Fact Check in December 2020
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
- Fact Check: All Washington, D.C. Residents Can NOT Now Register to Receive The COVID-19 Vaccine
- Fact Check: Amazon Does NOT Spray Chemicals On Cardboard Shipping Boxes -- Claims It Killed Pet Rats And Cats Unconfirmed
- Fact Check: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Did NOT Urge That Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn Be Put On 'Military Trial For Sedition'
- Fact Check: The Federal Government Did NOT Fail In An Attempt To Run Nevada's Mustang Ranch Brothel After Seizing It For A Tax Debt
- Fact Check: Tennessee Registered Nurse Did NOT Claim She Suffered From Bell's Palsy After COVID-19 Vaccination
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
- Fact Check: Cornell Professor Did NOT Say 'COVID-19 Does Not Exist And Is Fictitious'
- Fact Check: Certification Of Pennsylvania Presidential Vote Is NOT In Error -- Analysis That 202,377 More Ballots Were Counted Than Voters Who Voted Uses Partial Numbers
- Fact Check: Some California Counties DID Allow Voters To Use ImageCast Remote Software To Mark Mail-In Ballots, But There's No Evidence It's Not Secure
Monday, December 28, 2020
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A 2020 National Geographic Photo Of The Star of Bethlehem
- Fact Check: Sungard Availability Services Was NOT The Target Of The Nashville Bombing
- Fact Check: AAA Is NOT Offering 'Tipsy Tow' Program During the 2020/2021 New Years
Sunday, December 27, 2020
- Fact Check: President Trump Invoking The Impoundment Control Act Does NOT Force Congress To Repeal Section 230, Cut Wasteful Spending, Add $2k Stimulus Checks
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Suspected Nashville Bomber Anthony Quinn Warner Wearing A Trump 2020 Hat
- Fact Check: Biden Is NOT A War Hero, Rhodes Scholar, Nor Harvard Law Grad
- Fact Check: AT&T Data Center In Nashville Damaged By Bomb Did NOT Have Contract To Audit Dominion Voting Machines
Saturday, December 26, 2020
- Fact Check: Sam Hyde Was NOT Driving The RV That Exploded in Nashville
- Fact Check: Website Screenshot and Tweets Are NOT Evidence FBI Arrested Adam Schiff at LAX Airport
Friday, December 25, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
- Fact Check: Instant Noodles Are NOT Coated In Wax That Causes Cancer
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A NASA Photo Of A Solar Eclipse
- Fact Check: Vaccines Are NOT Primarily Designed To Improve Survival Rates Of Those Already Infected -- They Work By Reducing The Risk of Infection
- Fact Check: Birthmarks NOT Caused By MTHFR Gene Variants, Which Rarely Cause Disease, Are NOT Harmful For Those Receiving Vaccines
- Fact Check: This Mansion Is NOT Joel Osteen's
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say The U.S. Is 'Doomed' Because The U.S. Will Be Minority Non-Hispanic White In The Near Future
- Fact Check: The Stimulus Bill Does NOT Strip President Trump Of His Insurrection Act Authority
- Fact Check: Congress Did NOT Give Itself A Pay Raise In The Pandemic Relief/Stimulus Bill
- Fact Check: Ownership of Jeffrey Epstein's Former Island Was NOT Traced To the Clinton Foundation
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
- Fact Check: HIV Is NOT In COVID-19 Vaccines
- Fact Check: 'New Stimulus Bill' Does NOT Include Funding For The Smithsonian, Kennedy Center And More -- That Funding Is Part Of $1.4 Trillion Government Spending Deal
- Fact Check: Instagram Government Surveillance Fears Based on Misunderstood Meaning of 'Masks'
- Fact Check: The CDC Did NOT Post A Tweet Encouraging Shoplifting
Monday, December 21, 2020
- Fact Check: 'Sudden Injection' Of Nearly 385,000 Votes In Michigan Does NOT Prove Election Fraud
