From 4f44164bad18b397f86916a413670a33191b014e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: schuellersa Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:45:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add author, author_url and fix tags --- claim_extractor/extractors/truthorfiction.py | 23 ++++-- output_got.csv | 74 ++++++++------------ samples/output_sample_truthorfiction.csv | 60 ++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) diff --git a/claim_extractor/extractors/truthorfiction.py b/claim_extractor/extractors/truthorfiction.py index ab6d0c0..b7962a1 100644 --- a/claim_extractor/extractors/truthorfiction.py +++ b/claim_extractor/extractors/truthorfiction.py @@ -63,12 +63,22 @@ def extract_claim_and_review(self, parsed_claim_review_page: BeautifulSoup, url: article = parsed_claim_review_page.find("article") # date - date_ = parsed_claim_review_page.find('meta', {"property": "article:published_time"})['content'] if date_: date_str = date_.split("T")[0] claim.set_date(date_str) + # author + author_ = parsed_claim_review_page.find('meta', {"name": "author"})['content'] + if author_: + author_str = author_.split("T")[0] + claim.set_author(author_str) + + ## auth link + author_url = parsed_claim_review_page.find('a', {"class": "url fn n"})['href'] + if author_url: + claim.author_url = author_url + # body content = [tag for tag in article.contents if not isinstance(tag, NavigableString)] body = content[-1] # type: Tag @@ -99,12 +109,15 @@ def extract_claim_and_review(self, parsed_claim_review_page: BeautifulSoup, url: else: claim.set_rating(rating_text) claim.set_claim(claim_text) - + + # tags tags = [] + if parsed_claim_review_page.select('footer > span.tags-links > a'): + for link in parsed_claim_review_page.select('footer > span.tags-links > a'): + if hasattr(link, 'href'): + #tag_link = link['href'] + tags.append(link.text) - for tag in parsed_claim_review_page.findAll("meta", {"property", "article:tags"}): - tag_str = tag['content'] - tags.append(tag_str) claim.set_tags(", ".join(tags)) return [claim] diff --git a/output_got.csv b/output_got.csv index a5d1669..286cbcf 100644 --- a/output_got.csv +++ b/output_got.csv @@ -1,45 +1,31 @@ ,rating_ratingValue,rating_worstRating,rating_bestRating,rating_alternateName,creativeWork_author_name,creativeWork_datePublished,creativeWork_author_sameAs,claimReview_author_name,claimReview_author_url,claimReview_url,claimReview_claimReviewed,claimReview_datePublished,claimReview_source,claimReview_author,extra_body,extra_refered_links,extra_title,extra_tags,extra_entities_claimReview_claimReviewed,extra_entities_body,extra_entities_keywords,extra_entities_author,related_links -0,,,,False,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-27,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/,"Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria meaning it can't survive in oxygenated environments and because blood has oxygen in it, if the wound bled, there is no risk of tetanus.",2021-07-27,fullfact,,"A Facebook post contains lots of false information about tetanus, including misinformation about the types of wounds that can lead to tetanus infection, and the fact that a bleeding wound means there is “NO tetanus”.  Tetanus is an infection caused by a bacteria called Clostridium tetani, and affects the muscles and nervous system. It is rare in the UK, but can be fatal. The symptoms are caused by toxins produced by the bacteria once it enters the body.   The bacteria that cause tetanus can live in the gut and faeces of horses and other animals.  The bacteria itself is anaerobic (lives in an oxygen-free environment), but it produces spores which allow it to reproduce. These spores can live in lots of different environments including ones with oxygen, like on surfaces and in soil, and can survive for a very long time. Infection in humans then occurs if spores are introduced into the body, for example through a cut or wound. The Facebook post claims: “If your wound was not caused by a rusty nail (embedded in a place where cattle, sheep, or horses graze and poop, or where cattle, sheep, or horses used to graze or poop) or a pitch fork while mucking stalls... you most likely don’t have to worry about tetanus.” This isn’t true. While some types of injuries may pose a higher risk than others, the NHS website describes several different types of injury that could pose a risk of tetanus infection, especially if you are not vaccinated, including eye injury, contaminated injections, piercings, burns and animal bites. Public Health England says tetanus may also follow injecting drug use or abdominal surgery.  The post adds: “Once exposed to oxygen, it dies. Blood carries oxygen, so if the wound is bleeding, it is being oxygenated.” Although it is true that the bacteria require an environment without oxygen, it is not true that the presence of oxygen eliminates the risk of tetanus infection. A bleeding wound does not completely eliminate the risk of tetanus.  Vaccines against tetanus are a large part of why we have so few cases in the UK. The vaccine can protect against tetanus infection, and it is included in the standard UK immunisation schedule.  