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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Michigan School District Did NOT Put Cat Litter Boxes In School Bathrooms For ‘Furry’ Kids
Did a Michigan school district put cat litter boxes in school bathrooms for students who identify as "furries"? No, that's not true: The claim was made with no proof. The person who made the claim said it was something they had heard, not
PolitiFact→ What you need to know about the fake Trump electors
Illegitimate certificates signed by Trump electors have been made public through a FOIA request. The phony slates were part of an election subversion scheme under investigation by state and federal officials.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Navy Pilot Crashed Aircraft Because They Received COVID-19 Vax Booster
Did a U.S. Navy pilot have to eject themselves from an aircraft before a crash caused by their reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine booster? No, that's not true: Although a Navy pilot was involved in an incident with a fighter jet that caused t
Snopes→ Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict 2022 Canada Trucker Protest?
Two different episodes — and some altered audio — were cut together to make this "prediction."
Truth or Fiction?→ 12ft.io Paywall Bypassing Service
A popular January 19 2022 post alerted readers to the existence of 12ft.io, a site that purportedly bypasses paywalls on news sites: The Facebook Post An attached image featured a graphic of hands and a broken chain. Text on the image read: Show me a
FactCheck.org→ False Reports of Wisconsin Assembly’s Action on 2020 Electors
Quick Take A resolution introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly to reverse the state’s 2020 presidential electoral votes for President Joe Biden was referred to the Rules Committee on Jan. 25. The committee chair tweeted that the resolution was R
FactCheck.org→ False Reports of Wisconsin Assembly’s Action on 2020 Electors
Quick Take A resolution introduced in the Wisconsin Assembly to reverse the state’s 2020 presidential electoral votes for President Joe Biden was referred to the Rules Committee on Jan. 25. The committee chair tweeted that the resolution was R
Snopes→ Does Time-Lapse Video Show Europa and Io Orbiting Jupiter?
To find answers, we turned to the video's creator: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Kevin M. Gill.
PolitiFact→ Iowa Republican Party – Iowa GOP deceptively edits Abby Finkenauer's comments on Build Back Better
When asked if she supports the Build Back Better bill, Abby Finkenauer said that she didn’t know what was in it.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There are NOT 22 Million Undocumented Immigrants In US — But Some Can Vote in Some Cities, Receive Some Benefits
Do 22 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, receive public benefits and vote illegally? No, that's mostly false: Two experts in public policy told Lead Stories that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States is
Snopes→ Prince Andrew Gives Up Membership of Prestigious Golf Club
Britain’s Prince Andrew has given up his honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.
FactCheck.org→ Posts About ‘Cross Reactants’ Misrepresent Accuracy of COVID-19 PCR Tests
SciCheck Digest Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests for COVID-19 are highly accurate. People on social media, however, are circulating lists of germs that they baselessly claim will cause such tests to be falsely positive. In reality, it’s t
FactCheck.org→ Posts About ‘Cross Reactants’ Misrepresent Accuracy of COVID-19 PCR Tests
SciCheck Digest Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, tests for COVID-19 are highly accurate. People on social media, however, are circulating lists of germs that they baselessly claim will cause such tests to be falsely positive. In reality, it’s t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Moderna IS Mandating COVID Vaccine For Its Employees — So Is Pfizer
Are vaccine-makers Moderna and Pfizer not mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for their employees? No, that's not true: Since August 2021, Moderna and Pfizer have had COVID vaccine requirements in place for their U.S. workers. Medical and reli
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Wisconsin Assembly Did NOT Vote To Withdraw Joe Biden’s Electoral Votes
Did the Wisconsin Assembly vote to withdraw Joe Biden's 10 electoral votes? No, that's not true: A Republican representative introduced a resolution that called for "reclaiming" the president's votes. The resolution was referred to an ass
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alberta, Canada DID NOT Inadvertently Publish, Quickly Delete Embarassing COVID Death Data
Did Alberta, Canada inadvertently publish, then quickly delete health data exposing that more than half of vaccinated deaths had been counted as unvaccinated? No, that's not true: A spokeswoman for the government of Canada said the claim
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No, Kevin Costner didn’t recently debut a line of CBD gummies
Says Kevin Costner recently debuted a new line of CBD gummies.
