Fact Check in April 2022
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Friday, April 29, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Moon At The Border Of Russia And Canada At The North Pole'-- It's Computer-Generated Art
- Fact Check: 'Otherkin' Are NOT Being Integrated In Kokomo High School -- The Fake Email Is From A Satirical Facebook Page
- Fact Check: Donald Trump Did NOT Issue Statement Calling For 'MAGA Patriots' To Boycott Midterm Elections
Thursday, April 28, 2022
- Fact Check: Marines Are NOT Investigating '3 Ancient Pyramids' In Antarctica
- Fact Check: British Agency Does NOT Confirm 'Just 5,115 People' Have Died Of COVID-19 In England Since Beginning Of Pandemic
- Fact Check: Maxwell, Depp NOT Tried Under 'The Same System' -- Different Court Rules Make For Different Video Access
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
- Fact Check: Hawaii Is NOT 'Importing 174 Saltwater Crocodiles From Australia' To Kill Off Sharks
- Fact Check: Keto Diet Does NOT Alleviate 'The Issue' With The Spike Protein In COVID-19 Vaccine -- There Is No Issue
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Frankincense Treats Cancer -- Found To Kill Cancer Cells In Lab But More Research Needed
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Of A Child Sex Trafficking Ring Linked To The 'Franklin Scandal'
- Fact Check: Ruben The Cat Was NOT Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II -- Post Was An April Fools' Prank
- Fact Check: Snickers Did NOT Remove The 'Veins' From Their Candy Bars -- It's A Spoof On Tucker Carlson, Cancel Culture
- Fact Check: Video Is NOT Real Federal DEA Drug Bust -- It's A Skit Video Series
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
- Fact Check: Recent Fires At US Food Processing Plants Do NOT Show Plot To Cause Food Shortage
- Fact Check: Social Media Posts MAY Show Russian Agents Arresting 'Neo-Nazis' -- But Clues Suggest It Could Be Staged, Fabricated
- Fact Check: NO Election Fraud On French TV Station Showing Macron Behind 217,571 Against Le Pen -- It Was Software Glitch
- Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Acknowledge Existence Of Alien Civilizations -- Story Originated On Satire Site
- Fact Check: Finland Did NOT Vote To Join NATO -- Both Sweden, Finland Plan To Apply In May 2022
- Fact Check: Great Britain Did NOT Threaten To Nuke Russia As Of Late April 2022
- Fact Check: Judge Did NOT Dismiss Kyle Rittenhouse's (Nonexistent) $25 Million Lawsuit Against Whoopi Goldberg
Monday, April 25, 2022
- Fact Check: Private Prison Investment Adviser Is NOT Verified Identity On Twitter
- Fact Check: Anthony Fauci, Loretta Lynch Were NOT Hanged In A 'Double-Header Execution' At GITMO
- Fact Check: NO Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Suppress Innate Immunity, Increase Risk To Infectious Diseases, Cancer
- Fact Check: Child Hepatitis Cases NOT Related To J&J Vaccine -- It's NOT Approved For Youths In US Or UK
Friday, April 22, 2022
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Government, Media Lies About War In Ukraine -- Video Recycles Debunked Claims, Misattributes Info
- Fact Check: This Tweet Is FAKE -- French President Macron Did NOT Say Europe Needs To Be Prepared To Take Up To 60 Million Refugees
- Fact Check: NO Evidence 'Vaccines Are Killing People Of Color At Twice The Rate Of White People,' As HHS Head Said On April 14, 2022
- Fact Check: This Photo of Kissing Cliff Is NOT Real But Digitally Altered
- Fact Check: US Military Did NOT Sentence Dr. Anthony Fauci to Hang At Guantanamo Bay
- Fact Check: 'Keoni CBD' Gummies Do NOT 'Cure' Diabetes
Thursday, April 21, 2022
- Fact Check: 80% Of U.S. Dollars In Existence Were NOT Created In 'Last Two Months' As Of April 16, 2022
- Fact Check: Defense Department Did NOT Award Contract For 'COVID-19 Research' In Ukraine 3 Months Before Virus Was Known
