Did the 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky say or write this prediction: "Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles"? No, that's not true: This qu
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Fast-Punching Videos Were NOT Produced Without Editing
Does this video compilation show amazing superhuman feats of punching speed? No, that's not true: These creative videos show a variety of post-production effects that can be achieved with digital tools, notably masking, using a video edit
Truth or Fiction?→ Simone Biles, Kerri Strug, and ‘the Twisties’
On July 27 2021, Simone Biles (and fellow gymnast Kerri Strug) were the subject of a spate of widely-shared Facebook posts, largely forming a groundswell of support for Biles in the face of nonstop Olympics news stories around her decision to drop out
Snopes→ China’s Yang Takes First Gold at Uneasy Tokyo Olympics
She overtook Anastasiia Galashina of Russia to win the first gold medal of the fames in the women's 10-meter air rifle event.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Monsanto Has NOT Been Banned In 15 Locations
Has Monsanto, the agribusiness controversial for its widely used herbicides, been banned in 15 locations? No, that's not true: The company no longer exists under the name "Monsanto" since it was acquired by Bayer, a company best known for
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence That Edward Mordrake Was A Real Person
Was Edward Mordake a man born with a second face on the back of his head that could laugh, cry and whisper horrible things to him? No, that's not true: The legend of Edward Mordake, sometimes called Mordrake, appears to have begun as a wo
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Of Giant Kittens Napping Is NOT A Mural — It’s Digital Art
Does this picture show a man walking past a super-realistic mural painted on a building featuring two kittens napping? No, that's not true: This is not a mural on a building. This image is part of a digital art series by Andrey Shcherbak.
FactCheck.org→ Meme Spreads Falsehood About Vaccine Transfer Through Eating Meat
SciCheck Digest Livestock and poultry are not being vaccinated against COVID-19. But a meme is spreading the falsehood that those who eat meat from vaccinated animals will get “VAXXED” by consuming the meat. That simply isn’t possible
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Of Cuban Crowd Is From Years Ago, NOT 2021 Cuban Protests Against Communism
Does a picture of thousands of people packing a wide Cuban street show 2021 protesters taking to the streets against Communism? No, that's not true: The picture is several years old and has been described in captions either as a parade of
Truth or Fiction?→ Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign Echoes ‘Doctor’s Plot’ Rhetoric
An ongoing medical disinformation campaign took a sharp turn in July 2021, when right-wing commentators and politicians pivoted to direct attacks against continued efforts by the Biden administration to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. T
Full Fact→ Covid-19 mutated long before mass vaccine roll-outs
A post on Instagram claims that Covid-19 “barely mutated” before the roll out of the vaccines, implying their arrival caused the virus to mutate more often. This is not true. All four of the variants of concern (VOCs) listed by the Wo
Truth or Fiction?→ Wi Spa Weaponized Disinformation Campaign
In late June and early July 2021, far-right activists attempted to launch a new disinformation campaign in the wake of a viral video of a woman harassing staff at a traditional public bathhouse in an historic Los Angeles neighborhood The video, which w
Poynter→ She was an intelligence analyst at the CIA. Now she writes about the dangers of ‘fake news.’
As an intelligence analyst at the CIA, Cindy Otis was trained to assess how our country’s foreign adversaries deploy divisive rumors, destructive conspiracy theories and other kinds of disinformation against us. Several months after the 2016 presiden
FactCheck.org→ The Facts – and Gaps – on the Origin of the Coronavirus
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic — and with a death toll approaching 4 million lives — how the coronavirus came to spark a global scourge remains unknown. Was it the result of a spillover from an animal to a human, as has happen
Full Fact→ Vaccinated people are not warned against flying
We’ve seen several posts on social media claiming that people in Spain and Russia who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 have been advised not to fly. Readers have asked us to look into it as well. This claim is not true. Claims about travel a
Full Fact→ British Airways hasn’t told their pilots they don’t need Covid-19 vaccine
A post on Facebook claims that British Airways has released a statement telling their pilots that they don’t need to have a Covid-19 vaccine, and other airlines are not allowing people to fly who have had a vaccine. Like other posts we&rsqu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Image Of A Massive Highway Is NOT The Katy Freeway In Texas
Is an image that depicts a highway with some 20 lanes in each direction a photo of the Katy Freeway in Texas? No, that's not true: Although Lead Stories could not locate the origin of the image, it is not the Katy Freeway, the Federal Hig
FactCheck.org→ Airlines Are Encouraging, Not Banning, Vaccinated Passengers
SciCheck Digest Airlines are encouraging people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine to fly once again. Yet social media posts falsely claim that airline executives around the world are discussing banning vaccinated passengers due to a risk of blood cl
FactCheck.org→ Airlines Are Encouraging, Not Banning, Vaccinated Passengers
SciCheck Digest Airlines are encouraging people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine to fly once again. Yet social media posts falsely claim that airline executives around the world are discussing banning vaccinated passengers due to a risk of blood cl
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Joe Biden’s Comment on the Death of Brian Sicknick
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Viral Facebook Video Does NOT Provide Any Information About The Crimes Alleged In Its Headline
Does a viral Facebook video provide any information about the crimes alleged in its headline? No, that's not true: The video is a newscast from cable channel One America News Network that does not mention any of the charges against Presid
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John Brennan Has NOT Been Hanged At Gitmo
Has former CIA Director John Brennan been hanged at Guantanamo Bay? No, that's not true: A spokesperson at the Defense Department told Lead Stories that this is "completely false." The claim appeared in an article published by Real Raw Ne
Snopes→ ‘Two Great Powers’: Biden, Putin Plunge into Hours of Talks
President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin are expected to meet for four to five hours of wide-ranging talks.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Container Ship Pictured On Fire Is NOT Evergreen’s Ever Given — It’s The X-Press Pearl
Did the container ship run by Evergreen Marine, Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, catch fire? No, that's not true: The container ship in the video that did suffer a fire off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is the X-
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Decoy Flares Shot From A Plane Are NOT A Ceremonial Salute, Aircraft Is NOT ‘Angel Flight’
Are there special airplanes called "Angel Flight" that bring fallen soldiers home, and do those aircraft shoot a flare salute designed to resemble an angel? No, that's not true: This is a photo of a plane firing decoy flares. This is inte
Truth or Fiction?→ Foreign Influence Agents Goaded Trump Forums After U.S. Elections, Researchers Say
Foreign agents — particularly those working from or on behalf of Russia — were active on Donald Trump-themed forums in the weeks and months leading up to the January 6 2021 coup attempt at the United States Capitol, a new report says. Accor
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Michael Flynn Kicked Off of Twitter — Again?