The post claims that if there were concerns about tetanus exposure, the only thing that could help would be an injection of tetanus immunoglobulin. This contains antibodies that stop the tetanus toxin working and offers immediate short term protection. The NHS website says that if somebody has a very high risk wound (but has not yet developed symptoms), the wound would be cleaned and immunoglobulins may be given. In addition, if somebody has not been fully vaccinated against tetanus, or isn’t sure, they may be given a top up vaccine.  If a tetanus infection is suspected (due to symptoms or laboratory tests), lots of different treatments may be given, including immunoglobulins, and this would normally require admission to hospital and an intensive care setting.  Tetanus immunisation is usually combined with others, for example, polio and diphtheria.","https://www.facebook.com/janine.brockway/posts/10158480827243727,https://patient.info/childrens-health/immunisation/tetanus-immunisation,https://patient.info/childrens-health/immunisation/tetanus-immunisation#nav-0,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=7,https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002230.htm,https://www.britannica.com/science/spore-biology,https://www.uptodate.com/contents/tetanus,https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tetanus,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=7,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=8,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=14,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/3-in-1-teenage-booster/,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Facebook post on tetanus jabs gets a lot wrong,,,,,, -1,,,,False,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-27,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/,"Tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria meaning it can't survive in oxygenated environments and because blood has oxygen in it, if the wound bled, there is no risk of tetanus.",2021-07-27,fullfact,,"A Facebook post contains lots of false information about tetanus, including misinformation about the types of wounds that can lead to tetanus infection, and the fact that a bleeding wound means there is “NO tetanus”.  Tetanus is an infection caused by a bacteria called Clostridium tetani, and affects the muscles and nervous system. It is rare in the UK, but can be fatal. The symptoms are caused by toxins produced by the bacteria once it enters the body.   The bacteria that cause tetanus can live in the gut and faeces of horses and other animals.  The bacteria itself is anaerobic (lives in an oxygen-free environment), but it produces spores which allow it to reproduce. These spores can live in lots of different environments including ones with oxygen, like on surfaces and in soil, and can survive for a very long time. Infection in humans then occurs if spores are introduced into the body, for example through a cut or wound. The Facebook post claims: “If your wound was not caused by a rusty nail (embedded in a place where cattle, sheep, or horses graze and poop, or where cattle, sheep, or horses used to graze or poop) or a pitch fork while mucking stalls... you most likely don’t have to worry about tetanus.” This isn’t true. While some types of injuries may pose a higher risk than others, the NHS website describes several different types of injury that could pose a risk of tetanus infection, especially if you are not vaccinated, including eye injury, contaminated injections, piercings, burns and animal bites. Public Health England says tetanus may also follow injecting drug use or abdominal surgery.  The post adds: “Once exposed to oxygen, it dies. Blood carries oxygen, so if the wound is bleeding, it is being oxygenated.” Although it is true that the bacteria require an environment without oxygen, it is not true that the presence of oxygen eliminates the risk of tetanus infection. A bleeding wound does not completely eliminate the risk of tetanus.  Vaccines against tetanus are a large part of why we have so few cases in the UK. The vaccine can protect against tetanus infection, and it is included in the standard UK immunisation schedule.  The post claims that if there were concerns about tetanus exposure, the only thing that could help would be an injection of tetanus immunoglobulin. This contains antibodies that stop the tetanus toxin working and offers immediate short term protection. The NHS website says that if somebody has a very high risk wound (but has not yet developed symptoms), the wound would be cleaned and immunoglobulins may be given. In addition, if somebody has not been fully vaccinated against tetanus, or isn’t sure, they may be given a top up vaccine.  If a tetanus infection is suspected (due to symptoms or laboratory tests), lots of different treatments may be given, including immunoglobulins, and this would normally require admission to hospital and an intensive care setting.  