putative fire, but at the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is NOT A Video Of A Rothschild-Owned Bank On Fire
Is this a video of a Rothschild & Co-owned bank in France on fire in late 2020? No, that's not true: The video features the Bank Of France, that country's central bank, which is not owned by any Rothschild subsidiary. This fire broke
AFP Fact Check→ Article misleads on Merck’s decision to drop Covid-19 vaccines
An article shared on social media claims US pharmaceutical company Merck discontinued Covid-19 vaccine research and said recovering from the virus would be more effective. This is inaccurate; the company said it scrapped its vaccine candidates because
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Corner Wall Is NOT Coming Apart On The Oval Office ‘Film Set’ – Photo Shows A Door In The Round Room
Does a photograph of the Oval Office show a corner wall coming apart in the room, proving that it is a "film set" and not in the White House? No, that's not true. A picture of President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi show
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT True That Biden And Trump Have Different Air Force Ones
Does President Biden fly in a different Air Force One than Donald Trump did when he held office? No, that's not true: Biden rides in the same official aircraft as the former president. The sitting president usually uses two main aircraft
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Anti-Racist is Code for Anti-White’ Billboards in Harrison, Arkansas
In early February 2021, a purported photograph of two billboards in Harrison, Arkansas circulated on Facebook and Reddit — the first of the two claiming that “anti-racist” is a “code word for anti-white”: Is th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘SATAN’ Was NOT Flashed During The Weeknd’s Performance At The Super Bowl – The Video Is Three Years Old
Was the word "SATAN" flashed during the 2021 Super Bowl? No, that's not true. A screengrab showing the word on an on-stage video screen is from a 2017 concert in Denmark, not the February 7, 2021 halftime show at the Super Bowl game in Ta
AFP Fact Check→ Children of billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have all been vaccinated
A now-deleted video shared on Facebook claimed that billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates had refused to inoculate his children, despite being an ardent supporter of vaccines. This is false: his wife Melinda Gates has previously confirmed that their th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Biden is NOT Defunding The Department Of Veterans Affairs
Is President Joe Biden defunding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs? No, that's not true: This is a false claim made by a satire website. There is no publicly available evidence that President Biden plans to defund the VA. The claim
Snopes→ Trump Lawyers Blast Impeachment Trial As ‘Political Theater’
In a brief filed on the eve of the impeachment trial, lawyers for the former president leveled a wide-ranging attack on the case, foreshadowing the claims they intend to present when arguments begin on the same Senate floor that was invaded by rioters
Poynter→ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s film is ‘not intended to be taken as fact’
Before MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s documentary aired on the One America News Network, a disclaimer rolled slowly across the screen: “The statements and claims expressed in this program are presented at this time as opinions only and are not i
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows soldiers performing a stunt at a 2016 military parade in Iran
A video has been shared hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts that claim it shows Afghan soldiers failing to demonstrate martial art skills at a military ceremony. The claim is false; the video in fact shows Iranian soldiers perfor
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows a hoax report and police denied that the former Philippine senator was arrested
A video that claims former Philippine Senator Mar Roxas was arrested for illegal drug possession has been viewed thousands of times in multiple YouTube and Facebook posts. The claim, however, is false; the video is a hoax news report and police denied
AFP Fact Check→ Indian anti-citizenship law protest footage recirculates online in false posts about farmers’ protests
A video of a crowd chanting has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook in 2021 alongside a claim it shows people urging Delhi police to beat Indian farmers protesting against new agricultural laws. The claim is false: the foota
AFP Fact Check→ Social media posts misrepresent Muslim woman’s contribution to President Biden’s inauguration ceremony
Multiple posts shared hundreds of time on Facebook and Twitter claim that an American Muslim woman, Dr. Debbie Almontaser, "made history" by reciting the Koran during the inauguration ceremony of US President Joe Biden. The claim was shared alongside
The Dispatch→ Do ‘All the Economics Show’ That a Minimum Wage Increase Will Help the Economy?
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden NOT to Send $3 Trillion on Plane to Iran as Apology for Soleimani Assassination
Is President Biden about to send $3 trillion to Iran by plane to apologize for the drone strike that killed General Soleimaini last year? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump