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  • Fact Check: 'The Shot' Is NOT Failing -- It Prevents Most Infections And Reduces Symptoms Of Breakthrough Infections

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    Is a meme correct in implying vaccination ("the shot") is not working to prevent COVID-19? No, that's not true: Since it uses an image of a comedian's fictional rapper character, "Ali G," it may be satire. But the apparent reference to vaccinated people still getting sick ignores the fact that the point of vaccination campaigns is to sharply limit the…

    • Aug 20, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'The Shot' Is NOT Failing -- It Prevents Most Infections And Reduces Symptoms Of Breakthrough Infections Vaccine Works
  • Fact Check: Claims About CEOs Who Don't Use Their Company's Products Are NOT All True

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    Does this meme accurately represent the relationships of several CEOs to the products of their respective companies? This tweet from 2019 contains a mixture of true, false, unverified and misleading statements. This screenshot meme originated with a tweet posted on November 22, 2019. It resurfaced in a post on Facebook on June 27, 2021, captioned only, "Question everything." The text…

    • Jun 28, 2021
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Claims About CEOs Who Don't Use Their Company's Products Are NOT All True Not All True
  • Fact Check: Blocking 'Community Standards' Does NOT Keep A Person Out Of 'Facebook Jail'

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    Do these instructions explaining how to block "community standards" give a Facebook user free rein to violate the platform's community standards without being penalized or going to "Facebook Jail"? No, that's not true: These instructions are a sarcastic joke, a nod to a popular long-running false instructional post that tells people how they can block fact-checkers and never be fact-checked…

    • Feb 22, 2021
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Blocking 'Community Standards' Does NOT Keep A Person Out Of 'Facebook Jail' Tech Tip Joke
  • Fact Check: Website for "Cannibal Club" Restaurant is Joke Site Created For Web Design Class

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    Is there really a "Cannibal Club" restaurant in Los Angeles and can you read all about it on their website? No, that's not true: the site was created as part of a web design class and uses stock photos and fake names for its staff. Peddlers of conspiracy theories that have latched on to the site and claim it is…

    • Feb 14, 2021
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fact Check: Website for "Cannibal Club" Restaurant is Joke Site Created For Web Design Class Joke Site
  • Fact Check: 'Off-Facebook Activity' Setting Does NOT Allow Facebook to See Bank Account Info, Email, Etc.

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    Did Facebook add a new feature that has allowed the platform to monitor and track a user's activity -- including online banking -- and read their email even when they are off Facebook, and has this been going on for the last two months? No, Facebook does not snoop in a user's banking transactions or read emails they send, but…

    • Jan 28, 2021
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: 'Off-Facebook Activity' Setting Does NOT Allow Facebook to See Bank Account Info, Email, Etc. Targeted Ads
  • Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet

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    Is "Big Tech" letting child porn distributors freely operate while restricting people who post content that companies like Amazon and Facebook consider to be dangerous falsehoods? No, that's not how it works: No one owns the internet, which is a network of connected computers on which the World Wide Web operates via a common programming code that allows users to…

    • Jan 13, 2021
    • by: Dean Miller
    Fact Check: 'Big Tech' CANNOT Prevent Child Porn From Circulating On The Internet Web ≠ Big Tech
  • Fact Check: This Mansion Is NOT Joel Osteen's

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    Is this Joel Osteen's house? No, that's not true: The sprawling mansion, shown in a Facebook post, is not Joel and Victoria Osteen's River Oaks, Texas, home. It is the Hidden Hills, California, home of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, according to published reports. The related claims about Osteen's taxes and federal aid are made vaguely and without evidence and…

    • Dec 23, 2020
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: This Mansion Is NOT Joel Osteen's Mansion Mixup
  • Fact Check: Instagram Government Surveillance Fears Based on Misunderstood Meaning of 'Masks'

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    Did Instagram institute a new set of policies on December 20, 2020, that remarkably changed the way the platform operates and that opens users up to a type of surveillance never seen before? No, that's not true: Instagram's new terms of service that went into effect on December 20, 2020, represent a clarification, but not a big change in the…

    • Dec 22, 2020
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Instagram Government Surveillance Fears Based on Misunderstood Meaning of 'Masks' Not That Mask
  • Fact Check: Fact-Checking on Facebook Is NOT Done by Appen. How Fact-Checking Actually Works Is NOT How 'Whistleblower' Describes It

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    Is fact-checking on Facebook done by the Australian data company Appen? No, that's not true: Fact-checking on Facebook is done in the U.S. by 10 members of the independent International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a worldwide forum whose members are certified to adhere to a Code of Principles, one of whose tenets is non-partisanship. Appen, which has a contract with Facebook…

    • Dec 21, 2020
    • by: Lead Stories Staff
    Fact Check: Fact-Checking on Facebook Is NOT Done by Appen. How Fact-Checking Actually Works Is NOT How 'Whistleblower' Describes It Misrepresented
  • Fact Check: A Made Up Legal Notice Does NOT Supersede The Terms Of Service Of Social Media Platforms

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    Does posting a legal notice to Instagram regarding permissions you grant the platform change the terms of service a social media user agreed to when they signed up for an account? No, that's not true: This notice is a made up argument with no legal value. It is an evolution of a long running copy/paste privacy hoax that has been…

    • Sep 29, 2020
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: A Made Up Legal Notice Does NOT Supersede The Terms Of Service Of Social Media Platforms Read The TOS
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