Was Salvador Ramos, the shooter who killed children and faculty members at a Texas elementary school on May 24, 2022, an illegal immigrant? No, that's not true: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Ramos was a U.S. citizen and a state legislator s
PolitiFact→ Tweets – ICE is not carrying out immigration enforcement in Uvalde after school shooting
ICE is in Uvalde, Texas, “so undocumented parents have to consider arrest deportation before they go check to see if their kids are alive.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, these photos are not of the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
This image shows the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Truth or Fiction?→ Leading Cause of Death in Children Since 2020
On May 25 2022, ongoing discussions and discourse about the devastating Uvalde, Texas school shooting included a circulating statistic — that as of 2020, the leading cause of death in children was gun related: The leading cause of death among
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No evidence that lab monkeys in PA crash were infected with monkeypox or spread it to humans
Suggests a January traffic accident involving lab monkeys was responsible for spreading monkeypox to humans.
PolitiFact→ Here’s how to avoid misinformation as you read about Uvalde and other mass shootings
Misinformation about the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is all over the internet. Here’s how to be smart about the news you consume.
FactCheck.org→ ‘WHO Has No Authority to Dictate U.S. Health Policy’
SciCheck Digest The World Health Organization can make recommendations after the declaration of a global emergency, but it has no control over any nation’s decisions. Yet conservatives in the U.S. falsely claim that amendments proposed by the Biden a
PolitiFact→ Steve Kerr – Polls consistently show high support for gun background checks
“90% of Americans, regardless of political party, want universal background checks.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Zelenskyy’s Daughter Did NOT Disown Her Father — It’s A Video Of Different Person
By Uliana Malashenko Is it true that the Ukrainian president's daughter, Oleksandra Zelenska, called her father, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a "Nazi" and a "murderer"? No, it's not true: The image of a crying woman that circulated on social medi
PolitiFact→ Matthew Dowd – No proof for claim in wake of Uvalde that 50% of Texas guns sales lack background checks
“50% of the guns sold in Texas, because of the loopholes, do not pass through a background check.”
The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Did Doug Mastriano Say He Could Decertify Voting Machines?
Doug Mastriano. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Viral social media posts claim that the winner of the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial primary, Doug Mastriano, signaled a willingness to overturn election results, saying he could decerti
Snopes→ Secret Service: Guns Banned at Trump’s NRA Speech in Texas
A tweet shared in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas read, "Guns are banned at the NRA convention in Texas this weekend when Trump speaks. Let that sink in."
Health Feedback→ Following COVID-19 vaccination, the spike protein is produced in small quantities in the body without causing harm and is cleared naturally within days
REVIEW The spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to human cells and allows the virus to enter. The COVID-19 vaccines were developed to target the spike protein in order to induce immunity against SARS-CoV-2. The most common vaccin
Snopes→ Reality TV’s Josh Duggar Gets 12 Years in Child Porn Case
Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was sentenced to about 12 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of receiving and possessing child pornography.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – El autor del tiroteo en una escuela en Texas no era un inmigrante que estaba en el país ilegalmente
El atacante en Uvalde, Texas estaba en Estados Unidos ilegalmente.
The Dispatch→ Fact Checking Rep. Paul Gosar’s Claim About the Texas School Shooter
(Photo by Allison Dinner/AFP/Getty Images.)Immediately after the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two adults were killed, Arizona GOP Rep. Paul Gosar began spreading misinformation about the Texas shoote
Snopes→ Governor: Texas Gunman Said He Was Going to Shoot Up School
The gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas had warned in online messages minutes before the attack that he had shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up a school.
Snopes→ Walmart Apologizes for Selling Juneteenth Ice Cream
The company had previously stocked some of its store's shelves with a product named Great Value Celebration Edition Juneteenth Ice Cream.
Snopes→ Will Congress Act on Guns After Sandy Hook, Buffalo, Uvalde?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer swiftly set in motion a pair of firearms background-check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas.
