We had to check the date on a May 24 2021 Hannity.com blog post, headlined, “AGAIN? Whitmer Apologizes After Photo Leaks Showing Governor at a Local Bar, No Mask, No Distancing,” spotted on Trendolizer’s list of most viral links. Hann
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Is NOT Footage Of Israeli Defense System
Is a video showing helicopters being taken down by rapid missile fire actually footage of the Israeli defense system at work? No, that's not true: The video is taken from the video game ARMA 3, a tactical shooter video game developed by B
Full Fact→ Getting a Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t mean you can connect to Bluetooth
A post on Facebook has claimed to show evidence that getting the Pfizer or AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccinations makes you magnetic at the injection site. The post also includes what it claims is video evidence of this happening, as well as a screenshot of
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Gives NO Evidence Palestinian Girl Was Killed By Israeli Settler And Weapon Put Next To Her Body To ‘Falsify The Truth’
Does this video show a Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli settler and that a weapon was planted next to her body to "falsify the truth"? No, there's no evidence that's true: The video posted with the allegation does not prove the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does Not Show Personal Information On ‘Dark Web’ About People Who Had Taken COVID-19 Vaccine
Did a Russian hacker figure out how to get personal information from a chip injected into people who had taken the coronavirus vaccine? No, that's not true: The person doing the voiceover of this video used a server that is no longer in u
Truth or Fiction?→ Are People Returning Pandemic Pets?
Social media and “shaming” often go hand in hand, as was the case with claims that pets were being returned en masse by selfish owners in May 2021 after adopting them at the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic: Can we all agree the
Snopes→ A New Reason to Swipe Right? Dating Apps Adding Vax Badges
Apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match and Bumble are offering special incentives to people who roll up their sleeves, including badges showing vaccination status and free access to premium content.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vaccine Needle Is NOT Left In Arm And Is Not A Prop — It’s A Retractable Safety Syringe
Does this video show a nurse pretending to administer a shot to a person at a drive-through vaccine clinic? Or could it be that the nurse inserts the needle into the woman's arm and leaves it there? No, neither of these explanations tell
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Joe Biden Was NOT Computer Generated
Did a computer-generated (CGI) hologram that looked like President Joe Biden appear before a group of reporters and take questions before walking across the lawn and boarding Marine One? And is this the only logical conclusion to explain
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain magnetic ingredients; dose volume is too small to contain any device able to hold a magnet through the skin
REVIEW Around mid-May 2021, multiple videos (examples here, here, and here) claimed that COVID-19 vaccines caused magnetic reactions in vaccinated people. The videos purportedly showed that magnets attached to the arm where people received a COVID-1
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Make The Claims Made In BitChute Captions Promoting It
Does this video of coronavirus conspiracist David Martin say that Dr. Anthony Fauci owns a patent on the coronavirus and that his income is 100% dependent on keeping the COVID-19 pandemic going? No, that's not true: Martin makes neither c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Car Trunk Surprise Military Homecoming Video Is NOT Real — It’s A Skit
Did a soldier come home from deployment with plans to surprise her partner, only to discover that he was seeing another woman? No, that's not true: This contrived "caught on tape" drama is a skit using actors for entertainment and monetiz
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines were tested in animals and clinical trials before receiving authorization; vaccinated people aren’t dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated people
REVIEW Video clips of a Texas Senate Committee meeting on 6 May 2021 showing an exchange on COVID-19 vaccine safety between U.S. Senator Bob Hall and pediatrician Angelina Farella, went viral on multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, I
AFP Fact Check→ Nigerian separatist leader falsely claims photos of president meeting French counterpart are doctored
Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has claimed that photos showing President Muhammadu Buhari meeting his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 17, 2021, were manipulated. But the claim is false: there is no evidence suggesting the i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence To Support Video’s Claim That Turkey And Russia Are Getting Ready to Attack Israel
Are Turkey and Russia getting ready to attack Israel? No, the claim is purely speculative, not supported by facts or evidence. A video making the claim cites two irrelevant sources: The first is a video in which a narrator reads a news st
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Article Does NOT Prove Transgender And Cisgender Girls Are On A Level Playing Field
Did a doctor prove that transgender girls have no performance advantage over cisgender girls in athletics? No, that's not true: Contrary to the claim in a British website's headline, medical researchers have documented trans women's perfo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘X22 Report’ Video Does NOT Contain Only True Claims About COVID-19, 2020 Election
Does the latest "X22 Report" video contain only true and accurate claims? No, that's not true: The video recycles falsehoods circulated by QAnon conspiracy theorists and contradicted by credible publicly available documentation. Among the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Hamas Rocket Launchers Passing Through Gaza Neighborhood
Did a child in Gaza capture a video of members of Hamas, a Palestinian political and militant group, driving a truck loaded with rocket launchers through a residential street in Gaza? No, that's not true: The video, which first appeared i
Full Fact→ 1,102 people haven’t died ‘of’ the Covid-19 vaccine
A number of posts on Instagram and Facebook have claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine is causing more deaths per day than Covid-19 in the UK. The image falsely claims that there have been 1,102 “vaccine deaths”. That figure actually relates to
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccines do not make you magnetic
