REVIEW In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, long before vaccines became available, many countries tried to curb the spread of the virus by imposing lockdowns. Exactly what a lockdown consists of is highly variable depending on the country and
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Truth or Fiction?→ Is There a Gas Shortage in 2021?
In May 2021, rumors of a gas shortage throughout the United States — either ongoing or imminent — suddenly appeared, spreading both on social media and by word of mouth: This gas shortage isn’t a big deal!! Just hackers from another co
Full Fact→ Letter to MHRA is filled with false Covid-19 claims
A post on Facebook shows a transcript of a letter sent to Dr June Raine CBE, CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This was first posted on 16 February but has been regularly circulated since and shared more than 700 ti
Health Feedback→ Deaths are attributed to COVID-19 according to clinical symptoms and diagnostic; deaths occurring following vaccination are systematically reported and investigated
REVIEW The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing massive COVID-19 vaccination campaign led to the rollout of an important epidemiological and clinical surveillance. As of 7 May 2021, almost 600,000 persons died from COVID-19 in the U.S. and almost 100 m
Health Feedback→ A safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine for children would protect children and at-risk people by reducing the virus’ spread
REVIEW On 5 May 2021, Canada’s health ministry authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in children aged between 12 to 15. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to do the same soon and the European Medicines Age
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney And Maria Zack Video Shows NO Proof Of Election Fraud
Did a video featuring Lt. General Tom McInerney and Maria Zack show proof of election fraud? No, that's not true. The retired general and the Nations in Action website founder repeated previously debunked claims about election fraud in th
FactCheck.org→ Two Views of American Families Plan
The White House and Republican National Committee are each touting different economic analyses that reach far different conclusions about the budget and economic impact of President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan. One analysis from Penn Wharton B
Truth or Fiction?→ A Labor Shortage in 2021? Viral ‘Signs’ Are Not Employment Data
As the world began to emerge from more than a year of pandemic-related uncertainty in May 2021, an avalanche of photographs showing signs about businesses being “short staffed” because “no one wants to work” on social media p
The Dispatch→ Has the Maricopa County Audit Yielded Hundreds of Thousands of Votes?
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FactCheck.org→ Viral Post Misleads on COVID-19 Death Reporting, Vaccine Monitoring
SciCheck Digest A tweet that migrated across social media platforms falsely suggests that any deaths in the 20 days following positive COVID-19 tests are to be attributed to the disease, “no matter what other factors were involved.” There i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Boycott Did NOT Cause Pepsi To Outsell Coke And Was Not Cause Of 100 Cancelled Delta Flights
Did Pepsi sell more products than Coca-Cola during the April, 2021 boycott declared by conservatives to punish the company for criticizing Georgia's new voting restrictions? Did Delta cancel 100 flights because of the boycotts? No, that's
Logically→ Kerala has announced a full lockdown from May 8 to May 16, 2021.
The Kerala government has announced a complete lockdown in the state for 9 days due to the rising cases of COVID-19.
Health Feedback→ Scientific evidence demonstrates that COVID-19 and the virus that causes it exist and are different from the flu
REVIEW In little more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused 3,2 million deaths worldwide, 577,000 of them in the U.S. Still, false claims that the virus doesn’t exist and that the pandemic is a hoax continue circulating on social media. On
Logically→ Budget cuts across London have reached at least £35 million.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, London Mayor Sadiq Khan cut £38 million from the Greater London Authority’s 2020-21 budget.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Joe Biden’s Address to Congress
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Logically→ Kerala’s UDF candidate V V Prakash passed away before the election results were declared.
Prakash died on April 29, due to a cardiac arrest, three days before the declaration of Kerala assembly election results.
Logically→ Kerala’s UDF candidate V V Prakash passed away before the election results were declared.
Prakash died on April 29, due to a cardiac arrest, three days before the declaration of Kerala assembly election results.
Climate Feedback→ CO2 coalition sponsored article in The Washington Times presents list of false and misleading statements about the impacts of CO2 and climate change
SUMMARY In April 2021, Gregory Wrightstone published a “sponsored” article in The Washington Times titled “There is no climate emergency”. Scientists who evaluated the article found that it included numerous false and misleading claims about
Logically→ A full lockdown has been declared in the Indian state of Bihar until May 15, 2021.
Bihar government has imposed a complete lockdown in the state until May 15 due to a steep rise in COVID-19 cases.
Logically→ Apetamin is a safe drug for gaining weight.
International health bodies have not approved Apetamin due to safety and effectiveness concerns, and it is illegal to sell it in many countries.
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that eating cucumbers reduces the risk of cancer; cucumbers contain cucurbitacin B, which could be a candidate for developing new anti-cancer drugs
This post published on the Facebook Page The Eden Prescription, which is run by Ethan Evers, who authored a novel about the search for a cure for cancer, claimed that eating cucumbers can kill cancer cells, reduce their growth, and reduce the risk for
Logically→ COVID-19 lockdowns have led to the deaths of about 228,000 children in South Asia.
