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The Dispatch→ Rogan’s Jews
Joe Rogan. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images.)What the shock jock doesn’t get about antisemitic conspiracies.The post Rogan’s Jews appeared first on The Dispatch.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Gen. Mark Milley served multiple combat tours, despite claims otherwise
Gen. Mark Milley “never served in combat.”
FactCheck.org→ Thai Princess’s Coma Due to Infection, Country Not Banning Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine
SciCheck Digest Thai officials attributed the collapse of the king’s eldest daughter in December to a bacterial infection, not to COVID-19 vaccination, as some have baselessly claimed online. Rumors about the country banning Pfizer’s vaccines a
The Dispatch→ Get In, Loser. We’re Going Losing.
Former President Donald Trump embraces Kari Lake at a campaign rally in October 2022. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Do populists want to win? The post Get In, Loser. We’re Going Losing. appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Elon Musk Talking About Andrew Tate — It’s A Deepfake
Does a social media video show entrepreneur Elon Musk discussing imprisoned internet influencer Andrew Tate? No, that's not true: This appears to be a "deepfake" video of Musk, now the CEO of Twitter. The video uses publicly available foo
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Was someone in a Joe Biden mask at the State of the Union? No, It was Biden himself
Photos show someone in a President Joe Biden mask at the State of the Union.
FactCheck.org→ Gen. Milley Has Long Combat History, Contrary to Social Media Posts
Quick Take Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. But posts on social media falsely claimed Milley “never served in combat.” Milley has an “extensive backgroun
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC’s Shimabukuro Did NOT Admit COVID Vaccines Are Causing ‘Debilitating Illnesses’
Did Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, director of the Immunization Safety Office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), admit COVID-19 vaccines are causing "debilitating illnesses"? No, that's not true: In the context of talking abou
Truth or Fiction?→ Ursula Le Guin on J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter
As social media controversies over the expressed views of fantasy writer J.K. Rowling and a game based on her Harry Potter series continued into February 2023, a quote resurfaced attributed to famed author Ursula Le Guin on the subject of Rowling’
FactCheck.org→ Video: Hearst on the State of the Union
Hearst Television — one of our media partners — produced this fact-checking video segment featuring our article on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. The segment aired on numerous local TV news stations owned and op
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Photo doesn’t show a deputy U.S. marshal behind President Joe Biden at the State of the Union
A photo shows a deputy U.S. marshal “keeping a close eye” on President Joe Biden at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Puppy rescue filmed in India in 2019, not in Turkey or Syria after the recent earthquake
A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Have COVID-19 vaccines caused all COVID-19 deaths in Canada? No
“100% of COVID deaths in Canada now due to mRNA vaccine.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Photo of Donald Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing is altered
Photo shows former President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing.
Truth or Fiction?→ Reporter Evan Lambert Arrested While Covering Ohio Train Derailment
On February 9 2023, a popular post to Reddit’s r/news was titled “Reporter arrested during news event on Ohio train derailment,” and a subsequent post to Imgur depicted the same headline: Reporter arrested during news event
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – GOP wants a ‘30% tax on everything’? That ignores taxes that would end, bill’s limited chances
"In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything."
PolitiFact→ Rick Scott – Sen. Rick Scott’s false claim that Joe Biden ‘cheated’ on taxes
President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”
PolitiFact→ Viral image – The Mars Curiosity rover photographed rocks, not Third Reich relics
“NASA Curiosity finds Nazi helmet on Mars."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NOT Accurate That Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley ‘Never Served In Combat’ — Pentagon Provides Proof
Has U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "never served in combat"? No, that's not true: A publicly available profile of Milley lists his numerous operational deployments over the past several decades. The cla
PolitiFact→ This statistic on police indictments is misleading. Here's why
A House Democrat said less than 2% of police officers who engage in misconduct are indicted. We’ve seen that data point before; it refers to officers charged in police shootings. But experts say there’s not enough data to draw clear conclusions.
