A Black photojournalist’s work recirculated online in July 2020, though without credit to him and sometimes eliding the context of his original photograph. Freelancer Crush Rush first took the photograph on May 31 2020 during protests against po
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: $11 Billion Dollar Border Wall Did NOT Blow Down In Hurricane Hanna
Did part of the border wall separating the United States from Mexico blow over during Hurricane Hanna? No, that's not true. Video purporting showing a section of the border wall in Texas blowing over with gale force winds during
Truth or Fiction?→ Pedophile’s Decapitated Corpse Not Found on Judge’s Doorstep After Bail Hearing
On July 26 2020, what appeared to be a shocking local news story (headline: “Pedophile’s Decapitated Corpse Found On Judge’s Doorstep After Bail Hearing In Ocala, Florida”) began circulating on Facebook and Twitter: It's times li
Snopes→ Do Teens Spread COVID-19 As Fast as Adults?
The findings from a South Korean study came as health officials issued new guidance to reopening schools around the U.S.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pedophile’s Decapitated Corpse NOT Found On Judge’s Doorstep After Bail Hearing In Ocala, Florida
Was the decapitated corpse of a pedophile found on the doorstep of a judge in Ocala, Florida? No, that's not true: the story about the supposed "William Smith, 28" originated on two unreliable websites in 2017 which claimed the event happ
AFP Fact Check→ This video shows a 2016 protest against a proposed pesticide plant in Hubei, central China
A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter July 2020 alongside a claim it shows a rally in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan inspired by the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. The video, ho
AFP Fact Check→ Viral video does not show mourners breaking COVID-19 rules at Mandela family funeral
A viral video purports to show mourners ignoring social distancing rules at the funeral of Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. But the claim is false: police told AFP
FactCheck.org→ What Science Says About Children, COVID-19 and School Reopenings
In promoting the reopening of schools this fall, Trump administration officials have, at times, inaccurately described the evidence on how COVID-19 affects children: Adm. Brett Giroir, the coronavirus task force lead on testing, said on July 12 that
FactCheck.org→ Video Misrepresents the Science Behind Face Masks
Quick Take A viral video misrepresents scientific papers and the reasons for wearing face masks to claim that they are ineffective in mitigating transmission of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that masks may help preve
Truth or Fiction?→ Do Amish People Not Get Coronavirus Because They Don’t Have Television?
In July 2020, a number of Facebook memes circulated riffing on the same theme — that Amish people in the United States were not developing COVID-19, because they “don’t have television sets.” Variations We observed this claim s
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maps Of ‘Human Trafficking Hot Spots’ And ‘China Virus Hot Spots’ Do Not Have A Connection
Does a comparison of maps show there is a shocking connection between human trafficking hotpsots in the United States and coronavirus outbreaks? No, that's not true. A meme that has gone viral showing two maps of the U.S. with heavy numbe
Full Fact→ Many children have been the victims of grooming gangs, but there’s no evidence for a figure of one million
A widely shared post on Facebook compares the public reaction to the killing of George Floyd with the reaction to the organised sexual abuse of children in the UK. It says: “The cops kill a man in America, massive civil unrest. 1 million innocent
FactCheck.org→ Trump Wrongly Blames Protests, Mexico for COVID-19 Spread
Experts say there is no evidence that Black Lives Matter protests or Mexicans have caused the spike in coronavirus cases in pockets of the U.S., contradicting President Donald Trump’s assertions. In a press briefing on July 21, Trump acknowledged
FactCheck.org→ Anti-Biden Ad Misleads on Race Claims
The Committee to Defend the President has been running a six-second Facebook ad targeting older voters in North Carolina that takes former Vice President Joe Biden’s words out of context to brand him as a KKK sympathizer who twice used the “N-w
Full Fact→ Layla Moran’s child malnutrition figures are wrong
There seem to be several serious problems with a widely shared report on child malnutrition in the Observer, which was based on Freedom of Information (FoI) requests collated by the Liberal Democrat leadership candidate, Layla Moran. The original artic
Full Fact→ This letter claiming to be from a doctor in Surrey is full of errors
A letter shared widely on social media, claiming to be from a doctor based at a Surrey hospital, makes numerous claims about the Covid-19 pandemic, including that doctors are not wearing masks, hospitals are empty, and that there is “no pandemic&
Health Feedback→ Primary COVID-19 transmission is by close contact with infected people; nasopharyngeal swab-based testing provides the highest diagnostic accuracy
REVIEW Facebook posts published in July 2020, such as this meme, questioned the need for nasopharyngeal sample collection in which “they have to stick a Q-tip through your nose to the back of your head to swab a sample of COVID” when it would be
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Florida Motorcycle Death Is NOT Undermining The Accuracy Of State’s Coronavirus Death Numbers
Is an Orlando television station's report -- that a motorcycle fatality got counted as a COVID death -- correct? No, it's not: Orange County, Florida's data correctly lists the motorcyclist, who had tested positive for COVID-19, in the tally f
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘It’s Just a Mask, It’s Just a Vaccine’ [Covid Fanfics]
On July 14 2020, Facebook user Ryan Thames shared the following post, along with a claim that temporary behavior intended to curb the rates of a respiratory-borne virus during a pandemic, such as recommending the widespread use of face masks to cut ba
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s ‘Fox News Sunday’ Interview
