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#Israel-Hamas conflict
Barely-True: The Biden administration “wanted Israel to stand down after the attack" by Hamas.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was referring to the State Department’s Palestinian Affairs outpost in Jerusalem, which condemned the Hamas attacks while urging "all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks."This framing clashed with U.S. policy and subsequent comments by President Joe Biden. Within hours, the outpost’s account deleted the post. (Source: PolitiFact)
True: An image shared on Oct. 10, 2023, authentically depicted the Gaza Strip left in ruins by Israeli reprisal attacks.
The image is authentic. Drone footage from Gaza City shows buildings reduced to burnt-out shells and rubble after one of the fiercest nights of Israeli airstrikes across the besieged strip. Fighting crossed into a third night on Monday, as Israel increased the intensity of its response to a Hamas attack launched on Saturday (Source: Snopes)
Miscaptioned: A video authentically shows five Israeli or Palestinian children being held prisoner in chicken coop cages during the Israel-Hamas war in early October 2023.
The video of the children in chicken coop cages was recorded several days before the war began. There's certainly a history of online users sharing unsourced and oftentimes dated videos and pictures during times of conflict. (Source: Snopes)
#Health
Half-True: China sends “fentanyl into America killing 80,000 Americans a year.”
Fentanyl overdoses are increasing, with the CDC estimating the drug killed 70,000 in 2021. China has not been the primary source of finished fentanyl into the US since 2018. Fentanyl products primarily come into the US from Mexican cartels. However, China remains the main supplier of chemicals sold to Mexican cartels to produce fentanyl. (Source: PolitiFact)
Missing Context: Dietary cholesterol does not affect bodily cholesterol.
The amount of cholesterol in someone's diet does have some effect on the levels of cholesterol in their blood, and for some people this effect will be very significant. (Source: Full Fact)
#Nordics
Falsk, Men…: Nej, Liberal Alliance vil ikke gøre det lovligt at sælge kokain
Partiets retsordfører, Steffen Larsen, fastslår over TjekDet, at det er - og hele tiden har været - partiets politik at afkriminalisere, men ikke legalisere kokain og hårde stoffer. (Source: Tjekdet)
Falsk: Misvisende videoer i omløb på sociale medier
Den militante palæstinensiske bevægelse Hamas lavede lørdag et overraskelsesangreb på Israel, som har erklæret krig. På sociale medier flyder det med videoer og billeder, der angiveligt beskriver krigens gang. Men det er ikke alle videoer, der rent faktisk viser det, der hævdes. (Source: Tjekdet)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
False: “FDA wants to replace salt with Bill Gates’ new mRNA fake salt.”
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule that would allow salt substitutes in products that use salt, but it’s not requiring such a change, and it’s not connected to philanthropist and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates or mRNA. (Source: PolitiFact)
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