Do these photos show a charity worker from Denmark adopted a naked and dying 2-year-old abandoned child in Nigeria? No, that's not true. Charity worker Anja Ringgren Lovén is in all of the photos in the meme, with different-colored hair.
Snopes→ Democrats Assail Georgia Law, Make Case for Voting Overhaul
Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, lashed back, accusing Biden of attempting to “destroy the sanctity and security of the ballot box” by supporting what the governor sees as federal intrusion into state responsibilities.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Richard A Rothschild Did NOT Patent A COVID-19 Test Kit In 2015
Did Richard A Rothschild patent a COVID-19 test kit in 2015? No, that's not true: Richard A Rothschild's patent application for a system and method to test for Covid-19 was submitted on May 17, 2020, not in 2015. The 2020 patent applicati
Snopes→ Conspiracy Theorists Try to Connect Ever Given Ship, Hillary Clinton, and Child Trafficking
Not all dots connect.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New ‘X22 Report’ Video Does NOT Offer Evidence That Proves Claims About Mass Shootings, Election Fraud, Suez Ship
Does a new "X22 Report" video contain only factual and proven statements? No, that's not true: The video recycles familiar conspiracy theories, including disproven claims about a mass shooting and voter fraud in the 2020 election. It repe
The Dispatch→ Elizabeth Warren: Senator From Massachusetts—or the Roman Empire?
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FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Biden’s Claim that Assault Weapons Ban Worked
President Joe Biden claims the 10-year assault weapons ban that he helped shepherd through the Senate as part of the 1994 crime bill “brought down these mass killings.” But the raw numbers, when adjusted for population and other factors, ar
AllSides→ Has the Biden Administration Issued a ‘Gag Order’ on Border Guards?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/has-the-biden-administration-issued Viral Facebook posts claim that
Snopes→ Did Biden Admin ‘Urge Supreme Court to Let Cops Seize Guns From Homes With No Warrant’?
Online articles offered their interpretations of Caniglia v. Strom, a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2021. But what is the case really about?
Snopes→ A ‘Not Haunted’ House Hits the Market in Boston Area
A Massachusetts woman noticed something strange about the “For Sale" sign outside a home in her neighborhood.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Speaker Pelosi Uses Air Force Jets For Flights Home
Does Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi use an Air Force jet every Friday to fly "home from Washington D.C. to San Francisco, and then back to DC on Mondays"? No, there's no evidence that's true: When Pelosi began her current tenure as spe
Snopes→ Beloved Children’s Author Beverly Cleary Dies at 104
Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died.
AllSides→ Fact Check-Ellis Island Medal of Honor was given to Trump in 1986, but not for racial justice
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trump-ellisisland/fact-check-ellis-island-medal-of-honor-was-given-to-trump-in-1986-but-not-for-racial-justice-idUSL1N2LN260
Snopes→ No, Marwa Elselehdar Is Not Captain of Stuck Suez Canal Ship
Internet trolls put a fake headline on a real story about Elselehdar's accomplishments.
Snopes→ EXPLAINER: Why Is Media Access at the Border an Issue?
Access to government-run facilities housing young immigrants on the border with Mexico has caused one of the first tussles between news organizations and the administration of Joe Biden.
FactCheck.org→ Bogus Claims About Biden’s Treatment of Homeless Veterans
Quick Take After the Biden administration said it would spend $86 million to temporarily house immigrants at the southern border in hotels, viral posts — including a tweet by Rep. Madison Cawthorn — falsely claimed the White House has direc
AFP Fact Check→ US doctor makes false claims in video about Covid-19
A video from a Texas doctor warning against Covid-19 immunizations and touting drugs he says can treat the disease has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media. But medical experts say the physician’s claims about the safety and efficac
Snopes→ Are Suit Jackets Oppression? Lawmakers Fight Own Dress Codes
With women and people of color elected in larger numbers in many states, legislatures are being forced to confront longstanding dress codes that are increasingly viewed as sexist and racist.
FactCheck.org→ Pfizer CEO Got Vaccinated, Contrary to Claim in Video
SciCheck Digest A video making the false claim that the Pfizer CEO “refuses” to get a COVID-19 vaccine has been circulating on Facebook. But the pharmaceutical company’s chief executive has said that he’s gotten his first shot.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘It’s Now Illegal to Offer Someone Water in a Voting Line in Georgia’
On March 26 2021, Imgur user ZUXUX shared a screenshot of a tweet by journalist Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller), claiming it was “now illegal to offer someone water in a voting line in Georgia”: Good morning. It’s now illegal to offer someone
Logically→ New York is the first city in the US to end qualified immunity for police officers.
