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Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines currently in use stimulate immunity to the same degree as natural infection without exposing the vaccinated person to the risks associated with the disease
On 25 January 2021, the U.S biopharmaceutical company Merck announced its decision to stop the development of its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. This article, published on 26 January 2021 by Summit News, reported on Merck’s announcement and claim
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines currently in use stimulate immunity to the same degree as natural infection without exposing the vaccinated person to the risks associated with the disease
On 25 January 2021, the U.S biopharmaceutical company Merck announced its decision to stop the development of its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. This article, published on 26 January 2021 by Summit News, reported on Merck’s announcement and claim
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism; the U.S. CDC didn’t change their stance on the subject
REVIEW On 21 January 2021, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), an organization founded by Del Bigtree that opposes vaccines, published an article claiming that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “finally capitulated
Full Fact→ Adolescents have been recruited for Covid-19 vaccine trials in the US
A viral tweet claiming that Pfizer is “using children as lab rats to test their Covid-19 vaccine” has also been shared on Facebook. It’s correct that in the US, Pfizer has enrolled over 2,000 children aged between 12 and 15 to take pa
FactCheck.org→ Hank Aaron’s Death Attributed to Natural Causes
Quick Take Baseball legend and civil rights activist Henry “Hank” Aaron died from natural causes, according to the medical examiner’s office in Fulton County, Georgia. There’s no evidence that his death was a result of being vaccina
Snopes→ Liquid Nitrogen Leak at Georgia Poultry Plant Kills 6
Firefighters, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the state fire marshal were investigating the cause of the leak.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Are NO Corroborating Reports Of Indiana Woman’s Claim That Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Caused Her Convulsions
Does the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine cause full-body convulsions? No, there is no evidence proving that convulsions are a potential side effect of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a spokesperson from the U.S. Food and Drug Administ
AFP Fact Check→ Hall of Famer Hank Aaron’s death unrelated to Covid-19 vaccination
Social media posts and an online article link Atlanta baseball legend Hank Aaron’s death to his Moderna Covid-19 vaccination, with some posts seeking to raise fears among Black people about the safety of vaccines against the disease. But the vaccines
AFP Fact Check→ Vitamin K shots for newborns prevent potentially deadly bleeding
Misleading claims about the purported dangers of a vitamin K shot being given to babies are circulating across social media. But the injection of the essential vitamin, which aids in clotting, has been tested for safety, and is recommended by pediatric
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Merck Did NOT Say It Is ‘Better’ to Get COVID And Recover Than Take Its Vaccines
Did Merck say it is "better" to get COVID-19 and recover than to take its vaccines? No, that's not true: The pharmaceutical company said it was halting development of its vaccines because they were not as effective in providing immunity a
Health Feedback→ Frequency of deaths in elderly individuals after COVID-19 vaccination wasn’t higher than the frequency in those who weren’t vaccinated
REVIEW Baseball legend Hank Aaron passed away at the age of 86 on 22 January 2021. Aaron was among several civil rights icons to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on 5 January 2021. Motivated by the wish to show the African-American community tha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Of Questions About Biden’s Inauguration Is Mix Of Myths And Falsehoods
Does a list of questions about Joe Biden's inauguration contain only accurate and factual statements? No, that's not true: The rhetorical questions, posed to imply that Biden is not really president, are a mix of myths, falsehoods and sta
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President-Elect Biden Did NOT Forget To ‘Salute The Marines’
Did then-President-Elect Biden make a protocol blunder as he entered the Capitol building on inauguration day by failing to salute the Marines who were standing by the doors? Had someone tried to coach him through the use of an earpiece a
The Dispatch→ Does a Video Show National Guard Troops Turning Their Back on Joe Biden?
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Truth or Fiction?→ Who Ordered the National Guard to Sleep in a DC Parking Garage?
On January 21 2021 — just one day after the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, news broke that National Guard soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C. for the event had been relegated to a parking garage with insufficient restroom facilitie
FactCheck.org→ Viral Video Makes False and Unsupported Claims About Vaccines
Quick Take A viral video makes a series of inaccurate and unfounded arguments for why people should not receive any vaccines, including those for COVID-19. Full Story As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the globe, anti-vaccination activists try t
AFP Fact Check→ National Guard troops did not snub Biden on Inauguration Day
A video showing National Guard members facing away from Joe Biden as his motorcade drove to the Capitol on Inauguration Day was portrayed in online articles and social media posts as a refusal to recognize the new president. But the soldiers in the foo
Full Fact→ There isn’t pork in Covid-19 vaccines
We've been asked by readers on WhatsApp to clear up whether there is pork in the new Covid-19 vaccines, whether they cause infertility in younger men and whether they pose a risk of death to the elderly. There are no animal products in vaccines Pork ge
Truth or Fiction?→ Conspiracy-Slinging Lawmaker Caught Encouraging Parkland Shooting ‘False Flag’ Lie
Journalists looking into the history of a newly sworn-in, QAnon-friendly Republican legislator have discovered that she has a history of conspiracy theories and disinformation around mass shootings. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene encouraged the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Inauguration Day Video Does NOT Show National Guard Members Turning Their Backs To Show Disrespect To President Biden — They Are Busy Guarding Him
Did National Guard Members 'turn their backs' on President Elect Joe Biden's Motorcade as it drove past them on the way to the inauguration? No, that's not true: This video is real and does show National Guard Members along the route the
Health Feedback→ Overwhelming weight of scientific evidence demonstrates that vaccines are safe and effective, contrary to claims in video by chiropractor Steve Baker
REVIEW On 13 January 2021, the chiropractor Steven Baker posted this video on Facebook, titled “the top five reasons to not vaccinate”. The 15-minute long video contains several claims regarding vaccine safety which have been debunked many times
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Death Is NOT Listed As A Possible Adverse Reaction To COVID-19 Vaccines
Is death listed as a possible adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccines in use in the United States? No, that's not true: Neither the Pfizer-BioNTech nor the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, both of which the Food and Drug Administration have appro
Health Feedback→ People who received the COVID-19 vaccine aren’t more likely to develop facial paralysis than people who didn’t receive the vaccine
REVIEW To date, there have been 95 million cases and two million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. To curb the spread of the disease, several governments initiated massive vaccination campaigns using some of the recently developed and approved vaccine
Health Feedback→ VAERS reports alone don’t demonstrate that the COVID-19 vaccines caused adverse events; evidence does not indicate vaccines caused Bell’s palsy and deaths
REVIEW An article published in mid-January 2021 by Children’s Health Defense, an organization which opposes vaccines, claimed that thousands of adverse events related to the COVID-19 vaccine, including deaths, were reported in December 2020. The o
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Amazon Banned Parler, But Allowed People to Buy This Shirt from Their Website.’
