Category: Fact Check
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Study Largely Confirms Known, Rare COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
SciCheck Digest An international study of around 99 million people confirmed known serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. It also identified a possible relationship between… Read More
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Fact Check: Is the U.S. third in gun violence because of five cities? Data doesn’t support that claim
After a May mass shooting at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, a comedian raised a familiar claim about gun violence in the U.S. Bryan… Read More
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Breaking Down the Immigration Figures
Encounters on the southern border of those trying to enter the U.S. without authorization have gone up significantly under President Joe Biden. Government statistics show… Read More
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Fact Check: More gun ownership does not lead to less gun violence
A map claiming to show levels of gun violence across the United States says that states with more guns have lower levels of gun violence.… Read More
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Fact Check: Texas chicken farm fire revives baseless conspiracy theory about food supply attacks
Where there’s smoke, there may be fire … or conspiracy theories. At least there were after a massive fire at a Texas chicken farm resurfaced… Read More
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Fact Check: Is Disney World adding urinals to women’s restrooms? No, that’s Pants on Fire!
Some social media posts claim Disney World is changing its theme park bathrooms to be more inclusive. But don’t get flushed — this claim originated… Read More
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Fact Check: Dr. Oz wasn’t attacked on TV for diabetes cure; fight video is from Ukraine talk show
Five years ago, Dr. Mezmet Oz wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed, urging social media companies to crack down on fake videos featuring celebrities pitching… Read More
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Fact Check: Who is Alexander Smirnov, and what does his indictment mean for the GOP impeachment inquiry?
With one arrest, some politicians and pundits speculated that the evidence that President Joe Biden accepted a bribe disappeared. But did it? Tuning into cable… Read More
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Fact Check: No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or ‘trans terrorism’
Genesse Ivonne Moreno entered a Houston megachurch on Super Bowl Sunday and began firing an AR-style rifle at worshippers, police said. Investigators were still piecing… Read More
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Fact Check: Illegal crossings at the US-Canada border increase, but lag far behind the southern border
Migrants crossing into the United States from the southern border get many headlines, but there has also been an increase in crossings at the U.S.-Canada… Read More