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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Gays Commit 45% Of Child Sexual Abuse.
Lead Stories rating: False (Experts in the field say there is not a greater risk that gay people will be child molesters. Also, 3 percent of people in the world identify as gay, not 2 percent, according to an Ipsos survey.) Fact Check: NO Evidence ‘Gays’ Commit 45% Of Child Sexual Abuse |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (Politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call including Kamala Harris, then the vice president-elect, and Georgia’s then-Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a Republican. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called the phone call “disturbing” and then in February announced she would investigate.) Trump’s Pants on Fire comment about the Georgia election phone call |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by William Deagle: Chemtrails contain toxic substances such as barium salts that are 10 thousand times more toxic to your nervous system than lead
Climate Feedback rating: Inaccurate (So-called whistleblower Dr. Deagle is a crackpot as the consensus of scientific evidence shows that atmospheric barium levels have not increased due to deliberate programs to deposit barium salts in the atmosphere. There is no evidence of a program to deliberately deposit chemicals into the atmosphere via so-called “chemtrails”.) |
| FALSE | (International: Ukraine): Zelenskyy has $1.2B in an account, 15 homes, 3 planes, $11M monthly income.
USA Today rating: False (There’s no evidence of the assets listed in the post, and Forbes, which tracks Zelenskyy’s assets, also found no evidence of these assets. None of Florida’s public records show that Zelenskyy owns a home in the state. Zelenskyy’s spokesperson and 2020 financial disclosure also contradict the claim.) Fact check: Posts make unsupported claims about Zelenskyy’s finances |
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