The New York City Council has passed a legislation that will effectively end qualified immunity as a defence for police officers.
The Dispatch→ Coronavirus, Variants, and Vaccines
We heard from many of you that you are having trouble persuading people close to you to take the COVID vaccine. You wished there was something you could pass along to people with the actual facts about the vaccine, not scary myths about why a
Truth or Fiction?→ Facebook’s Zuckerberg Falsely Tells Lawmakers ‘We Don’t Allow’ Disinformation in Ads
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg misrepresented his company’s disinformation policy on advertising while testifying to federal lawmakers on March 25 2021. Zuckerberg made the false claim — which flies in the face of his comp
Snopes→ Live Long in Sculpture: 20-Foot Art Planned for Spock Symbol
The Museum of Science in Boston is paying tribute to city native Leonard Nimoy with a 20-foot sculpture shaped like Mr. Spock's split-fingered “live long and prosper" hand gesture.
Logically→ While there were 58 motions between 1917 and 1971 to break filibusters, it was five times more in 2020 alone.
There were 58 motions for cloture between 1917 and 1970. In 2020, there were only 118, which is about twice as 58, and not five times more.
Snopes→ 3 Students Cited in Theft of Rare Tree in Wisconsin
Police were stumped by the theft of a rare pine tree from the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.
Snopes→ Steak-Out: Rhode Island’s Runaway Steer Has Been Recaptured
A steer that has been on the lam for nearly two months after escaping while on the way to a Rhode Island slaughterhouse was finally corralled.
Snopes→ Do Avon Reps Relocate Domestic Violence Survivors for Free?
Although the cosmetics giant has committed to supporting anti-domestic violence initiatives in the past, a viral TikTok made misleading claims.
Full Fact→ Viral instagram video falsely claims Covid-19 was planned
A video on Instagram that has been viewed more than 20,000 times claims that a second wave of Covid-19 has been planned, and Covid-19 vaccines are going to be fatal. Both claims are false. Conspiracy theories about the planning of Covid-19 have been sh
Full Fact→ New Statesman death comparison creates misleading picture
The New Statesman has published an article questioning why “excess deaths” rose every year between 2012 and 2019. The article, published on 26 March, calls this a “disquieting trend” and links deaths to policies of “auster
Snopes→ NASA Gives All Clear: Earth Safe from Asteroid for 100 Years
Whew, now here's some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.
Snopes→ Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Larry McMurtry Dies at 84
Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove,” has died.
Health Feedback→ Going vegan may lead to fewer pandemics, but it won’t eliminate them completely
REVIEW On 23 March 2021, American musician Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, posted a claim on Facebook stating that going vegan would mean a world with no pandemics, because 100% of pandemics have a zoonotic origin. Zoonoses are
Snopes→ Colorado Shooting Suspect Passed Check in Legal Gun Purchase
The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shootings bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check, and he also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t use in the attack.
Full Fact→ Is there a precedent for mandatory vaccines for care home workers?
On Monday the Telegraph reported that care home workers would be required “by law” to have the Covid-19 vaccination in “a historic legal change” that had been requested by the Prime Minister and health secretary Matt Hancock. Mr
Health Feedback→ Clinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild
REVIEW On 10 February 2021, a video was posted on the podcast channel The Joe Rogan Experience on the platform Spotify, in which commentator Joe Rogan (interviewing fellow commentator Michael Malice) made a series of statements about the side effects
Snopes→ What Is ‘Excited Delirium’ and Why Is It Controversial?
The public most often sees the term invoked in news stories about cases involving deaths in police custody, like George Floyd's.
FactCheck.org→ Texas Doctor Spreads False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines
SciCheck Digest Federal officials authorized two mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 after they were determined to be safe and effective against symptomatic illness in clinical trials. But a Texas doctor, in a widely shared video, falsely claims the vaccines do
Snopes→ Geert Vanden Bossche Stokes Fear of COVID-19 Vaccine To Promote His Own Flawed ‘Solution’
Anti-vaccine activists are promoting a veterinarian's claim that the only way to prevent a future COVID-19 vaccination-related calamity is through a product he claims to have invented.
Full Fact→ Police confirm officers did not suffer broken bones at Bristol protest
Last week Avon and Somerset police claimed that two officers had suffered broken bones, and one of those had a punctured lung, following protests in Bristol on 21 March, in opposition to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. It has now emerged