Large machinery is “required to move 500,000 pounds of earth in order to get the minerals needed for one single Tesla car battery.”
Truth or Fiction?→ Ex-WWE Head Vince McMahon Planning ‘Comeback’: Report
The disgraced former public face of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is mulling over a return to public life even as sexual assault allegations against him persist, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The newspaper reported that representativ
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Toxin-Laced Tissue Was Placed In Georgia Gas Pump Handle By Human Traffickers
Did police in Kennesaw, Georgia, investigate a toxin-laced tissue that was reportedly placed on a gas pump handle by human traffickers to incapacitate their victims? No, that's not true: Lead Stories contacted two law enforcement agencies
FactCheck.org→ Blood Transfusion Doesn’t Transfer COVID-19 Vaccine
SciCheck Digest A blood transfusion from a vaccinated person doesn’t transfer the inoculation to an unvaccinated person. But high-profile purveyors of misinformation have been promoting the long-standing false claim that it does.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Say Ex-Twitter CEO Took Millions In Censorship Kickbacks From Democrats
Did Elon Musk tweet that Democrats paid former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey millions of dollars to block or delete the pages of people who posted about Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 election? No, that's not true: Lead Stories could fin
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, the war in Ukraine isn’t over
The war in Ukraine is “all over.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, this isn’t a video of Chuck Grassley telling Joe Biden to resign
This video shows Chuck Grassley demanding Joe Biden’s “resignation.”
AllSides→ Is ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout a Terrorist?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/12/13/fact-check-is-merchant-of-death-viktor-bout-a-terrorist-n2617054
AllSides→ Post falsely claims that Maricopa County lost 291,390 Election Day votes
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/13/fact-check-false-claim-maricopa-county-lost-291-390-votes/10841984002/
AllSides→ Hunter Biden’s Laptop and ‘Twitter Files’—What We Do Know, What We Don’t
https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-laptop-twitter-files-1765395 The recent release of a trove of em
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Murdered US Senate Aide Harold Rosenthal Did NOT Expose Jewish Plot For World Domination Before His Death
Did Harold Rosenthal, a U.S. Senate aide killed in a 1976 terrorist attack, expose before he died a clandestine Jewish plot to become global "task masters"? No, that's not true: The claim is part of an antisemitic hoax that white supremac
FactCheck.org→ Bernie Sanders Overstates Number of Americans Without Health Insurance
Explaining why he is likely to vote against an $858 billion defense spending bill, Sen. Bernie Sanders wrongly stated that there are “85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” The government estimate is about 27 million. The Ve
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Vote count changes after polls closed in Georgia aren’t evidence of election fraud
Early vote counts after the polls closed in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff are evidence of election fraud.
PolitiFact→ Bernie Sanders – Bernie Sanders said 85 million Americans have no health insurance. That includes underinsured
“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: WEF Is NOT Calling For Slaughter Of Millions Of Pet Cats, Dogs To Fight Climate Change
Is the World Economic Forum (WEF) calling for a new initiative to "slaughter" millions of cats and dogs in order to decrease the effects of climate change? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that this is a real WEF initiative. News
Truth or Fiction?→ Study Contrasts COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Traffic Crash Risk
On December 13 2022, a post to Reddit’s r/science posted a link to a study examining a possible link between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the likelihood of car crashes: Adults who neglect COVID-19 health recommendations may also neg
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – There’s no evidence linking COVID-19 vaccine to these athletes’ strokes, blood clots
Recent blood clots or strokes in four major athletes are an unwanted effect of COVID-19 vaccines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Jen Psaki Did NOT Announce ‘Inflation Relief’ In December 2022 For Americans Making Less Than $50,000
Did Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, announce in December 2022 that the U.S. Senate has approved "Monthly Health Credits" or "Inflation Relief For Americans Making Less Than $50 000/year"? No, that's
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Chuck Norris Was ‘Fighting For His Life’ As Of December 13, 2022
Was Hollywood action film star and martial artist Chuck Norris "fighting for his life" and hospitalized as of December 13, 2022? No, that's not true: No credible news organizations had reported the 82-year-old Norris as hospitalized and o
Full Fact→ Post seeking help to identify unconscious man in hospital is fake
Several posts using different pictures are in circulation but their identities are all known.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Machine Does NOT Break Laws Of Physics, CANNOT Power Your House For Free
Did a generator made out of magnets and a battery lead to an astonishing discovery that breaks the laws of physics? No, that's not true: A perpetual motion machine would violate the laws of thermodynamics. Two Australian inventors claimed
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Special Forces Did NOT Arrest World Economic Forum Chief Klaus Schwab For Ordering Genocide Via COVID-19 Vaccines
Did U.S. Special Forces arrest World Economic Forum (WEF) Chairman Klaus Schwab because he ordered the genocide of 90 percent of the world's population by forcing them to get vaccinated against COVID-19? No, that's not true: A WEF spokesm
Full Fact→ Survey didn’t find one in ten young people plan ‘never’ to work
The figure used by Rod Liddle in a Sun column only describes the percentage of those who are already not working. The true proportion is more like one in 25.
