A Navy report has concluded there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that fueled the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, calling the massive five-day blaze in San Diego preventable and unacceptable.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Of Pete Buttigieg Breastfeeding Is NOT Real — It’s Photoshopped
Did U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg pose for a photo wearing a breastfeeding device? No, that's not true: This image seen in the top portion of this meme has been digitally altered using photo-editing tools. The actual per
Snopes→ Does a Pic Show Pete Buttigieg Wearing a Breastfeeding Device?
Buttigieg has been feeding his twin babies with a bottle during paternity leave.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘It’s Been Illegal for Employers to Forbid Workers From Discussing Their Pay For the Last 86 Years, Since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935’
An October 16 2021, a Facebook post by performance artist and perennial political candidate Vermin Supreme highlighted an October 11 tweet claiming that it became illegal for employers to forbid workers from discussing their pay rate 86 years earlier:
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Commands 50,000 Secret Troops And Deputized Them As U.S. Marshals
Were "50,000 secret USA troops" just deputized by Donald Trump? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that any service members have been deputized by former President Donald Trump and made "Federal Marshals." A parody Twitter account
Health Feedback→ Vaccines are highly effective against COVID-19, but unvaccinated people can still endanger vaccinated people, contrary to Tucker Carlson’s claim on Fox News
REVIEW More than half the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of 12 October 2021. However, the pace of vaccination significantly slowed down compared to the first months of the campaign. In a press conference on 24 Septembe
The Dispatch→ Did Donald Trump Issue a Statement Calling the Late Colin Powell a ‘RINO’?
With a (shall we say) unique approach to grammar and style, former President Donald Trump’s personal messages have been an easy target for parodists. One doesn’t have to look far for fake Trump emails or tweets from before he was banned fro
Truth or Fiction?→ JesusWeen
On October 19 2021, the Facebook page “Vagina Devil Magic” shared a screenshot of a headline, “Conservative Christians Want To Replace Halloween With ‘JesusWeen’—And Twitter Can’t Stop Chuckling”: That scre
Snopes→ Did Trump Release Statement Bashing Colin Powell After His Death?
Powell died of COVID-19 complications while battling cancer on Oct. 18, 2021.
The Dispatch→ Was Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Maskless at a WNBA Game?
Viral social media posts purport to show Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot maskless in an arena. Steve Cortes @CortesSteve.@chicagosmayor proudly flouts her own mask mandate, amid a sea of lemmings dutifully obeying. The ruling class wan
Snopes→ Climate Report: Africa’s Rare Glaciers Soon to Disappear
The continent that contributes least to global warming will suffer from it most.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Colin Powell Did NOT Commit Suicide
Did Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commit suicide? No, that's not true: That claim is not supported by any news coverage of his death, by any statements from his family or offic
Truth or Fiction?→ 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics: Minimum Wage and Immigrant Labor
On October 18 2021, a screenshot of a tweet about the 2021 Nobel prize in economics was shared at least twice to Facebook, on the pages Coffee Party USA and Labor 411. The depicted tweet was first published on October 11 2021: The 2021 Nobel Prize in
The Dispatch→ Did a Delta Pilot Collapse and Die Midflight?
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Snopes→ 7-Foot Statue of Harambe Placed in Front of Wall Street’s Charging Bull
The gorilla installation supposedly depicts how Wall Street has gone "bananas."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: All Unvaccinated Navy SEALs Do NOT Have To Pay Back Training Costs — Only Those Who Are In Applicable Graduate Programs And Specialized Training
Will the U.S. Navy force members of its elite Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) teams who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 to pay back millions for training? Not exactly: It is possible that they would have to dish out recoupment of training cost
Snopes→ Does Eric Trump Know the Front End of a Shovel?
A meme attempting to mock Eric Trump's intelligence used a doctored photograph to make its point.
Snopes→ Did Canada Ban ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Chants?
Conservative Trump supporters aren't cheering on random Brandons.
Snopes→ Israeli Scuba Diver Discovers Ancient Crusader Sword
An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country's Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.
Snopes→ France Returns Marble Angels Stolen from Italy Church in ’89
A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th-century marble angels from an antiques shop has returned the winged “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church.
