REVIEW Facebook posts purporting to look at “facts” about the COVID-19 vaccines called into question the purpose of the vaccines (see example). Based on one version, the text may have originated from a Telegram group named “Corona Investigativ
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Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Doctors and Experts Advise Against Taking Experimental Jab’: Fake Headline Circulating
On March 3 2021, a screenshot February 2021 headline from The Times (UK) — “Doctors and experts advise against taking experimental jab” — spread virally across anti-vaccine social media groups. It looked like this: We first spotted t
Health Feedback→ Scientific evidence demonstrates that wearing face masks and implementing lockdowns reduce the spread of COVID-19
REVIEW On 23 February 2021, this Facebook post by Kimberly Klacik, a previous Republican nominee for Maryland’s 7th congressional district, claimed there is no evidence demonstrating that wearing face masks or implementing lockdowns reduce the
Full Fact→ Covid-19 is not a rebrand of flu
A Facebook post suggests influenza was “rebranded” as Covid-19 last year, comparing it to the way Marathon chocolate bars were rebranded as Snickers bars in the 1990s. It is not correct that Covid-19 is simply a “rebrand” of the
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
Full Fact→ HPV testing kits are not smear tests
“Over 31,000 women will be offered kits to carry out smear tests in the privacy and convenience of their own homes in a trial.” Matt Hancock, 24 February 2021 The Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted that 31,000 women will be offered kits
Full Fact→ There is no evidence that people are dying from the Covid-19 vaccine
A widely shared Facebook post wrongly suggests that Covid-19 vaccines are unsafe because so many reactions are being reported through the UK’s Yellow Card scheme. The post says: “They keep telling us vaccines are safe!! So why don't they ad
Full Fact→ Are 3 in 10 people failing to isolate?
“Three in ten people who should be self-isolating aren’t doing so.” Sir Keir Starmer, 24 February 2021. Sir Keir Starmer has repeatedly claimed that three in ten people who should be self-isolating aren’t doing so. He made this
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
The Dispatch→ Does Mask-Wearing Cause Hypoxia or Pneumonia?
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Full Fact→ The link between vitamin D and Covid-19 is complex
“The death rate in Andalucía almost halved following the introduction of their Vitamin D policy. Tragically, here in the UK our death rate more than doubled over the same period, despite us having 5x the vaccinations.” David Davis MP
FactCheck.org→ A Guide to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the third COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. Here, we give a rundown of basic facts about the vaccine and an overview of how it works. Quick Summary Vaccine name: Ad26.COV2.S Desi
Full Fact→ Government advise special precautions for disposing of infectious PPE
A Facebook post asks why, if SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) is so infectious, there are no biohazard bins for disposing of masks and gloves which may potentially be contaminated. Whilst it’s correct that biohazard or clinical w
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Vaccines Impact Fertility
Q: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility? A: There’s no evidence that approved vaccines cause fertility loss. Although clinical trials did not study the issue, loss of fertility has not been reported among thousands of trial participants nor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Is NOT Withholding Information About Post-Vaccination Deaths, NOT Lacking A Data Category For Them
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withhold data that showed a federal vaccine reaction-reporting database -- VAERS -- was under-reporting the number of people who have died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? Does the CDC
FactCheck.org→ Biden Hasn’t Reduced COVID-19 Testing at the Border
Quick Take The Biden administration has made no changes to COVID-19 testing policies for either U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Patrol. But a claim circulating online falsely suggests that the administration has stopped t
Full Fact→ No evidence for drop in US sudden infant death syndrome cases
A Facebook post claims that there was a decrease in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in 2020 due to scheduled vaccinations being cancelled. A link in the post to an article clarifies that the data shown actually represents the number of SIDS reports
FactCheck.org→ Biden Administration Approved Texas Power Request, Contrary to False Claim
Quick Take The U.S. Department of Energy approved a request to allow power plants in snowstorm-battered Texas to temporarily bypass some environmental limits during its energy crisis, in order to produce more power. Viral headlines falsely claim the de
Full Fact→ Mask wearing doesn’t cause bacterial pneumonia
A post on Facebook suggests that wearing a mask causes people to contract bacterial pneumonia and that the government manipulated Covid-19 statistics to create fear when Covid-19 is no longer classified as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID).
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Since 1980 California Built 22 Prisons, 1 University’
On February 22 2021, an image was shared to both r/pics and Imgur, which contained the claim that the state of California has built 22 prisons, but only one university, since 1980: A sense of priorities from pics On Reddit, th
Truth or Fiction?→ Avoid That ‘Popcorn in Muffin Tin’ Hack Which ‘Breaks the Internet’
A February 12 2021 “muffin tin popcorn hack” shared to Facebook Watch by the page “Paul Vu” went viral almost instantly; it purported to demonstrate how to produce the colorful (and clearly mass-produced) varieties of flavored
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ted Cruz Blame ‘Cancel Culture’ For his Mexico Trip?