PolitiFact→ National Republican Senatorial Committee – NRSC ad attacks 2 Beasley rulings, omits context
Cheri Beasley “vacated” a man’s death sentence and “threw out” the indictment in a child assault case.
Snopes→ Bad Actors Target Trans Women With False Uvalde Shooter Claims
"It's literally me," one falsely accused woman wrote online. "Stop fucking spreading this image please God."
PolitiFact→ Chris Murphy – Fact-checking Sen. Chris Murphy on the ages of mass shooters
“Most of these killers tend to be 18, 19 years old.”
Truth or Fiction?→ The Onion, the New York Times, and Mass Shootings
The morning after a May 24 2022 mass shooter killed multiple children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, The Onion edited their notable and cyclical “No Way to Prevent This …” article and front page; at the same time, an account spotting
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t exposed as a CIA agent
“They just exposed Mark Zuckerberg as a CIA agent.”
Snopes→ Beto to Abbott: ‘You Are Doing Nothing’ About School Shootings
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke sharply criticized current Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference following a school shooting that killed 19 children and two adults.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Data DOES Show British Children Up To 303 Times More Likely To Die From COVID After Vaccination Than Unvaccinated Kids — But Sickest Got Shots First
Does data from England show children are up to 303 times more likely to die from COVID-19 following vaccination than unvaccinated children? Yes, that's true, but raw numbers don't tell the full story. "The numbers appear correct, but ...
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, these photos of a person wearing a skirt aren’t of the Uvalde, Texas school shooter
Photos of a person in a skirt show the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter.
Snopes→ Did Gov. Greg Abbott Urge Texans To ‘Pick Up the Pace’ in Acquiring Guns?
The 2015 tweet resurfaced in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school nearly seven years later.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, estas no son las víctimas del tiroteo en una escuela de Uvalde, Texas
Esta imagen muestra a las víctimas del tiroteo en la escuela en Uvalde Texas.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence That Salvador Ramos Was Transgender
Was Salvador Ramos, the Texas school shooter, transgender? No, there's no evidence that's true: A post saying he was offers nothing to substantiate the claim. It's likely related to other claims that falsely identify Ramos in photographs
Snopes→ Gun Advertised for Sale in Facebook Group that Sought to ‘Dox’ Psaki
According to commerce policies stated by Meta, Facebook's parent company, the sale of firearms is not allowed on its platforms.
Snopes→ Germany: Fake Doctor Gets Life in Prison for Patient Deaths
A German court sentenced a woman who posed as a doctor to life in prison for causing the deaths of several people she treated.
Snopes→ Did Amber Heard Pull Pills from Behind Her Ear and Eat Them?
Another rumor makes the rounds amid the Depp v. Heard trial.
Full Fact→ Did the Prime Minister mislead Parliament over ‘Partygate’?
On 25 May senior civil servant Sue Gray published her report into what’s been dubbed by some as “Partygate”—a series of events which took place in Downing Street and elsewhere in Whitehall while Covid-19 laws limiting social gat
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Fact-checking misinformation about the Uvalde, Texas school shooter
The Uvalde, Texas, school shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show Texas School Shooter Salvador Ramos
Do some photographs in some social media posts show Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos wearing skirts? No, that's not true: Images depicting a person dressed in a skirt and holding a transgender pride flag do not show Ramos. They show a
Full Fact→ RNLI lifeguarded beaches don’t all provide wristbands with contact details for children
A Facebook post shared over 2,000 times claims that Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeguarded beaches offer free wristbands for children on which their parents can write their phone numbers in waterproof ink, so that lifeguards can contact
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump Jr. – No, Jack Posobiec was not arrested or detained in Davos
“American journalist” Jack Posobiec was “arrested at World Economic Forum.”
Snopes→ Biden Says ‘We Have to Act’ After Texas School Shooting
Lamenting a uniquely American tragedy, an anguished and angry President Joe Biden delivered an urgent call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman shot and killed at least 19 children at a Texas elementary school.
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Gunman in Texas school shooting was not an immigrant illegally in the country
The Uvalde, Texas, mass shooter was an “illegal alien.”