Current Events in August 2022
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
- Fact Check: Injured Young Man IS NOT Unidentified -- It's A Ruse To Trick People To Share The Post
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Sen. Lindsey Graham Grilling FBI Director Christopher Wray On The Mar-a-Lago Raid
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
- Fact Check: NATO Is NOT Sending Jets To Ukraine, And This Photo Does NOT Show NATO Jets
- Fact Check: Brian Stelter Was NOT Arrested By U.S. Military
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Ted Cruz Telling Nancy Pelosi 'You Are Guilty'
Monday, August 29, 2022
- Fact Check: Miscarriage Rate NOT 44% For Pregnant Women in Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial
- Fact Check: Biden Student Debt Relief Dollars Will NOT Be Taxed by IRS
- Fact Check: Robots Did NOT Kill 29 Scientists In Japan
- Fact Check: Waitress Is NOT Holding Dr. Oz Sign To Read 'NO' -- This Photo Has Been Edited
Friday, August 26, 2022
- Fact Check: McDonald's Did NOT Pay $1.5M To Customer Denied Extra Napkins
- Fact Check: Russian Power Plant NOT Blown Up In Ukrainian Counterattack As Of August 26, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Bill Gates Executed In July 2013
- Fact Check: Ben Shapiro The Commentator Did NOT Receive PPP Loan -- That Was A Different Guy
Thursday, August 25, 2022
- Fact Check: There Is NO Plan To Launch US Central Bank Digital Currency In December 2022
- Fact Check: Entering ATM PIN Number Backward Does NOT Alert Police To ATM Crime
- Fact Check: Airlines Are NOT Banning Vaccinated People From Flying Over Blood-Clot Risk
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Brazilian Gang Intimidating Police -- It's Movie Production
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove 'Rife Machines' Cure Cancer
- Fact Check: Canada Is NOT 'Killing Poor People'
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
- Fact Check: Marjorie Taylor Greene Was NOT Raided By DOJ On August 24, 2022
- Fact Check: Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Was NOT On Fire On August 23, 2022
- Fact Check: FBI Did NOT Seize Trump's Home On August 8, 2022
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
- Fact Check: France 2 Did NOT Intentionally Misinform Viewers About War Incident In Ukraine On August 10, 2022 -- It Admitted A Video Editing Mistake
- Fact Check: NO Evidence 'Chief Justice John Robert' Was Arrested As Of August 23, 2022
Monday, August 22, 2022
- Fact Check: Loire River Did NOT 'Run Dry' -- Photo Shows A Dry Branch Of The Loire But Not The Main Channel
- Fact Check: Dominion Did NOT Lose Its Lawsuits Against Rudy Giuliani And Sidney Powell -- It's A Recycled Claim
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Ukrainians Are Staging Russian Attacks
- Fact Check: Magic Johnson Did NOT Donate Blood To 'Help Underprivileged Communities Help Fight COVID-19' In This Video
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Friday, August 19, 2022
- Fact Check: Cyber Polygon Did NOT Release Plans for Canada's Telecom Outage
- Fact Check: 6-Month-Old Today MAY Receive More Shots This Year Than A 40-Year-Old Has Had In Their Life, Due To Medical Advances
- Fact Check: Russia and China Did NOT Team Up To Create 'New Global Reserve Currency' Based On Rare Earth Minerals
- Fact Check: WEF Did NOT Announce Recruitment Of 'Information Warriors' To Control Narrative On Social Media
- Fact Check: Ted Cruz Did NOT Say He Has Hunter Biden's Laptop Files In This Video
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Say 'Can't Trust A Guy Named Weisselberg' After CFO Pled Guilty To Tax Fraud, Implicated Trump Organization
Thursday, August 18, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Texas Senator Exposing FBI Lie Over Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Fact Check: COVID Shots Given By Governments Did NOT Kill 12M People Worldwide
- Fact Check: Video Did NOT Include Authentic Audio Of Secret Service Bemoaning Biden's Jacket Troubles
- Fact Check: Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Tweet "Do Not Come To Mar-A-Lago" On August 13, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show IRS Agents In Training -- Event Was For Accounting Students
