Hospital photo of Damar Hamlin proves “he’s a corpse.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Heavy Metal Detox Does NOT Cure Autism
Does heavy metal detox cure autism? No, that's not true: An expert told Lead Stories there is "no evidence" that substantiates the claim that taking something for a "heavy metal detox" can cure autism. There is no known cause or cure for
Logically→ Video shows Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari dancing to the song ‘Besharam Rang.’
The man seen dancing to the Hindi song in the video is not Bilawal Bhutto Zardari but Mehroz Baig, a student at Iqra University, Karachi.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Joe Biden touts big joblessness drop, but pandemic programs skew key comparison
“Two years ago this week, 18 million people were out of work needing unemployment benefits. Today, that number is under 1.6 million, the lowest in decades.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Feeling weighed down? It’s not because there are 5-15 pounds of stool ‘stuck’ in your gut
“The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut.
Truth or Fiction?→ A&W Root Bear ‘Bear Mascot’ Twitter Joke Ends Up on Fox News
As a January 2023 debate over M&Ms’ “spokescandies” moved through the news cycle, a tweet about A&W Restaurants purportedly issuing a similar statement was featured on Fox Business: Why are right wingers obsessed with animat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Human-Elephant Hybrid Is NOT Real, Did Not Attract Hindu Pilgrims To Norway
Was a baby with elephant-like facial features born in Norway, and have thousands of Hindu people flocked to Norway to see the child since media in India reported the birth? No, that's not true: The photo posted with this claim does not sh
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – WHO vaccine research aimed for contraception, not sterilization
“The World Health Organization has been working since 1974 on vaccines to create permanent sterility.”
FactCheck.org→ Biden’s Misleading Unemployment Statistic
Speaking at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ winter meeting, President Joe Biden botched a statistic on the number of people receiving unemployment benefits, misidentifying them simply as the number of people “out of work.” His comment
The Dispatch→ Stirewaltisms: Aaaaaand They’re Off …
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas on November 18, 2022. (Photo by Wade Vandervort/AFP/Getty Images.)Did you really think 2024 would get off to a slow start?The post
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden DID Say He Added More Debt — But He Was Talking About Previous Administration
Did President Joe Biden say during a January 26, 2023, event that "No president added more to the debt in four years than my president"? Yes, that's true: But a social media video of his comment is missing context. Just before this remark
Truth or Fiction?→ Trump’s Tax Cuts and the National Debt
On January 25 2023, a Reddit account shared a screenshot of a tweet by musician and political blogger Jeff Tiedrich to r/WhitePeopleTwitter, asserting that former United States President Donald Trump’s tax cuts were “responsible for”
PolitiFact→ Timeline: Classified documents seized at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
The FBI in August seized documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump sued to challenge the seizure, but later lost. The Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s possession of the classified documents continues.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim vastly overstates government’s spending on TSA’s gender-neutral screening technology
The Transportation Security Administration spent “a couple hundred million dollars” on gender-neutral screening technology.
Full Fact→ Jeff Bezos couldn’t give every Amazon worker £90,000
A bonus suggested by the Labour MP Zarah Sultana would cost more than Mr Bezos’s reported total wealth, let alone any wealth he gained during the pandemic.
Full Fact→ The Earth’s core has not stopped rotating
A study in Nature Geoscience said that the Earth’s inner core might no longer be spinning faster than the rest of the planet—not that it might have stopped spinning altogether.
Full Fact→ Lines reportedly seen in the sky around Heathrow are contrails, not chemtrails
A social media post has shared a number of images showing vapour lines from aeroplanes in the sky, and claims that these are in fact “chemtrails”. They aren’t—they’re contrails.
Poynter→ Mongolia moves to seize power to shut down internet, control social media
The Mongolian parliament passed a multipronged law last week that would ban users from posting information about any public official without express government consent. Any information shared in an online […] The post Mongolia moves to seize powe
The Dispatch→ A Freewheeling House
Members talk on the floor of the House Chamber on the opening day of the 118th Congress. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Plus: An interview with a newly appointed member of the China competition committee. The post A Freew
Full Fact→ ‘Kraken’ Covid-19 subvariant linked to baseless claims about 5G harms
A social media post claims that 5G is “harming and killing people”.
Full Fact→ Facebook offer of free sausage roll and drink at Greggs is not genuine
A post shared hundreds of times on social media is not from the bakery chain.