Multiple videos seen thousands of times across social media claim to show magnets sticking to peoples’ arms after they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19. These videos don’t prove that the contents of the vaccine are magnetic,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show May 2021 Rocket Launches By Hamas
Does a TikTok video featuring multiple launching rockets show the Palestinian political and militant group Hamas launching rockets toward Tel Aviv, Israel during the 2021 hostilities over sites considered holy by Muslims and Jews? No, tha
AFP Fact Check→ This image of New Zealand prime minister is a composite of two different photos
An image appearing to show New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugging a man wearing the colours of infamous Kiwi gang the Mongrel Mob has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook. However, the image has been doctored; the picture of Ardern ha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Contains A Magnetic Microchip
Did a woman prove with a short video that the area where she received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has become magnetic, or that she was microchipped? No, that's not true: The 20-second long video describes no methodology and does not offer
Full Fact→ There’s no evidence that eating cucumbers stops lung cancer
A post on Facebook has made a number of claims about cucumber’s ability to kill cancer cells. This is mostly based on evidence that looks at one chemical present in cucumbers and its ability to kill cells in the lab and in mice, rather than any e
Full Fact→ Why good statistics are so important for fact checkers
Fact checkers rely on data from national statistics institutes to do their work in fighting misinformation. The Open Data Institute (ODI) and Full Fact interviewed fact checkers around the world about the statistics data they use. In this blog post, An
Truth or Fiction?→ Gas Shortage ‘Couple in Alabama’ Posts
On May 10 2021, rumors of an imminent gas shortage spread everywhere, followed immediately by a photograph purportedly showing a couple “stocking up” on gas to get ahead of the situation. The image was absolutely everywhere, with at least t
Full Fact→ Pictures of Parliament don’t tell the whole story
A viral picture on Facebook appears to contrast low MP attendance for debates on issues such as education for refugee children and knife crime with a packed House of Commons for debates over MPs expenses and pay. This is a popular meme format we
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Sound Of Marine One Before Bidens’ Departure Is NOT Unusual
Is the audio track accompanying a TikTok video of President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden boarding the Marine One helicopter unusual (or fake)? No, that's not true: While someone has set the sound balance on this video clip extremel
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Blue State, Only Blue Cities’ Tweet
In early May 2021, a tweet showing a map of the United States swathed in mostly red with a scattering of blue appeared, and it quickly went viral: The text that accompanied the image, from an account going by @TABYTCHI, said: There is no such thing a
Full Fact→ New York Post’s use of old India gas leak picture causes confusion
We have been asked by readers to fact check claims that media outlets are re-using images from a gas leak in India to illustrate a story on the Covid-19 death toll. Posts on social media show a screenshot of a New York Post article with the headline &l
AllSides→ Kamala Harris said corruption costs as much as 5% of the world’s GDP. That stat is questionable
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/07/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-said-corruption-costs-much-5-worlds-/
Truth or Fiction?→ Piute Reservoir ‘Fake Town in Utah … Like Truman Show Fake’
On May 3 2021, one of several identical posts were shared to Imgur about an anonymous user’s discovery of a “fake town” in Utah; the first iteration (from u/AlexeyMalykhin) was titled “Spooky Pasta”: Spooky pasta That pa
Truth or Fiction?→ A Labor Shortage in 2021? Viral ‘Signs’ Are Not Employment Data
As the world began to emerge from more than a year of pandemic-related uncertainty in May 2021, an avalanche of photographs showing signs about businesses being “short staffed” because “no one wants to work” on social media p
Truth or Fiction?→ Signal Says Facebook Banned ‘Transparent’ Ads, Facebook Issues Denial
On May 4 2021, Signal app creator Moxie Marlinspike (Matthew Rosenfeld) tweeted about a series of Facebook ads purportedly banned by the platform — for reasons apparent upon seeing examples of the advertisements: Signal tried to use Instagram a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘New Evidence’ On Voting Systems In Antrim County, Michigan, Lacks Context
By Dana Ford and Maarten Schenk Does "new evidence" on voting systems in Antrim County, Michigan, give a full and complete picture of how tabulation machines and software work? No, that's not true: The evidence, which consists of a video
Full Fact→ This map in the Daily Express uses all the wrong numbers
A map in the print version of the Daily Express on 30 April gave a very misleading impression of the current state of the pandemic in the UK. It claimed to show the number of new Covid cases in each nation and region of the UK, with several apparently
Full Fact→ The risk of vaccination does not rise when Covid-19 becomes scarcer
Appearing at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) press conference on 7 April, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam spoke about vaccine safety. He said: “In a scenario of low exposure... you can see th
AFP Fact Check→ The video clip shows a skit performance, not a real couple fighting on their wedding day
A video showing members of a wedding party arguing in the street has circulated in numerous social media posts. The footage purportedly shows a groom confronting his bride for cheating on him with one of the groomsmen. This is false; the footage is ac
Climate Feedback→ CO2 coalition sponsored article in The Washington Times presents list of false and misleading statements about the impacts of CO2 and climate change
SUMMARY In April 2021, Gregory Wrightstone published a “sponsored” article in The Washington Times titled “There is no climate emergency”. Scientists who evaluated the article found that it included numerous false and misleading claims about
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 IS Airborne But ‘Everybody’ Won’t Catch It
If COVID-19 is airborne would everybody have caught it by now? A viral video with an anti-vaccine message peddles false information about the coronavirus outbreak, throwing doubt on the authenticity of the virus by stating, "If it is airb