As the anger toward right-wing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz led to widespread criticism and ridicule for deserting his Texas constituents amid historically harsh winter conditions in February 2021 and attempting to blame his daughters for his decision, parodie
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the incidence of poor outcomes during pregnancy, according to current safety data on COVID-19 vaccines
REVIEW Facebook posts claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine caused a healthcare worker to have a miscarriage went viral in early February 2021. These posts (see example) show a photo of a healthcare worker receiving a COVID-19 vaccine and tweets by phy
AllSides→ Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/analysis-twitters-crowdsourced-fact-checking-experiment-reveals-problems/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Shows NO Scientific Proof That Antibodies Produced By COVID-19 Vaccines Will Turn Deadly
Does a video by an anti-vaccine physician show conclusive scientific evidence that the antibodies produced by the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines will cause severe harm and even death if a vaccinated person is exposed to the
Truth or Fiction?→ Clay Pot Candle Heaters: Do They Really Work?
As Texans struggled with widespread power outages and harsh winter weather, numerous Facebook posts advised using terracotta or clay pot “space heaters,” which would purportedly enable residents freezing in southern states to heat rooms wi
Snopes→ NASA Rover Lands on Mars to Look for Signs of Ancient Life
A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Ted Cruz Fly to Mexico While Texans Were Without Electricity?
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was denounced online after being caught flying out of the state as hundreds of thousands of residents remained without power and water for sunnier climates. Photographs placing Cruz at the Houston airport began surfacin
Full Fact→ The Covid-19 vaccine programme isn’t a medical experiment
People delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme do not have to tell patients that they are taking part in a medical experiment, as a post on Facebook falsely claims. The vaccination programme is not an experiment. The three Covid vaccines currentl
Poynter→ Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems
On Feb. 5, Twitter flagged a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool that said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged. The platform noted that the claim was disputed and turned off engagement “due to a risk of violence.” But, on Birdwatch
Poynter→ Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems
On Feb. 5, Twitter flagged a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool that said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was rigged. The platform noted that the claim was disputed and turned off engagement “due to a risk of violence.” But, on Birdwatch
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall
President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and spun others in a Feb. 16 town hall that aired on CNN. He said it was “not true” that he had revised his 100-day school reopening goal, saying it “was reported” that he meant a majority of sc
FactCheck.org→ Video Airs False, Misleading Claims About Face Masks
Quick Take Evidence of the efficacy of face masks to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus has grown since the start of the pandemic. But a Facebook video, viewed tens of thousands of times, uses false and misleading claims to tell viewers t
Health Feedback→ Misleading to compare the safety of COVID-19 and flu vaccines based solely on VAERS reports; VAERS reports alone cannot demonstrate that a vaccine caused an adverse event
REVIEW With the worldwide rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, claims that the vaccines caused severe adverse events or deaths spread on social media. A meme published on 15 February 2021 claimed that a person is 300 to 900 times “more likely to die” a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Of Claims About Diseases And More Relies On Common Conspiracy Theories
Does a list of claims about diseases and more rely only on factual and proven statements? No, that's not true: Most of the claims are common conspiracy theories repeatedly disproven. Medical experts, for example, agree that the Spanish fl
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: List Of Informal COVID-19 Vaccine Reaction Reports is NOT Evidence Deaths Were Caused By Vaccines
Does this list of reports from the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) prove COVID-19 vaccines are causing sudden deaths in a surprising number of young and middle-aged people? No, that's not true: The individual cases
Full Fact→ A Bangladesh study doesn’t show that depression follows Covid-19
“Half of Covid victims go on to suffer depression, says study,” The Telegraph, 15 February 2021 The Telegraph has muddled up the meaning of a scientific study on depression among people who have had Covid-19. The study in question explici
Health Feedback→ The CDC didn’t introduce a “major rule change” to inflate COVID-19 deaths; there have been more than 490,000 excess deaths in the U.S. to date
REVIEW An article published by the Gateway Pundit in early February 2021 claimed that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent”. The article received more t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy, Have NOT Killed ‘Thousands’ and Vaccinators Are NOT Violating The Nuremberg Code If They Don’t Call It Human Experimentation
Are the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines gene therapy that alters recipients' immune systems, a potential Nuremberg Code violation for doctors and nurses to administer them without telling patients they are part of a drug tri
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Inflate COVID-19 Numbers And Did NOT Violate Federal Law In Providing Death Data Guide
Did the CDC inflate COVID-19 death numbers by 1,600% and did it violate federal law by enacting new data collecting rules for cause-of-death reports? No, that's not true: The nation's mortality data expert told Lead Stories The Centers fo