Fact Check in February 2021
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Friday, February 26, 2021
- Fact Check: 'Louder with Crowder' Video Of Vacant Voter Addresses In Nevada, Michigan Includes Errors, Is NOT Proof Of 'Mass Voter Fraud'
- Fact Check: It Is NOT True There Is "No Evidence" Masks or Lockdowns Slow COVID-19 Spread
- Fact Check: Details Of Inaugural Wreath Ceremony Do NOT Mean Biden Isn't Official President
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Does Not Have The Medal Of Honor, 4 Nobel Peace Prizes, And Did NOT Cure AIDS, Cancer, Autism
Thursday, February 25, 2021
- Fact Check: CDC Is NOT Withholding Information About Post-Vaccination Deaths, NOT Lacking A Data Category For Them
- Fact Check: Shakira Did NOT Give Computer Lessons To Bill Gates When He Was A Kid
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
- Fact Check: Article Titled 'To Fight White Supremacy, Coca-Cola Discontinues Vanilla Coke' Is Satire
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
- Fact Check: Video Of Woman Receiving 'The Last Message From Her Dead Husband' Is NOT Real
- Fact Check: 'Communist China' Does NOT Own DreamWorks Animation
Monday, February 22, 2021
- Fact Check: Blocking 'Community Standards' Does NOT Keep A Person Out Of 'Facebook Jail'
- Fact Check: The United States Did NOT Spend Zero Dollars On Imported Oil In 2020
- Fact Check: Rapper 42 Dugg Was NOT Shot In Atlanta Incident On Music Video Set
- Fact Check: 360-Degree Panorama of Mars 'With Sound' Is NOT 2021 Footage From Perseverance Rover
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Friday, February 19, 2021
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Send National Guard To Texas - He Can Only Send Homeland Security & FEMA
- Fact Check: Ted Cruz Did NOT Say 'I'll Believe In Climate Change When Texas Freezes Over'
- Fact Check: Michigan's Removal of 177,000 Voters From Its Rolls Is NOT Proof Of Fraud
- Fact Check: Southern U.S. Snow Videos Do NOT Show Evidence Of Something Unnatural
- Fact Check: President Biden Quote About Not Having Covid-19 Vaccine Coming Into Office Was About Supply Backlog -- NOT About Vaccine Existence
- Fact Check: Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Say The Governor Of Texas Was A Democrat
- Fact Check: The U.S.A. Is NOT A Corporation And African Americans Are NOT Still Owned By Anyone
Thursday, February 18, 2021
- Fact Check: Video Shows NO Scientific Proof That Antibodies Produced By COVID-19 Vaccines Will Turn Deadly
- Fact Check: Joe Biden Was NOT Silent On The 4 Million People Without Power Due To The Winter Storm
- Fact Check: Renewable Energy Sources Are NOT The Leading Cause Of Blackouts Amid Deadly Winter Storm
- Fact Check: AOC Did NOT Have 'This Photo Removed From Twitter'
- Fact Check: Jeffrey Epstein And Other Famous White Men Accused Of Sex Crimes Did NOT 'Walk' Free From Jail While Bill Cosby And R. Kelly, Both Black, Were Locked Up
- Fact Check: Washington, D.C., Is NOT 'Checking Your ID' For People 'To Get In And Out Of' The City
- Fact Check: Phone Number For FEMA To Pay For Hotel Rooms Is NOT Correct Number For Cold Weather Victims
- Fact Check: Facebook And American Journal Of Medicine Did NOT Admit They Were Wrong About HCQ As COVID Drug
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
- Fact Check: Thousands Of Dead And Dying Children Were NOT Pulled From Tunnels Under Washington, D.C.
