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False: “When fentanyl burns it smells like popcorn.” Fentanyl is a deadly synthetic opioid that is odorless and tasteless, making it difficult to detect. However, low-cost test strips can be used to check drugs for traces of fentanyl.Fentanyl is often mixed with other drugs, such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, to make them more powerful and more addictive. There have been few reports of fentanyl-laced marijuana. (Source: PolitiFact)

False: Aerofarms leafy greens do not contain a COVID vaccine Vertical farms operator Aerofarms grew protein-producing plants for research on COVID-19 therapies in 2021 in a research facility separate from its retail vegetables. Posts online, however, have misrepresented the company’s work to falsely claim its commercial leafy greens sold a (Source: Reuters)

Miscaptioned: Photo shows pool in Slovak labour camp, not Nazi concentration camp A World War Two-era image of people in and around a swimming pool at a forced-labour camp in Slovakia is being miscaptioned online to distort facts around the treatment of Jews in Nazi-run concentration camps during the Holocaust. Holocaust experts told Reuters the image shows a  (Source: Reuters)