Tetanus immunisation is usually combined with others, for example, polio and diphtheria.","https://www.facebook.com/janine.brockway/posts/10158480827243727,https://patient.info/childrens-health/immunisation/tetanus-immunisation,https://patient.info/childrens-health/immunisation/tetanus-immunisation#nav-0,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=7,https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002230.htm,https://www.britannica.com/science/spore-biology,https://www.uptodate.com/contents/tetanus,https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tetanus,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=7,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=8,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/820628/Tetanus_information_for_health_professionals_2019.pdf#page=14,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tetanus/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/3-in-1-teenage-booster/,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Facebook post on tetanus jabs gets a lot wrong,,,,,, -2,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-27,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/,The daily number of Covid-19 cases seriously understates the real total because it does not count reinfections.,2021-07-27,fullfact,,"ITV News’s political editor Robert Peston said in a tweet that the number of Covid-19 cases being reported each day on the government’s Coronavirus Dashboard “seriously understates” the real number, because people who catch the disease more than once are not counted after the first time. While it is true that these reinfections are not counted as new cases on the dashboard, this is unlikely to mean that the daily case number “seriously understates” the number of cases each day. According to figures published by Public Health England (PHE), there have been 23,105 “possible reinfections” of Covid-19 in England up to 4 July 2021. PHE defines a possible reinfection as one person giving two positive tests “at least 90 days apart”. These are not definite reinfections, however. PHE says: “For a possible reinfection to be categorised as confirmed it requires sequencing of a specimen at each episode and for the later specimen to be genetically distinct from that sequenced from the earlier episode.” This is often not possible, however, since not all positive samples are genomically sequenced. The proportion of cases that are suspected reinfections changes from week to week, but the overall rate has been estimated by a PHE epidemiologist at around 1%. On the day that Mr Peston posted his tweet, 29,173 new cases were reported in the UK on the Coronavirus Dashboard. If a further 1% had been detected as reinfections and added to the total, following the pattern in England, this would have amounted to an extra 290 cases or so. It is possible that reinfections may become more common over time, if immunity from past infections wanes, or if new variants of Covid prove more likely to reinfect people. (Indeed there are indications that PHE may monitor reinfections more closely in future.) Reinfections aside, it’s true that the number of cases reported each day does underestimate the total number of actual infections in the real world, since some infections are asymptomatic and not everyone gets tested. Overall though, it is not right to say that the reported daily case total “seriously understates” the total number of detected cases, as the current evidence suggests it would be only 1% higher if reinfections were included. Mr Peston has since clarified that his concern was that “the quality of the dashboard infections data was not what it should be because of the policy driven exclusion of those who have been infected a second time”.","https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/about-data#:~:text=If%20a%20person%20has%20more%20than%20one%20positive%20test%2C%20they%20are%20only%20counted%20as%20one%20case.,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005056/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w29.pdf#page=18,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005056/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w29.pdf#page=17,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-exceeds-600000-covid-19-tests-genomically-sequenced,https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1419246354224848897?s=20,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_date_reported,https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1419249293693698049,https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1419683464408875012?s=20,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Robert Peston overstated the importance of reinfections,,,,,, -3,,,,Mixture,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-26,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/,The mandatory Covid-19 vaccine has been passed through the House of Lords without an impact assessment having been carried out.,2021-07-26,fullfact,,"A post on Facebook claims that a law mandating the Covid-19 vaccine has been passed through the House of Lords without an impact assessment.  This is true, but refers only to an amendment of the Health and Social Care Act which will make it a requirement for care home workers to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from October.  It is not mandatory for anyone else to have a Covid-19 vaccination.  