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[ad_1] Claim: As a mating ritual, male spiders sometimes wrap up “random trash” instead of bugs, hoping female spiders won’t notice. Rating: Context Some spider species...
[ad_1] While many think of the so-called “Dark Ages” as a time of profound ignorance and superstition, in reality, medieval people knew far more about the...
[ad_1] When the sun scorches the earth, when incandescent air burns your lungs, and especially when that glucose curve dips at 10, 2 and 4 in...
[ad_1] Living with the Animals While modern humans have existed for at least a few hundred thousands years, we didn’t really start massively progressing from our...
[ad_1] Claim: Norwegians say “Texas” as slang to mean wild or crazy. Rating: A claim about Norwegian slang has regularly been shared on Texas-oriented social media...
[ad_1] Claim: A video posted to TikTok and Instagram during the January 2024 polar vortex showed a woman in Canada making a helix out of ice...
[ad_1] Welcome to our weekly media literacy quiz. This quiz will test your knowledge of the past week’s events with a focus on facts, misinformation, bias,...
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[ad_1] Home Bias Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or...
[ad_1] Claim: President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior, Wisconsin. Rating: After U.S. President Joe...
[ad_1] Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum’s founder and executive chair, has become something of a conspiracy theorist’s bogeyman in recent years. In 2023, we fact-checked...
[ad_1] A global pandemic treaty to better prepare for and respond to a future pandemic has attracted conspiracy theories since it was announced in December 2021....
[ad_1] Claim: Authentic photographs show a destroyed building on the campus of Gaza’s Al Azhar University before and after bombardment by Israeli forces. Rating: The protracted,...
[ad_1] Should we panic? Social media users might after seeing online claims that researchers in China are concocting a disease that’s deadlier than COVID-19. Chinese scientists...
[ad_1] Social media users made an explosive claim that they have footage from Jeffrey Epstein’s first jail cell that implicates such public figures as former President...
[ad_1] Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. SciCheck Digest The World Health Organization began using the term “Disease X” in a 2018 planning document to refer...
[ad_1] SciCheck Digest COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy benefits both mother and baby. Side effects are generally mild, and studies don’t show negative effects on the baby....
[ad_1] In a recent speech touting his economic policies, President Joe Biden took the opportunity to take aim at the tax rates of the wealthiest Americans....
[ad_1] Could COVID-19 vaccines force men to forgo fatherhood? A Facebook post suggests as much, saying the shots make sperm disappear. The Jan. 20 post claims,...
[ad_1] Mickey Mouse, Santa Claus and Joe Biden — they’re now all common write-in candidates after this year’s New Hampshire Democratic primary, which President Biden won...