- Fact Check: An Asteroid Is NOT About To Hit Near Puerto Rico, And The Arecibo Telescope Collapse Was NOT Nefarious
- Fact Check: President-Elect Joe Biden's Sister Is NOT Married To Dominion Voting Systems' Owner
- Fact Check: Canada's COVID Relief Programs Do NOT Pay Everyone $900 A Week And Give A $40,000 Loan To All Small Businesses
- Fact Check: Fact-Checking on Facebook Is NOT Done by Appen. How Fact-Checking Actually Works Is NOT How 'Whistleblower' Describes It
Sunday, December 20, 2020
- Fact Check: Black Crayola Crayon Labeled 'Negro' Is NOT Racist -- It's Spanish
- Fact Check: Tennessee Nurse Tiffany Dover, Who Fainted After COVID-19 Shot, Is NOT Dead
- Fact Check: There Were NOT Just 133 Million Registered Voters In November 2020 US Presidential Election
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Mother With COVID-19 Holding Child With Cancer
Saturday, December 19, 2020
- Fact Check: Chief Justice John Roberts Is NOT In A Photo With Ghislaine Maxwell
- Fact Check: Police Officer Accused of Killing George Floyd NOT Killed in Prison
- Fact Check: Doctor Did NOT Leave Orange Cap On Syringe When Vaccinating Nancy Pelosi Against Covid-19
- Fact Check: Fulton County, Georgia, Election Worker Ruby Freeman Has NOT Been Arrested
- Fact Check: Chiropractor NOT Correct In Saying COVID Vaccine Is Supposed To Lessen Symptoms, But Not Stop Spread
Friday, December 18, 2020
- Fact Check: Needle Cap Was On For London Mayor's Flu Shot Publicity Photo In September, NOT For COVID-19 Vaccine Injection In December
- Fact Check: Post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 Surge Is NOT A 'No-Show': Numbers Increased In Most U.S. States
- Fact Check: Political Ad Showing Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock Saying 'God Damn America' Leaves Out Context
- Fact Check: Vaccine Reaction Did NOT Cause Nurse To Faint After COVID-19 Shot - Pain/Stress Triggered Vagal Nerve-Driven Fainting
- Fact Check: The Q-Tip Nasal Swab For COVID-19 'Up Someone's Brain' Is NOT Equivalent To 'Drop Of Spit' From Six Feet Away
- Fact Check: This Photo Does NOT Show Nancy Pelosi Unmasked At A Party During The Pandemic
Thursday, December 17, 2020
- Fact Check: Six People Died During Pfizer's COVID-19 Trial But NOT From The Vaccine; FDA Is Monitoring Developments Closely
- Fact Check: Instagram Is NOT Deleting Fan Pages On December 20, 2020
- Fact Check: Lead GBI Agent Investigating Georgia Voter Fraud And GOP Staffer Death Was NOT Found Dead
- Fact Check: There Is NOT Anything Fake About This Type Of 'Needle'
- Fact Check: This Photo of Defense Secretary's COVID Vaccination Does NOT Show A No-Needle Syringe
- Fact Check: Computer Shop Owner Involved In Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was NOT Found Dead
- Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Confirm Earth 'Will Go Dark' For Six Days In December
- Fact Check: The FBI Did NOT Admit To Accidentally Destroying The Laptop That Supposedly Belonged To Hunter Biden
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
- Fact Check: These 33 'professionals' Are NOT Correct About The COVID Pandemic, Death Rates, Vaccine Safety And Flu Comparison
- Fact Check: NO Evidence A Nurse Was Found Dead Eight Hours After Receiving The COVID-19 Vaccine
- Fact Check: The American Medical Association Did NOT Rescind Its Original Guidance On Hydroxychloroquine
- Fact Check: Jeff Foxworthy Is NOT Behind Viral 'You Might Live In A Nation That Was Founded By Geniuses But Is Run By Idiots' Essay
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
- Fact Check: 50,000 Chinese Soldiers Were NOT Bombed And Killed In Maine
