The dog’s owner said he was changing his pet's name from “Pretty” to “Legend.”
Snopes→ Report Shows Big Spike in Mail Ballots During 2020 Election
Fewer than one-third of voters casting ballots in last year’s U.S. presidential election did so at a polling place on Election Day as the coronavirus pandemic led states to greatly expand mail-in balloting and early voting, according to a federal rep
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ‘What Vaccines Are Doing Inside Peoples Bodies’ — It Shows A Simple At-Home Magnetic Slime Experiment
Does this video show graphene oxide? Does it show something that is happening inside people after they have had a COVID-19 vaccine and does this purportedly demonstrate why magnets and metal objects stick to people? No, that's not true: T
Snopes→ Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefited Taliban
A U.S. defense official confirmed the Taliban’s sudden accumulation of U.S.-supplied Afghan equipment is enormous.
Snopes→ Biden Says He Stands ‘Squarely Behind’ Afghanistan Decision
Biden said he had to choose between sticking to a previously negotiated agreement to withdraw U.S. troops or sending thousands more service members back into Afghanistan to fight a “third decade” of war.
Snopes→ QAnon Still Thrives on Facebook Nearly a Year After ‘Ban’
Even when various QAnon-themed posts were manually reported, Facebook's support team responded to say the content didn't violate company policies.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: There Is NO Article On Military Times Website Saying COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Heart Disease — Just A Fake Screenshot
Did Military Times publish an article that revealed a new study saying people who have gotten the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccination were susceptible to heart disease? No, that's not true: The article does not exist, the claim is pos
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Putative Colorado Computer Backups Do NOT Prove Dominion Deleted Election Logs From Voting Machines After 2020 Election
Did a set of computer backups released at Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium prove Dominion Voting Systems erased "election logs" from Mesa County, Colorado, voting machines after the 2020 election? No, that's not true: Independent cybersecur
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Republican Party Webpage Praising Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Disappear?
As right-wing political figures scrambled to attack U.S. President Joe Biden for the devastation accompanying the Taliban advance across Afghanistan in August 2021, an official Republican Party webpage praising his predecessor for setting up the United
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Praise Taliban For Wearing Masks During Attack
Did CNN praise the Taliban for wearing masks in Afghanistan? No, that's not true: The image of a CNN chyron claiming Taliban fighters were wearing masks as they attacked is fake -- it is from the Babylon Bee, a conservative satire website
Snopes→ Is This a Real Video Showing Taliban Occupying Afghanistan’s Parliament?
The Taliban entered Kabul in mid-August 2021, as foreign powers departed.
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Military Dogs Being Evacuated From Afghanistan
On August 16 2021, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand shared an image on Twitter which puportedly showed dogs with the United States military dogs as they were getting moved out of Afghanistan as its cities rapidly fell to the Taliban: U.S. military dogs
Logically→ The Taliban say they will allow Afghan girls to go to school.
According to the Taliban-appointed Provincial Education Department Chief, girls can attend schools provided they wear hijab and follow sharia laws.
Snopes→ No, CNN Didn’t Praise Taliban for ‘Responsibly Wearing Masks’
A fake CNN graphic ripped from a satire website went viral without attribution or disclaimers.
Truth or Fiction?→ The Wismer House $10 ‘Fine’ for Overnight Parking
On August 15 2021, an Imgur account shared what looked like a parking ticket from “The Wismer House,” in a post titled “$10 gift certificate for parking over night instead of drinking and driving”: Although the yellow citatio
Snopes→ US Probing Autopilot Problems on 765,000 Tesla Vehicles
The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.
Full Fact→ No evidence of ‘nanobots’ in Covid-19 test swabs
A video shared on Instagram claims to show “nanobots” in a Covid-19 PCR test swab. In the video, the material on a swab is scraped onto a plate and alcohol and water added. It is claimed, when viewed through a magnifying glass, this causes
Snopes→ Did Biden Advisor Jake Sullivan Say ‘We Could Not Give Afghan Forces the Will’ To Fight Taliban?
The Biden administration faced widespread criticism for the manner of its withdrawal from Afghanistan amid chaotic scenes as the Taliban swept to power in August 2021.
Snopes→ ICU Nurse Shares Bible Verse in Response to COVID Denialism
In a new video, the nurse shared a stern, yet heartfelt, message of kindness to a COVID-19 denier's highly misleading comment.
Health Feedback→ U.S. prison releases complemented other strategies to limit the spread of COVID-19 in jails and prisons, including face masks
REVIEW It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began advising individuals to wear masks in public to help limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus respons
Logically→ The influencer Dominique De Silva (@queencitydom) had an extreme adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine and now suffers from tremors and paralysis.