- Fact Check: Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church In Houston Is NOT Closed to People Without Shelter During Texas Freeze-Up
- Fact Check: The United States' Energy Independence Was NOT 'Sent Back Fifty Years' In 10 Days
- Fact Check: Germany's Wind Turbines And Solar Panels Did NOT Suddenly Stop Working Due To Weather Conditions
- Fact Check: Leaked Visitor Logs Did NOT Reveal 78 Schiff Visits to Epstein Isle
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
- Fact Check: List Of Claims About Diseases And More Relies On Common Conspiracy Theories
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show A Polar Bear Roaming The Streets Of A US Neighborhood: It's in Norway
- Fact Check: Helicopter Is NOT Spraying A Chemical Made Of Fossil Fuel On Wind Turbine- It's Hot Water
- Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show NFL Stadiums That Are 'Seeing Eyes' Used In A 'Satanic Ritual'
- Fact Check: 'Newly Released Flight Logs' Do NOT Put Biden On Epstein's 'Lolita Express' Jet
- Fact Check: $33 Million Was NOT Spent On Trump's First Impeachment
- Fact Check: 'Military-Hating' Kamala Harris Does NOT Want To Shut Down The VA
Monday, February 15, 2021
- Fact Check: List Of Informal COVID-19 Vaccine Reaction Reports is NOT Evidence Deaths Were Caused By Vaccines
- Fact Check: No Evidence CEO Of Disney Was Jailed On Child Sex Abuse Charges
- Fact Check: Hand Recount Of 2020 Election Results In Windham, New Hampshire Is NOT Proof Of Election Fraud By 'Dominion Voting Machines'
- Fact Check: China Is NOT 'Building A Military Base In Jamaica Right Now'
- Fact Check: The Price Of Oil Has NOT Increased From $25 To $61 A Barrel Since 'Joe' Became President
- Fact Check: Roadside Sign Featured In Meme Is NOT A Real 'Welcome To Australia' Sign
Sunday, February 14, 2021
- Fact Check: Website for "Cannibal Club" Restaurant is Joke Site Created For Web Design Class
- Fact Check: mRNA Vaccines Are NOT Gene Therapy, Have NOT Killed 'Thousands' and Vaccinators Are NOT Violating The Nuremberg Code If They Don't Call It Human Experimentation
Saturday, February 13, 2021
- Fact Check: President Joe Biden Did NOT Sign a '45% Capital Gains Tax'
- Fact Check: Biden White House Freeze of Trump Executive Order Did NOT Cause Insulin Prices To Increase
- Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Inflate COVID-19 Numbers And Did NOT Violate Federal Law In Providing Death Data Guide
Friday, February 12, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
- Fact Check: There Is NO Proof Florida Man Won $374,000 Betting On His Own Super Bowl Non-Nude 'Streaking' Stunt
- Fact Check: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Is NOT Named For A Barrel Of Slaver's Whips
- Fact Check: Trump Campaign Did NOT Win 'Two-Thirds Of the Cases Adjudicated' -- Unless You Count Pre-Election Day Suits
- Fact Check: mRNA Vaccine Does NOT Increase Risk Of COVID Death, Provoke 'Cytokine Storm,' Turn Patients Into 'Genetically Modified Organisms'
- Fact Check: The United States Did NOT Go From The 'Highest' In Exports In Oil And Natural Gas To The 'Lowest' In One Week
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
- Fact Check: Fox News DID Air Impeachment Proceedings On February 10, 2021
- Fact Check: In A Fire, Yale Library's System Would NOT Kill Those Inside With No Oxygen While Protecting Rare Books
- Fact Check: Capitol Shooting Is NOT Exposed As A Hollywood Stunt
- Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Say Capitol Rioters Were 'Drugged By Antifa Sluts'
- Fact Check: Super Bowl Attendees Were NOT 'Packed Like Sardines' at Tampa Stadium: There Were Also 30,000 Fan Cutouts
- Fact Check: Image Of The Sun Was NOT Captured By Parker Solar Probe In Outer Space
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
- Fact Check: US Is NOT Under Military Law, Congress NOT Arrested, Or 'War With CCP Won' -- None Of It Happened
- Fact Check: Newly Discovered Video Does NOT Show Late-Night Deliveries Of Illegal Ballots In Detroit, Michigan
- Fact Check: NO Proof Found That John D. Rockefeller Paid to Have Petroleum Designated a Fossil Fuel to Drive Price Up
