Was former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal arrested for possessing child pornography? No, that's not true: The article is from a satirical website and is completely made up. It was originally published without a satire label but has been update
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Put His Hand On Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s Buttocks — The Photo Is Edited
Did President Joe Biden put his hand on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's buttocks while pausing for a photo op during Zelenskyy's December 2022 visit to the United States? No, that's not true: The original image was posted to Twi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Zelenskyy Did NOT Say ‘Butthole’ When Giving Biden A Medal
Did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy say the word "butthole" when giving President Joe Biden a medal at the White House? No, that's not true: Zelenskyy was saying "Pavlo," the name of the Ukrainian Army military captain who sent hi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO ‘Huge Army Of 2500000 Chechens’ Preparing ‘The End Of Russia’ Or Helping Putin In Ukraine
Is there a "huge army of 2500000 Chechens preparing the end of Russia" or helping "get Putin out of the bottleneck" in Ukraine? No, that's not true: The self-contradictory claim that fails to mention a source cites an unrealistic number e
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Electric Companies Do NOT Hate ‘Young Whizkid’ For Purported Power-Saving Invention
Is a "young whizkid" inventor shown in a social media video despised by electric companies for creating a device that "cuts 50% off an average home's power bill"? No, that's not true: The young man shown in the video is an inventor but no
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Hitler Was NOT Black NOR Does This Picture Prove He Was
Was Adolf Hitler, the head of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany, actually black and does this photo prove it? No, that's not true: This picture is a color photo converted into black and white from an episode of a TV sitcom called "Co
The Dispatch→ Christianity is Political, But Not in the Way You Think
(Photo by Wolfram Steinberg/picture alliance via Getty Images)Debates about Christian nationalism often misunderstand the fundamental role of the church. The post Christianity is Political, But Not in the Way You Think appeared first on The Dispatch.
AllSides→ How Twitter ‘tattles’ squealed on users for COVID ‘misinformation’
https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/how-twitter-tattles-squealed-on-users-for-covid-misinformation/ Twitter r
AllSides→ PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2022
https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/dec/26/politifacts-top-10-fact-checks-of-2022/ Throughout 2022,
AllSides→ White House Credits Biden With 750k Manufacturing Jobs ‘Boom’
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-white-house-biden-manufacturing-jobs-boom-1769321 President Joe Bid
PolitiFact→ PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2022
Many of our most popular fact-checks debunked misinformation found online through our partnership with Meta, with one claim from President Joe Biden cracking the list.
The Dispatch→ Pastors Are Ceding the Pulpit on Immigration
Migrants participate in church services at a shelter near U.S.-Mexico border area. (Photo by Carlos A. Moreno/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)The stakes are too high for them to stay silent.The post Pastors Are Ceding the Pulpit on Immigration appeared fir
Health Feedback→ Viral videos on Facebook promote unproven cancer cures; no evidence that pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. FDA are hiding the cure for cancer
REVIEW Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, with 19.3 million new cases and almost 10 million deaths in 2020[1]. Strong public interest in cancer treatments has led to recurrent promotion of scientifically unproven cancer reme
The Dispatch→ British History, According to Meghan
Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex in London, 2018. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)The Sussexes’ documentary trades in a self-serving simplification of Britain’s imperial past.The post British Hi
The Dispatch→ Into the Santaverse
How a couple of New Yorkers teamed up with Japanese animators to define Christmas specials for generations.The post Into the Santaverse appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Humbug! Exorcizing my Inner Scrooge
Scrooges Visit from Marley. Illustration by John Leech (1817-1864)Learning from old Ebeneezer to avoid going from being a grumbler to a grumble. The post Humbug! Exorcizing my Inner Scrooge appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Tomes for Christmas
The Dispatch staff's book recommendations for last minute Christmas presents.The post Tomes for Christmas appeared first on The Dispatch.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FBI File Does NOT Suggest 1994 Threat Letter To Joe Biden Was Written By JFK Jr.
Do records in an FBI file indicate that John F Kennedy Jr. wrote a letter in 1994 to then-Sen. Joe Biden calling him a traitor and also saying, "You must die"? No, that's not true: The FBI did investigate a threat letter sent from Worcest
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Rep. Scott Perry Did NOT Issue Statement That ‘Italian Satellites,’ CIA, Italian Government Stole Votes From Trump
Did Rep. Scott Perry make an official statement saying that "Italian satellites," the CIA and the Italian government collaborated to manipulate votes in President Joe Biden's favor? No, that's not true: According to Perry's office and a r
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Flu Vaccine Increases Strep A Infections, Contrary to Online Claims
SciCheck Digest Several European countries have reported an early spike of group A strep infections, mostly among children, including cases of rare but deadly bacterial infections. There is no evidence the increase is being caused by nasal spray fl
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Posts Misrepresent FDA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Research
SciCheck Digest A vaccine safety surveillance study from the Food and Drug Administration has been misrepresented online. The paper did not establish a link between the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots, as some have claimed — a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden’s Ex-COVID-19 Coordinator Jeff Zients Did NOT Die At Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta On December 21, 2022
Did former White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients die at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta in Cuba on December 21, 2022, after being arrested by the U.S. military? No, that's not true. This claim originated from an article published on a
Health Feedback→ Study led by FDA researchers didn’t find that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused blood clots, contrary to viral claims on social media
REVIEW An article published by the Epoch Times on 17 December 2022 claimed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is “linked to blood clots”. This claim is based on a study led by researc
Logically→ Over 12 Sikh Soldiers face court martial for raising ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ slogans during Rajnath Singh’s 2020 visit to the LoC.
