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Washington Post→ DEA said it seized enough fentanyl to kill us all. The claim adds up.
DEA officials revealed how they calculated the headline-making statistic.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Publish A Story Linking Hamlin’s Collapse To COVID-19 Vaccine
Did CNN publish a news article that linked Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse to the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the news network confirmed to Lead Stories by email that the media outlet ne
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Headline about Damar Hamlin’s doctor connecting cardiac arrest to COVID-19 vaccine is fake
CNN reported that Damar Hamlin’s doctor confirmed his cardiac arrest was caused by a COVID-19 vaccine booster.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden is halfway through his term. Here's how many campaign promises he's kept so far
PolitiFact has been tracking Biden’s campaign promises since his first day in office. He has kept many promises around health care, but has been less successful on pledges about criminal justice and has a mixed record on immigration.
The Dispatch→ File the Discharge Petition Now
A screen shows the national debt clock after the US.. hit its debt limit and the Treasury started using “extraordinary measures” to avoid default on January 19, 2023. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.)Or soon.The post File the Disc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Borax Is NOT Safe, Effective Treatment For Parasites
Is ingesting Borax a reliable treatment for parasites that can yield "good results"? No, that's not true: Borax, which is often used as a cleaning product, can cause nausea and vomiting if ingested or inhaled. In higher doses, it can caus
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Hunter Biden paid $50,000 in rent for office space in DC, not to his father to live at Delaware home
Document shows that Hunter Biden paid Joe Biden $50,000 a month in rent.
Truth or Fiction?→ Amazon Ending Amazon Smile
On January 19 2023, a popular post on r/technology indicated Amazon was ending a service called “Amazon Smile,” its charitable donations program: Amazon discontinues charity donation program amid cost cuts from technology
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Climate activist Greta Thunberg didn’t stage her recent detention in Germany, police say
Greta Thunberg staged an arrest in Germany.
PolitiFact→ The debt limit fight: Why does it matter? How could it be resolved?
If the limit isn’t raised or suspended, the U.S. won’t be able to cover its bills — checks to older Americans and veterans and payments to bondholders. A default would ripple through the U.S. economy and global financial markets. How can it be av
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Anti-Zelenskyy Graffiti Did NOT Appear In London On January 18, 2023
Did new graffiti negatively portraying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appear in London? No, that's not true: Based on analysis of open-source data, Lead Stories identified the location of the purported drawing as Lindt Home of Ch
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Comedian Joan Rivers was wrong about the Obamas
Joan Rivers was killed for revealing that Barack Obama is gay and Michelle Obama is transgender.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022’
On January 18 2023, an Imgur account submitted screenshots of an article with the headline, “A Georgia Republican Brags That Voter Suppression Helped Them in 2022”: Saying the quiet part out loud again The post was titled “Saying th
PolitiFact→ Morgan Luttrell – U.S. emergency oil reserve at lowest level since 1983
"Biden drained America's Strategic Petroleum Reserves to the lowest level since 1984."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Consumers Will NOT Get $500 Target Gift Card As A ‘Settlement’ For High Prices — It’s A Scam
As a "settlement" for raising prices "unfairly," is Target giving out $500 gift cards to people who shopped with them during the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022 and who will answer three questions? No, that's not true: A Target spokesperson
The Dispatch→ Accountability and the Air Traffic Control Debacle (That I Experienced Firsthand)
Cancelled flights are seen on the billboard at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington D.C., United States on January 11, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.)There is an obvious way to implement urgently needed refo
The Dispatch→ Extraordinary Measures
“It’s like running with scissors on a tight rope.”The post Extraordinary Measures appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lowe’s Is NOT Handing Out KitchenAid Mixers For $2 To Women Over 35
As a "settlement" for "gender discrimination," is Lowe's handing out $2 KitchenAid mixers to women over the age of 35 who respond to four questions? No, that's not true: A spokesman for Lowe's denied the claim, and there is no evidence th
Full Fact→ Which regions receive the most levelling up funding?
Claims about the disproportionate allocation of funding have circulated in the wake of the new levelling up awards.
