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  • Fake News: Single Men Will NOT Get The Right To Start A Family Under New Definition Of Infertility

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    Will single men get the right to start a family under a new definition of infertility adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO)? No, that's not true: WHO made it clear in a statement issued a day after the claim appeared in a British newspaper that it was not changing its definition to consider single men who could not find…

    • Oct 10, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Single Men Will NOT Get The Right To Start A Family Under New Definition Of Infertility
  • Fake News: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Say Satanism Is A Religion That Deserves Respect

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    Did Chelsea Clinton say that satanism is a religion that deserves respect? No, that's not true: The only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did say in a tweet that people should be "civil, cheerful, respectful" to "people who don't share our religious beliefs," but she never referenced satanism. She was replying to…

    • Aug 29, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Say Satanism Is A Religion That Deserves Respect
  • Fake News: Prince Andrew NOT Put On Suicide Watch

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    Was Britain's Prince Andrew put on suicide watch to protect the reputation of the Royal Family? No, that's not true: the story was put out by a satirical website but many people fell for the headline because the satire disclaimer on the site is hidden behind a disclaimer link that can't be reached because of infinite scrolling. The story originated…

    • Aug 20, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Prince Andrew NOT Put On Suicide Watch
  • Fake News: Chief Justice John Roberts Did NOT Fly With Jeffrey Epstein On At Least Two Occasions

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    Did Chief Justice John Roberts fly with Jeffrey Epstein on at least two occasions? No, that's not true: The August 2019 release of 2,000 pages of documents relating to a civil lawsuit against Epstein included more flight logs with additional names of famous people who flew on the accused sex trafficker's private jet, but Roberts was not one of them.…

    • Aug 15, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Chief Justice John Roberts Did NOT Fly With Jeffrey Epstein On At Least Two Occasions
  • Fake News: Pedophile Priest Who Raped 200 Children NOT Forgiven By Pope Francis

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    Did Pope Francis forgive a priest who raped 200 children and did this enable the priest to abuse more children? No, that's not true: the priest mentioned in the story died in 2005 and Francis only became Pope in 2013. The story offers no proof of the claim that Francis forgave the man. And even if he did: no matter…

    • Aug 14, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Pedophile Priest Who Raped 200 Children NOT Forgiven By Pope Francis
  • Fake News: Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Flight Logs Do NOT List Joe Biden, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis And 4 CNN Hosts As Passengers.

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    Do Jeffrey Epstein's private jet flight logs list Joe Biden, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, four CNN Anchors, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and two dozen other well-known political leaders as passengers on the accused sex trafficker's "Lolita Express?" No, that's not true: The list that has spread on social media is fake, with the exception of…

    • Jul 23, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Flight Logs Do NOT List Joe Biden, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis And 4 CNN Hosts As Passengers.
  • Fake News: Police Investigating Death Of Former Senator Who Did NOT Believe She Was Closing In On Child Trafficking Ring

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    Are police investigating the death of a former Arkansas state senator who believed she was closing in on a child trafficking ring? No, that's not true: Linda Collins, who lost her state senate post to another Republican last year, was shot to death at her Pocahontas, Arkansas, home on June 4, 2019, but there is no evidence that she had…

    • Jun 13, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Police Investigating Death Of Former Senator Who Did NOT Believe She Was Closing In On Child Trafficking Ring
  • Fake News: Picture Does NOT Show a Public Beach in China

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    Does a picture often shared on social media show a very crowded public beach in China? No, that's not true: the photo actually shows an aerial shot of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro during the 2013 World Youth Day when Pope Francis celebrated mass there. The photo recently went viral again via a post (archived here) on a Facebook…

    • May 8, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Picture Does NOT Show a Public Beach in China
  • Fake News: FBI Did NOT Admit Barack Obama Told Bare-Faced Lie To Nation About Hillary's Emails

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    Did the FBI admit that President Barack Obama lied to the nation about Hillary Clinton's email? No, that's not true: The article making the claim misrepresents a Judicial Watch report that an FBI official disclosed in a deposition that one of the sources for recovered Clinton emails was the server for the Executive Office of the President. The official did…

    • Apr 25, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: FBI Did NOT Admit Barack Obama Told Bare-Faced Lie To Nation About Hillary's Emails
  • Fake News: Bernie Sanders Did NOT Say Christianity Is An Insult To Muslims

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    Did Bernie Sanders say Christianity is "an insult to muslims"? No, that's not true: an old hoax story from 2017 based on a Senate hearing keeps popping up but as the record shows Sanders was only calling a statement from White House Deputy Budget Director nominee Russell Vought "insulting" to "over a billion Muslims" and he was not refering to…

    • Apr 19, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Bernie Sanders Did NOT Say Christianity Is An Insult To Muslims
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