- Fact Check: Elon Musk And Donald Trump Jr. Did NOT Announce 'Trump Force One,' A New Social Media Platform
- Fact Check: Deer DID Carry Severed Head Of Dead Rival Entangled With His Antlers On Island of Hokkaido, Japan
- Fact Check: Super Bowl Champions Did NOT Refuse Invitation To 'Stolen White House'
Monday, February 8, 2021
- Fact Check: 'Unmasked' Video Does NOT Uncover The Truth About The 2020 Presidential Election
- Fact Check: This Is NOT A Video Of A Rothschild-Owned Bank On Fire
- Fact Check: The Corner Wall Is NOT Coming Apart On The Oval Office 'Film Set' - Photo Shows A Door In The Round Room
- Fact Check: It Is NOT True That Biden And Trump Have Different Air Force Ones
- Fact Check: Students Did NOT Jump From A Balcony At School To Flee A Mandatory Vaccine
- Fact Check: 'SATAN' Was NOT Flashed During The Weeknd's Performance At The Super Bowl - The Video Is Three Years Old
- Fact Check: President Biden is NOT Defunding The Department Of Veterans Affairs
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Saturday, February 6, 2021
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Sniper Assassination Foiled at Mar-a-Lago on January 26, 2021 -- Secret Service Formally Denies Story
- Fact Check: The Reddit/GameStop Trading Likely DID Cause Nearly $4 Trillion in Global Market Capitalization Losses
Friday, February 5, 2021
- Fact Check: Canada Is NOT Putting Passengers Arriving On International Flights In 'Forced Detention...COVID Camp'
- Fact Check: Irish Health Service Did NOT 'Admit' Novel Coronavirus Doesn't Exist, Nor That Masks, Distancing and Lockdowns Don't Work
- Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Say, 'Poor Kids Are Just As Bright And Talented As White Kids'
- Fact Check: Mike Lindell's 'Absolute Proof' Video, Promising To Expose Election Fraud, Relies On False And Unsubstantiated Claims
- Fact Check: Dr. Rachel Levine Was NOT Featured On The Cover Of Vanity Fair
Thursday, February 4, 2021
- Fact Check: NO Evidence The FBI Special Agent Killed In Florida Was 'Top Investigator For Hunter Biden's Laptop'
- Fact Check: Denzel Washington Did NOT Denounce Or Even Mention Black Lives Matter Protesters In Interview Discussing His 'Utmost Respect' For Police, Soldiers
- Fact Check: Driver Is NOT Asleep At The Wheel In A Roundabout
- Fact Check: Elderly Woman In Washington State Was NOT 'Kidnapped' For Refusing To Take A Test For COVID-19
- Fact Check: Photo Is NOT Of 'Democrat' Protesters Storming The Capitol In 2018 During Kavanaugh Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing -- It Is From 2011 At The Wisconsin State Capitol
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove President Biden's Oval Office Is Filmed In Castle Rock Entertainment Studio
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Are NOT Illegally Called 'Vaccines', Are Effective Against Virus And Do Slow Spread
- Fact Check: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Did NOT Say 'If English Was Good Enough For Jesus, It's Good Enough For Us'
- Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi And Adam Schiff Are NOT Up For Re-election In California In March, 2021
- Fact Check: False Eyelashes Were NOT Invented By A Prostitute Named Gerda Puridle in 1882
- Fact Check: Biden, Pelosi, Kerry And Romney Do NOT All Have Sons On The Burisma Board
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
- Fact Check: Calculations of Tanker Truck Fuel Needed To Replace Keystone XL Pipeline Capacity Does NOT Compute
- Fact Check: 'Dr. Jill' Was NOT The Biden's 'Teenage Baby Sitter'
- Fact Check: Video Of Giant Pandas Playing In The Snow Is NOT A Coded Message
- Fact Check: New Mexico House Committee Did NOT Pass A Bill To 'Legalize Killing Babies In Abortions Up To Birth'
- Fact Check: Myanmar Did NOT Use Dominion Voting Systems In Its Election Before Military Coup
- Fact Check: Police Officer Did NOT Catch Wife Cheating During Traffic Stop -- It's A Joke Video
- Fact Check: Hunter Biden Does NOT Work For A Foreign Oil Company
Monday, February 1, 2021
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