Full Fact→ Haringey Council says cost of Black Boy Lane name change ‘highly unlikely to exceed £100,000’
Claims it has cost £186,000 appear to stem from a 2021 estimate made by the council.
Logically→ Congress announced sops only for Muslims ahead of the 2023 Karnataka assembly polls.
A photo of Congress leaders with the party manifesto for 2018 Telangana polls has been shared with a communal spin.
AllSides→ Viral Tweet Misrepresents NOAA Report on Rising Global Temperature
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/01/scicheck-viral-tweet-misrepresents-noaa-report-on-rising-global-temperature/
Health Feedback→ Sweetgum balls don’t contain Tamiflu’s active ingredient and there’s no evidence of an antiviral effect against COVID-19
REVIEW A TikTok video, which was also shared on Facebook over 17,000 times, wrongly claimed that pods from sweetgum trees can be used as an antiviral treatment as it contains the same ingredient as Tamiflu and suggested that it could treat COVID-19.
Logically→ ಮಲಬಾರ್ ಚಾರಿಟೇಬಲ್ ಟ್ರಸ್ಟ್ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿವೇತನವನ್ನು ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು.
ವಿವಿಧ ಸಮುದಾಯಗಳ ೬೩೦ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿವೇತನ ನೀಡಲಾಯಿತು. ಧರ್ಮದ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ
Logically→ Russian President Vladimir Putin destroyed an adrenochrome lab in Ukraine.
Putin or Russian forces did not destroy a Ukrainian adrenochrome lab. The claim originated from a story published by the parody website Real Raw News.
Logically→ BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said Modi becoming prime minister is an insult to democracy.
An edited version of BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhaita's comment during a news show has been shared with misleading claims.
Logically→ Final Solution, a documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots, was banned by the CBFC in 2004.
Although initially denied certification, Rakesh Sharma's 2004 film Final Solution was cleared by India's film-certification body on October 10, 2004.
Logically→ The image shows security personnel guarding a movie theater ahead of Pathaan’s release.
An edited image from 2018 is being shared with the claim that security personnel are guarding the front of a theater ahead of Pathaan's release.
Poynter→ Climate change is not a ‘naturally occurring phenomenon.’ Humanity is the driving force.
As global leaders discussed climate change and other issues at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a social media post sought to downplay humanity’s role in climate change. “Climate […] The post Climate change is not a ‘natu
The Dispatch→ ‘When Everything is Classified, Nothing is Classified’
Inside of a filing cabinet containing confidential documentsRecent document security breaches bring attention to America’s over-classification problem.The post ‘When Everything is Classified, Nothing is Classified’ appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ A Bold Vision for Japan
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gives a press conference addressing the National Security Strategy. (Photo by David Mareuil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.)The country’s military buildup reflects a sense of urgency about the China threat. But impl
The Dispatch→ The Pro-Life Movement Comes to a Crossroads
(Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)With Roe v. Wade’s demise and a midterm election in the rearview mirror, pro-life activists and legislators contemplate new strategies.The post The Pro-Life Movement Comes to a Cros
The Dispatch→ Coming Out as an Arab Advocate of Peace with Israel
Israeli and Saudi flags. (Stock photo by Getty Images.)Proponents of normalization have a chance to bring a peace deal across the finish line.The post Coming Out as an Arab Advocate of Peace with Israel appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ A video shows AntiFa attacking Atlanta airport on January 22, 2023.
There was no AntiFa attack at Atlanta airport. The video shows a woman traveler spraying a fire extinguisher at airport employees on January 17.
Logically→ The Malabar Charitable Trust awarded scholarships only to Muslim students.
Scholarships were given to 630 students from different communities. The group has denied claims that students were chosen on the basis of religion.
The Dispatch→ Purge Artists
A trout in the milk. The post Purge Artists appeared first on The Dispatch.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘This is Peak Greed’: Activists Blast Meta for Reinstating Trump to Facebook
The reinstatement of right-wing former United States President Donald Trump to Facebook and Instagram was roundly criticized by activists warning that it could drive “democracy to the brink.” “Meta is moving backwards, returning us to
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Worms Do NOT Cause Autism — There Is No Known Cause
Do worms cause autism? No, that's not true: An expert told Lead Stories that there is "no scientific evidence" that supports the claim, made in a video on TikTok, that worms cause autism. There is no definitively known cause of Autism Spe