The Dispatch→ Stirewaltisms: An Experiment in Negative Partisanship
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)If nothing else, the State of the Union highlighted how our awful politics got that way.The post Stirewaltisms: An Experiment
Poynter→ Fact-checkers in the Middle East speak out after the Turkey-Syria earthquake
As the official death toll from Monday’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria surpasses 22,000, fact-checking organizations that operate out of the region described the chaotic state of information, the effects […] The post Fact-checkers in the Middl
The Dispatch→ Lawmakers Ask if U.S. Companies Helped Develop China’s Spy Balloon
Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks during a news conference in August 2022. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Plus: More congressional scrutiny on China and high-profile House GOP hearings.The post Lawmakers Ask if U.S. Companies Helped Develop China’s Spy B
PolitiFact→ Kayleigh McEnany – Are Biden’s border policies to blame for fentanyl deaths? Experts say no
"Joe Biden's wide open southern border" is to blame for fentanyl deaths in the U.S.
Full Fact→ Vaccine boosters post wrongly says people not offered Covid-19 vaccine ‘declined’ it
Young children were not offered the vaccine at all, and most people were not offered the autumn booster. There are problems with the total population estimates too.
Full Fact→ Fake social media appeals for a missing boy called James Peltier
Posts about this supposedly missing boy have appeared on Facebook groups all over the world, using a picture of a girl who has appeared on many fake appeals before.
Full Fact→ Dog pictured by rubble was not taken in Turkey earthquake aftermath
The picture is being shared in good faith but is a stock photo created years ago.
PolitiFact→ Mike Palicz – Check, please. Are IRS agents coming for servers’ tips?
The 87,000 new IRS agents who were supposed to “only target the rich” are now “coming after waitresses’ tips.”
Logically→ Thailand will ban Pfizer after booster vaccination caused Princess Bajrakitiyabha to fall into a coma.
There is no evidence that the princess' condition was caused by any vaccination and Thai officials have stated there are no plans to ban Pfizer.
Full Fact→ How does the UK’s GDP growth compare to the G7?
We looked into comparisons between the UK and the world’s largest economies after the Conservative party tweeted that it had the highest growth in the G7.
Logically→ Photo captures Rahul Gandhi with Hindenburg Research founder Nathan Anderson proving Congress hatched a “conspiracy” against the Adani group.
The photo was taken in 2018 when Gandhi met Germany's Minister of State Niels Annen, and not the founder of Hindenburg Research.
Logically→ This is an image of a rescue dog in Turkey after it saved 10 lives following the February 6 earthquake.
An old image of a rescue dog from 2014 is misrepresented to show that it is from the recent rescue operations from Turkey in 2023.
Logically→ Images shows rescue dogs searching for injured people under rubble after February 6 earthquake in Turkey.
Old stock photos of dogs from the Alamy website were falsely shared as rescue dogs in Turkey following the earthquake.
Logically→ Image shows the mosque attacked recently in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s Peshawar.
An image from a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan in 2021 has been falsely linked to the January 30 suicide bombing in Pakistan.
Logically→ This video shows cars on an overpass taken during the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey.
A video captured during Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been misattributed to the recent earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria.
Logically→ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಆಯೋಗವು ೨೦೨೩ ರ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವಿಧಾನಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿಯನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಿದೆ.
೨೦೧೮ ರ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ದಿನಾಂಕಗಳ ಛಾಯಾ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ಎಡಿಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ ೨೦೨೩ ರ ವಿಧಾನಸಭಾ ಚುನಾವಣೆಯ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿ ಎಂದು
The Dispatch→ Entitlements Under Attack?
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) during a news conference to discuss the ongoing negotiations over the national debt ceiling. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Lawmakers struggle to come up with a plan to rein in spending without cuts to Medicare and Socia
Logically→ Adani Group is being targeted since there are no calls for a Joint Parliamentary Committee into Wipro despite its share price falling by 45 percent.
Adani Group's share price fell abruptly due to fraud allegations, which prompted demands for a JPC investigation. Wipro's share price fell gradually.
The Dispatch→ Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story on Education Reform
(Stock photo from Getty Images.)It might seem like schools have been caught up in the culture wars, but an analysis of 2022 campaigns and election results shows that we can expect slow and steady reforms.The post Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story