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Health Feedback→ Prenatal ultrasound is generally safe when performed by trained personnel and used only when medically necessary; its benefits outweigh the risks
REVIEW Ultrasound (also called ultrasonography) is widely used in medicine for imaging. It uses high-frequency sound waves to produce internal images of the body. One of its advantages is that it doesn’t use X-rays, meaning that patients aren’t
Full Fact→ Fireworks are not banned in London on New Year’s Eve
A post on Facebook with over 700 comments says: “the Mayor of London has cancelled New Year's Eve celebrations in London......and will not allow fireworks. Yet is it true that he will allow celebrations of Divali [sic], including fireworks?
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Magic Johnson’s Ability To Play Basketball With HIV Is NOT Comparable To Kyrie Irving’s Restriction Due To Being Unvaccinated
Is former professional basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson being allowed to continue playing basketball after testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) comparable to current professional basketball player Kyrie Irving's
FactCheck.org→ U.S. Is Sending Aid to Independent Groups in Afghanistan, Not the Taliban
Quick Take The U.S. is providing humanitarian aid through several independent organizations in Afghanistan, but not through the Taliban government. Yet an online article falsely claims that the Biden administration will “send the Taliban millions
Full Fact→ England hasn’t ‘kept’ £450 billion of Scottish taxes since 2001
A post on Facebook claims that since 2001, Scotland has sent £900 billion in tax to “Westminster” but only received £447.5 billion in return, meaning that Scotland subsidises England. It doesn’t. What this post fails to in
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Commands 50,000 Secret Troops And Deputized Them As U.S. Marshals
Were "50,000 secret USA troops" just deputized by Donald Trump? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that any service members have been deputized by former President Donald Trump and made "Federal Marshals." A parody Twitter account
Full Fact→ Viral tweet overstates UK’s lead in Covid-19 cases
A tweet with over 5,000 retweets claimed on 18 October: “There were 229,000 new cases of coronavirus in the world yesterday. The UK provided 20% of them. 1 in 5 of the new cases in the whole world was on our little island.” That’s not
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Spiked by Injection’ Warnings on Social Media
In October 2021, rumors warning that people — mostly women – were being “spiked by injection” spread virally across social media, with several high-engagement versions on Twitter: you’ve been outsmarted by us, we cover our d
FactCheck.org→ The COVID-19 Recession Officially Ended Before Biden Took Office
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially lasted just two months and ended in April 2020. But Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrongly credited President Joe Biden for guiding “this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying r
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Public Health England Data Does NOT Suggest That COVID-19 Vaccines Cause AIDS
Does Public Health England (PHE) data suggest that COVID-19 vaccines cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)? No, that's not true: The data is misinterpreted, and a spokesperson from the United Kingdom Health Security Agency -- wh
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Do NOT Change DNA Or Cause Birth Defects
Can an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine given to a woman cause changes in the DNA of a baby she is carrying and result in a "mutant baby" born with extra limbs or other deformities? No, that's not true: The mRNA in COVID vaccines does not enter the
Truth or Fiction?→ Did DC Comics ‘Make Superman Gay’?
The announcement that DC Comics’ newest Superman will have a male love interest led to both enthusiasm for some readers of comics and regurgitated moral panics from right-wing pundits and media outlets. The company announced on October 11 2021 th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jacksonville Air Traffic Controller Protest Over COVID Vaccine Did NOT Cause Delays — Weather, Crew Positioning Caused The Cancellations
Did air traffic controllers at the Jacksonville International Airport stage a walkout Friday, October 8, to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates, resulting in all flights in and out of Florida being cancelled? No, that's not true: The Nation
Full Fact→ Emergency services can’t use the numbers on street lamps to find you
A Facebook post suggests that the emergency services can use numbering on UK street lights to locate people who might be lost or in trouble. The post states: “Did you know if your lost or in trouble if you ring the emergency services and yo
AllSides→ Partisan Claims About Flight Cancellations Lack Evidence
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/scicheck-partisan-claims-about-flight-cancellations-lack-evidence/ So
FactCheck.org→ Partisan Claims About Flight Cancellations Lack Evidence
SciCheck Digest Southwest Airlines’ flight cancellations fueled partisan claims over the weekend that transportation workers were protesting COVID-19 vaccine requirements and causing the cancellations. But there’s no evidence that workers s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Amtrak Employees Are NOT Walking Out Because Of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Are Amtrak employees walking off the job because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate? No, that's not true. The cancellation of two trains on a route in the Northeast on October 10, 2021, were not due to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Amtrak to
Health Feedback→ Vaccines are highly effective at reducing the risk of death from COVID-19; The Exposé misleadingly claims the UK vaccination campaign has failed
REVIEW An article on The Exposé (formerly The Daily Exposé) a website marked as promoting conspiracy theories by Media Bias Fact Check, made a series of claims about the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines being used in the U.K. Logica
Health Feedback→ No evidence suggests a causal link between Ivermectin recommendation and the decline of COVID-19 cases in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
REVIEW Between March and May 2021, National Geographic reported that India was suffering the “worst COVID-19 surge in the world” that raised the country’s death toll to over 400,000. The number of daily COVID-19 cases peaked in May 2021, d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New South Wales Health Ministry Clip In ‘The Vaccinated Are Dying In Australia’ Is NOT Whole Story
