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AFP Fact Check→ These photos were taken at a funeral home in Kenya in February 2020
Photos have been circulating on social media in Kenya with the claim that the images show security officers stationed at the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi on March 19, 2021. Some speculated that the heightened security indicated that a prominent official
Snopes→ Elgin Baylor, Silky-Smooth Lakers Hall of Famer, Dies at 86
Elgin Baylor, the Lakers’ 11-time NBA All-Star, has died of natural causes.
The Dispatch→ Did Marvin Hagler Die From the COVID-19 Vaccine?
After former professional boxer Marvin Hagler died on March 13 at age 66, rumors began to spread online suggesting that he died from the COVID-19 vaccine. A widely shared Instagram post claims that “Marvin Hagler was allegedly in ICU fighting aft
The Dispatch→ Did Marvin Hagler Die From the COVID-19 Vaccine?
After former professional boxer Marvin Hagler died on March 13 at age 66, rumors began to spread online suggesting that he died from the COVID-19 vaccine. A widely shared Instagram post claims that “Marvin Hagler was allegedly in ICU fighting aft
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Turn Gates Foundation Into A Corporation To Carry Out U.S. Plot To Depopulate Developing Countries
Is the Gates Foundation a multinational corporation that profits from vaccines as part of a U.S. government plot hatched in the 1970s to depopulate developing countries? No, that's not true: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a re
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Scotty from ‘Star Trek’ Inspire a Woman to Not Take Her Own Life?
Actor James Doohan’s relationship with a fan was remembered fondly online in March 2021 to commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday. Fans of the Canadian actor’s work on the original series of Star Trek honored the occasion onlin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tom Hanks Did NOT Die Of Coronavirus In March Of 2020
Did Tom Hanks die of coronavirus in March of 2020? Or, were reports of his 'death' last year just a code to let certain people know that he had been indicted? Was Hanks then executed in May of 2020? Has the public been tricked with comput
Health Feedback→ No aborted fetal tissue or cells in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
REVIEW On 27 February 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a third COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. The vaccine was developed by Janssen, a pharmaceutical company from the Johnson & Johnson group, and has two advantages over the
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Atlanta Spa Shootings Did NOT Happen Hours After Trump Interview On Fox News
Did the Atlanta spa shootings happen hours after a Donald Trump interview on Fox News? No, that's not true: Although they took place on the same day, March 16, 2021, Trump's interview, in which he referred to COVID-19 as "the China virus"
AFP Fact Check→ Boxing great Hagler’s death not linked to Covid-19 vaccine
Social media posts claim middleweight boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s death was linked to a Covid-19 vaccination. But Hagler’s wife denied vaccine involvement, his official website says he died of natural causes, and the state medical exami
Full Fact→ 17 countries haven’t ‘banned’ the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
The data in this piece is correct as of the time of writing, on 17 March 2021. A post on Facebook has claimed that 17 countries have “banned” the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, and the UK hasn’t. The post previously claimed that 12 count
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people aren’t higher than in unvaccinated people
REVIEW In an interview with Daystar Television Network, Sherri Tenpenny, a physician, made several claims about the COVID-19 vaccines currently in use in the U.S. Specifically, she claimed that the COVID-19 RNA vaccines could modify human DNA and that
FactCheck.org→ Senator Johnson Distorts Report on Violence in Defense of His Remarks on BLM, Antifa
Sen. Ron Johnson, as he predicted, got himself in trouble for saying he “never felt threatened” by those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, but he “might have been a little concerned” if they were “tens of thousands of Bl
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Imagine Living in This Apartment Complex in Hong Kong’
A March 13 2021 Facebook post reading “imagine living in this apartment complex in Hong Kong” generated a lot of interest (and shares): On Facebook No additional context or comment was included by the original poster; the post was shared t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Hank Aaron, Marvelous Marvin Hagler Were Killed By The COVID-19 Vaccine
Were the deaths of baseball great Hank Aaron and famed boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler caused by the COVID-19 vaccine? No, there's no publicly available evidence that's true: Hagler's wife said the vaccine "for sure" did not cause the death
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’
Are COVID-19 vaccines "weapons of mass destruction"? No, that's not true: There's no public evidence the vaccines put the future of mankind at risk. To the contrary, medical authorities widely agree the vaccines represent one of our best
AFP Fact Check→ Bhagat Singh’s sister Prakash Kaur passed away in September 2014 in Canada
A photo of Prakash Kaur, the younger sister of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that Kaur died in March 2021. The claim is false; Kaur in fact died in September 2014 in Canada.
Snopes→ Marvin Hagler, Middleweight Boxing Great, Dies at 66
Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a split-decision loss to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, has died.
