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  • Fact Check: 'Pope Drip' Image Is NOT Real -- Photo of Pope Francis In White Puffer Coat Is An AI Creation

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    Did Pope Francis appear walking on the street wearing a high-fashion white puffer coat? No, that's not true: This image is one of a series of four AI-generated images which were posted on the subreddit forum r/midjourney, "an official subreddit for Midjourney related content." Midjourney is an artificial intelligence program that creates images from natural language prompts. The images were…

    • Mar 27, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: 'Pope Drip' Image Is NOT Real -- Photo of Pope Francis In White Puffer Coat Is An AI Creation AI Generated
  • Fact Check: Pictures of Fauci Arrest Are NOT Real Photos But AI-Generated Images

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    Do images circulating on social media show press photos of Anthony Fauci under arrest and in police custody? No, that's not true: Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has not been arrested. These are not photos of a real incident but are images generated by an artificial intelligence program. Jack Posobiec posted the…

    • Mar 24, 2023
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Pictures of Fauci Arrest Are NOT Real Photos But AI-Generated Images AI Generated
  • Fact Check: Fauci NOT 'Set To Be Arrested' For Lying To Congress -- It's A Followbait Scheme

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    Is Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, facing imminent arrest for lying to Congress? No, that's not true: The allegation is part of a followbait or clickbait scheme. In a typical bait-and-switch move, the poster of this claim promises social media users a…

    • Mar 17, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Fauci NOT 'Set To Be Arrested' For Lying To Congress -- It's A Followbait Scheme Bait & Switch
  • Fact Check: Mother Teresa Did NOT Sell Babies, But Workers In Her Charity Were Accused Of Sales Decades After Her Death

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    Did Mother Teresa sell children from her shelters in India? No, that's not true: There's no evidence to support that claim, but a nun and another worker at a shelter for unwed mothers run by Mother Teresa's charity were arrested in 2018 and accused of selling babies, The Associated Press and other news organizations reported. The claim appeared in a…

    • Feb 16, 2023
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Mother Teresa Did NOT Sell Babies, But Workers In Her Charity Were Accused Of Sales Decades After Her Death Not Teresa
  • Fact Check: Anthony Fauci NOT Arrested After Elon Musk Document Dump -- It's From Satire Site

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    Did police in Washington, D.C., arrest top virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci after Twitter CEO Elon Musk released information that Fauci lied about COVID-19 research and imposed unnecessary restrictions on Americans? No, that's not true: The claim appears in a story on a site that publishes satirical takes on the news. The claim appeared in a December 27, 2022 article by…

    • Dec 31, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Anthony Fauci NOT Arrested After Elon Musk Document Dump -- It's From Satire Site Not Arrested
  • Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots'

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    Did the Food and Drug Administration report that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine "causes" blood clots? No, that's not true: In remarks to Lead Stories, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that the vaccine meets its safety standards and denied that the agency had found that the vaccine causes health problems. The authors of a recent study, conducted in part…

    • Dec 20, 2022
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: FDA Did NOT Report Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine 'Causes Blood Clots' No Causal Link
  • Fact Check: Twenty-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Die After Receiving COVID Vaccine

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    Did a 20-year-old woman from Kansas die shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: Although Regan Lewis did experience cardiac arrest and die shortly after receiving a vaccine, Regan's mother Connie Lewis clarified that the vaccine was not for COVID after mistakenly saying so previously. There is also no confirmation that Regan's cardiac arrest and subsequent death…

    • Dec 14, 2022
    • by: Christiana Dillard
    Fact Check: Twenty-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Die After Receiving COVID Vaccine Not COVID Vax
  • Fact Check: White House Did NOT Pick 'Satan Worshipper' to 'Oversee American Health'

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    Did President Joe Biden choose a "Satan worshipper" to oversee the health of Americans? No, that's not true: Biden picked Dr. Demetre Daskalakis to serve as the deputy coordinator of a national health response team for a single disease, monkeypox. Daskalakis does have a tattoo of a pentagram -- a symbol that some associate with Satan and the occult --…

    • Nov 30, 2022
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: White House Did NOT Pick 'Satan Worshipper' to 'Oversee American Health' Not A Satanist
  • Fact Check: New COVID Death Data Does NOT Prove Vaccines Are 'Experimental Toxin' Causing 'A Majority Of COVID Deaths'

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    Does a newly released dataset show that COVID-19 is a deadly "experimental toxin"? And does Dr. Anthony Fauci's resignation have anything to do with it? No, neither are true: the claims recycle old falsehoods based on a distortion of publicly available information, and new reports do not support it. Fauci, 81, the country's top virologist, started talking about stepping down…

    • Nov 24, 2022
    • by: Uliana Malashenko
    Fact Check: New COVID Death Data Does NOT Prove Vaccines Are 'Experimental Toxin' Causing 'A Majority Of COVID Deaths' Recycled Rumor
  • Fact Check: Movie 'Died Suddenly' Does NOT Demonstrate That COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Sudden Death

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    Does the movie "Died Suddenly" demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccinations cause widespread sudden death or severe medical outcomes? No, that's not true: The film recycles previously debunked claims that the vaccine is lethal or dangerous for the average person receiving it. More than 5.45 billion people have been vaccinated worldwide and public health experts recommend immunization against the virus, saying it…

    • Nov 22, 2022
    • by: Ed Payne
    Fact Check: Movie 'Died Suddenly' Does NOT Demonstrate That COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Sudden Death Reused Claims
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