Are COVID-19 PCR tests "linked to human cloning"? No, that's not true. There is no evidence confirming that human cloning ever occurred. A study cited in a video making the claim never discussed PCR tests used during the pandemic because
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Tweet He Is ‘Buying Snapchat And Deleting All The Filters’
Did Twitter CEO Elon Musk announce in a tweet that he is "buying Snapchat and deleting all the filters"? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence to suggest that Musk said or tweeted such a statement. The "tweet" in th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Morgan Freeman Did NOT Announce Conversion To Islam
Did actor Morgan Freeman announce after performing at the 2022 World Cup that he has converted to Islam? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Freeman ever publicly confirmed that he converted to Islam. The claim appeared in a Fa
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
PolitiFact→ Kevin McCarthy – Fact-checking Kevin McCarthy on what Donald Trump said about Nick Fuentes
"I think President Trump came out four times and condemned” Nick Fuentes.
Truth or Fiction?→ The Rail Strike, Explained
On November 30 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at preventing a railroad strike ahead of the holiday season — although the matter was not yet fully settled: The House on Wednesday [November 30 2022] resoundingly approve
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, singer Jake Flint didn’t die from the COVID-19 vaccine
Country singer Jake Flint died because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Social media posts mislead about virologist’s cause of death
Suggests virologist’s death is linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Conspiracy theory about the NASA’s Challenger space shuttle is still wrong
No NASA Challenger rocket blew up with people on it.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Sen. Warnock Is NOT The Man In The Photo With Women Wearing Penis Pants
Does a photo on social media show Georgia's U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, clad in a jumpsuit, walking in front of a line of women wearing penis pants? No, that's not true: The image is of a Nigerian celebrity attending a funeral in Nigeria f
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Disney isn’t promoting Satan in ‘The Santa Clauses’
“Disney pushes ‘We love Satan’ in new family Christmas movie.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Maricopa County Did NOT Lose Hundreds Of Thousands Of Voters Or Ballots On Election Day
Did Maricopa County, Arizona, lose some 292,000 votes in its final vote tally for the November 8, 2022, elections? No, that's not true: The tweet making that claim left out voters who returned their mail-in ballots in person and people wh
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Elon Musk didn't tweet that he’s buying Snapchat
Elon Musk said he’s buying Snapchat.
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Have gasoline prices fallen to pre-Ukraine war levels, as Joe Biden said?
“Gas prices are down back to where they were before Russia invaded Ukraine.”
FactCheck.org→ McCarthy Mischaracterizes Trump’s Response to Fuentes Meeting
Asked about Donald Trump’s dinner meeting attended by Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, Rep. Kevin McCarthy claimed the former president “came out four times and condemned him.” That’s not accurate. Trump had repeatedly said he
Truth or Fiction?→ New Movie Revives the Unlikely Legend of Kentucky’s ‘Cocaine Bear’
The weird-but-true story of a doomed (but possibly briefly very excited) black bear looks to become an even weirder movie in 2023. The trailer for the movie Cocaine Bear appeared on November 30 2022, accompanied on some platforms by the titular star s
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Maricopa’s final election results aren’t missing thousands of votes
“Maricopa County announced that on Election Day over 540,000 voters visited one of the 223” vote centers, but final official results data claimed that “only 248,070 people voted.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Moderna CEO Worships ‘Demonic Entity’ Baphomet
Does Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, worship Baphomet, commonly considered a "demonic entity"? No, that's not true: The claim uses fabricated "evidence" that immediately discredits the claim. The website on which the claim appeared is k
Full Fact→ London and Manchester are not ‘minority white’ cities
A tweet from Nigel Farage making the claim has been shared thousands of times.
Full Fact→ PCR tests aren’t being used to clone humans
There’s no evidence that Covid-19 PCR tests are being used to clone humans. A paper cited to support this theory explores the use of the PCR technique in gene cloning, not reproductive cloning.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tom Hanks Was NOT Named On Jeffrey Epstein’s Flight List
Did actor Tom Hanks' name appear on the flight list of a private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. financier who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges? No, that's not true: Hanks' name does no
Full Fact→ Big spending list on Test and Trace and furlough loss needs context
£37 billion was the budget for the first two years, but less was actually spent and the furlough fraud figure is out of date and includes losses from other Covid-19 payment schemes.
