Since the Taliban seized control of the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Aug. 15, President Joe Biden has delivered speeches and given interviews to defend his administration’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal that preceded the swift fall of the Afghan go
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FactCheck.org→ Malala Yousafzai Has Responded to Taliban Takeover, Plight of ‘My Afghan Sisters’
Quick Take Malala Yousafzai has expressed deep concerns for women and children in Afghanistan since the Taliban entered the country’s capital on Aug. 15. Yet a post on social media falsely accused Yousafzai, a children’s rights advocate, of bei
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: HIPAA Does NOT Protect People From Having To Reveal Their COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known by its acronym HIPAA, protect people from having to reveal their COVID-19 vaccination status at a restaurant, bar or similar business or organization? No, t
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Danny DeVito Lose His ‘Verified’ Status on Twitter?
Actor Danny DeVito’s show of support for Nabisco workers gained attention on Twitter not just for the sentiment, but for the accusations that followed of reprisal from the platform. “Support Nabisco workers striking for humane working hours
Truth or Fiction?→ Why is OnlyFans Banning Content?
On August 20 2021, an Imgur user shared screenshots of a Twitter thread about the news that OnlyFans was banning sexually explicit content: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concer
Snopes→ Mike Richards out as ‘Jeopardy!’ Host After Past Scrutinized
Producer Mike Richards stepped down from his brief tenure as host of “Jeopardy!” after a report about past misogynistic comments surfaced this week and following a drumbeat of criticism about his selection and how it was made.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: An Afghan Man Did NOT Ride On Airplane’s Engine – It Was Photoshopped
Did an Afghan man clamber onto a departing jet and ride atop its engine to escape the Taliban? No, that's not true: A Vietnamese man who produces trick photos did the video as a prank. Also, a spokesperson for an airplane manufacturing co
Snopes→ Did Boebert Praise Taliban for ‘Building Back Better’?
The supposed tweet came after the fundamentalist group took over Afghanistan in August 2021.
Full Fact→ Covid testing hasn’t left 12 million on NHS waiting lists
A Facebook post shares a meme which says “Britain in 2021: We are currently testing millions of people who aren’t ill, whilst not treating 12 million people who are ill”. The caption of the post then says that this backlog of “g
The Dispatch→ Fact-Checking Biden’s Claim That ‘Some of the Afghans Did Not Want to Leave Earlier’
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Snopes→ GOP Governors, School Districts Battle over Mask Mandates
Millions of students in Florida, Texas and Arizona are now required to wear masks in class as school boards in mostly Democratic areas have defied their Republican governors and made face coverings mandatory.
The Dispatch→ Did Biden Nominate the First Gay Federal Appeals Court Judge?
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Health Feedback→ Video shared by Sebastian Gorka Facebook page shows nurse making false and unsubstantiated claims about ivermectin, COVID-19 PCR tests, and COVID-19 vaccine safety
REVIEW On 13 August 2021, the Facebook page “America First With Dr. Sebastian Gorka” published a video of nurse Nicole Whitley, who made several claims about ivermectin, COVID-19 vaccine safety, and the COVID-19 PCR tests. Sebastian Gork
Full Fact→ Covid vaccines and pregnancy: fact checked
We all deserve information we can trust, especially when making important decisions about our health. For pregnant women and their families, this has been an especially worrying time. Vaccine uptake among pregnant women has been lower than other
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ICU Nurse Offers NO Proof Ivermectin Is Effective At Treating COVID-19
Does an ICU nurse give proof that ivermectin is effective at treating COVID-19? No, that's not true: Ivermectin, which is frequently used to treat or prevent parasites in animals, is not approved for treating or preventing COVID-19 in hum
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: PEZ Candy Dispensers CANNOT Be Loaded From The Bottom
Can PEZ candy dispensers be loaded from the bottom with a wrapped candy roll? No, that's not true: The PEZ Twitter account tweeted that "you can't load a wrapped #PEZ candy roll from the bottom." Why? Because there's a spring and a piece
FactCheck.org→ On Facebook, Fake Stories Use Fox News Hosts to Hawk Dubious CBD Products
A round of fictitious stories masquerading as news articles from Fox News — invoking the names and faces of prominent hosts on the channel — and other outlets have been used in recent weeks to hawk dubious products through paid Facebook adv
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nashville’s Daily Press And Times Really DID Print These Female Statistics In 1869
Did Nashville's Daily Press and Times publish this accounting of the unmarried females in the Tennessee city on July 19, 1869? Yes it's true: This image of a newspaper clipping, from an unknown newspaper and date, cites the Daily Press an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Reporter ‘Bernie Gores’ Was NOT Executed By The Taliban In Afghanistan — The Name, Story And Accounts That Reported It Are Fake
Was a CNN reporter from the U.S. named Bernie Gores executed by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan? No, that's not true: "Bernie Gores" is not a real CNN reporter, and the Twitter accounts that propagated the claim are all fake news accoun
Full Fact→ Trafalgar Square “Freedom Rally” speech littered with false claims
During an anti-lockdown event on 24 July, dubbed the “The Worldwide Rally For Freedom”, Vernon Coleman (who we have fact checked before, under his online pseudonym “Old Man In A Chair”) made a speech in Trafalgar Square where he
Snopes→ Police Probing Report of Explosive in Truck Near Capitol
Police were investigating a report Thursday of a possible explosive device in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill and have evacuated multiple buildings on the sprawling Capitol complex.
