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| FALSE | Claim by Anya Vien: Cancer can be treated with baking soda.
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (No clinical evidence supports the use of baking soda as a treatment of cancer. Possible applications of baking soda to facilitate the effect of chemotherapy and reduce cancer proliferation are being investigated, but these are still at an early stage of development.) No clinical evidence supports the use of baking soda as a cancer treatment |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The U.S. State Department has started a special immigrants visa “evacuation operation.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Fake) That special immigrant visa and ‘evacuation program’? The State Department says it’s not legit |
| FALSE | Claim via Social media: Supreme Court will consider case to reinstate Donald Trump.
USA Today rating: False (They declined it) Fact check: Supreme Court declined to hear Brunson v. Adams on Feb. 21 |
| FALSE | Claim by Viral image: The Georgia High School Association started issuing a “sudden cardiac arrest awareness form” in the wake of COVID-19 vaccines.
PolitiFact rating: False (Yes, in 2019, before Covid-19) ‘Sudden cardiac arrest awareness’ form resulted from 2019 law following student deaths |
| FALSE | Claim via Social media: The average global temperature has increased 0.134 degrees since 1978.
USA Today rating: False (The 0.13 figure is a rate per decade, not an overall change. The data shows an increase of .13 degrees Celsius per decade since 1978. Fact check: Post understates the amount of global warming since 1978 |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Video shows that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has a huge amount of gold secretly stored in Japan.
Rappler rating: False FACT CHECK: Video doesn’t show Marcos has huge amount of gold hidden in Japan |
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