REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic has swept the U.S. since early 2020 and caused nearly 31 million identified cases and 560,000 deaths in the country, and 2.9 million deaths worldwide, as of April 2021. Intensive care units being critically overwhelmed i
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Kory Terrell Is NOT The Texas Spelling Bee Champion
Is Kory Terrell the spelling bee champion for the state of Texas? No, that's not true: Several years ago, the young man won the spelling bee competition at his school, Davila Middle School, in Bryan, Texas. Its mascot is the Texans, and i
FactCheck.org→ Video Doesn’t Show Buttigieg Staging Bike Ride
Quick Take A video showing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg departing the White House on a bike was misrepresented by conservative commentators online, with some claiming he “staged” the ride. There’s no evidence for that claim
Poynter→ Factually: India and Georgia look back at COVID-19’s information impact
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it on your email every Thursday. Local impact on global falsehoods Fact-checkers have long known that falseho
Snopes→ Viral Thoughts: Why COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Persist
As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines.
Full Fact→ Twitter poll results don’t show ‘wide support’ for Thailand’s travel policy
UK attitudes to Thailand’s foreign travel policy are not normally high up the list of misinformation concerns. Nevertheless, an article on the subject in The Independent does neatly encapsulate almost everything that is bad about doing polls on s
The Dispatch→ Our Best Stuff From a Week Georgia Was on Our Minds. Again.
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2010 Census Data Could NOT Be Used To Cast Votes for The Dead And Departed in 2020, Nor Were Vote Machines Hacked
Was 2010 census data used to cast fraudulent votes of dead voters and those who had changed addresses in a nationwide hack of the 2020 election? No, that's not true. By law, 2010 census data at the individual name level will not be availa
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories Participates In FACTS-NFT Platform For Trading Fact Checks In NFT Format
At Lead Stories we are always open to trying out new technologies and methods when it comes to fact checking. The only way to truly know if something works or not is to try it out. Which is why we are happy to announce we have chosen to p
Lead Stories→ Happy Fact Checking Day!
After we let our hair down a little yesterday for April Fools Day, today we are celebrating Fact Checking Day (like we do every year). Best wishes to all our fellow fact checkers around the world. We are also taking this opportunity to an
Poynter→ How vaccine passports might work in the US
Americans who want to go to concerts, fly on certain airlines or attend weddings in the next few months may have to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. That approach has recently become a target for online misinformation and political spi
Snopes→ Did Lester Holt ‘Urge Journalists to Ditch Objectivity’?
Holt's remarks about the dangers of misinformation on the internet were misconstrued in a misleading headline ... on the internet.
FactCheck.org→ Unfounded Claims About Colorado Gunman
Quick Take A social media post is spreading baseless claims that the shooter accused of killing 10 people in Boulder, Colorado, came to the U.S. “Illegally from [M]exico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns.” Law enfo
Poynter→ Factually: International falsehoods deserve international attention
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it on your email every Thursday. Disinformation on the world stage Tomorrow is International Fact-Checking Da
Lead Stories→ Today Only: Try Our Free Online Test to Check How Vulnerable You Are To Online Falsehoods
UPDATE: Yes, this was an April Fools Day joke... Check the publication date. The "test" is just some progress bars moving and a message being displayed at the end. Of course a random website doesn't get to access to your browser history
Full Fact→ Lateral flow tests are not unsafe
In England, secondary school and college students and staff, and their households, are being asked to regularly take a lateral flow test to check for Covid-19. We’ve seen a large number of posts on social media warning people not to use Covid-19
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The First-Ever Picture Of A Sunset On Mars Was NOT Taken In 2021
Was the first-ever picture of a sunset on Mars taken in 2021? No, that's not true: NASA published the first image of a Martian sunset in 1976. The claim that the first Martian sunset picture was taken in the 21st century has appeared in s
AllSides→ False vaccine claims persist on Facebook, despite a ban. Here’s why
https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/mar/30/why-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-still-facebook/ In t
The Dispatch→ The First Amendment: Rarely Popular, Always Necessary
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FactCheck.org→ Bogus Claims About Biden’s Treatment of Homeless Veterans
Quick Take After the Biden administration said it would spend $86 million to temporarily house immigrants at the southern border in hotels, viral posts — including a tweet by Rep. Madison Cawthorn — falsely claimed the White House has direc
Truth or Fiction?→ Facebook’s Zuckerberg Falsely Tells Lawmakers ‘We Don’t Allow’ Disinformation in Ads
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg misrepresented his company’s disinformation policy on advertising while testifying to federal lawmakers on March 25 2021. Zuckerberg made the false claim — which flies in the face of his comp