This amendment was passed after being voted through the House of Commons and approved by the House of Lords, and it is now law. Baroness Wheeler, a Labour peer, tabled another amendment highlighting the fact that “a full impact assessment has not been published including analysis of the number of current staff who may not comply and the potential impact on care homes if care home staff become ineligible for work because they are not fully vaccinated or medically exempt”.  The lack of an impact statement also prompted the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC), an independent group who assess the quality of evidence and analysis used to inform regulatory proposals across a number of policy areas, to say the Department of Health and Social Care should have produced an assessment and presented it to the RPC for scrutiny. The RPC also said it should have been seen by ministers and presented to Parliament before it was debated in the House of Commons.  Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi had said at a meeting of the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee on 13 July, that the impact assessment was being worked on and would hopefully be made available by the end of that month.  During the debate on this in the Lords, Baroness Wheeler said that an impact statement had been provided, but not a more thorough impact assessment.","https://www.facebook.com/cassiesunshine369/posts/10157902819056857,https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-amendment-coronavirus-regulations-2021/#:~:text=would%20make%20it%20a%20requirement%20for%20workers%20in%20care%20homes%20to%20be%20fully%20vaccinated%20against%20coronavirus,https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/891/contents/made,https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/document/49419/html#:~:text=11National%20Health%20Service,accordingly%20agreed%20to.,https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/document/49419/html#:~:text=11National%20Health%20Service,accordingly%20agreed%20to.,https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/891/contents/made,https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Lords/Division/2552,https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/regulatory-policy-committee/about#:~:text=we%20assess%20the%20quality%20of%20evidence%20and%20analysis%20used%20to%20inform%20regulatory%20proposals%20affecting%20the%20economy%2C%20businesses%2C%20civil%20society%2C%20charities%20and%20other%20non-government%20organisations.,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulatory-policy-committee-statement-on-the-draft-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-amendment-coronavirus-regulations-2021,https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2542/html/#:~:text=You%20are%20absolutely,with%20your%20permission.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2021-07-20/debates/8154B2EF-D373-4C43-8831-A6B79BCC29CA/Debate#contribution-DE2918F9-74F8-4FF5-A520-7290D1B589F6,https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-older-adult-care-homes/outcome/statement-of-impact-the-health-and-social-care-act-2008-regulated-activities-amendment-coronavirus-regulations-2021#cost-implications-for-care-home-providers,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Mandatory Covid-19 vaccine is only for care home workers,,,,,, -4,,,,Other,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-26,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/,Vaccinated people are dying from Covid-19.,2021-07-26,fullfact,,"A widely shared Facebook post asks “If the jabbed are apparently dying from the unjabbed. Why are the unjabbed not dying? And why are the jabbed dying?”  As we have written about before, the Covid-19 vaccines have been shown to be highly effective in preventing serious illness and death from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A recent Public Health England (PHE) study, for example, showed that two doses of vaccine are 96% effective against hospitalisation of patients infected with the delta variant.  However, no vaccine is 100% effective in preventing everyone from getting a disease, and some ‘breakthrough’ cases in vaccinated people are expected. Although the virus can be passed on from both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, we know that people who are vaccinated are less likely to transmit the virus. A July 2021 publication from PHE showed that amongst cases of the delta variant (which is now dominant in the UK), there have been 257 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in England since February 2021. Of these, just under half had received two doses of vaccine,  17% were amongst those who’d had the first dose and tested positive after a 21 day period (the time taken to build immunity), and 36% of those deaths were amongst unvaccinated people. However, this does not mean that the vaccines aren’t working, or are themselves causing the deaths.  