Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex in London, 2018. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)The Sussexes’ documentary trades in a self-serving simplification of Britain’s imperial past.The post British Hi
The Dispatch→ Into the Santaverse
How a couple of New Yorkers teamed up with Japanese animators to define Christmas specials for generations.The post Into the Santaverse appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Humbug! Exorcizing my Inner Scrooge
Scrooges Visit from Marley. Illustration by John Leech (1817-1864)Learning from old Ebeneezer to avoid going from being a grumbler to a grumble. The post Humbug! Exorcizing my Inner Scrooge appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Tomes for Christmas
The Dispatch staff's book recommendations for last minute Christmas presents.The post Tomes for Christmas appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FBI File Does NOT Suggest 1994 Threat Letter To Joe Biden Was Written By JFK Jr.
Do records in an FBI file indicate that John F Kennedy Jr. wrote a letter in 1994 to then-Sen. Joe Biden calling him a traitor and also saying, "You must die"? No, that's not true: The FBI did investigate a threat letter sent from Worcest
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Rep. Scott Perry Did NOT Issue Statement That ‘Italian Satellites,’ CIA, Italian Government Stole Votes From Trump
Did Rep. Scott Perry make an official statement saying that "Italian satellites," the CIA and the Italian government collaborated to manipulate votes in President Joe Biden's favor? No, that's not true: According to Perry's office and a r
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Flu Vaccine Increases Strep A Infections, Contrary to Online Claims
SciCheck Digest Several European countries have reported an early spike of group A strep infections, mostly among children, including cases of rare but deadly bacterial infections. There is no evidence the increase is being caused by nasal spray fl
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Misrepresent FDA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research
SciCheck Digest A vaccine safety surveillance study from the Food and Drug Administration has been misrepresented online. The paper did not establish a link between the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots, as some have claimed — a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden’s Ex-COVID-19 Coordinator Jeff Zients Did NOT Die At Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta On December 21, 2022
Did former White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients die at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta in Cuba on December 21, 2022, after being arrested by the U.S. military? No, that's not true. This claim originated from an article published on a
Health Feedback→ Study led by FDA researchers didn’t find that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused blood clots, contrary to viral claims on social media
REVIEW An article published by the Epoch Times on 17 December 2022 claimed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is “linked to blood clots”. This claim is based on a study led by researc
Logically→ Over 12 Sikh Soldiers face court martial for raising ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ slogans during Rajnath Singh’s 2020 visit to the LoC.
An unrelated audio clip was played over a video from Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to the LoC in 2020.
Logically→ Photos show a snake found on an Air India Express flight on December 10, 2022.
While a snake was found on the Calicut-Dubai Air India flight, the photos claiming to show that are from an incident that took place in 2016 in Mexico
Logically→ The COVID-19 vaccines were created decades before the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccines are manufactured in large batches, which makes the production of more than 13 billion doses possible.
Logically→ Australia has introduced a social credit system for people to access the internet via a digital ID.
Australia is not introducing a social credit system. Unimplemented legislative proposals from 2021 to tackle online abuse have been misinterpreted.
Logically→ Global elites such as Bill Gates and Dr Fauci lied about the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines to control the population.
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives ever since they were introduced. There is no scientific evidence to prove that vaccines cause death.
The Dispatch→ By Arming Ukraine We Arm Ourselves
Cases of TNT and gunpowder shipped from the United States under Lend-Lease are stacked in a tunnel in western England. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images.)Remembering the lessons of World War II.The post By Arming Ukraine We Arm
The Dispatch→ The Alternative to Winning in Ukraine Is Endless War
A woman cries as she prepares to evacuate from Kherson. Weeks after liberation, Kherson and surrounding villages are bombarded daily by Russian troops. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images.)Advocates for a hasty peace are wrong to think Russia w
The Dispatch→ The FTC’s Misguided Case Against Meta
FTC Commissioner Lina Khan. (Photo by Graeme Jennings/AFP/Getty Images.)Its attempt to block the acquisition of a virtual-reality app maker is more about going after Big Tech than about protecting consumers.The post The FTC’s Misguided Case Against
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dramatic Lenticular Cloud Layers Do NOT Signal End Of World Or Even Storm
Does this short video of a dramatic layered cloud demonstrate "what the end of the world looks like" -- is it an impending scary natural disaster? No, that's not true: While we can't predict what the end of the world will look like, the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Did NOT Trigger Removal Of 44,000 Child Sexual Exploitation Pages ‘In Just India Alone’