- Fact Check: 'Comments Made In The Year 1957' List Has A History, But Not Back To The '50s
- Fact Check: Cyber Analyst Did NOT Prove Dominion Software Used In Antrim County, Michigan Was Designed For Fraud
- Fact Check: Study Does Say People Under 70 DO Have A 0.05% to 0.07% Chance of Dying From COVID-19, But That's About 60,000 Dead Americans So Far
- Fact Check: The Supreme Court Is NOT Granting Trump 34 More Electoral College Votes
Monday, December 14, 2020
- Fact Check: Supreme Court Did NOT Signal It Would Reconsider Texas' Bid To Overturn 2020 Election If Refiled As 'Bill Of Complaint'
- Fact Check: Real UFO With Aliens Was NOT Caught On Camera In Saudi Arabia
- Fact Check: Pennsylvania, Georgia And Nevada Electors Did NOT Vote For President Trump
- Fact Check: The CDC Does NOT Have Funds To Deliver Groceries and Cleaning Products To COVID-19 Patients In Quarantine
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Say 'My Son Has Not Made Money In China' In The First Presidential Debate
Sunday, December 13, 2020
- Fact Check: Student Project Meme Misleadingly Claims Newsday, Washington Post and New York Times Have Highest Fake News Risk
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Chief Justice John Roberts On Jeffrey Epstein's Island
- Fact Check: ID Chip In Some COVID-19 Vaccine Syringes Would NOT Be Injected Into Patients; It Signals Vaccine Expiration Date
Friday, December 11, 2020
- Fact Check: U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Fleets Were NOT Positioned Off Both U.S. Coasts Bracing For Unrest After Supreme Court Rejects Suit To Overturn Election
- Fact Check: What The Story About China, Dominion and $400 Million Is Actually About
- Fact Check: Homemade Chemical Mixtures And FDA-Approved Vaccines Are NOT Comparable
- Fact Check: Frontline Medical Workers Were NOT Chosen As Time Magazine's Person of The Year
Thursday, December 10, 2020
- Fact Check: These Are NOT The Eight Deadliest Days In American History
- Fact Check: Tens Of Thousands Of Moms Did NOT Watch Their Child Regress Or Die Within 24-To-72 Hours Of Being Vaccinated
- Fact Check: The First Person To Get The Pfizer Vaccine In Britain Was NOT Pictured Getting It In October
- Fact Check: Spikes On Schumann Resonance Readout Do NOT Show Dangerous Disturbance In Ionosphere
- Fact Check: Governor Jay Inslee Did NOT State That People Cannot Talk In Elevators
- Fact Check: Raphael Warnock Did NOT 'Invite Fidel Castro To His Church'
- Fact Check: First Brit To Receive Approved COVID Vaccine Is NOT A Crisis Actor
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
- Fact Check: GoFundMe CEO Did NOT Say 'I Run A Website That Hosts Popularity Contests Where If You Lose, You Die'
- Fact Check: Georgia State Senator Elena Parent Was NOT Busted Counting Ballots In Pennsylvania
- Fact Check: Eight States Have NOT All Joined Texas AG's Suit Asking Supreme Court To Overturn Other States' Election Results
- Fact Check: 'Actual Results Of The Election' Do NOT Show Donald Trump With More Electoral College Votes Than Joe Biden
- Fact Check: The Supreme Court Did NOT Vote 6-3 To Take Up Texas AG's Lawsuit Over Election, NOR Did Tennessee Join
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
- Fact Check: COVID-19 RNA Vaccine Will NOT Change Your DNA
- Fact Check: Psychiatrist Is NOT Correct To Claim No Virus, No COVID Pandemic, No Safe Vaccine, Nor Need For Vaccine
- Fact Check: DIY Vote Analysis Does NOT Prove Arizona Votes Were 'Eaten From Mr. Trump And Handed Over To Mr. Biden'
- Fact Check: A Woman Who Developed Sores On Her Feet Did NOT Have A Trial Dose Of The COVID-19 Vaccine
- Fact Check: Steven Spielberg Did NOT Shoot A Rhino That Became Extinct
