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| FALSE | Claim via Social media: Carbon is not harmful because all life on Earth is carbon-based
USA Today rating: False (too much carbon, especially in the form of carbon dioxide, can have negative effects on carbon-based organisms, such as plants, animals and humans.) Viral video misrepresents the dangers of excess CO2 | Fact check |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: purports President Joe Biden’s domestic policy adviser Neera Tanden published a tweet in support of Hitler in 2016
Check Your Fact rating: False (An advanced Twitter search does not generate any results for the purported remark. There is no evidence Tanden published the comment.) FACT CHECK: Did Joe Biden’s Domestic Policy Adviser Tweet In Support Of Hitler In 2016? |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: Rise in cancer after water fluoridation was introduced shows fluoride causes cancer; “Fluoride amounts to public murder on a grand scale”
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (The claim is based on a comparison of cancer mortality rates in ten fluoridated cities with those of ten non-fluoridated cities in the U.S. However, the comparison failed to account for other factors that could influence cancer mortality, independent of fluoridation.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Children’s Health Defense: The measles vaccines being given to children “could” be “traditional measles shots, mRNA based measles shots, or C-19 shots”.
Africa Check rating: Incorrect (Scare tactics from the RFK Jr. pseudoscience website.) Don’t fall for unfounded scare claims about measles vaccination in South Africa |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Mark Kaye: Former Attorney General Bill Barr “says Donald Trump is a spy.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Bill Barr did not say that.) Claim is wrong: Donald Trump’s former attorney general did not call the former president a spy |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has lifted the ban on ivermectin after finally admitting it is safe and effective in treating COVID-19.
Australian Associated Press rating: False (While restrictions have been lifted, the TGA’s stance on its use for treating COVID is unchanged.) No, ivermectin has not been ruled safe and effective against COVID |
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