Fact Check in February 2024
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Fact Check: Astronauts Jumping Straight Up on the Moon NOT Exempt From Laws Of Motion -- Will Land in Same Spot, Rotate Along With Surface
- Fact Check: Marines Did NOT Arrest Rear Adm. Michael Platt In February 2024 -- Claim Is From Site That Publishes Made-Up Stories
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine Shedding Is NOT Real
- Fact Check: Aaron Bushnell Did NOT Comment On Reddit 'Palestine Will Be Free When All The Jews Are Dead'
- Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Say The N-Word During 2021 Virtual Munich Security Conference Speech
- Fact Check: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is NOT Proven To Cure Cancer
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Fact Check: Radium Exposure Is NOT Beneficial To Human Health
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Dr. Oz Being Attacked For Promoting Diabetes Cure -- Footage Is Of Ukrainian Journalist Brawling With Pro-Russian Politician
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- Fact Check: Audio Is Faked In Post Purporting To Show Navalny's Mother Accusing His Wife
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Zelenskyy Doing Crotch-Jiggling Belly Dance -- It's Doctored Footage Of Argentinian Dancer
- Fact Check: Trudeau Misspoke When He Said 'Russia Must Win This War' -- He Corrected, Saying 'Ukraine Must Win This War'
- Fact Check: 'White Hats' Did NOT Foil Supposed Plot to 'Assassinate President Trump' -- Story Is From Site That Produces Fiction
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Son Of Dr. Sebi On Trial -- It's An AI-Generated Illustration
- Fact Check: Judge Kaplan Did NOT Unilaterally Dismiss Prince Andrew Sexual Assault Lawsuit
- Fact Check: Mercury Does NOT Generate 'Free Energy'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Hindu Indian' Immigrant Defecating In Public -- It's A Staged Scene By A Content Creator
- Fact Check: Video Showing 'The View' Guest Accusing Karine Jean-Pierre Of 'Bullshit' On Air Is NOT Real -- Clip Is Edited To Add A Person
- Fact Check: Disney World Is NOT Adding Urinals To All Women's Restrooms -- Claim Originated On A Satire and Parody Website
- Fact Check: Israel Was NOT Still Banned From International Ice Hockey Federation Competitions As Of February 21, 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
- Fact Check: 97% Of Guns NOT In Areas Of US That Account For 3% Of Gun Violence
- Fact Check: Angela Merkel Is NOT The Daughter Of Adolf Hitler
- Fact Check: U.S. Marines Did NOT Participate In Fiction Website's Fantasy of U.S. Customs And Border Protection Patrol Conspiracy
- Fact Check: Parents' Refusal To Use Chosen Pronouns Was NOT Reason Child Was Removed From Indiana Home -- Care For Eating Disorder, Mental Health Were Needed
- Fact Check: Solar Flares ARE Real And CAN Disrupt Telecommunications Networks
- Fact Check: Google Is NOT Sunsetting Gmail On August 1, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Donald Trump Shoving Man At Mar-A-Lago
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Fact Check: Cyanocobalamin In B12 Supplements Is NOT Harmful
- Fact Check: Fiction Website's Latest Dark Fantasy Did NOT Spur American Red Cross Letter to U.S. Navy JAG
- Fact Check: San Francisco City Council Did NOT Appoint 'Illegal Immigrant' To Board Of Elections
- Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show 'HAARP Ionospheric Heaters'
- Fact Check: Lunar Roving Vehicle DID Fit Inside Lunar Module During Apollo 15 Mission
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Argentine President Javier Milei Is Related To Netanyahu Or That They Have Same Surname
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Fact Check: NYC Spokesman Did NOT Say Trucker Boycott Caused Empty Shelves In February 2024 Throughout City
- Fact Check: Minors Arrested In Connection With Kansas City Parade Shooting Are NOT Charged With Shooting People
- Fact Check: Officials Could NOT Have Kept Kyle Rittenhouse's Name Secret
- Fact Check: MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow Did NOT Tweet Discouraging People From Disclosing Vaccine Injuries
- Fact Check: Red Cross Blood Donation Question Does NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Is Harmful
- Fact Check: Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar Did NOT Pose With 'Defund The Police' Protestors -- Photo Is Edited
