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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Charles Darwin predicts the rise of The Woke AND sub-species.
Lead Stories rating: False (No, he did not) Fact Check: NO Evidence Charles Darwin Predicted ‘The Rise Of The Woke’ |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral image: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Instagram needs to “TERMINATE…a right-wing media page posting CONSERVATIVE content.”
PolitiFact rating: False (This image was doctored. We found no evidence U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted this.) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t tweet this demand that Instagram delete a conservative account |
| MISLEADING | Claim by Heartland Institute: Additional CO2 has boosted crop yields.
AFP Fact Check rating: Misleading (Warmer temperatures and CO2 play a part in boosting crop yields but scientists say global warming also poses a threat to crops. Experts say crop output has risen in recent decades principally thanks to productivity gains driven by fertilizers, pesticides, and machinery.) Book sent to schools contains misleading climate change claims |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: The sinking of the Titanic was orchestrated by the Rothschilds and J.P. Morgan to kill prominent businessmen who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (High speeds, a fatal wrong turn, weather conditions, a dismissed iceberg warning and lack of binoculars and lifeboats all contributed to the tragedy, historians say.) Titanic sinking was an accident that caused over 1,500 deaths, not an inside job to kill three men |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by newspunch.com: CDC Changed Toxicity Info on Vinyl Chloride Days Before Derailment.
Lead Stories rating: False (Newspunch is making it up.) Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Raise ‘Lethality’ Bar For Vinyl Chloride Just Before Ohio Derailment |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): In Australia, a “17% increase in heart attack deaths” in the first eight months of 2022 is linked to COVID-19 vaccination.
Politifact rating: False (A 2022 analysis said that delays in emergency and routine care were likely causes for an increase in non-COVID-19 excess deaths in 2022.) COVID-19 vaccines did not cause a 17% increase in deaths in Australia in 2022 |
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