An unrelated audio clip was played over a video from Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to the LoC in 2020.
Logically→ Photos show a snake found on an Air India Express flight on December 10, 2022.
While a snake was found on the Calicut-Dubai Air India flight, the photos claiming to show that are from an incident that took place in 2016 in Mexico
Logically→ The COVID-19 vaccines were created decades before the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccines are manufactured in large batches, which makes the production of more than 13 billion doses possible.
Logically→ Australia has introduced a social credit system for people to access the internet via a digital ID.
Australia is not introducing a social credit system. Unimplemented legislative proposals from 2021 to tackle online abuse have been misinterpreted.
Logically→ Global elites such as Bill Gates and Dr Fauci lied about the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines to control the population.
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives ever since they were introduced. There is no scientific evidence to prove that vaccines cause death.
The Dispatch→ By Arming Ukraine We Arm Ourselves
Cases of TNT and gunpowder shipped from the United States under Lend-Lease are stacked in a tunnel in western England. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images.)Remembering the lessons of World War II.The post By Arming Ukraine We Arm
The Dispatch→ The Alternative to Winning in Ukraine Is Endless War
A woman cries as she prepares to evacuate from Kherson. Weeks after liberation, Kherson and surrounding villages are bombarded daily by Russian troops. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images.)Advocates for a hasty peace are wrong to think Russia w
The Dispatch→ The FTC’s Misguided Case Against Meta
FTC Commissioner Lina Khan. (Photo by Graeme Jennings/AFP/Getty Images.)Its attempt to block the acquisition of a virtual-reality app maker is more about going after Big Tech than about protecting consumers.The post The FTC’s Misguided Case Against
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dramatic Lenticular Cloud Layers Do NOT Signal End Of World Or Even Storm
Does this short video of a dramatic layered cloud demonstrate "what the end of the world looks like" -- is it an impending scary natural disaster? No, that's not true: While we can't predict what the end of the world will look like, the c
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Did NOT Trigger Removal Of 44,000 Child Sexual Exploitation Pages ‘In Just India Alone’
Did Twitter remove "over 44,000 Twitter pages involved with child sexual exploitation -- in just India alone" since Elon Musk took over the company? No, that's not true: Such large numbers came from global totals, not from India alone. Al
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Buy Donald Trump’s Truth Social
Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk purchase former President Donald Trump's Truth Social in December 2022? No, that's not true: A video shared on Facebook claimed in the headline that Musk had bought the social media platform, but a voiceover narr
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chick-fil-A Did NOT Just Donate ‘Another $1.8 Million To Anti-LGBTQ Groups’
Did Chick-fil-A just donate "another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups"? No, that's not true: The claim is a copy of a headline first published in 2019. The old story reported the fast food chain donated a combined $1.8 million to the Fel
Truth or Fiction?→ Vintage Union Christmas Cartoon
On December 22 2022, an Imgur account shared the following image of what appeared to be a vintage Christmas cartoon illustrating benefits offered by unions to working class Americans: No contextual information was supplied alongside the image, which
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘Human Clone Robot Factory’
Does a video shared on social media show an authentic "human clone robot factory"? No, that's not true: The video shared on Instagram and Facebook in December 2022 showed a prosthetics studio used in the making of props for television and
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tesla Has NOT Launched New Cryptocurrency
Did Tesla launch a new cryptocurrency that will rapidly turn a £200 ($240) investment into thousands in just days? No, that's not true: This deceptive ad is not associated with Tesla. Although Tesla has invested in cryptocurrency, and Do
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet That Tesla Was Forced To Recall Its Entire Fleet
Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweet that Tesla, his electric-vehicle and sustainable-energy company, was forced to recall its entire fleet? No, that's not true: The tweet was posted by a parody account impersonating Musk, the CEO of Tesla. Th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Almond Milk Does NOT Contain Dangerous Levels Of Cyanide
Do almonds and almond milk contain dangerous amounts of the poisonous chemical compound cyanide? No, that's not true: Both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a professor of bioproducts and biosystems engineering told Lead Stories