Full Fact→ Bill Gates’ £400m claim about green investment was wrong
Boris Johnson: So together we’re putting in £200 million, I think Bill [Gates]’s putting in £200 million if I’ve got the numbers right, just checking. Bill Gates: £400 [million] each. Global Investment Summit broadc
Logically→ Keir Starmer refused to charge Jimmy Savile, an English DJ who sexually abused children.
Starmer was not directly responsible as he was not the reviewing lawyer on the Jimmy Savile case.
Full Fact→ Viral tweet overstates UK’s lead in Covid-19 cases
A tweet with over 5,000 retweets claimed on 18 October: “There were 229,000 new cases of coronavirus in the world yesterday. The UK provided 20% of them. 1 in 5 of the new cases in the whole world was on our little island.” That’s not
Full Fact→ Concerns about animal welfare are just one reason Sainsbury’s stopped selling fireworks
A post shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter claims that Sainsbury’s will no longer sell fireworks due to animals being frightened by the products. Some people have long campaigned for firework sales to the general public to be
Snopes→ Grammys Release Inclusion Requirement to Ensure Diverse Show
The Grammys will stick to its word with the public release of the full inclusion rider to ensure equity and inclusion in hiring on all levels of production for next year’s ceremony.
AllSides→ The COVID-19 Recession Officially Ended Before Biden Took Office
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/the-covid-19-recession-officially-ended-before-biden-took-office/ The
Snopes→ Soul Train Awards Headed to Apollo for the First Time
The annual Soul Train Awards will be presented for the first time at New York City's Apollo Theater, the legendary Harlem performance venue, as two icons of Black culture team up.
Logically→ Haribo gummy bears are made from boiled skin, skeletons, and the connective tissues of animals.
Although most ingredients in Haribo gummy candies are plant-based, gelatin is made by boiling animal skin, tendons, ligaments, and bones with water.
Snopes→ More Than 90 Snakes Found Under Northern California Home
Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses.
Logically→ Public Health England: Vaccinated people in their forties are reporting double the infection rate compared to those unvaccinated.
Vaccinate does not raise the risk of catching COVID-19. The study quoted by Daily Sceptic has been misrepresented.
Snopes→ Rapper Formerly Known As Kanye West is Now Just Ye
A Los Angeles judge on Monday approved the request of the rapper, producer and fashion designer to legally change his name from Kanye Omari West to just Ye, with no middle or last name.
Full Fact→ NHSX website doesn’t reveal vaccine passport roll out
Posts on social media, YouTube and an article on the website The Exposé, have used a passage of text from the NHSX website as evidence to claim that the government will “definitely” be introducing vaccine passports “in the UK&r
Poynter→ WHO database is not proof that COVID-19 vaccines are harmful
While more than 6 billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to people across the globe, social media users continue to cite the number of reported adverse reactions to the vaccines to cast doubt on their safety. A video shared on I
Washington Post→ Ad exaggerates potential impact of Biden estate-tax plan
A rancher claims that Biden's plan would force the sale of many family farms — but few farms face an estate-tax liability.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Spanish High Court Did NOT ‘Confirm’ That COVID-19 Does Not Exist
Did Spain's high court confirm that COVID-19 does not exist? No, that's not true: The Spanish Ministry of Health was not taken to court, there was no hearing and the "proof" offered is an informational reply letter the government issued t
Snopes→ Carole Baskin Gets To Tell Her Side of the Story in Upcoming Show
More wild animal drama is headed our way.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Spiked by Injection’ Warnings on Social Media
In October 2021, rumors warning that people — mostly women – were being “spiked by injection” spread virally across social media, with several high-engagement versions on Twitter: you’ve been outsmarted by us, we cover our d
FactCheck.org→ The COVID-19 Recession Officially Ended Before Biden Took Office
The recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic officially lasted just two months and ended in April 2020. But Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrongly credited President Joe Biden for guiding “this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying r
Snopes→ Biden Plans to Reinstate Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
The Biden administration said it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, complying with a judge's order.
Snopes→ Trump Files Lawsuit to Block Release of Jan. 6 Documents
Trump claims in the lawsuit that the request “is almost limitless in scope,” and seeks records with no reasonable connection to that day.