- Fact Check: 2009 TV Show NOT Proof COVID-19 Was Planned -- It's Just An Older Conspiracy Theory
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Hitler Said That Even In His Death He Will Start 'World War 3'
- Fact Check: Face Masks Are NOT Major Source Of Microplastics In Our Lungs -- Most Of It Comes From Clothes, Tires
- Fact Check: Arnold Schwarzenegger Did NOT Sleep Outside Hotel That Refused Him A Room
- Fact Check: Google Says It Did NOT Unblur Satellite Images Showing Russian Military Facilities
- Fact Check: Lyme Disease Was NOT Invented In A Lab In 1975 -- Its Bacteria Is Thousands Of Years Old
- Fact Check: Social Security Payment Will NOT Become 'Federal Benefit Payment' -- It's ALWAYS Been Considered A 'Benefit'
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
- Fact Check: Biden's Gesture Was NOT Directed To Empty Space -- There Was Audience Seating There
- Fact Check: Image Of President, First Lady Does NOT Show Fake Presidential Seal On White House Balcony For 2022 Easter Egg Roll
- Fact Check: ISIS DID Exist Before Obama
- Fact Check: NO Known Transcript Exists Of Call Between 9/11 Victim Todd Beamer And Phone Operator
- Fact Check: David Axelrod Was NOT Arrested By U.S. Military -- This Claim Is From Satirical Site
Monday, April 18, 2022
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT End Rothschild Control Over Russia By Nationalizing Russian Central Bank -- State Bank Was Created More Than A Century Ago
- Fact Check: Disney CEO Did NOT Admit Company Made 'A Huge Mistake Going Woke' -- This Article Is From A Satirical Site
- Fact Check: Five Kids Did NOT Die From Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Around Wichita, KS, On April 11, 2022
- Fact Check: Fourth Stimulus Checks Were NOT Issued In December 2021
- Fact Check: This Baby Was NOT Born Without Eyes -- It Is An Edited Image
Friday, April 15, 2022
- Fact Check: Claim Of More Than 4,000 Fetal Or New-Born Deaths Due To COVID Shots NOT Found In US VAERS Data
- Fact Check: Trump Did NOT Post Tweet Thanking Elon Musk For Bringing Him Back To Twitter -- He's Still Suspended
- Fact Check: 'Free Food Benefits' Post Is NOT Real -- It Leads To Third-Party Health Insurance Agency
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Russian Warship Moskva Being Hit By Ukrainian Missile
- Fact Check: Xylitol Is NOT An Ingredient Found In McDonald's Ice Cream -- But Xylitol IS Harmful To Dogs
Thursday, April 14, 2022
- Fact Check: Bourbon County, Kentucky, Is NOT Dry -- List Of Such Kentucky 'Facts' Is Mix of True/False/Unresolved
- Fact Check: 'Doctor' Title Is NOT Nickname -- Mehmet Oz Is Licensed Medical Doctor
- Fact Check: North Carolina Did NOT Pass New Speed Limit Law
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Rothschilds, Vatican Are Trillionaires, Richest In The World
- Fact Check: It Is NOT Clear Whether It Is 'Totally Safe' To Drink Alcohol While Breastfeeding - Expert Opinion Varies
- Fact Check: High Vaccination Rate Explains Why 92% Of English COVID Deaths Are Among Fully Vaccinated -- Numbers Only Part Of Full Story
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
- Fact Check: Alexa Answer Does NOT Offer 'Gotcha' Proof Of Sinister Purpose Of 'Chemtrails'
- Fact Check: Healthy People DO Die From COVID-19
- Fact Check: Purina Did NOT Receive FDA Warning Letter in 2021 -- Just In 2015, Regarding One Canning Facility
- Fact Check: COVID-19 IS A Virus, NOT Snake Venom Being Used To Poison, Turn People Into Satanic Hybrids
- Fact Check: BBC Did NOT Post Video Alleging Ukraine Fabricated Kramatorsk Train Station Attack In 2022 Russia-Ukraine Conflict
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect -- It's A Hoax With Comedian Sam Hyde
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
- Fact Check: Dr. Anthony Fauci Was NOT Arrested By 'US Special Forces'
- Fact Check: Something Hitting Moon Was NOT Caught On Video -- Work Of VFX Editing TikTok Star