Does a short clip taken from a press conference by the New South Wales Ministry of Health to update the public on COVID-19 tell the whole story of recent deaths there? No, that's missing crucial context: Dr. Marianne Gale, the deputy chie
FactCheck.org→ Migrants Not Responsible for Latest COVID-19 Surge
Infectious disease experts say low vaccination rates, resistance to protective measures such as wearing a mask and the highly transmissible delta variant are driving the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. But with numerous Republicans criticiz
Truth or Fiction?→ New Astrological Dates 2021 (and Ophiuchus)
A September 30 2021 image (“New Astrological Dates”) and accompanying rumor of a thirteenth zodiac sign — Ophiuchus — began its most recent voyage around social media with the following commentary: Your thoughts america. I̵
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Final Numbers
Summary The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers. The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate incr
Truth or Fiction?→ Leo Varadkar ‘Rent Freeze’ Quote
On October 7 2020, Imgur u/smobey shared a screenshot of the following circulating tweet: The text said: Leo Varadkar warns introducing a rent freeze could create a ‘nightmare scenario’, where landlords would be forced to sell their extra
FactCheck.org→ Posts Spread Baseless Claims About Cause of Cargo Ship Backups
Quick Take U.S. ports slowed by pandemic-induced labor and equipment shortages cannot keep up with Americans’ demand for imported goods, resulting in cargo ship backups on both coasts. But social media posts, without citing evidence, falsely claim
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Minister’s Order Does NOT Indicate Martial Law To Be Implemented Between October 8-16 In Canada
Did the government of Saskatchewan in Canada adopt an emergency order with the intention of instituting martial law -- shutting down travel with checkpoints, entering homes and seizing private property and disrupting the food supply by ta
Full Fact→ Marr wrong to claim PM wasn’t telling the truth on wages
“What you’re also seeing is finally growth in wages after more than 10 years of flatlining, what you’re seeing is people on low incomes being paid more... Wages have been totally flatlining, totally flatlining for more than a decade&
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence These Gumdrops Cure COPD
Do two shiny gumdrops per day cure COPD? No, that's not true: Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the American Lung Association include gumdrop-form medications on their list of tested and approved medications for treatment of th
Full Fact→ CDC has not said SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated
An Instagram post shows a screenshot of a headline from the website Daily Expose, which describes Covid-19 as a “hoax” and states: “CDC documents admit they have never isolated the virus”. Isolating a virus means tak
Climate Feedback→ Rain fell on Greenland summit for the first time on record, as accurately reported by CNN
SUMMARY An article published in CNN discusses observations made by scientists stationed at the highest point on the Greenland ice sheet. Reporting on a summary released by the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, the article describes how rain, ins
Full Fact→ Woman filling bags with petrol was not filmed in south London
A video posted on Twitter appears to show someone filling up plastic bags of petrol at a petrol station and putting them in the boot of a car. The accompanying tweet says it was filmed at an Esso forecourt in Tooting, south London. This follows r
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Covid Killed 47 Out Of Every 100,000 People’ in ‘Counties Where Trump Got over 70 Percent of the Vote’
As COVID-19 continued to rage through the United States in late September 2021, a tweet (later shared to Imgur) claimed that the virus killed 47 out of 100,000 people in counties where former U.S. President Donald Trump received 70 percent or more of
Snopes→ Investigators Seek Cause of Deadly Montana Train Derailment
The westbound Empire Builder was traveling from Chicago to Seattle when it left the tracks about 4 p.m. Saturday near Joplin, a town of about 200.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Is Another Foreign Spam Network’s Clickbait Bid For American Eyeballs: Disconnected Headlines, Tell-Tale Avatars
Does the headline on this post correctly summarize the contents? No, that's not true: This video is another example of a clickbait tactic of a spam network that deceptively captures the attention of an American audience with hot-topic hea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Hidden in Salad Greens
Are COVID-19 vaccines hidden in salad greens? No, that's not true: There's no publicly available evidence salad greens are being spiked with any sort of vaccine and the claim was made without supporting evidence. Research being done by sc
Truth or Fiction?→ How to Fight Disinformation — Part III: Distraction
On September 20 2021, shocking photographs and accompanying video made the rounds on news networks and social media appearing to show border agents on horseback whipping asylum-seekers on foot as they ran in terror: A mounted U.S. Border Patrol agent
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: British Funeral Director O’Looney Does NOT Make Case That COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Real
Did a funeral director from Milton Keynes, England, make a case that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, or that it is caused by the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: O'Looney's conspiracy theories defy logic and are readily dismisse
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Purportedly Showing Pinewood From Early ’70s Vs. Pinewood From Early 2020s Does NOT Prove Quality Difference
Does a photo purportedly comparing pinewood from the early 1970s to pinewood from the early 2020s accurately describe genetically modified structural lumber used in 2021 versus wood from the 1970s? No, that's not true: These claims were m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mounted Border Patrol Did NOT Use Whips To Round Up Haitian Refugees Amid Surge of Migrants
Did U.S. Border Patrol agents use whips to round up Haitian migrants and refugees who were crossing a river at the Mexican border near Del Rio, Texas? No, that's not true: While photos and video circulating show mounted border patrol agen