Full Fact→ How media reporting of modelling has shaped our understanding of the pandemic
Over the course of the past 18 months, it’s overwhelmingly likely that you’ve seen a scientific model about Covid-19 reported in traditional media like newspapers and television, or on social media—and they’re informing policies
Poynter→ Lessons learned from a year covering fact-checking
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it in your email every Thursday. The rolling boulder This will be my last edition of Factually. I’m moving
Logically→ Women and children did not leave Afghanistan.
A miscaptioned image states that no women or children left Afghanistan. However, this image shows Afghan refugees being deported in 2018.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Woman’s Execution Did NOT Just Happen In Afghanistan — It Was In Syria In 2015
Does this video show a Taliban killing in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021? No, that's not true: This footage of the public execution of a woman accused of adultery was identified in 2015 as having been carried out by Nusra Front jihadis
Snopes→ Desperation, Pressure for Aid Increase in Haiti After Quake
Pressure for a coordinated response to Haiti's deadly earthquake mounted as more bodies were pulled from the rubble and the injured continued to arrive from remote areas in search of medical care.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Masks Are NOT As Ineffective At Blocking Virus As Chain-Link Fencing Is At Blocking Mosquitoes
Is wearing a face mask to prevent the transmission of an airborne virus as ineffective as building a chain-link fence to keep mosquitos out of a yard? No, that's not true: This is a misleading analogy, but it was made as a joke. The gapin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Images Do NOT Show Kabul After Taliban Took Control — They’re From Call Of Duty Video Game
Were images of a crashed helicopter and destroyed homes taken less than 24 hours after the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city? No, that's not true: The images are stills of multiplayer maps from the video game Call
Truth or Fiction?→ Teddy Roosevelt: ‘I Again Recommend a Law Prohibiting All Corporations from Contributing to Campaign Expenses’
On August 18 2021, an Imgur user shared the following meme, which purports to contain a legitimate quote from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt saying he recommended a “law prohibiting all corporations” from contributing to political campai
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prayer Request For 229 Christian Missionaries Is NOT Based On A Verified Current Event
Have 229 Christian missionaries been sentenced to death "tomorrow afternoon" by "Afghan Islamists"? No, that's not true: Variations of this specific prayer request have been circulating since at least 2009 with some changes and various de
Snopes→ Years in the Making, R. Kelly Sex Abuse Trial Gets Underway
Kelly, 54, is perhaps best known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly,” a 1996 song that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings, advertisements and elsewhere.
Snopes→ Vid Shows Lincoln Animatronic Partially Collapsed at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents
We also found a second video of Lincoln falling at the Hall of Presidents attraction in 1992.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Digital Billboard In Wilmington, NC, Was NOT Hacked To Show Unflattering Memes Of Biden — The Memes Came From A ‘Private Citizen’
Was a digital billboard in Wilmington, North Carolina, hacked to feature memes that were critical of President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to Donald Tedder, owner of the digital billboard, the billboard was not hacked -- the
Full Fact→ Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work
An article from TCW Defending Freedom (formerly, The Conservative Woman) reports what it claims are “five key Covid truths that could have saved us from self-destruction.” It sources these to Dr Peter McCullough, a Texas-based cardiologist,
AllSides→ Facebook Oversight Board Member Says Fact-Checking Outside Jurisdiction
https://www.newsmax.com/us/facebook-oversight-board-fact-check/2021/08/17/id/1032704/ A member of Faceb
Full Fact→ Magna Carta can’t be used to seize Edinburgh Castle
On Tuesday 17 August a group of protesters attempted to “seize” Edinburgh Castle, citing “Article 61” of Magna Carta as their justification for doing so. As we have written before, some people claim that clause 61 of the medieva
AllSides→ Biden’s bogus claim that Afghanistan’s military was larger than ‘many of our NATO allies’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/18/bidens-bogus-claim-that-afghanistans-military-was-larger-than-nato-allies/
Snopes→ US Health Officials Call for Booster Shots Against COVID-19
The doses could begin the week of Sept. 20.
FactCheck.org→ Hospitals Overwhelmed by Another Surge of COVID-19 Patients, Financial Strain
SciCheck Digest The seven-day average of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. has increased by 322% in two months, straining the ability of medical staff in some states to care for patients. Despite the rising numbers, an Instagram post questioned whe
Logically→ When President Biden took office, U.S. forces had already drawn down from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
Under the agreement signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban a large portion of the troops had left the country by early 2021.