A San Francisco television station’s story about an “endemic” phase to the COVID-19 pandemic alarmed disability experts and advocates. The story, aired by KGO-TV on May 22 2023, features Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine an
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PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – Bannon’s ‘War Room’ mixes up labs in Sudan and South Sudan
Fauci, DOD and CDC funded deadly pathogen research at Sudan lab
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Ban COVID-19 Vaccines
Did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban COVID-19 vaccines in April 2023? No, that's not true: On April 18, 2023, the agency amended its previous emergency use authorizations (EUAs) to remove authorization for monovalent vaccin
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Images Of Jeffrey Epstein With Children On Beach Are NOT Real Photos — AI Generated
Did a photo recently surface that shows Jeffrey Epstein posing with four children on a tropical beach? No, that's not true: This is not a real photo but an image created with the AI program Midjourney. This image, and another in the same
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Switzerland Did NOT Order ‘Immediate Halt’ To COVID-19 Vaccinations Claiming ‘More Harm Than Good’
Did Switzerland health officials declare in April 2023 that COVID-19 vaccines do "more harm than good" and order an "immediate halt" to immunizations? No, that's not true: In a statement, the Swiss government reported that 98 percent of t
Health Feedback→ COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause miscarriages or stillbirths contrary to misleading interpretations of VAERS data
REVIEW Vaccine misinformation founded on misleading presentations of data from adverse event databases are still going strong on social media. One example of this is a graph posted by Instagram users in March 2023, depicting a sharp increase in misc
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: ‘Pope Drip’ Image Is NOT Real — Photo of Pope Francis In White Puffer Coat Is An AI Creation
Did Pope Francis appear walking on the street wearing a high-fashion white puffer coat? No, that's not true: This image is one of a series of four AI-generated images which were posted on the subreddit forum r/midjourney, "an official sub
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Scientists Received Grant for Changing Opinion on Pandemic Origins, Contrary to Claims
In 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded 11 grants to scientists so they could investigate how and where infectious agents emerge from wildlife and cause illness in humans. Although the grants were r
FactCheck.org→ Posts Fabricate Charge Against Bill Gates in Philippines
SciCheck Digest Social media posts make the unfounded claim that the Heinous Crimes Court in the Philippines issued a warrant for Bill Gates’ arrest for “‘premeditated murder’ linked to vaccine roll out.” That court no
Health Feedback→ Viral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
REVIEW In late February 2023, posts and memes stating “we were right about everything” and listing several COVID-19-related topics went viral on social media platforms. Almost identical iterations of the list circulated widely on Facebook, Insta
FactCheck.org→ Still No Determination on COVID-19 Origin
SciCheck Digest Most U.S. intelligence agencies assess a spillover from an animal is most likely the origin of COVID-19, but recent news reports say the Energy Department now favors the lab-leak hypothesis. Online posts wrongly claim this means a l
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence Pfizer Conducting Any Inappropriate Coronavirus Experiments
SciCheck Digest Scientists say the experiments Pfizer has performed on the coronavirus are standard for the industry. Baseless claims that the company is mutating the virus for profit, however, have been circulating since the release of a
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mother Teresa Did NOT Sell Babies, But Workers In Her Charity Were Accused Of Sales Decades After Her Death
Did Mother Teresa sell children from her shelters in India? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to support that claim, but a nun and another worker at a shelter for unwed mothers run by Mother Teresa's charity were arrested in 2018 a
FactCheck.org→ Magic Johnson Did Not Contract HIV from a Vaccine, Contrary to Online Claim
SciCheck Digest Since his diagnosis in 1991, NBA player Magic Johnson has repeatedly said he contracted HIV through sexual transmission. But a viral social media post by a spreader of vaccine misinformation falsely claims that Johnson was exposed t
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Magic Johnson did not contract HIV from a contaminated vaccine
Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV "because Fauci’s gain of function study used a contaminated Hepatitis B vaccine."
