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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via newspunch.com: The World Economic Forum issues a ‘once-a-week’ bathing order to combat climate change.
Lead Stories rating: False (No, they did not.) Fact Check: World Economic Forum Did NOT Issue Weekly Bathing Order As Response to Climate Change |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Jacques Attali wrote in 1981 that “the future will be about finding a way to reduce the population”, elites will get rid of people “by making them believe it’s for their own good”, they will “find a real cause, a pandemic” after having “taken care of having panned the treatment”, and people “will go to the slaughterhouse alone”
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (The quote attributed to Attali doesn’t exist in any of his writings. Attali denied having written anything similar.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by thecareerbd.com: Academy Award-winning actor/director Clinton Eastwood is on life support in a California hospital after the “deadly ligma virus” spread through his body.
Lead Stories rating: False (Not Real Virus) Fact Check: Clint Eastwood NOT On Life Support After ‘Deadly Ligma Virus’ Spreads Through Body |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Andrew Tate told Tucker Carlson about December detainment in Romania.
VERIFYThis.com rating: False (The video clip was taken from an August interview with Carlson.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: ‘The Premise’ That AIDS Is Caused By HIV Is ‘Made Up’
Lead Stories rating: False (Proven Fact) |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): Claim by Andrei Kartapolov: “Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them.”
POLYGRAPH.info rating: False Top Russian Misrepresents U.S. on Chemical Weapons, No Mention of Kremlin Poisoning Foes |
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