Health Feedback→ No, a German “autopsy report” didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines as “likely” cause of sudden deaths
REVIEW Social media posts claiming that there has been a spike in people who “died suddenly” due to COVID-19 vaccination made the rounds in late November 2022, thanks to a popular film that rehashed debunked claims about COVID-19 vaccines and co
Full Fact→ Online Safety Bill – Government has removed vital health misinformation protections
The Government had long promised that the Online Safety Bill would protect us from harm online. And until this recent Government announcement, that included the harms from online health misinformatio
Logically→ A photo shows Chinese soldiers killed in the clash with Indian troops in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang on December 9, 2022.
The photo shows the coffins of people killed in a grassland fire in China in December 2010 and has no connection with the December 9 clash.
Logically→ Recent videos show the face-off between India and China in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector.
Old videos have been falsely shared, claiming to show the recent skirmish between Indian and Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh.
Logically→ Angry over price rise and unemployment, locals stopped Paresh Rawal from campaigning in Gujarat.
The video is from 2017 and is unrelated to the 2022 Gujarat elections. Rawal was apologizing to the Rajput community for a remark he made in Rajkot.
Logically→ The World Economic Forum has proposed a new initiative to slaughter pets, aiming to fight climate change by reducing the “carbon pawprint.”
No, the WEF has not called for an initiative to kill pets to fight climate change.
Logically→ The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines was exaggerated to boost pharma profits.
News articles and studies on COVID-19 have been edited misleadingly, out of chronological order, to suggest that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective.
Full Fact→ Government’s £28 billion public sector pay increase figure doesn’t factor in money returned in tax
The government says it would cost £28 billion, or £1,000 per household, to increase public sector pay in line with inflation next year. But many of the current disputes are about this year’s pay.
Logically→ By projecting the text “Gaza is in our hearts” on a building, Qatar is supporting Palestine amid the World Cup.
Qatar does support Palestine, but an August 2022 video is being shared to claim the country is making a statement during the ongoing world cup.
PolitiFact→ Lie of the Year 2022: Putin’s lies to wage war and conceal horror in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin lies. This is not a revelation, we know. But in 2022, Putin’s lies about Ukraine and the war he waged there killed thousands of people, drove millions from their homes and sought to blindfold his country to these atrocities.
PolitiFact→ They were whoppers: A look back at PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, 2009 to 2021
PolitiFact uses the word "lie" only once a year. Here's a look back at all the Lie of the Year awardees going back to 2009.
PolitiFact→ We asked, you answered: PolitiFact readers’ choice for the 2022 Lie of the Year
We asked, you answered: PolitiFact readers’ choice 2022 Lie of the Year
The Dispatch→ The Price of Putin’s War
Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images.)From activism to retrenchment in the Middle East.The post The Price of Putin’s War appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ An England fan bore a “More importantly, free Palestine” tattoo during a FIFA World Cup 2022 match.
The original image of the England fan is from a UEFA Euro match in 2016. The photo has been edited, and shared falsely with a pro-Palestine tattoo.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Druthers Article Provides NO Evidence ’80 Canadian MDs Vaxxed And Dead’ After Receiving COVID-19 Shot
Did 80 Canadian doctors die after being vaccinated for COVID-19? No, that's not true: As of December 12, 2022, there had been no COVID vaccine caused deaths - of doctors or non-doctors - in Canada, according to the national public health
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ZIP Codes For 31,000 Mail-In Ballots Were NOT Changed In Arizona
Were ZIP codes for 31,000 mail-in ballots changed before they were sent out, quietly changed back when they were returned as undeliverable and then fraudulently used to vote in Arizona? No, that's not true: The secretary of state's office
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Birth Certificate/Social Security Number’ DO NOT Turn Babies Into ‘Property/Ward’ Of ‘That State’
Does a birth certificate or a Social Security number turn a person into the property or a ward of the state? No, that's not true: The claim misrepresents the nature of a highly publicized case in New Zealand in which the judge ruled that