On January 16 2021, a claim about Amazon selling a “Kill All Republicans” shirt went viral as part of backlash over Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) decision to discontinue hosting controversial social media platform Parler. In a tweet, ri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John F. Kennedy Jr. Is NOT Working To Expose His Father’s Killers — President Kennedy’s Son Died In A 1999 Plane Crash
Is John F. Kennedy Jr. actively working to expose his father's killers, even if it means he has to bring down the whole government? No, that's not true: JFK Jr. has been dead since crashing his small plane into the Atlantic Ocean on July
Health Feedback→ Strong evidence lacking to support claim that ivermectin is a cure for COVID-19 ; there are only limited clinical results at this stage
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the world since early 2020 sparked an intense research effort to uncover cures for it. To date, scientific and general public media outlets presented several molecules as possible cures for COVID-19, such
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Big Tech’ CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet
Is "Big Tech" letting child porn distributors freely operate while restricting people who post content that companies like Amazon and Facebook consider to be dangerous falsehoods? No, that's not how it works: No one owns the internet, whi
Snopes→ Cafe, Croissant, Worms? EU Agency Says Worms Safe to Eat
The vaunted Mediterranean diet and the French “bon gout” are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat.
Snopes→ Vehicle Battery Fires Pose Risks to First Responders, NTSB Says
Electric vehicle fires pose safety risks to first responders and guidelines from manufacturers about how to deal with them have been inadequate, according to U.S. investigators.
Snopes→ Thousands Party in Streets After Alabama Win, Despite Virus
Thousands of University of Alabama football fans partied in the street near campus after the Crimson Tide defeated Ohio State 52-24 for the national championship, ignoring pleas for safety at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in a celebration a to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 3,150 People Were NOT ‘Paralyzed’ After Receiving A COVID-19 Vaccine
Were 3,150 people "paralyzed" after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: That figure represents the number of people who reported a health impact event. Such an event is defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Health Feedback→ Vaccines protect people from diseases, but don’t always prevent disease transmission; research ongoing to determine if COVID-19 vaccines stop transmission
REVIEW A YouTube live stream recorded on 5 January 2020, featured David Martin, who claimed that the COVID-19 RNA vaccines are not vaccines because they don’t fulfill the definitions of a vaccine according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a
Truth or Fiction?→ TeamTrumpNews Parler Post: ‘I Have Invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807’
Around January 10 2020, a screenshot of a post purportedly published by outgoing United States President Donald Trump using @TeamTrumpNews to Parler began to make the rounds across social media platforms: Saw this on FB. It was posted 3 hou
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Rush Limbaugh Has NOT Been Suspended From Twitter — Deleted Own Account
Was radio host Rush Limbaugh suspended from Twitter in the wake of President Trump's suspension from the plaform? No, that's not true: in an email to Lead Stories, Twitter has confirmed it was the user behind the @RealRLimbaugh account wh
Truth or Fiction?→ Twitter Finally Shuts Down Donald Trump’s Account
Two days after he incited an attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol and just over two months after he decisively lost the 2020 election to Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden, outgoing United States President Donald Trump was ousted again ̵
Truth or Fiction?→ Who Saved the Electoral Ballots During the Capitol Riots?
The question of “who saved the electoral ballots” was one of many sub-threads of discourse about the Capitol riots of January 6 2021, and one widely shared January 7 2021 tweet credited two young Senate aides as the saviors of democracy (
AFP Fact Check→ Potassium chloride in Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is not dangerous
Social media posts claim the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is “poison” because it contains potassium chloride -- a chemical also used to stop the heart during a process of lethal injection. The claim is false; the coronavirus vaccine was tested
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccine did not cause the death of a Portuguese woman, contrary to social media posts suggestions
REVIEW On 4 January 2021, the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã reported the sudden death of Sonia Azevedo, a 41-year-old operational assistant at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) in Porto. Azevedo’s death occurred on 1 January