Health Feedback→ Going vegan may lead to fewer pandemics, but it won’t eliminate them completely
REVIEW On 23 March 2021, American musician Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, posted a claim on Facebook stating that going vegan would mean a world with no pandemics, because 100% of pandemics have a zoonotic origin. Zoonoses are
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pathogens And Heavy Metals Do NOT ‘Feed On’ Eggs In Your Liver
Does eating eggs feed pathogens and "feed" heavy metals in your liver, fostering disease? No, that's not true: The claim was published without citation of evidence. Nutritionists and other medical experts say this naturopathic claim ignor
Poynter→ Factually: Tech CEOs (again) asked to explain themselves
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and misinformation from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Sign up here to receive it on your email every Thursday. Tech CEOs are back in the hot seat As the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Goog
The Dispatch→ Ron Johnson Is the Same as He Ever Was
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FactCheck.org→ Three False Claims About the Federal Voting Rights Bill
Quick Take Claims mischaracterizing a federal voting rights bill have been circulating on social media. The proposed law would not “ban” state voter ID laws, bar states from removing ineligible voters from their rolls, or allow minors to vo
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘BLM Trapped 100 Shoppers’ in Wegman’s in Rochester, Explained
On March 23 2021, right-wing websites started pushing claims that Black Lives Matter protesters had “trapped” more than a hundred grocery shoppers inside a Rochester, New York Wegman’s supermarket: BREAKING: BLM Protesters Mob Stor
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
REVIEW On 6 March 2021, the independent consultant Geert Vanden Bossche published an open letter to the World Health Organization on Twitter. In it, Vanden Bossche claimed that COVID-19 vaccines “should not be used amid an epidemic” and
Snopes→ Report: Extremist Groups Thrive on Facebook Despite Bans
Facebook acknowledged that its policy enforcement “isn't perfect,” but said the report distorts its work against violent extremism and misinformation.
Health Feedback→ Messenger RNA is essential for life and a normal component of cells; study by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering is unrelated to RNA vaccines
REVIEW An article published by Natural News on 2 March 2021 claimed that COVID-19 RNA vaccines will cause cancer, as mRNA “can instruct human cells ultimately in the same way as cancer drivers”. The article cited a study published by researchers
FactCheck.org→ Posts Misrepresent Columbia’s Multicultural Graduation Ceremonies
Quick Take Columbia University will supplement its regular 2021 graduation ceremony with multicultural ceremonies for members of the Latinx, Asian, Black and other student communities who want to participate. Social media users are misrepresenting thes
Full Fact→ Full Fact launches consultation on the Framework for Information Incidents
Over the next eight weeks, we’re seeking feedback on a new shared model to fight online misinformation: the Framework for Information Incidents. The framework is the product of hard-won experience of how certain events such as pandemics, terroris
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Clip From 1993 Speech Does NOT Prove ‘What Biden Really Thinks About Black Americans’ — He Doesn’t Mention Race
Does a video of then-Sen. Joe Biden saying that the upbringing and background of future criminals does not matter show "what Biden really thinks about Black Americans"? No, that's not true: Biden did not mention race when he made a Senate
Poynter→ No, there is not a chip placed inside the coronavirus vaccine
There has been a lot of vaccine misinformation circulating the web, including the false claim that there is a tracking chip inside the COVID-19 vaccine. While there is a radio-frequency identification chip on the outside of some syringes, it’s there
AFP Fact Check→ Doctored newspaper front page claims medics advise against Covid-19 jab
An image has been shared in multiple Facebook posts that purportedly shows a headline in the February 16, 2021 edition of The Times that reads “Doctors and experts advise against taking experimental jab”. The posts circulated amid widespread mi
Snopes→ Nurses Fight Conspiracy Theories Along with Coronavirus
Much of the job of correcting misinformation about COVID-19 has fallen to the world’s front-line medical workers.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: San Diego Police Say Photo Does NOT Show Officer Pointing His Gun At A Boy, But Videos Suggest A More Nuanced Reality
Did a San Diego police officer point his gun at a young boy during a traffic stop? Police say no, that's not true, but various videos of the incident, including those released by police, suggest both the still-photo-based claim and the po
AllSides→ SciCheck Video: How Viral Deceptions Spread
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-video-how-viral-deceptions-spread/ In this video, SciCheck r
Health Feedback→ Vaccines are safe and aren’t associated with autoimmune disease, contrary to claim in viral video by chiropractor Steven Baker
REVIEW A Facebook video published by chiropractor Steven Baker on 5 March 2021, claimed that vaccines are responsible for autoimmune diseases. The video received more than 10,000 interactions and more than 80,000 views on Facebook, according to soci
Snopes→ Can Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Disqualify You From Life Insurance Benefits?
As COVID-19 vaccines distribution ramped up in early 2021, so did misinformation.