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| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Moderna mRNA COVID19 vaccines contain nanotechnology that interacts with 5G.
Lead Stories rating: False (Not Possible – there is nothing in the mRNA vaccine that should interact in any way with 5G technology.) Fact Check: Moderna mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain Nanotechnology That Interacts With 5G |
| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: A wind turbine must “spin continually for over four years just to replace the energy it took to manufacture it.”
Politifact rating: False (A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it.) A wind turbine can produce in months, not years, more energy than was needed to manufacture it |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by thepeoplesvoice.tv: Top WEF Official: ‘Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists Must Be Eliminated’ – The People’s Voice
Lead Stories rating: False (No Such Quote) Fact Check: ‘Top WEF Official’ Did NOT Say That ‘Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists Must Be Eliminated’ |
| FALSE | Claim by Live Action: Planned Parenthood aided sex traffickers.
Check Your Fact rating: False (There is no evidence for this claim. Planned Parenthood put out a statement saying that the Live Action videos are edited.) FACT CHECK: No, Planned Parenthood Does Not Aid Sex Traffickers |
| TRUE | Claim by Antony Blinken: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on July 23 that Ukraine has taken back 50% of the territory it lost since February 2022.
Check Your Fact rating: True (Ukraine has seized back about 53% of its territory it initially lost when Russia invaded in February 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). FACT CHECK: Has Ukraine Taken Back 50% Of Territory It Lost Since February 2022? |
| FALSE | (International: United Kingdom): Claim by the Daily Sceptic: “Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine”
Health Feedback rating: Unsupported (The review isn’t a study published in The Lancet as some social media users claimed, but a preprint that was uploaded to a server associated with the journal. It wasn’t peer-reviewed or published in any scientific journal.) |
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