International in August 2023
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
- Fact Check: BBC Did NOT Publish Video Claiming Prigozhin 'Is Alive' On August 29, 2023
- Fact Check: RT Did NOT Publish Article Saying 'Post-Vaccine Myocarditis' Affected Pilot In Plane Crash That Killed Yevgeny Prigozhin
- Fact Check: World Health Organization Did NOT Say COVID-19 Vaccination Can Cause Multiple Sclerosis
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
- Fact Check: Belarus Did NOT Annex Kaliningrad 'With NATO Approval' In August 2023
- Fact Check: NO Evidence Ukraine Seized 'Train' Filled With Russian SU-57 Jets In August 2023
- Fact Check: Study Does NOT Show Ivermectin Reduces COVID-19 Mortality By 74%
Monday, August 28, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
- Fact Check: German Government Does NOT Have Study Figures Showing Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safer Than Placebo -- But Shot Still Safe, Effective
- Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Single Man In China Splitting Up Seats In Movie Theater On Valentine's Day
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
- Fact Check: 14 U.S. Cities Did NOT 'Sign WEF Treaty To Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030'
- Fact Check: Maui Wildfires Are NOT Linked To Green Lasers Recorded Over Mauna Kea, Hawaii, On January 28, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show An 'Official Statement' Saying That Putin Was 'Assassinated' or 'Hospitalized' in August 2023
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show ODAB-500P Aerosol Bombs In Ukraine In 2023
Friday, August 18, 2023
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
- Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine-Related 'Turbo Cancers' Are NOT Real -- Thus NOT 'Contagious' Or 'Behaving Like A Bioweapon'
- Fact Check: Explosion Was NOT Caused By Laser From Sky -- A Transformer Blew In Macul, Chile
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Klaus Schwab Is 'A Relative Of The Rothschilds'
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Execute 'Defiant 5G Executives'
- Fact Check: Gas Station Explosion Was NOT Ignited By Red Laser Beam Weapon -- CGI Effect Added To Real Video
Friday, August 11, 2023
- Fact Check: Internet Personality Lil Tay Has NOT Died, Despite August 9, 2023, Death Notice On Her Instagram Page
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A Giant Barbie Next To Burj Khalifa in Dubai -- It's A Computer-Generated Ad
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove That Prigozhin Joined Zelenskyy Or That Wagner Mercenaries Agreed To Fight For Ukraine
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 2 Russian Tu-160 Bombers 'Actually Landing In South Africa' In 2023 -- It's From 2019
Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Fact Check: Periods Longer Than Three Days ARE Normal
- Fact Check: World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab Did NOT 'Openly Call For AI Technology To Replace Democratic Elections' in 2023
- Fact Check: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Was NOT Arrested By US Marines On August 7, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
- Fact Check: UN Chief Did NOT Warn Christians To 'Embrace The Legalization Of Pedophilia' Or Be 'Excluded' From Society
- Fact Check: John Daly Did NOT Make Homophobic Remarks On Megan Rapinoe's Missed Penalty Kick
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
- Fact Check: Pfizer Employees In Australia Did NOT Receive Different COVID-19 Vaccines Than Public
- Fact Check: Putin Did NOT Ban '5G Across Russia' Or Destroy 'All Towers' -- Signal Is Still Present
- Fact Check: Africans Were NOT Known To Inhabit North America Before European Contact
Monday, August 7, 2023
- Fact Check: Downward Motion Of Object On International Space Station Does NOT Indicate An Anti-Gravity Hoax
- Fact Check: German Weather Station Did NOT Show Map On Fire With High Temperatures
- Fact Check: Megan Rapinoe Was NOT 'Released' From 'OL Reign' Or Olympic Team And Did NOT Lose '$25M Broadcasting Deal'
Friday, August 4, 2023
- Fact Check: Methane Emitted By Bison Does NOT Compare With Levels Expelled By Cows
- Fact Check: British Journalist Martin Lewis Did NOT Endorse An Elon Musk Investment Project
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
- Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels -- She Was Criticizing WHO
- Fact Check: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Does NOT Face A Chornobyl-Style Disaster From Water Shortage As Of July 2023
- Fact Check: WEF Founder Klaus Schwab's Daughter Nicole Did NOT Say 'Permanent Climate Lockdowns Coming -- Whether You Like It or Not'
- Fact Check: 'Good Harvest' Does NOT Produce 'Human Steak' -- That Company Doesn't Exist And There's No Human Steak Factory
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
- Fact Check: Footage Does NOT Show First President Bush Dying On Live TV -- He Lived For Decades After Throwing Up, Fainting Incident
- Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show USAID Supplying Ephedrine, Methylphenidate To Forces In Ukraine -- Video Is 'Fabricated ... Staged'
- Fact Check: Billboard In Japan Did NOT Carry An Anti-Ukraine Message -- Sign In Video Is Edited
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