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Claim Codes: Red = Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political/Conspiracy/Pseudoscience/Other
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| UNPROVEN | Claim by Tucker Carlson: “Whatever happened to [U.S. Capitol Police Officer] Brian Sicknick was very obviously not the result of violence he suffered at the entrance to the Capitol.”
FactCheck.org rating: Disputed (Capitol Police issued a press release saying that Sicknick had “passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty.” The statement said Sicknick was “injured while physically engaging with protesters” on Jan. 6 and he “returned to his division office and collapsed.”) Explaining the Missing Context of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Presentation |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Walgreens, caught in abortion debate, sells abortion pills.
KHOU rating: False (Walgreens not currently selling abortion pills.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral image: Bill Gates claims to be a “valid representative of the pharmaceutical industry” because he “read a lot of books about that topic.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Fake video. He did not say that.) Bill Gates didn’t declare himself a valid pharmaceutical industry proxy. The video was altered. |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Acupressure Massages Relieve Asthma.
Lead Stories rating: False (Acupressure may relieve tight muscles, but any other claim is pseudoscience.) |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Nicholas Langworthy (R): Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met “with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban,” which “has ties to the” Chinese Communist Party.
Politifact rating: Mostly False (Granholm did meet with the CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental group, in 2021, but the department says that gas stoves were not discussed. Various Biden administration officials have said that they have no future plans to ban gas stoves, and it’s doubtful that the government could legally force existing gas stoves to be replaced. The institute is working with the Chinese government to reduce carbon emissions, but experts say that characterizing this as “ties” to the Communist Party lacks important context.) Claim about Energy Department, gas stoves, China is exaggerated |
| FALSE | (International: Nigeria): Video shows Nigerian election fraud.
Check Your Fact rating: False |
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