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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Chicago High School Will NOT Use Race-Based Grading System During 2022-23 School Year
Will a suburban Chicago high school use a race-based grading system during the 2022-2023 school year? No, that's not true: According to Oak Park and River Forest High School, such a policy has neither been proposed nor implemented at the
PolitiFact→ Emerald Robinson – The Pants on Fire claim that ‘nobody in any election in America gets 74% of the votes’
“Nobody in any election in America gets 74% of the votes. Ever. It doesn’t happen.”
Snopes→ Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law on Social Media Censorship
A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
Full Fact→ The Queen was not involved in disappearance of Indigenous children from Canadian school
A Facebook post falsely claims that the Queen was found guilty in a missing children case. The post states that a whistleblower was “incarcerated” for “daring to ask superiors about Queen Elizabeth’s outstanding arrest warrant&r
Logically→ The Texas school shooter was trans.
A photo of an unrelated transgender woman from Georgia has been shared, with claims the image depicts the Texas school shooter.
Full Fact→ The Platinum Jubilee will not cost each UK household £38,000
A post on Facebook with a screenshot of a tweet says: “If the estimated £1 billion being spent on the jubilee was divided amongst the 26 million households in the UK, it would mean a windfall for each household of £38,000. Now that wo
Snopes→ After Mass Shooting, NYC Explores Gun Detectors in Subways
The technology to scan large numbers of people quickly for weapons does exist, and is used now to screen people at places like sports stadiums and theme parks.
Logically→ The recent outbreaks of Monkeypox are cover-ups for adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine.
This claim is based on several debunked conspiracy theories and misinterpretations of reported data.
Snopes→ Cosby Faces Sex Abuse Allegations Again As Civil Trial Opens
Bill Cosby will again be facing sex abuse allegations as attorneys give opening statements in a civil trial that's one of the last remaining legal claims against the comedian.
Logically→ The official Pride flag will include the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
The Ukrainian flag colors are not part of the current version of the Progress Pride flag. The widely shared image started out as satire.
Snopes→ Biden Talks Gun Control, Extremism with New Zealand’s PM
President Joe Biden praised New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her success in curbing domestic extremism and guns.
Poynter→ Armed campus police do not prevent school shootings, research shows
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has blamed others for politicizing the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to advance discussions about gun access. To Cruz, the answer is simpler. “We know from past experiences that the most […] The post Armed c
Logically→ The World Economic Forum has its own paramilitary force.
WEF does not have a paramilitary force of its own. The Swiss Police forces wore a temporary WEF patch for the event in Graubünden, Switzerland.
Logically→ The Indian Ministry of Railways runs a subsidy program worth Rs 6000 in exchange for people’s details.
The Indian railway ministry has not launched any subsidy program in exchange for personal information.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence Poland Plans To Occupy Western Ukraine
By Uliana Malashenko Is it true that Warsaw is going to send troops to the western parts of Ukraine to repossess the lands Poland used to own in the distant past? No, it's not true. Claims about the allegedly planned Polish invasion of Uk
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Is NOT Considering Buying Keystone XL Pipeline — Claim Is From A Satirical Site
Is Elon Musk considering buying the Keystone XL pipeline? No, that's not true: This claim appeared on a satirical website with a clear disclaimer on its About Us page. It is the work of Christopher Blair, a notorious liberal prankster who
Snopes→ Clinton 2016 Campaign Lawyer Michael Sussmann Acquitted of Lying to the FBI
The case against Michael Sussmann was the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham since his appointment three years ago to search for misconduct during the investigation into potential ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Snopes→ A National Database for Sudafed, but No Background Check for Ammo?
The Uvalde massacre in May 2022 focused attention, once again, on the ease of availability of guns and bullets in the United States.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Uvalde Victim Amerie Jo Garza Did NOT Have 2 ‘Different Fathers’ Speaking On 2 TV Networks — One Is Her Father, The Other Her Stepfather
Did two different television networks report on the same Uvalde school shooting victim with two different fathers? No, that's not true: Both the biological father and stepfather of Amerie Jo Garza, 10, gave interviews to different network
Snopes→ Texas Police: Teacher Closed Propped-Open Door Before Attack
An exterior door at Robb Elementary School did not lock when it was closed by a teacher shortly before a gunman used it to get inside and kill 19 students and two teachers, leaving investigators searching to determine why, state police said.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Active shooter drills are common in American schools, not evidence of false flag attack
Active shooter drill at high school in Uvalde, Texas, two months before the elementary school shooting shows the event was a false flag.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – This off-duty Border Patrol agent didn’t kill the Uvalde school shooter
The man who killed the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter “wasn't even an on-duty police officer.”
