The Latest Fact Checks curated by Media Bias Fact Check 12/24/2022

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FALSE	Claim via Social Media: People who stole U.S. Postal Service uniforms are posing as postal workers and robbing people at gunpoint. PolitiFact rating: False (The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm told PolitiFact it has no knowledge of a uniform store theft, and we found no evidence of a series of armed robberies involving fake mail carriers.) No evidence fake postal workers are robbing people at gunpoint
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Chemtrails should be more visible when it’s cold, yet they are seen more commonly during the summer. Full Fact rating: False (Contrails may be less visible in winter as the weather is less humid.) No evidence ‘trails’ are deliberately put into the sky by planes – Full Fact
MISLEADING	Claim by Epoch Times: “Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA” Health Feedback Rating: Misleading (Although the study observed an association between the vaccine and certain blood clotting disorders when comparing vaccinated people with historical pre-COVID data, this association disappeared after the researchers controlled for potential confounding factors like healthcare-seeking behavior and COVID-19 itself. This suggests that the initial association wasn’t a true association with the vaccine.) Study led by FDA researchers didn’t find that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine caused blood clots, contrary to viral claims on social media Epoch Times Rating
BLATANT LIE	Claim via Social Media: Chick-fil-A Just Donated ‘Another $1.8 Million To Anti-LGBTQ Groups’ Lead Stories rating: False (Old Headline) Fact Check: Chick-fil-A Did NOT Just Donate ‘Another $1.8 Million To Anti-LGBTQ Groups’
FALSE	Claim via Social Media: Elon Musk said, “In some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people.” Politfact rating: False (not Musk) No, this isn’t a real Elon Musk tweet about journalists getting ‘murdered’
FALSE	(International: United Kingdom): 78% of Muslim women and 63% of Muslim men don’t work and receive free benefits or housing. Full Fact rating: False (These numbers are exaggerated. In 2021/22, an estimated 44% of Muslims were either unemployed or economically inactive in Great Britain. We don’t know how many receive benefits. Old census data from 2011 shows 27% of Muslim households in England and Wales lived in social housing.) ‘Facts’ in a graphic about UK Muslims are mostly wrong – Full Fact

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