It is important to remember that although the risk of death with Covid-19 is much reduced with vaccination, because so many people in the UK have been vaccinated, and uptake has been highest and provided first to the most vulnerable people, it is expected that many people who become unwell with Covid-19 will now be among those who are vaccinated.  As statisticians Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, ​​chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University, and Anthony Masters, a statistical ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, wrote in the Guardian, due to the age-related nature of Covid-19 deaths: someone aged 80 who is fully vaccinated has a similar risk profile to an unvaccinated person aged around 50.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122998123360389&set=a.106860828307452&type=3,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001354/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_17.pdf#page=39,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/one-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine-can-cut-household-transmission-by-up-to-half,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=17,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=3,https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Vaccines reduce the risk of death but don’t eliminate it altogether,,,,,, -5,,,,Other,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-26,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/,Vaccinated people are dying from Covid-19.,2021-07-26,fullfact,,"A widely shared Facebook post asks “If the jabbed are apparently dying from the unjabbed. Why are the unjabbed not dying? And why are the jabbed dying?”  As we have written about before, the Covid-19 vaccines have been shown to be highly effective in preventing serious illness and death from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A recent Public Health England (PHE) study, for example, showed that two doses of vaccine are 96% effective against hospitalisation of patients infected with the delta variant.  However, no vaccine is 100% effective in preventing everyone from getting a disease, and some ‘breakthrough’ cases in vaccinated people are expected. Although the virus can be passed on from both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, we know that people who are vaccinated are less likely to transmit the virus. A July 2021 publication from PHE showed that amongst cases of the delta variant (which is now dominant in the UK), there have been 257 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in England since February 2021. Of these, just under half had received two doses of vaccine,  17% were amongst those who’d had the first dose and tested positive after a 21 day period (the time taken to build immunity), and 36% of those deaths were amongst unvaccinated people. However, this does not mean that the vaccines aren’t working, or are themselves causing the deaths.  It is important to remember that although the risk of death with Covid-19 is much reduced with vaccination, because so many people in the UK have been vaccinated, and uptake has been highest and provided first to the most vulnerable people, it is expected that many people who become unwell with Covid-19 will now be among those who are vaccinated.  As statisticians Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, ​​chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University, and Anthony Masters, a statistical ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, wrote in the Guardian, due to the age-related nature of Covid-19 deaths: someone aged 80 who is fully vaccinated has a similar risk profile to an unvaccinated person aged around 50.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122998123360389&set=a.106860828307452&type=3,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001354/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_17.pdf#page=39,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/one-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine-can-cut-household-transmission-by-up-to-half,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=17,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=3,https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/jun/27/why-most-people-who-now-die-with-covid-have-been-vaccinated,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Vaccines reduce the risk of death but don’t eliminate it altogether,,,,,, -6,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-23,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/,Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.,2021-07-23,fullfact,,"In a speech to Parliament on 22 July, the Labour MP Dawn Butler said that Boris Johnson “has lied to this House and the country, over and over again”. This broke the rules about “unparliamentary language”, which say that accusations of “deliberate falsehood” must only be made with prior permission of the Speaker. Ms Butler did not withdraw her comments and was asked to leave the House for the rest of the day as a result. Ms Butler based most of her claims that the Prime Minister lied on a widely viewed video from the lawyer and campaigner Peter Stefanovic. It is often impossible to say for sure whether somebody is “lying”, because you’d need to know that they intended to deceive people. At Full Fact, our focus is on whether the claim being made is true, not the intention behind it. However, it is correct that the majority of Mr Johnson’s claims that Ms Butler mentioned were either false or misleading.   