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| FALSE | Claim via Social Media: “The true nature of cancer is a parasite, hence why, Ivermectin, in conjunction with mebendazole, and (fenbendazole) is so effective.”
Politifact rating: False (Cancer is not a parasite — it grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: All mortgage contracts are fraud and can be fully discharged by filing letters and forms to the IRS and US Treasury
Lead Stories rating: False (There is no U.S. IRS form that negates a legitimate contract. Mortgage lending is subject to laws and regulations. Mortgages are contracts enforceable in court.) Fact Check: Mortgage Contracts Can NOT Be Discharged By Filing … |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: No school shooter has been charged with terrorism.
USA Today rating: False (Terrorism charges connected to school shootings are rare but not unprecedented. Several people have been charged with terrorism-related crimes in connection to school shootings, including a teen who killed four people in Michigan.) Some school shootings have been charged as terrorism | Fact check |
| MISLEADING | Claim via Social Media: Hydraulic steel barricades installed in New Orleans, known as bollards, were not raised during the attack.
Logically Facts rating: Misleading (The barriers had been removed as part of a replacement project long before the New Year’s Day attack. The images being shared are from 2017.) Old photo shared to make false claims about New Orleans attack |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Donald Trump (R): The president can privatize USPS.
KGW rating: False (Because federal law establishes the postal service as a core function of the government, privatizing USPS would require Congress to pass a new law.) |
| FALSE | (International: Netherlands): A Dutch government official admitted the COVID-19 pandemic was a “military operation.”
Check Your Fact rating: False (This did not happen.) FACT CHECK: No, Dutch Government Official Did Not Say COVID-19 Pandemic Was A ‘Military Operation’ |
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Does it matter? The outcome was the same. Now maybe if the decrepit grandmother police chief was a ware of other barricades/Barriers…
Claim via Social Media: Hydraulic steel barricades installed in New Orleans, known as bollards, were not raised during the attack.
Logically Facts rating: Misleading (The barriers had been removed as part of a replacement project long before the New Year’s Day attack. The images being shared are from 2017.)