Full Fact→ M&S is not giving away ‘golden envelopes’ with £750 vouchers on Facebook
A post falsely claims to show a senior member of staff at Marks & Spencer holding golden tickets to win.
Logically→ London, Manchester, and Birmingham are all ‘minority white’ cities.
This is not reflected in recently avalaible census data.
Logically→ The Danish Football Association is considering leaving FIFA over the ban on wearing the OneLove armband at the Qatar World Cup.
Though the Danish Football Association criticized FIFA over the OneLove armband row at the current World Cup, it denied that it intends to leave FIFA.
Logically→ This image shows Japan’s dressing room after their 2022 FIFA World Cup match against Costa Rica.
The image shows the Italian football team's changing room in March 2022, after a match against North Macedonia in Palermo, before the Qatar World Cup.
Logically→ Qatar captain Hassan Al-Haydos wore a Palestinian armband hours before the first FIFA World Cup 2022 match.
The image in the post has been edited. There are no authentic images, videos, or reports of the Qatar team captain wearing a Palestinian flag armband.
The Dispatch→ Can McCarthy Control the Clown Caucus?
It’s just one of the challenges he’ll face if he becomes House speaker.The post Can McCarthy Control the Clown Caucus? appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ The County Where ‘Stop the Steal’ Won’t End
A video explainer from the Dispatch. The post The County Where ‘Stop the Steal’ Won’t End appeared first on The Dispatch.
The Dispatch→ Why Congress Will Never Reform Social Security
And who will pay the price when the trust fund runs out.The post Why Congress Will Never Reform Social Security appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ Atal Bihar Vajpayee government awarded Bharat Ratna to BR Ambedkar.
BR Ambedkar received the Bharat Ratna award on March 31, 1990, under VP Singh's government. Atal Bihar Vajpayee became prime Minister in 1996.
The Dispatch→ Video: Elon vs. Apple and the China Protests
Watch the video of our weekly livestreamed conversation.The post Video: Elon vs. Apple and the China Protests appeared first on The Dispatch.
PolitiFact→ More deaths among vaccinated Americans not a reason to avoid vaccines, experts say
Data shows that in recent months vaccinated Americans make up more COVID-19 deaths than unvaccinated. But that doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work. Health experts explain the trend.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Depict Millie Bobby Brown Confirming She Is Homophobic — It Is NOT Real
Does a video depict actress Millie Bobby Brown confirming she is homophobic, and is this video even real? No, that's not true: The video clips seen in this post were taken from a recent Vanity Fair interview featuring Brown, and it was ed
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Japan’s Team Did NOT Trash World Cup Dressing Room — March Photos Show Mess After Italian Qualifier Loss
Did Japan's soccer team trash a dressing room at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar after losing its November 27, 2022, match to Costa Rica? No, that's not true: These photos are still frames from a video filmed in a dressing room in Stadio Renz
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: These Are NOT Staged Photos Used For Ukrainian Propaganda — They Document First Aid Training In 2016
Are these staged photos taken from the phone of an employee of the Ukrainian CIPSO (Center for Information and Psychological Operations) showing fake victims, proving the war in Ukraine is staged? No, that's not true: The photos were take
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Inactive Voter Numbers Increase Does NOT Show Evidence Of Criminal Intent In Arizona 2022 Election
Does an increase in inactive voters show evidence of criminal intent in Arizona for the 2022 election? No, that's not true: The numbers in Maricopa County, Arizona, shown in the claim are accurate, representing tallies after several maili
PolitiFact→ Herschel Walker – Fact-checking claim about the shutdown of a camp run by Raphael Warnock’s former Baltimore church
“(Raphael) Warnock’s camp was shut down for failing to report five findings of child abuse and neglect."
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Saudi coach, striker say no Rolls-Royces for beating Argentina
“Saudi team gets $460K Rolls-Royces for upset win.”
Health Feedback→ Results from a Swiss team didn’t show an 800-fold increase in myocarditis in vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated individuals
REVIEW After the onset of mass COVID-19 vaccination campaigns against COVID-19, public health agencies worldwide began to detect rare cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, among people who had received one of the authorized COVID-19 mR