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Ukraine's Navy Artillery Destroying 13 Russian Warships In The Black Sea
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
- Fact Check: Woman Found Dead In Arkansas River Is NOT Provably Linked To Clinton Advisor Who Apparently Killed Self
- Fact Check: New York's 'Go Bag' Advisory NOT A 'Project Blue Beam' Warning
- Fact Check: Anne Heche Was NOT In A Movie About Jeffrey Epstein, Contrary To Murder Theories
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Schools Can Prescribe Adderall To Students
- Fact Check: CERN Collider NOT Powered By Child Sacrifices, Human Blood -- The Electricity It Runs On Comes From France
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Attack On A Priest In France
- Fact Check: Rejected Petition Signatures For LA County Recall NOT The Same As Rejected 2020 Ballots
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Rep. John Haller' Reading Anti-Terrorism Bill With Repeated 'Classified' Parts -- It's Old Satire
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
- Fact Check: CDC Did NOT 'Just Dramatically' Change Their Claims About MRNA Vaccine Safety
- Fact Check: Klaus Schwab's WEF Does NOT Plan To Censor Internet Using Artificial Intelligence
Monday, August 15, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Pirates Attacking U.S. Military Ship -- It's Marine Sniper Training And Other Clips
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Somali Pirates 'Messing With Russian Ship'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Clark County, Washington, Election Workers Illegally Closing Ballot Drop Boxes Before Official Time
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Boston Children's Hospital Offers Gender-Affirming Hysterectomies To Children
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
- Fact Check: IRS Is NOT Trying To Arm All Its Agents
- Fact Check: List Of 25 Taxes Does NOT Only Include Taxes That Didn't Exist 60 Years Ago
- Fact Check: Barack Obama Did NOT Take 30 Million Documents From The White House To Chicago And Then Refuse To Return Them
- Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Real That Shows Ghislaine Maxwell Partying With Judge Who Approved Mar-a-Lago Warrant
- Fact Check: IRS Is NOT Opening 'Sniper School,' Its Criminal Investigation Unit Says
Thursday, August 11, 2022
- Fact Check: Brittney Griner Is NOT A Man -- She Has Already Debunked This
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 20 Warplanes Escorting Nancy Pelosi's Plane During 2022 Taiwan Visit -- It's 2020 Naval Exercise
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Congress Intends To Cut $300 Billion From Medicare To Pay For Obamacare
- Fact Check: WHO Did NOT Declare That Failure To Find Sex Partner Is Now A Disability
- Fact Check: Bubbling Water In Hudson River Is NOT 'Boiling,' NOT Near A Nuclear Power Plant
- Fact Check: Paul Pelosi Was NOT Arrested By 'US Army Special Forces'
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Israel Destroying The Russian Nuclear Submarine Kazan
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Government Burning Crops
- Fact Check: Monkeypox Is NOT Same Thing As Biblical Or Modern-Day Leprosy
Monday, August 8, 2022
- Fact Check: Viruses HAVE Been Isolated, Measles Virus DOES Exist
- Fact Check: The President Did NOT Announce New 'Health Credits' For Anyone Making Under $50,000 A Year
- Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Arrest DNI Avril Haines
Friday, August 5, 2022
- Fact Check: FAA Weather Cams Are NOT Offline Along Entire Coastline Of Lower 48 States -- They Only Operate In Select Locations
- Fact Check: This Video Does NOT Show Russian Defense Ministry Guesthouse Being Attacked
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence That Putin Is Preparing To Flee Russia 'Should He Be Defeated In Ukraine'
- Fact Check: World's First Female F-35 Fighter Pilot Did NOT Crash
- Fact Check: Secret Service Agents Did NOT Use Prosthetic Arms During Trump's Inaugural Parade
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Antifa, Federal Agents Were Behind The 2021 U.S. Capitol Attack
Monday, August 1, 2022
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