Snopes→ ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic Resentenced to 21 Years in Prison
A federal judge resentenced “Tiger King” Joe Exotic to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by just a year after an appeals court ordered a new sentence.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No evidence Dennis Miller said this about the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
Says Dennis Miller said that if he didn’t see women protesting the Ghislaine Maxwell trial verdict “you're all frauds. This isn't justice for those women, this is a joke."
Logically→ 1 in 3 infected people will die from NeoCov, the new Coronavirus variant, according to Wuhan scientists.
The study neither suggests that 1 in 3 people will die from NeoCov nor that NeoCov is a new variant of COVID-19.
Snopes→ ‘Freedom Convoy’ Size Exaggerated by Miscaptioned Videos
If the "freedom convoy" is as big as people say it is, why are so many videos being miscaptioned to exaggerate its size?
PolitiFact→ Beto O'Rourke – O’Rourke’s claim about Texas fourth-graders’ reading proficiency supported by sample federal data
"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."
Snopes→ Fake Poop Helps Evicted Owls Settle into New Neighborhood
Settling into a new home can be tough for anyone.
Logically→ An elementary school in Denver teaches its students to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
Inaccurate news headlines state the elementary school teaches its students to support the BLM movement. The school only educates them about it.
Full Fact→ Highway Code changes infographic needs context
An infographic, spreading on social media, claims to show five new changes to the Highway Code in Great Britain which will apply from 29 January 2022. The image is sourced from an article published by The Sun newspaper. The claims are all based in fact
Snopes→ Human Chain Formed to Help After Pittsburgh Bridge Collapse
A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet (46 meters) while others formed a human chain to help rescue occupants of a dangling bus.
Full Fact→ Covid-19 vaccines don’t make you a ‘ticking time bomb’
A post on Instagram has shared a video clip of a woman in the US falsely claiming that the Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous and ineffective. As we have said many times, this isn’t true. The Covid vaccines being used in both the UK and the US are s
Logically→ Tens of thousands of people in Europe have died due to side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective and there is no evidence of high numbers of deaths.
Full Fact→ Spanish Flu pandemic wasn’t caused by a meningitis vaccine
A video posted on Facebook makes a number of false claims about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, this pandemic is estimated to have infected over a third of the world’s population, a
Logically→ COVID-19 vaccines have caused a large number of miscarriages and stillbirths.
The claim that the vaccines are causing miscarriages is based on a misrepresentation of data given in a report by Pfizer.
Logically→ Children are dying from COVID-19 vaccines in order to protect older generations from the disease.
There is no evidence to suggest that children are dying from COVID-19 vaccines.
Health Feedback→ The COVID-19 vaccines protect people from severe COVID-19 and don’t weaken the immune system
REVIEW An article published by the website The Exposé on 22 January 2022 made a number of claims, one of which was that the COVID-19 vaccines lead to a weakened immune system. However, as we will explain below, this is based on misleading and misin
Snopes→ Here, Kitty: Bidens Welcome Cat Named Willow to White House
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have finally added the long-promised cat to their pet family.
Logically→ If you are in an emergency and your phone is on low battery or has no signal, change your voicemail with details of your location so people can find you.
Emergency services have warned against this method as it is unreliable and said people should call them immediately instead.
Logically→ The volcanic eruption that resulted in Tsunami in Tonga was a hypersonic missile strike.
The volcanic explosion in Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai caused tsunami waves in the area. Reports of a missile strike causing the events are baseless.
Snopes→ COVID Hits One of the Last Uninfected Places on the Planet
When the coronavirus began spreading around the world, the remote Pacific archipelago of Kiribati closed its borders, ensuring the disease didn't reach its shores for nearly two full years.
Full Fact→ Fake Sky News tweet claims PM drank with foxhound pack
A tweet which had around 300 retweets before the account was suspended, and appearing to be from a Sky News account, says: “BREAKING NEWS: New photos show Boris Johnson drinking with the Berkeley Hunt at get together during first lockdown. More t
Snopes→ Toyota Heading to Moon with Cruiser, Robotic Arms, Dreams
Toyota is working with Japan's space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars.
Logically→ Antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients proved to be more effective than vaccines during the Delta variant surge.
Reports citing an early release of a CDC study are used to misrepresent information on the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.