On 29 January 2020, Boris Johnson said: “The economy, under this Conservative government, has grown by 73%.” Ms Butler is correct that this claim is false. As we wrote at the time, and as Mr Stefanovic says in his video, the 73% figure describes growth since 1990, not since 2010, which means it covers a much longer period that also includes 13 years of Labour government.   On 26 February 2020, Boris Johnson did say: “We have restored the nurses’ bursary.” He made similar claims on 4 March 2020 and 19 May 2021. A bursary for student nurses was reintroduced in 2019, but it did not restore funding for tuition fees that existed before. Under the bursary scheme which existed until 2017, new nursing students were entitled to a non-means tested grant of £1,000 a year, and a means tested bursary to help with living costs up to £3,191. Additional funding elements were available for certain students. Students who qualified for a bursary also had the costs of their tuition paid.  In 2017, following plans announced by George Osborne in 2015, the Conservative government led by Theresa May replaced this bursary with access to the full loan system used by other students, and began requiring student nurses to pay their own tuition fees. Some extra grants remained available for students with children or experiencing hardship. In December 2019, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson announced the introduction of an additional £5,000 grant for all student nurses to help with living costs, with an additional £3,000 available for some eligible students. However, students would continue to pay their own tuition fees. This is not the same system that existed before 2017, so in that sense it is not true that the old bursary has been “restored”. Mr Johnson’s government has reintroduced a system in which all student nurses receive a non-repayable grant from the government, but it does not pay their tuition fees on their behalf, which was the system when the old bursary applied.   The Prime Minister said on 24 June 2020: “The [Covid-19 contact-tracing] app would be the icing on the cake, if we can get it to work. If we can get it to work, it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far.” We checked a similar claim that he made the day before, when he said: “No country currently has a functioning track and trace app”. The truth of this really depends on what you think it means for a contact-tracing app to “work” or “function”. Many countries had launched apps that were operational when the Prime Minister was speaking. However, at the time it was not yet clear whether any of their technological approaches were effective, or whether they’d been downloaded widely enough to reduce the spread of Covid. There is now some evidence that contact-tracing apps have been effective to some extent in several countries, including the UK. Arguably, Mr Johnson oversimplified the situation by claiming that no app was working anywhere (when he couldn’t yet be sure, and apps were certainly available and being downloaded by millions of people), but Ms Butler also oversimplified things by claiming that he was definitely wrong (which we can’t be sure he was at the time, either).     Mr Johnson said on 15 July 2020 that “the government are engaged in record investments in the NHS of £34bn.” And it was not the first time he had made this claim. Technically speaking, it is true in absolute cash terms, but this is a misleading way to measure it.   As we explained in November 2019, the government did announce a £34 billion spending increase for the NHS between 2018/19 and 2023/24. However, this figure does not account for inflation, which tends to make the actual value of a sum of money diminish over time. If you do account for inflation, which is the fairest way to compare sums of money across time, then the ‘real terms’ value of the spending increase was £20.5 billion. Nor is this spending increase a “record”. The last time NHS spending rose by at least this much in real terms was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.   This comes from Prime Minister’s Questions on 7 July 2021, when Mr Johnson said: “Scientists are also absolutely clear that we have severed the link between infection and serious disease and death.” Ms Butler is correct that this is not true. Vaccination is highly effective against the worst effects of Covid-19, but it is not perfectly effective. Recent data from Public Health England shows that even fully vaccinated people do sometimes get seriously ill with the disease, and a few still die. It is therefore not right to say that the link has been completely “severed” between infection and serious disease or death, although it has certainly been severely weakened. We have not attempted to determine whether the Prime Minister was ‘lying’ in any of these instances. The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.” The Prime Minister has corrected none of the