In May 2021, just after he called for military overthrow of the United States government during a QAnon conference, Twitter halted an alleged attempt by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to evade being banned by the platform. Flynn had alr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Beautiful Turtle Living In Atlantic Ocean’ Is NOT Alive, It’s A Glass Pendant
Does this photo show a new species of shiny blue, purple and yellow Atlantic Ocean sea turtle? No, that's not true: It's a piece of glass artwork. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (now unavailable but archived here) on May 27, 2021.
Full Fact→ The media must stop using misleading headlines
Often the article doesn’t actually say what the headline promised. We call this an ‘edline’. It isn’t easy for journalists to reduce an article to a headline of just a few words. Often something important goes missing, or they e
Truth or Fiction?→ International Disinfo Machines Turning After State-Sponsored Kidnapping of Belarusian Journalist
On May 24 2021, in the hours and days after Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich was taken from a Ryanair flight that had been rediverted to Minsk and arrested along with his girlfriend, graduate student Sofia Sapega, in a dramatic state-
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Gives NO Evidence Palestinian Girl Was Killed By Israeli Settler And Weapon Put Next To Her Body To ‘Falsify The Truth’
Does this video show a Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli settler and that a weapon was planted next to her body to "falsify the truth"? No, there's no evidence that's true: The video posted with the allegation does not prove the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does Not Show Personal Information On ‘Dark Web’ About People Who Had Taken COVID-19 Vaccine
Did a Russian hacker figure out how to get personal information from a chip injected into people who had taken the coronavirus vaccine? No, that's not true: The person doing the voiceover of this video used a server that is no longer in u
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show May 2021 Rocket Launches By Hamas
Does a TikTok video featuring multiple launching rockets show the Palestinian political and militant group Hamas launching rockets toward Tel Aviv, Israel during the 2021 hostilities over sites considered holy by Muslims and Jews? No, tha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: "Live" Video Does NOT Show Live Gas Station Explosion
Does a "live" video currently streaming on Facebook show a gas station explosion happening right now? No, that's not true: The video appears to be a looping piece of video footage taken in 2014 of an incident at an Exxon Mobile station in
Snopes→ Judge Orders Justice Dept. to Release Trump Obstruction Memo
A federal judge has ordered the release of a legal memorandum the Trump-era Justice Department prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr before he announced his conclusion that President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice during the Russia i
Snopes→ Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Pilot, Dead of Cancer
Collins was part of the three-man Apollo 11 crew that effectively ended the space race between the United States and Russia and fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mike Lindell’s ‘Absolute Interference’ Video Recycles Debunked Claims About The 2020 Election
Does Mike Lindell's "Absolute Interference" video, his third that purports to prove 2020 election fraud, contain only proven statements? No, that's not true: It contradicts itself and recycles claims that have been debunked before, relyin
AFP Fact Check→ Image of ‘river’ resembling a human face is a painting and entirely fictional
Screenshot of the false post, taken on April 16, 2021Screenshot of the false post, taken on April 16, 2021 An image that appears to show an expanse of water shaped like a human head with flowing hair has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook with
Health Feedback→ Shark Tank judges didn’t endorse a “keto diet pill”; many advertisements for keto diet supplements promoted by suspicious Facebook accounts
REVIEW Multiple Facebook ads containing a video clip appearing to promote a diet supplement to aid weight loss, such as this one and this one, claimed that “every judge” from the American business reality television show “Shark Tank” had “
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Orphanages And Nursing Homes Are NOT Merging In Canada
Do orphanages and nursing homes in Canada move into one building so that orphans and the elderly can build relationships with each other? No, that's not true: Intergenerational programs do exist in Canada, but they are for the elderly in