The public health order Title 42 is "the last tool Border Patrol has to stop the overwhelming flood of illegal immigrants pouring into our country.”
Snopes→ Snapchat’s Parent Company Cutting 20% of Staff
CEO Evan Spiegel said sales were not keeping up with earlier projections.
PolitiFact→ Ask PolitiFact: Is homeownership harder for Black Americans to achieve?
After President Joe Biden mentioned Black homeownership in a speech about student loan forgiveness, talk show host Dan Bongino questioned whether it is harder for Black Americans to own homes. Data and history show that it is and always has been.
Snopes→ Is Starbucks Going Cashless in UK, US, and Canada?
A picture of a sign taken inside a Starbucks store read, "We're Going Cashless." A closer look hinted that there was more to the story.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Document doesn't prove Biden 'lied' about Mar-a-Lago probe
"Documents prove White House behind entire FBI targeting of Trump. Biden lied."
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The IRS is not expanding its workforce because of Biden’s student loan forgiveness
The IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents to police people who will owe more federal tax after having their student loans forgiven.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Injured Young Man IS NOT Unidentified — It’s A Ruse To Trick People To Share The Post
Was a young man who was not carrying any identification hit by a car locally, and is the public's help now needed to identify him? No, that's not true: The teen in the photo was involved in a serious crash with a car on June 8, 2022, whil
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Viral post falsely claims Fox News sought the legal right to lie
Fox News sought the legal "right to tell lies."
Snopes→ Box of Reptiles Mailed to the Wrong Address in New York
Several live lizards were wrongly delivered to a residence in a village north of New York City.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – The Earth spun a little faster recently, but scientists aren’t ‘gravely concerned’
“The Earth just started spinning faster than ever before and scientists are gravely concerned.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Putin no ha anunciado que está arrepentido de invadir Ucrania
El Presidente de Rusia Vladimir Putin “anuncia que se arrepiente de invadir Ucrania”.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Outdated report misconstrues UK’s COVID-19 vaccine guidance around pregnancy
The U.K. is no longer recommending the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for pregnant women.
PolitiFact→ American Action Network – Most relief from Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan flows to lower-income borrowers, not higher
Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is a "bailout for rich kids."
Snopes→ Long COVID: How Researchers Are Zeroing in on the Self-Targeted Immune Attacks that May Lurk Behind It
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention focused on reports of harmful inflammation.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, an FEC filing doesn’t mean Joe Biden has announced he’s running again
An obscure filing with the Federal Election Commission shows Biden has formally announced his bid for another term.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Sen. Lindsey Graham Grilling FBI Director Christopher Wray On The Mar-a-Lago Raid
Does a Facebook video capture a scene showing Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina demanding that FBI Director Christopher Wray disclose the name of the person who ordered the raid of Donald Trump's residence in Florida? No, t
Snopes→ Did a High School Football Team Lead the National Anthem After Being Told It Wouldn’t Be Played?
According to a popular article that was shared in 2022, events that occurred in 2019 were inspired by news from 2020. Confused yet?
Snopes→ Ambitious ‘Lord of the Rings’ Prequel Hopes to Slay Dragons
Amazon Prime Video will debut both the first two “The Rings of Power” episodes on Friday.
Snopes→ No. 3 Maria Sakkari Out As Another Top Player Falls At US Open
Sakkari was ousted by Wang Xiyu of China in the second round.
Truth or Fiction?→ Jackson, Mississippi ‘Indefinitely’ Out of Water
On August 30 2022, a post to Reddit’s r/news claimed that the city of Jackson, Mississippi was without water for an unknown period of time: Jackson, Mississippi, water system is failing, city to be with no or little drinking water inde
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Biden didn’t threaten to kill a former Ukrainian president
Joe Biden threatened to assassinate Ukraine’s former president.
Snopes→ UN Weather Agency Predicts Rare ‘Triple-Dip’ La Nina in 2022
La Nina conditions involve a large-scale cooling of ocean surface temperatures.
Snopes→ Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Large Tusk of Ancient Elephant
One archaeologist described the discovery as "very puzzling, very enigmatic."
Snopes→ WHO: New COVID Cases, Deaths Keep Falling Nearly Everywhere
The U.N. health agency said there were 4.5 million new COVID-19 cases reported last week, a 16% drop from the previous week.
Snopes→ Obstruction Emerges As Key Focus in Trump Documents Probe
The Justice Department says classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Trump’s Florida estate.
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PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Rumors spread that Starbucks is turning its stores cashless, but that’s not quite right
“Starbucks just announced that they’re going cashless.”
Full Fact→ No plans for Starbucks to go cashless across the UK
Claims that the coffee chain is due to go cashless in October have been shared thousands of times.
Full Fact→ This ‘injured dog’ has not been found in your area
Multiple posts with the same text using a picture of a dog from a 2021 news article are being shared on Facebook.
Full Fact→ Pregnant and breastfeeding women are still advised to get the Covid-19 vaccine
The advice has not been “quietly changed” as some online have claimed.
PolitiFact→ Charlie Kirk – Some university endowments are taxed. There are limits on how endowment funds can be spent
“Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.”
Snopes→ US Clears Updated COVID Boosters Targeting Newest Variants
The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.
Snopes→ Fans of Princess Diana Gather to Mark Her Death 25 Years Ago
Fans of the late Princess Diana placed tributes outside the gates of her Kensington Palace home on Wednesday, marking the 25th anniversary of her death in a Paris car accident.
Snopes→ As Floods Recede In Pakistan, Fears Over Waterborne Diseases Rise
Some doctors said initially they were seeing mostly patients traumatized by the flooding, but are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other waterborne ailments.
AllSides→ Timeline of FBI Investigation of Trump’s Handling of Highly Classified Documents
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/timeline-of-fbi-investigation-of-trumps-handling-of-highly-classified-documents/
Snopes→ Researchers Are Collecting Never-Before-Seen Holocaust Photos. Here’s a Look.
Found in attics and archives, the images are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking a Viral Photo of Dr. Mehmet Oz
A viral image purports to show Trump-endorsed Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz, standing next to a person holding an Oz campaign sign flipped sideways. It appears as though the person in the image is holding a sign that says “no,” instead of &#
Logically→ The Indian courts ordered the release of those convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering members of her family in 2002.
The 11 men who raped riot victim Bilkis Bano and killed members of her family were released by a panel formed by Gujarat Government, not the courts.
Poynter→ Is Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan legal?
President Joe Biden has made a long-awaited decision on how to handle student debt. On Aug. 24 Biden announced that his administration will waive student loan debt for qualifying Americans […] The post Is Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness pl
Full Fact→ Video does not show an aircraft spraying ‘massive’ chemtrails behind it
Specific lighting and atmospheric conditions make the vapour cloud look especially dense.