errors mentioned in this piece, at the time of writing.","https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9085c07-ac3b-43dd-9dbf-71911d435363?in=15:37:55&out=15:39:46,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmproced/writev/language/p19.htm,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-29/debates/821DAC2A-A644-40CF-86AE-5D8CB585640D/Engagements#contribution-6FD04C53-12E7-47D0-B2DF-25B5857BD6C7,https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-02-26/debates/6A733918-AC43-4143-A629-0BA4AF5A932B/Engagements#contribution-5D74B73E-78A7-437F-84C3-5D6DD99E8A8C,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-04/debates/034D0B7F-9941-489F-ADDD-69F0E6FC7CA9/Engagements#contribution-DC09ECB4-8137-41A1-B314-DA2E27FC34D5,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-19/debates/C4EF032A-1F6B-429D-934D-B8BBF28D7B95/Engagements#contribution-357DC6C3-1BD3-49BF-B747-783999136D83,https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7436/CBP-7436.pdf#page=7,https://web.archive.org/web/20170329095234/http:/www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk:80/Documents/Students/Your_guide_to_NHS_Student_Bursaries_2016_-17_(V1)_09.2015_Web.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-and-autumn-statement-2015-key-announcements,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#why-changes-to-funding-have-been-made,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#additional-funding,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-24/debates/A22E1955-6855-4DCA-B5A8-0A0D97A71BB5/PrimeMinister#contribution-68A65581-DFA5-452D-A4EE-91036487A53F,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00451-y,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-07-15/debates/8EB241F4-52D1-4AAD-9A64-D1D544FEE903/Engagements#contribution-A9E9FA33-D061-43FC-AE47-3AE1E59E7BB7,https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/,https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/,https://fullfact.org/economy/economics-glossary/#:~:text=If%20an%20amount%20of%20money,%E2%80%9Creal%20terms%E2%80%9D%20pay%20rise.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/1C736EA1-AB82-4BE4-81D6-9D2F284BEAB3/Engagements#contribution-630FC374-5980-43EC-A603-37F1237EDAEC,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmproced/622/622ap28.htm,https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1423&startDate=07%2F23%2F2016%2000%3A00%3A00&endDate=07%2F23%2F2021%2000%3A00%3A00&type=Corrections,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament?,,,,,, -7,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-23,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/,Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.,2021-07-23,fullfact,,"In a speech to Parliament on 22 July, the Labour MP Dawn Butler said that Boris Johnson “has lied to this House and the country, over and over again”. This broke the rules about “unparliamentary language”, which say that accusations of “deliberate falsehood” must only be made with prior permission of the Speaker. Ms Butler did not withdraw her comments and was asked to leave the House for the rest of the day as a result. Ms Butler based most of her claims that the Prime Minister lied on a widely viewed video from the lawyer and campaigner Peter Stefanovic. It is often impossible to say for sure whether somebody is “lying”, because you’d need to know that they intended to deceive people. At Full Fact, our focus is on whether the claim being made is true, not the intention behind it. However, it is correct that the majority of Mr Johnson’s claims that Ms Butler mentioned were either false or misleading.   On 29 January 2020, Boris Johnson said: “The economy, under this Conservative government, has grown by 73%.” Ms Butler is correct that this claim is false. As we wrote at the time, and as Mr Stefanovic says in his video, the 73% figure describes growth since 1990, not since 2010, which means it covers a much longer period that also includes 13 years of Labour government.   On 26 February 2020, Boris Johnson did say: “We have restored the nurses’ bursary.” He made similar claims on 4 March 2020 and 19 May 2021. A bursary for student nurses was reintroduced in 2019, but it did not restore funding for tuition fees that existed before. Under the bursary scheme which existed until 2017, new nursing students were entitled to a non-means tested grant of £1,000 a year, and a means tested bursary to help with living costs up to £3,191. Additional funding elements were available for certain students. Students who qualified for a bursary also had the costs of their tuition paid.  In 2017, following plans announced by George Osborne in 2015, the Conservative government led by Theresa May replaced this bursary with access to the full loan system used by other students, and began requiring student nurses to pay their own tuition fees. Some extra grants remained available for students with children or experiencing hardship. In December 2019, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson announced the introduction of an additional £5,000 grant for all student nurses to help with living costs, with an additional £3,000 available for some eligible students. However, students would continue to pay their own tuition fees. This is not the same system that existed before 2017, so in that sense it is not true that the old bursary has been “restored”. Mr Johnson’s government has reintroduced a system in which all student nurses receive a non-repayable grant from the government, but it does not pay their tuition fees on their behalf, which was the system when the old bursary applied.   