FactCheck.org→ No Surge in Athlete Deaths, Contrary to Widespread Anti-Vaccine Claims
SciCheck Digest Sports medicine experts say there has been no increase in sudden death or cardiac injury among U.S. athletes since the COVID-19 vaccines became available. Yet anti-vaccine campaigners, comparing unreliable numbers to an unrelated st
Health Feedback→ Evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of death, contrary to claim by financier Edward Dowd
REVIEW In a video published on 4 January 2023, businessman and podcaster Aubrey Marcus interviewed Edward Dowd, a former investment portfolio manager at BlackRock, regarding his book “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022
FactCheck.org→ DeSantis’ Dubious COVID-19 Vaccine Claims
While announcing a request for a grand jury probe into “crimes and wrongdoing” related to the COVID-19 vaccines, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his panel of contrarian experts repeatedly suggested the shots were too risky. But such claims are unsup
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Causes Blood Clots’
Did the Food and Drug Administration report that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine "causes" blood clots? No, that's not true: In remarks to Lead Stories, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that the vaccine meets its safety s
FactCheck.org→ The Whoppers of 2022
Summary The midterm elections are finally over, but it won’t be long before the 2024 campaign cycle — which will really start in 2023 — gets going. Before that happens, we’ve put together this list of the year’s bigges
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Twenty-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Die After Receiving COVID Vaccine
Did a 20-year-old woman from Kansas die shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: Although Regan Lewis did experience cardiac arrest and die shortly after receiving a vaccine, Regan's mother Connie Lewis clarified t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: White House Did NOT Pick ‘Satan Worshipper’ to ‘Oversee American Health’
Did President Joe Biden choose a "Satan worshipper" to oversee the health of Americans? No, that's not true: Biden picked Dr. Demetre Daskalakis to serve as the deputy coordinator of a national health response team for a single disease, m
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New COVID Death Data Does NOT Prove Vaccines Are ‘Experimental Toxin’ Causing ‘A Majority Of COVID Deaths’
Does a newly released dataset show that COVID-19 is a deadly "experimental toxin"? And does Dr. Anthony Fauci's resignation have anything to do with it? No, neither are true: the claims recycle old falsehoods based on a distortion of publ
FactCheck.org→ Post Omits Paxlovid’s Ability to Protect Against Severe COVID-19, Death
SciCheck Digest Paxlovid, Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral pill, has been shown to prevent severe COVID-19 and death. An online post alleging the drug is a “fraud” and “should be taken off the market” neglects to mention this important informa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Movie ‘Died Suddenly’ Does NOT Demonstrate That COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Sudden Death
Does the movie "Died Suddenly" demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccinations cause widespread sudden death or severe medical outcomes? No, that's not true: The film recycles previously debunked claims that the vaccine is lethal or dangerous for
Health Feedback→ HIV infection is the cause of AIDS; persistent HIV/AIDS denialism relies on false information and is potentially deadly
REVIEW Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); an estimated 40.1 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the beginning of
Health Feedback→ Death of a four-year-old boy in Argentina was due to lung infection, contrary to social media posts implying vaccination was the cause
REVIEW On 13 November 2022, the website the Western Journal published an article with the headline “Poster Boy for Vaccination Campaign Dies Suddenly at Just 4 Years Old”. Posts sharing screenshots of this headline and the photo of a chi
FactCheck.org→ The 2022 FactCheck Awards
Summary We are very serious fact-checkers, but we also like to have a bit of fun. That’s why every two years, on Election Day, we recognize a few of the many political ads we see during the campaign cycle with some not-to-be-taken-seriously award
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: George Soros Did NOT Fund Purchase Of Voting Machines To Rig 2022 Election
Did billionaire philanthropist George Soros fund the purchase of voting machines in order to rig the 2022 midterm elections? No, that's not true: Elections are funded by taxpayer dollars and Soros has no connections to voting machine or v
Health Feedback→ 2014 study by Dyall et al. is an in vitro study; clinical trials showed hydroxychloroquine is ineffective against COVID-19 in people
REVIEW On 31 October 2022, The Epoch Times released a preview video of an interview with Meryl Nass, an internal medicine physician, as part of its program American Thought Leaders. The full interview was released the following day; the full transcr
FactCheck.org→ Flu Vaccines Given to Prevent Disease, Not Just to Support Pandemic Vaccine Manufacturing
SciCheck Digest Seasonal influenza vaccines are recommended because they help prevent illness and death. Dr. Robert Malone incorrectly suggested that the annual shots are only given in the U.S. to support vaccine manufacturing in case of an in
Truth or Fiction?→ Lara Logan Rant Results in Newsmax Ban, Statement
Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was banned from far-right American cable network Newsmax in October 2022 after a bizarre antisemitic rant on October 19 2022 — the latest in a long string of appearances featuring escalating, fully conspi
FactCheck.org→ Social Media Claims Misrepresent Boston U. Study of What Causes Severity of COVID-19 Strains
SciCheck Digest To study the role of the spike protein in the severity of COVID-19 illnesses, researchers exposed 10 mice prone to develop severe disease to a hybrid version of the virus. Eight mice died. Social media posts say researchers created a da
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Claims About Ivermectin From Rep. Paul Gosar
Rep. Paul Gosar. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.)A viral tweet from Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, a frequent purveyor of misinformation, claims that: “Ivermectin worked as a therapeutic treatment for Covid.” Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS
Health Feedback→ Claim that hydroxychloroquine is an effective early treatment for COVID-19 isn’t supported by evidence from clinical trials
REVIEW As of 22 September 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two treatments for patients with COVID-19, the antiviral remdesivir and the immune modulator baricitimib. The FDA has also given Emergency Use Authorization (EU
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Did NOT Win Supreme Court Ruling On COVID Vaccine Causing ‘Irreparable’ Harm — There’s No Case
Did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. win a Supreme Court lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies and prove that the COVID-19 vaccine does irreparable damage? No, that's not true: No such case was found in the Supreme Court docket. Lead Stories has
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in a COVID Vaccine Trial Miscarry?
(Md Rafayat Haque Khan / Eyepix G/Future Publishing via Getty Images)An article from the Florida Standard falsely claims that 44 percent of pregnant women who took part in Pfizer’s COVID vaccine trial miscarried. The claim, the article notes, com
FactCheck.org→ Post Makes Baseless Allegations About Public Health Response to Monkeypox Outbreak
SciCheck Digest A post published in English and Spanish repeats the debunked idea that the current monkeypox outbreak might have resulted from a virus that was created in a lab. The post also baselessly alleges that the World Health Organization’s de
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Is the CDC Advocating for a Hybrid ‘CovidPox’ Vaccine?
CDC Director Rochelle Wallensky. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.)An article from Real Raw News, a self-described “independent publisher” that “explores content often avoided by the mainstream media,” claims: “CDC Pushes
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Bill Gates Executed In July 2013
Did Bill Gates die in July 2013? Was he executed by Africans and Indians who had adverse reactions to incorrect shots they were given by Gates? No, neither of those claims are true: Gates is not a medical practitioner and would not be all