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Did a woman experience a fentanyl overdose after touching a folded dollar bill she found at a Nashville McDonald's? No, there's no evidence of that: Although she was given a medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that's designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose, neither the woman nor the dollar bill she touched was tested for narcotics. The…

Did McDonald's accidentally give out 5,000 condoms with Happy Meals? No, that's not true: The site this claim originated from is satirical. There is no evidence from any trusted news organizations that this event has ever occurred. The claim originally appeared in an article (archived here) published by CAP News under the title "McDonald's Apologizes For Condoms In Happy Meals."…

Does McDonald's ice cream contain xylitol, a type of sugar that is harmful to dogs? This claim contains falsehood and some truth: No, McDonald's ice cream does not contain xylitol. A spokesperson from McDonald's USA told Lead Stories that its "soft serve, found in our cones and other desserts, does not contain xylitol." However, according to the FDA, xylitol poisons…

Are Jews stealing Christian children, sacrificing them and then feeding them back to non-Jews to turn them into cannibals? No, that's not true: It's an antisemitic myth that's nearly a thousand years old. Recirculated audio and video on social media are exposing a new audience to the propaganda. A spokesperson with the Anti-Defamation League said, "It is unusual to see…

Did McDonald's lose a legal battle with chef Jamie Oliver? Was it proven that lean finely textured beef treated with ammonium hydroxide was highly toxic or not fit for human consumption? No, neither are true: Oliver did not win a legal battle with McDonald's. Oliver spotlighted the beef product in an April 12, 2011, episode of his show "Food Revolution"…

Is a McDonald's in Rome, Georgia, offering a starting wage of $31 an hour? No, that's not true: The claim is posted on a satirical site and is not meant to be real. A manager at a McDonald's in Rome told Lead Stories it's a hoax. Pay at that restaurant starts at $11 an hour and goes up with experience,…

In a video (archived here) published on Frankspeech on July 24, 2021 titled "Mike Lindell Releases First Packet Captures Ahead Of August 10, 11 and 12 Cyber Symposium", Mike Lindell showed a snippet of video claiming it showed packet captures taken during the 2020 Presidential election that prove election fraud happened. It looked similar to a clip he showed in…

Is there evidence that posters advertising jobs for teenagers are actually sex trafficking schemes? No, that's not true: According to representatives for anti-sex trafficking organizations, such posters are not known to be tied to sex trafficking, although they have been linked to labor schemes. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) on January 28, 2020. It features a…

Was Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos flipping burgers at McDonald's at 23 years old? No, that's not true: at that age, Bezos was a Princeton University graduate who turned down various job offers to work for a start-up telecommunications company. The claim appeared in an Instagram post (archived here) published on June 23, 2021. The post was a graphic…

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…