[ad_1] CLAIM: A video shows a strange light that appeared in the night sky in Turkey before Monday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video...
[ad_1] CLAIM: The Church of England will stop using male pronouns for God and will drop the phrase “our Father” from the Lord’s Prayer. AP’S ASSESSMENT:...
[ad_1] CLAIM: The deputy director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted that COVID-19 vaccines are causing “debilitating illnesses.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. This...
[ad_1] CLAIM: Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a recent science paper, admits that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The scientific journal article doesn’t say the...
[ad_1] Claim: The phrase “knocked up,” referring to pregnancy, originated with U.S. slavery. Rating: Context Slavery is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary entry for that...
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[ad_1] On Feb. 8, 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh published on Substack a theoretically blockbuster revelation: A covert U.S. military operation in June 2021 was responsible...
[ad_1] Quick Take The IRS has proposed a voluntary program that employers could choose to use in order to manage the taxes owed on employees’ tips....
[ad_1] Attempts on social media to make President Joe Biden appear feeble or confused are not uncommon. We’ve debunked numerous such claims with videos that were...
[ad_1] As chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley is the country’s highest-ranking military officer, as well as the main military...
[ad_1] SciCheck Digest Thai officials attributed the collapse of the king’s eldest daughter in December to a bacterial infection, not to COVID-19 vaccination, as some have...
[ad_1] U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., drew attention for wearing a KN95 mask at the State of the Union address, but rumors of another kind of...
[ad_1] Quick Take Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. But posts on social media...
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[ad_1] From U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah scolding fellow Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos of New York, to speculation about a misfired kiss, maybe you...
[ad_1] Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to...
[ad_1] The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria has wrought enormous suffering, a soaring death toll and some good news in its wake, such as the...
[ad_1] Canada’s government has not published data showing that all COVID-19 deaths in the country are caused by COVID-19 vaccines, despite claims spreading online. “100% of...
[ad_1] One-time presidential candidate Marianne Williamson called for a “politics of love,” but we’re not sure this is what she meant. An image circulating on social...