De Silva's symptoms occured two weeks after vaccination, and are unrelated. There is no mechanism by which covid vaccines could cause seizures.
Logically→ Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson has been suspended for plagiarizm.
Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson was suspended after a review found 54 plagiarized articles and other copyright violations.
Snopes→ Quake Injured Wait for Help As New Disaster Overwhelms Haiti
The country's Civil Protection Agency said 1,297 dead from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake had been counted by Sunday.
Snopes→ Chaos As Thousands Flee Afghanistan After Taliban Takeover
The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing a stunning end to a two-decade campaign in which the U.S. and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan.
Logically→ Big Pharma is using bot activity on Twitter to spread fear about COVID-19.
The tweet in question came from a real doctor. The copy-pasted tweets were shared in an effort to discredit the doctor.
Logically→ President Joe Biden said that there would be “no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of the US Embassy from Afghanistan.”
Biden made the comments during a press conference on July 8, 2021.
Poynter→ Could President Biden challenge Florida and Texas on mask policies? Probably not.
Amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the United States, the White House has expressed concern about efforts by some Republican-led states to prevent school districts from requiring masks. But the question is: Can they turn that concern into some t
Washington Post→ The missing context in Biden’s prescription drug speech
The president pitched his plan for reining in the cost of prescription drugs, but some of his facts lacked context or had a one-side presentation of the issue.
Health Feedback→ Face masks can filter small airborne particles, including respiratory droplets, and are effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19
REVIEW The wearing of face masks is one of the public health measures that has been adopted to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Multiple scientific studies have shown that mask-wearing is effective in reducing the number of infections. COVID-19 is tra
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A 1912 Newspaper Really DID Publish A Note On Effect Burning Coal Could Have On Earth’s Temperature
Did New Zealand's Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette publish a paragraph on "Coal Consumption Affecting Climate" in the Science Notes and News section of the paper back on August 14, 1912? It's TRUE! This paragraph p
FactCheck.org→ CDC Document Discusses Strategy To Protect Displaced People From COVID-19
SciCheck Digest A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document reviews the challenges of using a “shielding” approach to protect high-risk people living in places such as refugee camps from COVID-19. But conservative commentator Candace Owen
FactCheck.org→ Biden Leaves Misleading Impression on U.S. Debt
In promoting his own spending priorities, President Joe Biden blamed his predecessor’s “unpaid tax cuts and other spending” for increasing the national debt by nearly $8 trillion over four years. The total debt figure is correct, but
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A McDonald’s In Rome, Georgia, Is NOT Offering A Starting Wage Of $31 An Hour
Is a McDonald's in Rome, Georgia, offering a starting wage of $31 an hour? No, that's not true: The claim is posted on a satirical site and is not meant to be real. A manager at a McDonald's in Rome told Lead Stories it's a hoax. Pay at t
Truth or Fiction?→ California Officials Attempt to Quell Confusion Around Gubernatorial Recall Election
As mail-in ballots began to go out in advance of the September 2021 gubernatorial recall election in California, a spokesperson for the California Secretary of State’s office attempted to quell disinformation and confusion around the often confus
Snopes→ A Note From Snopes Writers About Co-Founder’s Plagiarism
A BuzzFeed investigation, along with an internal Snopes investigation, has revealed dozens of plagiarized stories by company CEO David Mikkelson.
Health Feedback→ Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated individuals are more protected against the Delta variant
REVIEW The U.S. initiated a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign in mid-December 2020 after clinical trials showed that COVID-19 vaccines were safe and effective. As of 7 August 2021, more than 166 million people (50.1% of the population) were f
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: AOC Was NOT Photographed Wearing $3,900 Sunglasses — It’s Satire
Was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez photographed wearing $3,900 sunglasses? No, that's not true: She was wearing a pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses that are priced at less than $200 on the eyewear company's website. Also, this claim was on a know
Snopes→ Apology from Members of Snopes Senior Management
An internal review prompted by a BuzzFeed investigation found dozens of stories by our co-founder that appropriated material from other news organizations.
Snopes→ No, Marine Gen. David Berger Did Not Berate Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin Over Vaccines
RealRawNews.com is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not a reliable source of information on much of anything.
Full Fact→ Covid variants weren’t planned
A video claims the different Covid variants have been planned and correspond with stages of sleep hypnosis. The video shows a table with letters of the Greek alphabet under the column “Cepa/variante” (strain/variant) alongside a column titl