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| FALSE | Claim by Kevin McCarthy (R): Government officials “could have come and taken” classified documents stored at Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida “any time they wanted.”
FactCheck.org rating: False (A Trump lawyer refused to allow them to review — let alone take — dozens of boxes from the Trump White House that were being kept in a storage area. That incident was one of several factors that ultimately led the Department of Justice to obtain a court-approved search warrant on Aug. 5 to “raid President Trump” after many months of stonewalling.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: “EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates has also pulled out of the WEF23 meeting in Davos, wonder why?”
Reuters Fact Check rating: False (He was never scheduled to attend.) Fact Check-Bill Gates did not pull out of the 2023 WEF summit |
| FALSE | Claim via Mike Adams (Natural News): Inhaling hydrogen peroxide kills respiratory tract pathogens.
Health Feedback rating: Misleading (Inhaling hydrogen peroxide is dangerous, leading to respiratory irritation and potentially more serious health conditions like lung complications and pneumonitis. Hydrogen peroxide’s antimicrobial activity should be exclusively used on inanimate surfaces and objects since it cannot distinguish between pathogens and human tissue.) Inhaling hydrogen peroxide to counter pathogens is dangerous |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “Americans who worked through the pandemic are being paid up to $26,000 by qualifying for the Employee Retention Credit.”
Politifact rating: False (It is a tax credit for employers only. For 2020, the maximum employee retention credit was $5,000 per employee and for 2021, the maximum amount was $21,000 per employee.) Workers aren’t being paid up to $26,000 because of a COVID-19-related tax credit, as claim suggests |
| FALSE | Claim by retired nurse John Campbell: The incidence of the heart conditions myocarditis and pericarditis increased nearly eightfold in the English town of Swindon after the introduction of the COVID vaccine.
Lead Stories rating: False (The numbers, which were released through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, were initially misreported by the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust due to an Excel spreadsheet “formula error.” The corrected numbers were a small fraction of what was originally reported.) |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): The Philippine coconut industry is as big as that of rice.
VERA Files rating: False VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sen. Cynthia Villar falsely claims PH coconut industry is ‘as big’ as rice |
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