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, who frequently fact-checked the president in real time, contained a long list of false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims: The president claimed othe
Snopes→ Michigan College Defies State Warnings, Holds Graduation
A small conservative college in southern Michigan has defied warnings from state public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic by hosting an in-person graduation ceremony.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Were NOT Known To Be Staying Down The Road From Madeleine McCann At The Time She Was Abducted
Were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Epstein's house down the road when three-year-old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her family's vacation hotel in Praia da Luz, Portugal? No, the claim was made with no facts backing it up and th
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Numbers July 2020 Update
Editor’s Note: This update is the first to reflect substantial economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many statistics in our April update were collected before much of the economy was shut down to slow the spread of the virus. Summary The COVID-1
AFP Fact Check→ No banning order issued ending the use of face masks in Tanzania
An article claiming that Tanzania has banned the wearing of face masks to guard against the new coronavirus because they “caused anxiety among Tanzanians” has re-emerged in South Africa after first circulating online in May 2020. According to the
FactCheck.org→ Trump Distorts Biden’s Immigration Plans
In remarks in the White House Rose Garden on July 14, President Donald Trump falsely described many of the immigration recommendations drafted by allies of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vanquished rival Sen. Bernie Sande
Health Feedback→ U.S. COVID-19-related deaths in July 2020 may not be as low as preliminary data suggest
REVIEW A Facebook post published on 8 July 2020 claimed that the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. was “nearing zero”. Such claims contain a grain of truth, given that we can observe a downward trend in the weekly COVID-19 death counts
FactCheck.org→ As Deaths Rise, Trump Sticks with Old Numbers
During his July 14 press conference from the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump made the outdated claim that U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are down “tenfold.” Data from three different sources show that, as of July 14, the total nu
AFP Fact Check→ This photo has circulated in reports about a road in the north Indian state of Bihar since 2017
A photo has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim it shows a road lined with potholes in a district in the southern Indian state of Kerala where opposition politician Rahul Gandhi has served as member of parliament
FactCheck.org→ ‘Face Mask Exempt Card’ Isn’t Legitimate
Quick Take A “face mask exempt card” shared on social media invokes the Americans with Disabilities Act and claims to excuse people from wearing face masks. But the group behind the card — “Freedom to Breathe Agency” ̵
Snopes→ Coronavirus Resurgence Forces Countries to Reimpose Restrictions
From Greece to South Africa to Japan, officials are turning back to lockdowns to curb a resurgence of COVID-19.
Snopes→ Autopsy Confirms Naya Rivera’s Death Was Accidental Drowning
The examination, performed the day after the 33-year-old’s body was found in a Southern California lake, showed no signs of traumatic injury or disease.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proof At This Time That 10-Year-Old Boy Was Lured To Pond And Killed By "Kids"
Has it been determined that 10-year-old Molu Zarpeleh died after being tricked into getting in a pond by older kids who killed the boy in the city of Brookings, South Dakota? No, that's not true. While the claim that he was lured to the pond a
Snopes→ Trump Rips Private Texas Border Wall Built by His Supporters
President Donald Trump criticized a privately built border wall in South Texas that’s showing signs of erosion months after going up, saying it was “only done to make me look bad,” even though the wall was built after a months-long campaign by hi
Snopes→ Coronavirus Deaths Take a Long-Expected Turn for the Worse
A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Lady Gaga Staring At Murdered Model During A Satanic Spirit Cooking Hunt
Does a photo show Lady Gaga at a satanic spirit cooking hunt staring at a male model who was later found dead with organs missing? No, that's not true. The photo of Gaga and Serbian artist Marina Abramovic was taken at the 20th annual benefit
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Spread False Claim About Fauci’s Wife
Quick Take Social media posts falsely claim that Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is the sister of Dr. Christine Grady, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s wife. Maxwell and Grady are not siblings. Full Story British socialite
Truth or Fiction?→ Richard Rose Dies of COVID-19, After Repeated ‘COVID Denier’ Posts
On July 10 2020, a number of Facebook users shared posts like the one below — purportedly screenshots from the profile of a user, Richard Rose, who initially adopted the position of a “COVID denier” before dying from it on July 4 202
AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows dogs rescued from the meat trade in China’s Yunnan province in 2012
A photo showing scores of dogs in cages has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram alongside a claim that it was taken in the southern Chinese city of Yulin in June 2020. This claim is false; the photo shows dogs resc
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘New Cases, Yesterday: Germany: 298, Denmark: 10, Norway: 11, Sweden: 57 — United States: 55,442’
On July 8 2020, Twitter user Brian Klass shared the following post in response to President Trump’s tweets about reopening American schools — purportedly demonstrating the number of new cases on July 7 2020 in the United States and four Eu
FactCheck.org→ NextGen Climate Action/NextGen America
Political leanings: Democratic 2018 total spending: $63.8 million NextGen Climate Action Committee, a super PAC, and NextGen America, a 501(c)(4), were founded in 2013 by San Francisco billionaire and climate-change activist Tom Steyer, who ran unsuc