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Snopes→ US Regulators Lift In-Person Restrictions on Abortion Pill
The Food and Drug Administration permanently loosened a key restriction on abortion pills, eliminating a long-standing requirement that the medication be picked up in person.
Snopes→ Does Video Show a Child Handing Biden a Vial of Blood?
This is doctored video spreading conspiratorial nonsense. However, the real video is still kind of weird.
Snopes→ Top 8 Most Read Snopes News Stories in 2021
Our newsroom does fact-based, explanatory journalism via two methods: fact checks with truth ratings or analytical news stories.
PolitiFact→ How Fox News hosts’ Jan 6 texts, on-air comments told different stories of attack
Three Fox News hosts who later downplayed the day’s events texted his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, calling on Trump to put a stop to the violence.
FactCheck.org→ Doctor Makes False Claim About Stillbirths in Canadian Hospitals
SciCheck Digest The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant people, and the World Health Organization says the vaccines are safe for them. Yet online articles cite a Canadian doctor who falsely claims that t
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Claim on Jesse Ventura show that COVID-19 pandemic was planned is Pants on Fire
“They've planned this” COVID-19 “pandemic all along!”
Snopes→ Congress Approves Import Ban Targeting Forced Labor in China
Senators gave final congressional approval to a bill barring imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove they were produced without forced labor.
The Dispatch→ Did Fauci Say COVID Vaccines Could Make People More Likely to Be Infected?
A viral tweet shows a video of Dr. Anthony Fauci speaking with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and makes the claim that, “Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected with the virus.̶
Snopes→ Did Twitter Prohibit Making an Accurate Claim About COVID-19 Transmission?
Vaccinated individuals can, in fact, spread COVID-19 to others — albeit at a far lower rate than the unvaccinated do.
Snopes→ Snopes Looks Back on Eventful Year, Prepares for Upcoming Trial
Our fact-checking team has been energized by court victories, including penalties ordered against our opponents.
Snopes→ All from US Missionary Group Freed in Haiti, Police Say
The remaining members of a missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago have been freed.
Full Fact→ Why might vaccinated people account for a bigger share of Covid-19 deaths than infections?
An article from the blog, The Exposé, claims that fully vaccinated people accounted for nine in 10 Covid-19 deaths in Scotland over the past four months. Screenshots of the article’s headline, including this claim, have also circulated on
Full Fact→ Actor pretended to have Covid-19 for hospital training exercise, not for propaganda
A Facebook post claims to have proof an actor was contracted to pretend they were a hospital patient with Covid-19. The post includes a screenshot of a tweet. It says the actor “shows her contract detailing her role” and that it requi
Snopes→ Army: 98% of Active Duty Got COVID-19 Vaccine by Deadline
More than 3,800 soldiers flatly refused and could start being removed from the military next month.
Snopes→ Colorado Dog That Was Missing for 2 Weeks Rescued from Ledge
An animal control officer with the Humane Society anchored herself to a wooden fence and rappelled down to the dog using a mountaineering harness.
FactCheck.org→ Our Annual Fundraising Appeal
It is that time of year when we ask for you to help support fact-based reporting on major public policy issues. This year, we have brought you reports on the Capitol riot, including a same-day fact-checking article of then President Donald Trump’s fa
Snopes→ Jaguars Fire Urban Meyer After 13 Games, Countless Missteps
Urban Meyer never fit in the NFL.
Logically→ Former U.S. President Donald Trump is taller than Joe Biden.
President Biden's official records state that he is 5 feet 11.65 inches, making him shorter than Trump, who is approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall.
Full Fact→ Boris Johnson’s mum did not call him ‘an idiot with no common sense’
A Facebook post claims Boris Johnson’s mother said her son is “an idiot with no common sense”, “has very little in the way of social skills” and claims she hoped “he never goes into politics.” The post attribut
Snopes→ Pro-Trump Commentator Melissa Tate Suspended by Twitter
In an email, Twitter confirmed to us that @TheRightMelissa was permanently suspended from the platform.
Snopes→ Did Coca-Cola Announce Change to ‘More Relevant’ Black Santa Claus?
Did the company's CEO James Quincey really say "The time has come for a Santa Claus that's more relevant to our times"?
Snopes→ Did Oprah Winfrey Endorse Whoopi Goldberg’s CBD Line?
We've seen unauthorized, foreign-run schemes like these before.
Snopes→ Sewell to Be 1st Woman, 3rd Black Person to Lead NYC Police
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Keechant Sewell, a Long Island police official, as the city's next police commissioner, making her the first woman to lead the nation’s largest police force.
Snopes→ Did Bill Gates Make an ‘Omicron’ Video Game?
Among the many flaws in this conspiracy theory, the COVID-19 variant "omicron" isn't spelled with a "K."
Snopes→ Florida District to Pay $26 Million to Shooting Victims
The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Snopes→ Happy 100th, Bloody Mary: Paris Marks Cocktail’s Birthday
Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented at the iconic watering hole in 1921.
Logically→ AAP’s National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal has support from key Khalistani leaders, organizations.
There is no proper evidence to prove that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has support from Khalistani leaders.
Logically→ Uttar Pradesh performs worst in governance among big states.
This claim cannot be presently verified as there is no supporting evidence approving the PAC India study.
Snopes→ RECALL: Coca-Cola Voluntarily Recalls Some Minute Maid Products
The products potentially have foreign objects in them, like metal bolts or washers.
Health Feedback→ Clip of Anthony Fauci discussing potential vaccine safety concerns is from March 2020; current scientific evidence shows COVID-19 vaccines reduce risk of infection and serious illness
REVIEW A 19 March 2020 Facebook Live conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anthony Fauci, the director for the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was recently used to spread misinformation about the COVID-19 v
Full Fact→ A post offering free TVs from Tesco is a scam
A scam claiming to offer free TVs from Tesco is spreading widely on Facebook. The post, from an account called “Tesco Fans” says: “We're about to chuck around 300-400 TV's that have been use for display TV's in our stores around the U
Full Fact→ Argos is not offering microwaves for £1.78
A Facebook post from an account which uses the Argos logo and is called “Goods for the kitchen” claims “the famous brand has broken its contract with Argos and is giving every UK resident a microwave oven for £1.78” along
AllSides→ Missouri attorney general’s scathing letter to Biden begins with false claim
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/fact-check-missouri-schmitt-biden-travel/index.html President J
AllSides→ US tornadoes: Is climate change to blame?
http://bbc.com/news/59641376 Several US states have been hit by a devastating series of tornadoes, with
Snopes→ Fox Stars Tried to Get Trump to Act on Jan. 6, Texts Show
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade all texted advice to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as a mob of pro-Donald Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Full Fact→ Video of monster climbing buildings appears to be a hoax
A video on Instagram appears to show multiple clips of a four legged monster climbing over residential housing blocks in Russia. The narrator claims the first video shown was captured in 2014 and the second in 2013. He asks “Has Chernobyl radiati
Snopes→ US COVID Death Toll Hits 800,000, a Year into Vaccine Drive
More than 200,000 of those lives were lost after the vaccine became available practically for the asking last spring.
Logically→ Japan places myocarditis warning on COVID-19 vaccines.
It is protocol to list possible adverse reactions to a vaccination. Cases of severe myocarditis have been extremely rare amid the vaccine rollout.
Snopes→ House Votes to Hold Mark Meadows in Contempt in Jan. 6 Probe
The near-party-line 222-208 vote is the second time the special committee has sought to punish a witness for defying a subpoena.