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[ad_1] Claim: Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley once tweeted, “IQ is a measure of whiteness.” Rating: On Jan. 17, 2023, Twitter user @DVATW tweeted, “Hi @AyannaPressley – Can...
[ad_1] Claim: Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin’s missing millionaire husband Don Lewis was found “alive and well in Costa Rica.” Rating: Carole Baskin, founder of...
[ad_1] SciCheck Digest The COVID-19 vaccines were tested in large, randomized controlled trials before the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for emergency use. But a popular...
[ad_1] Reproductive health researchers have often repeated the talking point that expanded access to birth control leads to fewer unwanted pregnancies and helps drive down the...
[ad_1] When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced an investigation into whether Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 booster caused...
[ad_1] A recent Facebook post follows a familiar script: dangling hundreds of dollars in Walmart store credit in exchange for answering a few simple questions. Too...
[ad_1] In questioning why the FBI “raid[ed] President Trump,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy falsely claimed that government officials “could have come and taken” classified government documents...
[ad_1] On Jan. 16, 2023, the conservative news website The Blaze published a story with the headline, “Video: ‘Jesus Saves’ shirt is ‘offending’ Mall of America...
[ad_1] Claim: Football player Aaron Rodgers described seeing a shadowy “Hat Man” during ayahuasca-fueled trips in Peru, saying, “He will sometimes appear in the distance usually...
[ad_1] In a recent interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, newly installed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., touted his party’s record of fiscal restraint. “When...
[ad_1] Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made headlines while protesting in Germany on Jan. 17, 2023, against the controversial expansion of a coal mine in the...
[ad_1] The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting is underway in Davos, Switzerland, and misinformation about the event has taken flight. “WEF hires unvaccinated pilots to fly...
[ad_1] Claim: : A brand of cigarettes in the 1950s, Kent cigarettes, used extremely toxic asbestos in their filters. Rating: A photograph of a cigarette containing...
[ad_1] USC researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms’ structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information. The...
[ad_1] Home Bias Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check These media sources are moderate to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or...
[ad_1] A $26,000 government payout to employees who worked all throughout the pandemic? It sounds too good to be true, and in this case, the saying...
[ad_1] Claim: Grocery stores were locking egg cartons closed in January 2023 with anti-theft devices amid an egg shortage. Rating: Eggs are expensive these days — but...
[ad_1] Social media remembrances on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included shoutouts to prominent Black leaders, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who became the...
[ad_1] When North Carolina’s two U.S. senators supported a 2022 federal law protecting the legal status of some same-sex marriages, many of their constituents were surprised....
[ad_1] The footage in a recent Instagram post is billed as a “leaked Elon Musk interview.” In reality, it’s an old, widely covered interview with altered...