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Fact Check: 'Practical Calculations' Do NOT Prove That UN Global Population Total Is Hoax
- Fact Check: Study Did NOT Find MMR Vaccination Causes Increased Likelihood Of Asthma, Eczema
- Fact Check: Maldives Did NOT Announce Bankruptcy At IMF As Of February 18, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Immigrants In Canada 'Forced To Live' Near Active Train Tracks
- Fact Check: Video Of Students Wearing Face Masks Was NOT Recorded In 2024 As Post Implies -- It Was Filmed In 2021
Monday, February 19, 2024
- Fact Check: Photo Does NOT Show Kansas City Parade Shooting Suspect
- Fact Check: 'CNN' Video Of Joe Biden Speaking About Oil Smuggling Is NOT Authentic -- It's AI-Generated With Voice Added
- Fact Check: Video Of 12-Year-Old 'Bride' With Older Man As 'Groom' In Times Square Does NOT Show a Real Event
- Fact Check: Netanyahu Clip About 'Liberating' Black Africans Is NOT His Future Plan -- It Was A Historical Quote On Decolonization
- Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict Oprah Winfrey, Did NOT Sentence Her To Death
- Fact Check: Amy Schumer Did NOT Say She Developed VAIDS As A Direct Result Of COVID-19 Vaccination
Friday, February 16, 2024
- Fact Check: Alexa Answers Do NOT Provide Proof Of Birth-Certificate-Bond Conspiracy Theory
- Fact Check: 4,000 Israeli Employees Were NOT Warned Not To Go To Work On 9/11 -- Baseless Conspiracy Myth
- Fact Check: US Navy JAG Was NOT Holding '345 FEMA Employees At Marine Corps Base Hawaii' In February 2024
- Fact Check: Angelina Jolie Did NOT Say That 'The World Should Unite Against Israel'
- Fact Check: France 24 Did NOT Report Macron Cancelled Visit To Ukraine Over Fears Of Assassination Attempt
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Fact Check: US JAG Did NOT Hang WHO Official Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu -- Story Is Made Up
- Fact Check: Special Counsel Robert Hur Did NOT Say Biden Was Mentally Unfit To Stand Trial
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Said They Would Leave US If Trump Wins In 2024
- Fact Check: 'Sahil Omar' Is NOT A Suspected Super Bowl Parade Shooter
- Fact Check: Drop in Vaccination Rates in Japan Did NOT Cause Drastic Drop In Infant Mortality Rates
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Fact Check: Israeli Gov't Post Does NOT Show Shelters For Gaza As Is Implied -- Video Shows Tents In Moldova For Ukrainianian Refugees
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Kansas City Chiefs Will Not Renew Travis Kelce's Contract
- Fact Check: Michelle Obama Is NOT A Candidate For President In 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show LGBT Parade In Spain
- Fact Check: Social Media Post Is NOT Authentic Record of Travis Kelce Statement About Biden
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Mosque Destroyed In China -- Earthquake-Damaged Minaret In Turkey Required Demolition
- Fact Check: Prohibition Was NOT Intended To Stop People From Fueling Cars And Homes With Alcohol
- Fact Check: A Document Released In Response To A Freedom Of Information Request Is NOT Evidence Of CIA Censoring The Press
- Fact Check: Amelia Bassano Did NOT Write Shakespeare's Plays, Was Not Black, And Her Poetry Was Published
- Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show An Authentic 1985 Memo From IRS Chief Stating That All Taxes Since 1913 Should Be Refunded
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show US Military Preparing For Social Unrest Ahead Of 2024 Presidential Election
Monday, February 12, 2024
- Fact Check: Video Is NOT Authentic Euronews Report About French Farmers And Ukrainian Embassy
- Fact Check: Claim That Rabies Has 'Never Been Proven to Exist' Is NOT True -- It's Been Known About For At Least 2,500 Years
- Fact Check: 'The Rock' Was NOT Booed In Las Vegas Over Lack Of Help To Victims Of Maui Wildfires
- Fact Check: Picture Of Travis Kelce With 'Biden Harris 2024' Hat Is NOT Real -- It Was Edited
- Fact Check: Purported Ben Shapiro Post About Tracy Chapman At 2024 Grammy Awards Is NOT Real
- Fact Check: Tucker Carlson Did NOT Ask Putin Why He Believes That 'A Christian Can Be Gay' -- Quote Was Made Up
- Fact Check: Saudi Crown Prince Did NOT Suggest Jared Kushner Has To Pay Back $2 Billion If Trump Doesn't Win 2024 Election
Friday, February 9, 2024
- Fact Check: Zelenskyy Did NOT Put Bounty On Tucker Carlson's Head
- Fact Check: Undocumented Immigrants In US DO Pay Taxes