Snopes→ Did Border Patrol Officer Jacob Albarado Kill the Uvalde School Shooter?
Albarado truly rushed to the scene when he heard that there was a shooting at his daughter's school, but social media posts got several details wrong about his involvement.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Off-Duty Border Patrol Agent Jacob Albarado Killed Gunman In Texas School Shooting
Did Jacob Albarado, an off-duty Border Patrol agent, kill Salvador Ramos, the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school? There's no such evidence: Albarado, whose wife worked at the school and child atten
FactCheck.org→ Ask SciCheck Files: The Relationship Between Mental Health and Mass Shootings
In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, some officials have cited mental illness as a reason for the unprovoked attacks. But as we’ve explained before, having a mental illness isn’t predictive of who will perpetrate a
Snopes→ Does the World Economic Forum Have Its Own Police Force?
Photos of police badges with a WEF logo have made the rounds online.
PolitiFact→ Tweets – TV interviews with Uvalde victim's family fuel false claim
TV interviews with two different men who are each identified as Uvalde victim's father show the Robb Elementary School mass shooting was staged.
Snopes→ Did a Costco Gas Pump Say, ‘Don’t Blame Us. Blame Joe Biden’?
The message was supposedly documented in a photo of a Costco Wholesale gas pump displaying a Kirkland Fuel logo and a total of $147.34 for 26.458 gallons purchased.
Truth or Fiction?→ Universal Federal Free Lunch Program Ending
On May 31 2022, a popular Imgur post indicated federal free lunches in schools was slated to end the next month: As someone who’s family struggled financially growing up, they should just make school lunches free forever! That image-based post
Snopes→ ‘USPS’ Text Message Scam Claims Delivery Problem, Asks for Personal Financial Info
Here's the lowdown on how to figure out if a text message claiming to come from the U.S. Postal Service is real or a scam.
Snopes→ Garland Issues Call to Public Service in Wake of Shootings
Attorney General Merrick Garland told Harvard graduates that their generation has been asked to show “an impossible kind of resilience” after yet another mass shooting at another school.
Truth or Fiction?→ Tikrit Shoe Statue
On May 30 2022, a Reddit user shared a photograph which purportedly showed a “shoe monument” in Tikrit, Iraq, commemorating an incident during which an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush during a press
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Elon Musk Did NOT Leak News That Putin Had Cancer Surgery
Did Elon Musk leak the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin had cancer surgery that failed? No, that's not true: This video and others like it offer no factual proof that Musk leaked such unconfirmed news to the media. Rumors about
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Bill Gates’ comments about preparing for pandemics doesn’t mean he planned monkeypox outbreak
Bill Gates planned a smallpox-type outbreak.
Snopes→ Jill Biden Says She, President Settle Arguments by ‘Fexting’
When President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disagree, they don't hash it out in front of other people.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Costco Digital Gas Pump Screen Did NOT Display ‘Blame Joe Biden’ Message — It’s An Altered Image
Did a digital display screen at a Costco Wholesale gas pump display a message that said, "Don't blame us. Blame Joe Biden"? No, that's not true: This image has been edited. The digitally altered image began appearing on Facebook on about
Full Fact→ Modified chimpanzee virus in AstraZeneca vaccine isn’t linked to monkeypox
A Facebook post falsely suggests that there is a link between the recent rise in monkeypox cases and a key component of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The post features a screenshot from a real government information page listing the ingredien
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: The Rothschild Family Does NOT Own AP, Reuters
Does the Rothschild family own The Associated Press and Reuters? No, that's not true: A Reuters spokesperson told Lead Stories that this is not true. Also, Reuters 2021 annual report notes that, "As of December 31, 2021, the Company's pri
Health Feedback→ Sperm washing to help HIV-discordant couples conceive biological children safely was reported in the 90s; not “huge medical breakthrough” in 2022
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