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Of 23,000 'Fraudulent' Ballots For Biden Identified In Georgia
Monday, December 7, 2020
- Fact Check: Head Of Pfizer Research Did NOT Say COVID Vaccine is Female Sterilization
- Fact Check: Sidney Powell Election Fraud Witness Navid Keshavarz-Nia Cites Debunked Election Hoaxes
- Fact Check: Maine's Rise In COVID-19 Cases NOT Linked To Face Masks
- Fact Check: Dominion Voting Machine Algorithm Was NOT 'Broken' By Test Run On 'Sequestered' Machines In Georgia
- Fact Check: Rudy Giuliani Did NOT Say 'It's Highly Likely That All These People That Have Contracted The China Virus Got It From Having Sex With Barnyard Animals'
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Fatal Car Crash Was A Message For Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp 'To Get Back In Line'
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Photo Of Sen. Kelly Loeffler's Atlanta House
- Fact Check: Meme Does NOT Show Some Virginia Counties Had Turnout Exceeding 100%
Sunday, December 6, 2020
- Fact Check: A School Bus Found In Buckeye, Arizona Was NOT Full Of Missing Voting Machines
- Fact Check: Trump Team Does NOT Have Dominion Machine From A Small Georgia County That Shows Votes Flipped from Trump to Biden
Saturday, December 5, 2020
- Fact Check: GOP Observers Did NOT Swear In Affidavits They Were Told To Leave Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center On Election Night
- Fact Check: 'Pipe Break' At Fulton County, Georgia, Vote Count Center Did NOT Happen At The Same Time As Alleged Late Night 'Ballot Dump'
Friday, December 4, 2020
- Fact Check: Thousands of Ballots Were NOT Found Floating In Lake Erie
- Fact Check: This Is NOT An Authentic Photo Of Joe Biden With A Walking Boot On His Left Foot
- Fact Check: A COVID-19 Vaccine Is NOT Likely To Kill You
Thursday, December 3, 2020
- Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave
- Fact Check: Polio Vaccine Worked And The CDC Did NOT Admit 98 Million Americans Received Vaccine Contaminated With Cancer Agent
- Fact Check: Blue Cross Blue Shield Does NOT Pay Doctors A Bonus Only For Number of Children Vaccinated
- Fact Check: The United Nations Did NOT Classify Cannabis As A 'Medicine'
- Fact Check: Sharing This Photo Of A Baby Does NOT Raise Money For Medical Care
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
- Fact Check: China DID Recover With a COVID-19 Vaccine, Which Has Been Reported
- Fact Check: Biden Is Wearing A Walking Boot For A Fractured Foot, NOT A Criminal Defendant Ankle Monitor
- Fact Check: Nine-Point List Of Election 'Peculiarities' Relies On Falsehoods And Unproven Theories
- Fact Check: Searches For Vaccines For HIV, Cancer, The Cold And COVID-19 Each Present Distinct Challenges
- Fact Check: This Math Dividing Jeff Bezos' Net Worth Among The World Population Does NOT Compute
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
- Fact Check: 'Think Before You Donate' Warning Does NOT Convey Accurate Information
- Fact Check: Election Video Does NOT Show Worker 'Manipulating' Data In Gwinnett County, Georgia
- Fact Check: The 99% COVID Survival Rate Is NOT Evidence Lockdowns Are About 'Control' Instead of Health
- Fact Check: Video Of Dominion Voting Systems Presentation Covers "Adjudication" Of Improperly Marked Ballots, NOT How To Switch Votes
- Fact Check: Former President Barack Obama Was NOT Arrested For Espionage -- It's A Made-Up Story
- Fact Check: Video Contains Falsehoods And Unproven Claims About Purported Voter Fraud In Arizona
- Fact Check: Saving A Quarter A Day For A Year Will NOT Get You $9100.25
- Fact Check: Johns Hopkins Lecturer Did NOT Prove There Are No Excess 2020 Deaths Due To COVID
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