The Justice Department is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the discovery of classified documents by personal lawyers for President Joe Biden inside his former office in November. The White House publicly acknowledged the federal review this wee
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘T-esla’ Did NOT Launch Cryptocurrency Software Platform To ‘Cure Poverty All Over The World’ — It’s A Financial Scam
Did "T-esla" release new cryptocurrency software designed to "cure poverty all over the world"? No, that's not true: This deceptive ad is not associated with Tesla or Elon Musk, the co-founder of the automotive and clean energy company. T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hydrogen Peroxide Is NOT Treatment For AIDS, Herpes — Can Cause Serious Harm Or Death If Ingested
Will adding three drops of food-grade hydrogen peroxide to one cup of water help with AIDS and herpes? No, that's not true: There is no scientific evidence supporting the benefits of hydrogen peroxide for AIDS or herpes infection; one exp
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Damar Hamlin Ambulance Matches Ones Used By Ambulance Company — License Plate, Logo, Brand All Check Out
Were there questionable things about the ambulance that carried Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin from the field that "just doesn't add up"? No, that's not true: A series of vague questions intended to inspire uncertainty are based on fal
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Parmesan Cheese Flavor Additive Is NOT Toxic In Small Amounts
Is a Parmesan cheese flavor additive toxic? No, that's not true: Two food science experts told Lead Stories it can be dangerous in large amounts because it contains butyric acid, but the amount of the acid allowed in Parmesan is no cause
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Country Singer George Strait Did NOT Have ‘Tragic End’ On December 31, 2022
Did country singer-songwriter George Strait have a "tragic end" on December 31, 2022? No, that's not true: Strait's verified Instagram account posted content as recently as January 10, 2023. There have been no news articles or statements
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No cause of death given for MMA fighter Victoria Lee
MMA fighter Victoria Lee died because of a COVID-19 vaccine.
FactCheck.org→ Biden and Abbott Twist Their Border Narratives
President Joe Biden, who recently made his first visit as president to the southern border, and Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who greeted Biden in Texas, offered competing versions of who’s to blame for a spike in illegal immigration. But b
Full Fact→ Nothing has been ‘added’ to the children’s flu vaccine to cause strep A
A Facebook post claims something’s been added to the nasal flu mist to make children sick. This is false.
Full Fact→ ‘Cor ona virus’ doesn’t mean ‘heart attack virus’ in Latin
A screenshot from Google Translate appears to show the translation, but this isn’t the meaning of the words in Latin.
Full Fact→ Andrew Bridgen MP’s false claims put lives at risk
Full Fact writes to Conservative Party chair following MP’s whip removal
Logically→ The Titanic was sunk on purpose to remove opposition to the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
The Titanic hit an iceberg by accident. There is no evidence that the three men were in opposition to the Federal Reserve.
Logically→ MP Andrew Bridgen was suspended from Parliament because of his views on COVID-19 vaccines.
Andrew Bridgen's suspension from Parliament resulted from rule breaches concerning lobbying and interests.
Full Fact→ The World Economic Forum has not called for paedophilia to be decriminalised
Quotes attributed to the WEF and its co-founder Klaus Schwab circulating on Facebook have been denied by a WEF spokesperson.
Logically→ Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson to allow the deployment nuclear weapons Swedish during peacetime
No, in his speech, Ulf Kristersson meant the opposite and see no reason for having nuclear weapons in Sweden in peacetime.
Health Feedback→ Evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of death, contrary to claim by financier Edward Dowd
REVIEW In a video published on 4 January 2023, businessman and podcaster Aubrey Marcus interviewed Edward Dowd, a former investment portfolio manager at BlackRock, regarding his book “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022â€
Logically→ Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and WHO planned another pandemic.
The event Catastrophic Contagion was held to create fictional exercises to help organizations and countries prepare for possible future pandemics.
Logically→ Fluoride in toothpaste is harmful, doesn’t protect teeth, and damages the immune system.
Excessive consumption or ingestion of fluoride can cause harm to teeth and bones; however, the amount of fluoride in toothpaste is safe to use.
Logically→ Video shows a leopard attack at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun.
The video is of an incident from the Rain Forest Research Institute in Jorhat, Assam, and not from Dehradun.
Logically→ Bill Gates said he gets animals vaccinated to give them better genetics.
Gates's quote on helping animals survive with the help of vaccines or selective breeding has been misinterpreted to claim vaccines can alter genes.
Logically→ The Kashmir Files has been shortlisted for the Oscar Awards to be held in March 2023.
The Kashmir Files has been named in the reminder list of films eligible for the 95th Academy Awards. The film has not been shortlisted for the Oscars.