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Tell Carlson 'Biden Is Just A Facade For This Power Structure'
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show UFO Recorded In Sweden
- Fact Check: NO Proof Transplanted Organs Transmit Character Traits From Donor To Recipient
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Authentic News Segment About Genetically Engineered Disney Child Stars
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- Fact Check: U.S. Marine Corps 'White Hats' Did NOT Arrest FEMA Regional Administrator Tony Robinson In February 2024
- Fact Check: Photos Do NOT Show WEF Founder Klaus Schwab Wearing Tights, Garter, Swimsuit -- It's Different Person
- Fact Check: North Carolina Does NOT Offer Statewide Program To Help Cover Burial, Cremation Costs
- Fact Check: There Is NO Video Of Trump Winning 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination As Of February 1, 2024
- Fact Check: NASA Video Does NOT Prove Satellites Are Fake
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Gemini 9 Spacewalk Was Faked
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- Fact Check: Newspaper's 'Photo Of Heaven' Was NOT Taken By Hubble Telescope In 1993 -- It's A Fake Image
- Fact Check: US Navy JAG Did NOT Hang Assistant Defense Secretary Tanya Skeen January 31, 2024
- Fact Check: Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin Exchange About US Border Is NOT Authentic -- Interview Hadn't Happened Yet
- Fact Check: John Kirby Did NOT Say Zero Civilians Had Died In Gaza -- He Said 'The Right Number Of Civilian Casualties Is Zero'
- Fact Check: Immunologist Did NOT Admit COVID-19 Vaccines Would 'Sterilise' Humans -- He Used Medical Term For Virus Eradication
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- Fact Check: Inhaling Steam From Citrusy Concoction Does NOT Prevent COVID-19
- Fact Check: WHO Did NOT Seek Surveillance Powers To Monitor Every Person For 'Disease Control' -- Proposed Plan NOT Legally Binding Document
- Fact Check: Russian Official Did NOT Suggest Russia Is Supplying Weapons To Texas
- Fact Check: Microsoft Did NOT Say It Would Disable Computers of Users Who Share 'Non-Mainstream Content' Online
Monday, February 5, 2024
- Fact Check: Flyer Listing 'Sudden Death' As Side Effect Is NOT An Authentic Government COVID-19 Vaccine Placard
- Fact Check: Photos Of Taylor Swift In Anti-Trump T-Shirt Are NOT Real -- 2019 News Photo Was Doctored To Sell Shirts
- Fact Check: Map Overlaps Do NOT Prove That 5G Is Linked To COVID In US, UK
- Fact Check: Denver Police Department Has NOT Arrested More Than '50 Al-Qaeda Members' -- Department Denied The Claim
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Said Judge Kaplan Took $5 Million Bribe To Convict Trump
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Convoy Of Truckers 'Heading To Texas' In 2024
- Fact Check: US Navy Seal 'White Hats' Did NOT Kill Intruders At Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago Estate In January 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
- Fact Check: Orgone Energy Is NOT Proven To Exist In The Form Of Orgonite
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Texas Tractors'
- Fact Check: Mitt Romney's Investment Income Is NOT Proof He Is 'Corrupt,' Though It's Larger Than His Senate Salary
- Fact Check: Video of Alexa's Answers Does NOT Prove Chemtrails Conspiracy Theory That Government Is Spraying Aluminum In Sky
- Fact Check: Atacama Skeleton Is NOT An Alien -- It's Human Fetus
- Fact Check: Fake Video Shows Dozens Of News Anchors Saying 'Taylor Swift Is Not a Psy-Op'
- Fact Check: NO Proof 'Dozens Of Ukrainians' Asked Russia To Help Return Ukrainian Refugee Children From European Union
Thursday, February 1, 2024
- Fact Check: JAG Did NOT Convict WHO Official Chikwe Ihekweazu In January 2024
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain Marburg Virus -- It's Not On Ingredients List, Post Gives No Proof
- Fact Check: E. Jean Carroll Was NOT Only Person To File Lawsuit Under NY's Adult Survivor Act
- Fact Check: The Nazis Were NOT Involved With Abortion Pill RU-486 -- It Was Developed By French Firm Decades After WWII
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Health Care Providers Using Lidocaine To Secretly Vaccinate People Without Consent
- Fact Check: WHO Did NOT Unveil 'Global Police Force' To Arrest Those Who Post Non-Mainstream Content Online
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