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COVID-19 Vaccine Ben...: COVID-19 Vaccine Benefits Outweigh Small Risks, Contrary to Flawed Claim From U.K. Cardiologist Dozens of studies support the use of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have a good safety profile and work well in preventing severe disease and death. Yet, citing a single, flawed paper, a British cardiologist known for peddling misinformation has misleadingly argued that the sh (Source: FactCheck.org)
False: Photo shows migrants heading to U.S. border in May 2023. This image was taken in 2018, when President Donald Trump was in office. It shows Honduran migrants in Mexico on their way to the United States. (Source: PolitiFact)
False: Video shows the “Grim Reaper” appearing at King Charles III’s coronation. The person in the video is a verger — a member of the Westminster Abbey community — not the Grim Reaper. (Source: PolitiFact)
False: Video shows a fight breaking out in a U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing. No fight breaks out in this video clip of a 2018 U.S. House of Representatives committee hearing. (Source: PolitiFact)
False: Dropped globe in video shows NASA astronauts filming in TV studio. A NASA astronaut on the International Space Station dropped a plastic globe during a 2021 livestream video, pushing it down and out of the camera frame with his arm motion.The full video shows the globe floating back into the frame seconds later, as well as the globe and microphones floating at other times during the event. (Source: PolitiFact)
Unproven: TV crime series "Breaking Bad" is leaving Netflix streaming in February 2025. About this rating On May 7, 2023, social mediausers were claiming that the hugely popular crime drama series "Breaking Bad" was leaving the streaming giant Netflix in 2025. "Breaking Bad leaving Netflix Feb 2025," tweeted one user. (Image Via @itsSaulGoodman/Twitter) Similarly, o (Source: Snopes)
Research In Progress: Videos authentically show residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, partying in nightclubs and bars since February 2022, which marked the beginning of the Russian invasion. About this rating Some of the videos in question were posted before the war, while the timing of others remain uncertain. Regardless, Kyiv has been under various levels of curfew ever since the war began, impacting nightlife in the city. A few months into 2022, after the Russian (Source: Snopes)
False: In 2023, Chelsea Clinton declared all U.S. children must be forced to get mRNA vaccines (which include COVID-19 vaccines) without parents' consent. About this rating On May 7, 2023, a website called The People's Voice publisheda story claiming that Chelsea Clinton had said every child in America needed to be "force-jabbed" with vaccines. The article claimed: Chelsea Clinton: 'It's Time To Force-Jab Every Unvaccinated Child i (Source: Snopes)
False: Putin recently shut down all Russian oil exports to the US There is no evidence Putin announced a ban on Russian oil exports to the U.S. around the time of the post. "Russian oil will no longer be accepted at U.S. ports," said Biden, speaking from the White House on March 8, 2022. The video in the post describes Russia's oil exports but makes no mention of such a ban. In December 2022, Putin announced a ban on Russian oil exports to any country that abides by a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russia's oil. The U.S. consumes more oil than companies extract domestically, but it doesn't heavily rely on Russian oil to meet that demand, The Wall Street Journal reported. (Source: USA Today)
False: Free food and household goods are being given away on Facebook. Facebook posts claiming to give out free food and household items are actually phishing scams, aimed at collecting personal information. (Source: Australian Associated Press - AAP)