Poynter→ An Instagram post takes a Tom Hanks clip out of context to falsely claim he condones pedophilia
An Instagram post claims to show proof that the actor Tom Hanks supports pedophilia. The Jan. 3 post showed a snippet of Hanks clapping his hands and shouting “sexy baby” at a […] The post An Instagram post takes a Tom Hanks clip ou
The Dispatch→ When Words Fail
Rep. Matt Gaetz talks to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy during the fourth day of elections for speaker of the House. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Last week exposed the poverty of our political vocabulary.The post When Words Fail appea
The Dispatch→ Erdogan’s Coming U-Turn on Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images.)Why the Turkish president will likely drop his hopes of toppling Assad.The post Erdo
Logically→ Al-Nassr terminated Jaloliddin Masharipov’s contract for refusing to give his jersey number 7 to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Jaloliddin Masharipov was allotted number 77 before Ronaldo was brought into the team. Masharipov's contract has not been terminated.
Washington Post→ Biden, Trump and classified documents: An explainer
Here are answers to key questions regarding the discovery in Biden's office and home that has echoes of the investigation of former president Donald Trump.
The Dispatch→ Video: Biden Documents, Congress, Immigration, and More
Watch the video of our weekly livestreamed conversation.The post Video: Biden Documents, Congress, Immigration, and More appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Adverse Vaccine Reactions’ Did NOT Become Leading Cause Of US Deaths In 2021 Or 2022
Did "adverse vaccine reaction" become the leading cause of U.S. deaths in 2021 and 2022? No, that's not true: Adverse vaccine reactions are not a categorical cause of death tracked by health officials. Also, the vaccination status and rec
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: BBC Did NOT Post Graph Of ‘Fortunes Of Ukrainian Politicians’
Did the BBC post a graph that showed a dramatic increase in the "Fortunes of Ukrainian politicians" between February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and December 2022, after the receipt of billions of dollar
PolitiFact→ Trump, Biden classified documents cases differ in key ways. Here’s how.
Both Trump and Biden had classified documents stored in unauthorized locations. But experts said what is known so far suggests there are important differences, including the number of documents involved and how the Biden and Trump legal teams responded.
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Demar Hamlin’s Ambulance Exit the Field Under a Canopy Advertising for Pfizer?
An ambulance carries Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills after he collapsed after making a tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals on January 2, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images.) A photo purporting to show the ambulance escorti
Truth or Fiction?→ Keystone Pipeline Kansas Leak
On January 10 2023, Imgur user Mech0T1 shared a screenshot of a tweet, which claimed that the Keystone Pipeline ruptured in Kansas in December 2023: Last month, the Keystone pipeline ruptured for the 23rd time since 2010 and spilled 14,000 bathtubs&#
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CIA Did NOT Say It Killed President John F. Kennedy
Did the Central Intelligence Agency say it killed former President John F. Kennedy? No, that's not true: A video posted on Facebook that makes this claim provides no supporting evidence. There is no evidence elsewhere that the CIA has eve
Poynter→ Corporate greenwashing: Is that big business as environmentally friendly as it seems?
A post on Twitter claims the popular retail clothing store H&M has been doing something called greenwashing. “I found it … astounding how a company like H&M would resort to […] The post Corporate greenwashing: Is that big business as
PolitiFact→ Scott Perry – FBI, DOJ tagged threats against school officials, not parents for attending school board meetings
"Parents that go to school board meetings" and question the curriculum are being "flagged by the Department of Justice and the FBI for attending a meeting."
PolitiFact→ Robert Malone – Young and healthy people get benefits and low risk from COVID-19 vaccine, despite claims to contrary
COVID-19 vaccines "provide zero benefit relative to risk for the young and healthy."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Google
Did a YouTube video reveal that Elon Musk bought the search engine giant Google? No, that's not true: The video has a clickbait title, offers no details of a sale and appeared on a YouTube channel that admits its videos are fictional and
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Nobody Wants to Work Anymore,’ 1894 to 2022
On January 10 2023, an Imgur account shared a “nobody wants to work anymore” meme, which had a compilation of purported print appearances of the complaint dating all the way back to 1894: “Nobody wants to work anymore!” said pl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Tom Hanks Is Linked To Hollywood Child Trafficking Conspiracy — Clip Is From 2011 Skit
Does a video featuring actor Tom Hanks prove he is linked to a Hollywood child trafficking conspiracy? No, that's not true: The video is a clip of Hanks acting in a skit that aired on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in 2011. The social media account
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence COVID Vaccine Caused Canadian Reporter To Stumble On Air
Did the COVID-19 vaccine cause Canadian reporter Jessica Robb to stumble on air? No, there's no evidence that's true: Robb, a CTV News journalist who appeared to suffer a medical emergency while reporting live on air, has said that what h