UNICEF estimated 228,000 deaths among South Asian children in 2020 due to cuts in the availability and use of public health services, not lockdowns.
Washington Post→ Democrats and Republicans need a translator when speaking infrastructure
Too often, the dueling infrastructure plans are treated as roughly similar by reporters but there are vast differences.
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Snow White ‘Cancelled’?
On May 3 2021, social media rumors that Snow White was “cancelled” by “woke mobs” began circulating, pushed along by the usual disinformation purveyors: Disneyland Revamps Snow White Ride, Adds Prince Waking Her With A Kiss. F
Logically→ SII chief Adar Poonawalla: India will face a vaccine shortage till July 2021.
Adhar Poonawalla has warned that India will face a vaccine shortage until July due to a lack of planning and fewer orders being placed.
Snopes→ Does Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion Have a ‘Secret Entrance’?
Perhaps Disneyland has some fun surprises in store for its 2021 reopening after being closed more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Climate Feedback→ Wall Street Journal article repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims made in Steven Koonin’s new book ’Unsettled’
SUMMARY A Wall Street Journal article published in April 2021 reviews Steven Koonin’s book ‘Unsettled’, which is scheduled to be published in May 2021. In ‘Unsettled’, Koonin, a theoretical physicist and professor at New York University,
Logically→ Los Angeles County reported zero COVID-19 deaths on May 2, 2021.
Although the official record shows that there were no deaths on May 2, the figures could represent a lag or undercount due to weekend reporting.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: All Charges Have NOT Been Dropped Against Bill Cosby, Who Was NOT Granted Early Release
Have all charges been dropped against Bill Cosby? Was he granted early release? No, that's not true: The disgraced actor and comedian remains behind bars. Cosby was convicted of felony sex assault in 2018 and is serving a three- to 10-yea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Parents In Vail School District Did NOT Take Over Board, Remove Mask Mandate
Did protesters at a governing board meeting for the Vail Unified School District in Arizona elect a new school board and legally vote for the district's mask policy to be lifted? No, that's not true: While the protestors did stage what ap
Full Fact→ Influencer video full of untrue vaccine claims
A viral video made by influencer Kate Shemirani, posted on Facebook, makes a number of false claims. The six-minute clip contains many unsubstantiated statements—including several that Full Fact has checked in the past. This article does no
Health Feedback→ Insufficient evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual irregularities in vaccinated women; vaccinated people aren’t making unvaccinated people ill
REVIEW In April 2021, multiple social media posts and articles claimed that COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual problems in vaccinated women (see examples here, here, here, and here). Others even claimed that vaccinated women were causing unvaccinated
Health Feedback→ Flawed speculative study incorrectly claims that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause neurodegenerative diseases
REVIEW As of 27 April 2021, more than 1.04 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, according to the New York Times vaccine tracker. Such unprecedented vaccination efforts led to viral claims that question the safety of COVID-1
Full Fact→ Viewers spot Lorraine Kelly Himalayas gaffe
We have been asked by readers to check a claim made by Lorraine Kelly that before and after photos from northern India showed how pollution reduced due to the lockdown, with the Himalayas visible in the “after” shot. In the viral clip
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Address to Congress
Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and stretched others, mainly repeated claims we’ve heard before: Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depre
Truth or Fiction?→ Native American Journalists Call On Cohorts to ‘Withdraw Support from CNN’ after Pundit’s Racist Comments
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) called on fellow industry advocacy groups to push back against CNN in response to inaccurate and racist comments by one of the news network’s pundits. The group made the request in the wake of pa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Effuel’ Company Behind The ‘ECO OBD2’ Purported Fuel-Saving Chip Is NOT What It Claims
Did a Japan-based startup company come up with a new, innovative and inexpensive fuel-saving device that not only helps lower a vehicle's fuel consumption but also reduces the carbon footprint? No, that's not true: The three men pictured
Truth or Fiction?→ Academy Awards ‘Savage’ Response to Trump’s Oscars Statement
On April 28 2021, an Imgur post (“The Academy is savage”) purportedly showed a statement in response to former United States President Donald Trump attributed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Contents of the Screenshot
AFP Fact Check→ Misleading flu statistics fuel ‘fake pandemic’ claims online
A graphic purporting to show that flu cases have fallen dramatically since 2020 has been shared by Facebook users worldwide alongside a claim it proves health authorities are falsely passing influenza cases off as Covid-19 cases. The graphic, ho
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There’s NO Documentation Of Claims COVID Was Launched By Elites, Is Less Dangerous Than Flu
Was the novel coronavirus launched as a diversionary tactic to distract the masses from misdeeds of global elites, and is COVID-19 less dangerous than the seasonal flu? No, that's not true: Experts in public health and virology have publi