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Prime-Time Address
In his remarks to the nation after signing the latest COVID-19 relief legislation, President Joe Biden stretched the facts, particularly when boasting of the increase in vaccinations on his watch. Biden spoke on March 11, marking a year since the natio
FactCheck.org→ RFK Jr. Video Pushes Known Vaccine Misrepresentations
Quick Take A video stoking fears of the COVID-19 vaccines in the Black community is being promoted online. But the film repeats misrepresentations about vaccines, generally, and exploits historical cases of unethical medical conduct to suggest without
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→ Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Author, Dead at 91
Juster's friend and fellow author Mo Willems tweeted that Juster “ran out of stories” and died “peacefully.”
Full Fact→ There are no mouse brains in Covid-19 vaccines
A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about the ingredients in vaccines and the reactions to those ingredients. It’s not clear whether the post is talking about vaccines in general or one of the Covid-19 vaccines, so where we have informati
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 460 deaths
Facebook users have shared links to several websites which misreport government data on Covid-19 vaccines. These websites claim the data shows that 460 people have died in the UK because of the Covid-19 vaccine, and 243,612 have suffered “injurie
Health Feedback→ Data from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
REVIEW A forum post made by Haim Yativ on a Hebrew-language discussion board claimed that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine “killed […] about 40 times more [elderly people] than the disease itself would have killed, and about 260 times mo
Poynter→ Chuck Todd was right when he said ‘the filibuster was never an idea of the Founding Fathers’
With the Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate, and the intense partisan polarization embodied by the chamber’s strict party-line vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief bill, there’s been a lot of discussion recently about th
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Princess Diana Lose Her ‘Royal Protection’?
On March 7 2021, a highly-anticipated interview of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by Oprah Winfrey aired, and among discourse about that interview was a claim that Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, lost her royal protection — which was in tu
Truth or Fiction?→ Do Bodies Float in Lake Superior?
In early March 2021, as the first signs of spring began to touch the Northern Hemisphere and melt the ice rimes from its lakes, a popular Facebook post claiming that bodies in Lake Superior don’t float was very popular: Well… Here’s
Full Fact→ False picture of Gogglebox’s Mary goes viral again
A Facebook post shared thousands of times claims to show a picture of Gogglebox star and writer Mary Killen modelling at a younger age. Despite some resemblance, the picture is not actually of Ms Killen. The image began to go viral last January. At the
Snopes→ Carla Wallenda, Member of Famed High-Wire Act, Dies at 85
Carla Wallenda, a member of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act and the last surviving child of the famed troupe's founder, has died at the age of 85.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: White Van Videos Do NOT Include Evidence Of Sex Trafficking, Organ Harvesting Kidnappers
Does the proliferation of "white van" warning videos show that vans in the most common truck and van color are to feared as the tools of kidnappers engaged in human trafficking or organ harvesting? No, that's not true: Governmental and pr
AFP Fact Check→ Kentucky monastery Covid-19 cases not evidence of vaccine problems
Online articles say that dozens of nuns in the US state of Kentucky tested positive for Covid-19 after being vaccinated against the disease and two died, questioning the efficacy and the safety of the shots. But one nun said another sister at the monas
Logically→ Pfizer vaccine killed around 40 times more elderly than the virus itself would have.
Although some people have died after taking the vaccine, none have been directly attributed to a COVID-19 jab.
Poynter→ No, 5 UK nurses did not die from the COVID-19 vaccine
A video from a YouTube channel called the Vaccinate Humanity Foundation has been shared across social media, making several baseless claims. The video falsely states that five nurses in the United Kingdom have died from the COVID-19 vaccine, that COVID
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Evidence Does NOT Support ‘Three Big Lies’ Theory: That COVID Virus Doesn’t Exist, PCR Test Is A Failure And That 5G Towers Cause COVID
Is it true that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not been positively identified, that the PCR test is not accurate after a certain point and that there are major ways to become ill other than through airborne transmission of the virus, such as by
FactCheck.org→ The Evolving Science of Face Masks and COVID-19
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began recommending that members of the public mask up last spring, additional research has backed the use of face masks to combat the coronavirus. While knowledge gaps still remain, experts agree tha
Health Feedback→ Bananas may be healthy, but consuming them won’t treat gastrointestinal diseases nor limit the replication of HIV
REVIEW A Facebook post by Anthony William, who also goes by the moniker Medical Medium, made a series of claims about the healing benefits of bananas. Among them were that bananas are a powerful antiviral that can prevent or reduce the growth of hum
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s CPAC Speech
In his first public speech since leaving office, former President Donald Trump delighted his audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference with numerous false and misleading claims, many of them criticisms of his successor. Trump falsely cl
Truth or Fiction?→ A 15th Century Machine Invented by Priests to ‘Break Hands and Fingers of Scientists, Artists, Painters, Sculptors Considered Heretic’?
A February 20 2021 Facebook image of a frightening device purportedly showed an elaborate machine “invented in the 15th century by Christian priests to break the hands and fingers of scientists, artists, painters, sculptors considered hereticR