Monday, April 11, 2022
- Fact Check: Prop Dummy Was NOT Used In Ukrainian War Propaganda But Was For A TV Series Filmed In Russia
- Fact Check: Auburn, NY, Is NOT Imposing New Law Requiring Pants On Domestic Pets -- It's An April Fools' Fake
- Fact Check: Obamacare And Medical Coding Are NOT Part Of A Global System Of Human Trafficking
- Fact Check: 2022 Bird Flu Has NOT Caused Over 50 Million Bird Deaths As Of April 7, 2022
- Fact Check: NO Evidence The Pacer Test Has Been Banned For Child Cruelty
Friday, April 8, 2022
- Fact Check: Tennessee Common-Law Marriage Bill HAS Been Amended To Require 'Age Of Majority'
- Fact Check: New York Airport Did NOT Take 'Legal Possession' Of Trump's 757 Over Unpaid Storage Fees
- Fact Check: Website Claiming Disney Shareholders Panicked After $2.4 Billion In Losses In One Day Is Satiric
- Fact Check: CNN Did NOT Write Article Saying Elon Musk Could Threaten Free Speech On Twitter -- It's From Satirical Website
- Fact Check: No Evidence Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Is Cousin To George Soros
- Fact Check: Josh Mandel Did NOT Photoshop His Face Onto A Black Soldier
Thursday, April 7, 2022
- Fact Check: Coconut Oil Does NOT Prevent, Treat Alzheimer's Disease
- Fact Check: UK Agency Did NOT Publish Data Suggesting People Triple-Vaccinated For COVID-19 Are Developing A New Form Of AIDS
- Fact Check: Employee Resignation Tweet Over Elon Musk Twitter Stock Purchase Is NOT Real -- Satire Account
- Fact Check: New Colorado Bill Does NOT Expand Abortion Limits -- It Only Codifies The State's Existing Reproductives Rights Including No Gestational Time Limit
- Fact Check: This Sphinx Was NOT Found In The Colorado River -- It Was Discovered In Egypt
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
- Fact Check: Sunless Tanning Products Are NOT Considered More Dangerous Than Sun Exposure
- Fact Check: Wisconsin School District Did NOT Put A 'Furry Protocol' In Place
- Fact Check: Pfizer Documents Do NOT Reveal Vaccinated People Transfer COVID Shot To Unvaccinated Through Inhalation, Skin Contact
- Fact Check: Rothschild Coat of Arms Does NOT Resemble Russian Federation Emblem
- Fact Check: Prime Minister of New Zealand Did NOT Say Fox News Was Barred There
- Fact Check: Clementine Churchill Did NOT Say Her Road-Cleaner Ex Would Have Been Prime Minister If She Had Married Him
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
- Fact Check: Vaccines Do NOT Overwhelm A Baby's Immune System And There Is NO Comparison With Food Allergy Tests
- Fact Check: California Did NOT Introduce A New Bill Allowing Mothers To Kill Their Babies Up To 7 Days After Birth
- Fact Check: Former President Kennedy Did NOT Give Speech About Slavery Plot 7 Days Before His Assassination
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Corpses Waving Or Moving Along Street In Ukrainian City Of Bucha
- Fact Check: Dr. Deborah Birx Was NOT Executed At Naval Base Guam On July 6, 2021
Monday, April 4, 2022
- Fact Check: UN Did NOT Release Carbon Emissions Regulations Saying That Ships Will Have To Travel 30% Slower
- Fact Check: President Biden's Plan To Draw From Strategic Oil Reserve Does NOT Suck It Dry
- Fact Check: Rattlesnakes Do NOT Nurse Their Young
- Fact Check: Irish Examiner Did NOT Report That Referee Whistles Caused Heart Problems For Athletes
Friday, April 1, 2022
- Fact Check: Jews Are NOT Stealing Christian Children, Sacrificing Them And Feeding Them Back To Non-Jews Making Them Cannibals
- Fact Check: Flu and COVID-19 Are NOT Identical Illnesses, So Vaccine Recommendations Vary
- Fact Check: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Was NOT Hanged at Guantanamo Bay
- Fact Check: Ketanji Brown Jackson WAS Judge During Pizzagate Sentencing
- Fact Check: Bill Murray Did NOT Tweet About Social Media And Depression
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