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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Bill Gates is coating your organic produce with a “dangerous chemical.”
Politifact rating: False (Apeel Sciences created a thin, edible coating that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. The plant-based coating is deemed safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by via Social Media: Budweiser Brands Won’t Be Welcome at Oktoberfest For The 1st Time in 75 Years.
Lead Stories rating: False (Satire by the Dunning-Kruger Times that was shared by the gullible.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Symbols on Huggies diapers are coded references to pedophilia.
PolitiFact rating: Pants on Fire (It only appears that way for QAnon crackpots. Huggies and its parent company, Kimberly-Clark Corp., said, “Our products and its designs are in no way meant to represent anything other than fun and playful designs.”) No, Huggies diaper designs don’t include coded references to pedophilia |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Naomi Wolfe, Real America’s Voice, and the Daily Clout: “Since the vaccine rolled out, [a midwife]’s seen no normal placenta” […]they’re all compromised”
Health Feedback rating: Inaccurate (The claim is directly contradicted by clinical results showing that vaccinated women don’t present a higher rate of placental defects.) No evidence that COVID-19 vaccination affects placenta, contrary to a claim by Naomi Wolf |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Viral Post: Congress, White House, IRS and Federal Reserve have all been shut down.
Check Your Fact rating: False (Business as usual) FACT CHECK: Have The White House, Federal Reserve, The IRS and Congress Been Shut Down? |
| FALSE | (International: Philippines): Claim by Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos: The Philippine government will “disengage from any contact” with the International Criminal Court “because it cannot appeal anymore” after its “appeal has failed.”
VERA Files rating: False VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos wrongly claims that govt appeal with ICC has failed |
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