Full Fact→ Mice study didn’t show flu vaccine causes strep A
A 2014 study has been repeatedly used to falsely claim that nasal flu vaccines can cause strep A infections.
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – Trump is wrong; Biden did have the right to declassify records as VP
Joe Biden as vice president didn't "have the right to declassify" documents.
Full Fact→ £95k average headteacher salary refers only to state secondary schools
The Daily Express repeated a claim made by education secretary Gillian Keegan last month about headteacher salaries, which failed to clarify the figure referred only to those in secondary schools
FactCheck.org→ Timeline of Biden’s Classified Documents
During a “60 Minutes” interview back on Sept. 18, CBS’ Scott Pelley asked President Joe Biden what he thought about the recently released image of top-secret documents that FBI agents had discovered during a search of former Presiden
Poynter→ Rappler has been cleared of tax evasion charges
Rappler, a leading news and fact-checking organization in the Philippines, just won a consolidated tax evasion lawsuit that has been ongoing for four years. Though there are still charges pending, […] The post Rappler has been cleared of tax evas
Logically→ This video shows the Ukraine helicopter crash that killed 14 people on January 18, 2023.
A video of a helicopter crashed in Dallas in March 2022 has been misinterpreted to be from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Full Fact→ MP wrong to claim UK offers 52 weeks maternity pay
It’s statutory maternity leave that can be a year long, but statutory maternity pay only covers 39 weeks.
Logically→ Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stole original copy of the Brazil 1988 Constitution.
The copy taken by protestors during the January 8 riots was a replica of the original Constitution. The original copy is in a museum and was unharmed.
The Dispatch→ The Dog Died
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) leaves the U.S. Capitol on January 12, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.)Curious George and the limits of populist grift.The post The Dog Died appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ Canadian doctors are dying at record rates due to the COVID-19 vaccine.
No data could be found to suggest Canadian doctors are dying at record rates, and 80 did not die due to the COVID-19 vaccines.
The Dispatch→ China’s Looming Demographic Crisis
A staff member helps a child put on a mask as she holds a Communist Party of China flag. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)Beijing reported population decline for the first time in decades—the long-term economic impact could prove painful.The post C
Poynter→ Social Security does add to federal budget deficit, despite claims to the contrary
In a “Dear Republican Party” Facebook post, the group Occupy Democrats suggested that the GOP would use federal deficits and debt as a false pretense for cutting Social Security. “Social […] The post Social Security does add to
Logically→ An image from the recent economic crisis in Pakistan shows people standing in line waiting for food.
A 2010 image of Pakistan flood victims waiting for food and water in Sukkur has been falsely shared as the recent economic crisis in Pakistan.
The Dispatch→ There Is No Painless Way to Balance the Budget
A protester calls for a tax increase on the wealthy outside Ted Cruz’s Houston office. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images.)‘Taxing the rich’ and cutting ‘woke’ programs won’t come close to getting the job done.The post There Is No Painless Wa
The Dispatch→ Handling Classified Documents 101
A binder containing classified material marked Secret sits on the witness table during a Senate hearing. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)How Joe Biden’s classified material should have been handled at the end of the Obama administr
The Dispatch→ Brazil’s New President Starts His Term on a Tightrope
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.(Photo credit should read Luis Barron / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing/.Getty Images)Lula quelled an insurrection, but he still must figure out how to contend with a divided populace and looming fiscal cha
Logically→ A video from the 2023 Indonesia earthquake shows hikers falling.
A September 2022 video from Taiwan has been misattributed to be of the 2023 Indonesia earthquake.
Logically→ A leopard was spotted inside Mysore’s CFTRI building in January 2023.
The video claiming to show a leopard inside the CFTRI facility is not from Mysuru. The incident occurred at Hetero Pharmaceuticals in Telangana.
Washington Post→ McCarthy puts a spin on spending math to justify debt limit fight
The House speaker relied on numbers that don’t tell the full story of what happened — and how the GOP-controlled Congress boosted spending.
The Dispatch→ The Spinach Wars
Reality has a tendency of intruding on financial models. The post The Spinach Wars appeared first on The Dispatch.