Did Twitter remove "over 44,000 Twitter pages involved with child sexual exploitation -- in just India alone" since Elon Musk took over the company? No, that's not true: Such large numbers came from global totals, not from India alone. Al
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Donald Trump’s Truth Social
Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk purchase former President Donald Trump's Truth Social in December 2022? No, that's not true: A video shared on Facebook claimed in the headline that Musk had bought the social media platform, but a voiceover narr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chick-fil-A Did NOT Just Donate ‘Another $1.8 Million To Anti-LGBTQ Groups’
Did Chick-fil-A just donate "another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups"? No, that's not true: The claim is a copy of a headline first published in 2019. The old story reported the fast food chain donated a combined $1.8 million to the Fel
Truth or Fiction?→ Vintage Union Christmas Cartoon
On December 22 2022, an Imgur account shared the following image of what appeared to be a vintage Christmas cartoon illustrating benefits offered by unions to working class Americans: No contextual information was supplied alongside the image, which
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Human Clone Robot Factory’
Does a video shared on social media show an authentic "human clone robot factory"? No, that's not true: The video shared on Instagram and Facebook in December 2022 showed a prosthetics studio used in the making of props for television and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tesla Has NOT Launched New Cryptocurrency
Did Tesla launch a new cryptocurrency that will rapidly turn a £200 ($240) investment into thousands in just days? No, that's not true: This deceptive ad is not associated with Tesla. Although Tesla has invested in cryptocurrency, and Do
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Tesla Was Forced To Recall Its Entire Fleet
Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweet that Tesla, his electric-vehicle and sustainable-energy company, was forced to recall its entire fleet? No, that's not true: The tweet was posted by a parody account impersonating Musk, the CEO of Tesla. Th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Almond Milk Does NOT Contain Dangerous Levels Of Cyanide
Do almonds and almond milk contain dangerous amounts of the poisonous chemical compound cyanide? No, that's not true: Both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a professor of bioproducts and biosystems engineering told Lead Stories
Full Fact→ Nasal flu vaccines don’t contain ‘mice bred streptococcal bacteria’
A Facebook post claims that the nasal flu vaccine contains strep bacteria and aluminium, that Covid-19 tests cause cancer and masks cause deoxygenation. None of these are true.
Full Fact→ Misleading post suggests vaccinating babies involves injecting them with ‘neurotoxins’
Childhood vaccines do not contain dangerous levels of harmful substances.
Full Fact→ No evidence ‘trails’ are deliberately put into the sky by planes
A post on Instagram claims to show trails from planes turning the sky cloudy.
Logically→ Deepika Padukone was present at the FIFA World Cup trophy unveiling because of her film Pathaan’s connections to Qatar.
Deepika Padukone unveiled the FIFA World Cup 2022 trophy in her capacity as a brand ambassador of Louis Vuitton, who made the travel case for the cup.
Logically→ Soursop is a fruit that can cure cancer.
Soursop has not been tested in human trials. There is no evidence it is able to treat cancer in human patients.
Full Fact→ Is the NHS Pay Review Body ‘independent’?
With many NHS workers on strike, some unions have challenged the independence of its pay review body. We take a look at the facts behind some of the main claims.
Logically→ Video shows chief guest Shah Rukh Khan at the FIFA World Cup 2022 closing ceremony.
The video is from 2018, when the actor inaugurated showrooms for a jewelry brand. Khan was not a chief guest for the final match at the World Cup.
Full Fact→ Near-identical posts about a missing child called Tyler are fake
Several of the posts feature almost identical text, with the name of the child and the accompanying image changed.
Logically→ The Bharat Jodo Yatra will be halted from December 24 to January 2 as Rahul Gandhi is going on an international trip to celebrate Christmas and the new year.
The yatra is being halted for maintenance work of containers that house the participants, according to the INC. Gandhi is scheduled to stay in Delhi.
Logically→ Fans celebrated Argentina’s victory outside Messi’s grandmother’s house in Rosario.
A resident of Rosaria named Olga was misidentified as Messi's grandmother in the viral video. His grandmother is not alive.
Health Feedback→ Medical exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines are granted for contraindications, not including history of blood clots or adverse reaction to prior vaccine
REVIEW On 11 December 2022, radio host Dan Bongino posted a
The Dispatch→ Iran’s Battle Against the Baha’is
An adherent of the Baha'i faith reads from the holy book Al-Kitab al-Aqdas. (STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)The Islamic Republic takes advantage of public unrest to crack down on the religious minority—including two grandmothers.The post Iran’s
The Dispatch→ The U.N.’s Failure in Lebanon
Lebanese soldiers gather at the site where a UNIFIL convoy came under small arms fire in the village of al-Aqbiya in south Lebanon. An was killed and three wounded. (Photo by Mahmoud Zayat/AFP/Getty Images.) The murder of an Irish soldier is just the l