The Prime Minister said on 24 June 2020: “The [Covid-19 contact-tracing] app would be the icing on the cake, if we can get it to work. If we can get it to work, it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far.” We checked a similar claim that he made the day before, when he said: “No country currently has a functioning track and trace app”. The truth of this really depends on what you think it means for a contact-tracing app to “work” or “function”. Many countries had launched apps that were operational when the Prime Minister was speaking. However, at the time it was not yet clear whether any of their technological approaches were effective, or whether they’d been downloaded widely enough to reduce the spread of Covid. There is now some evidence that contact-tracing apps have been effective to some extent in several countries, including the UK. Arguably, Mr Johnson oversimplified the situation by claiming that no app was working anywhere (when he couldn’t yet be sure, and apps were certainly available and being downloaded by millions of people), but Ms Butler also oversimplified things by claiming that he was definitely wrong (which we can’t be sure he was at the time, either).     Mr Johnson said on 15 July 2020 that “the government are engaged in record investments in the NHS of £34bn.” And it was not the first time he had made this claim. Technically speaking, it is true in absolute cash terms, but this is a misleading way to measure it.   As we explained in November 2019, the government did announce a £34 billion spending increase for the NHS between 2018/19 and 2023/24. However, this figure does not account for inflation, which tends to make the actual value of a sum of money diminish over time. If you do account for inflation, which is the fairest way to compare sums of money across time, then the ‘real terms’ value of the spending increase was £20.5 billion. Nor is this spending increase a “record”. The last time NHS spending rose by at least this much in real terms was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.   This comes from Prime Minister’s Questions on 7 July 2021, when Mr Johnson said: “Scientists are also absolutely clear that we have severed the link between infection and serious disease and death.” Ms Butler is correct that this is not true. Vaccination is highly effective against the worst effects of Covid-19, but it is not perfectly effective. Recent data from Public Health England shows that even fully vaccinated people do sometimes get seriously ill with the disease, and a few still die. It is therefore not right to say that the link has been completely “severed” between infection and serious disease or death, although it has certainly been severely weakened. We have not attempted to determine whether the Prime Minister was ‘lying’ in any of these instances. The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.” The Prime Minister has corrected none of the errors mentioned in this piece, at the time of writing.","https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9085c07-ac3b-43dd-9dbf-71911d435363?in=15:37:55&out=15:39:46,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmproced/writev/language/p19.htm,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-29/debates/821DAC2A-A644-40CF-86AE-5D8CB585640D/Engagements#contribution-6FD04C53-12E7-47D0-B2DF-25B5857BD6C7,https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-02-26/debates/6A733918-AC43-4143-A629-0BA4AF5A932B/Engagements#contribution-5D74B73E-78A7-437F-84C3-5D6DD99E8A8C,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-04/debates/034D0B7F-9941-489F-ADDD-69F0E6FC7CA9/Engagements#contribution-DC09ECB4-8137-41A1-B314-DA2E27FC34D5,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-19/debates/C4EF032A-1F6B-429D-934D-B8BBF28D7B95/Engagements#contribution-357DC6C3-1BD3-49BF-B747-783999136D83,https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7436/CBP-7436.pdf#page=7,https://web.archive.org/web/20170329095234/http:/www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk:80/Documents/Students/Your_guide_to_NHS_Student_Bursaries_2016_-17_(V1)_09.2015_Web.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-and-autumn-statement-2015-key-announcements,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#why-changes-to-funding-have-been-made,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#additional-funding,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-24/debates/A22E1955-6855-4DCA-B5A8-0A0D97A71BB5/PrimeMinister#contribution-68A65581-DFA5-452D-A4EE-91036487A53F,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00451-y,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-07-15/debates/8EB241F4-52D1-4AAD-9A64-D1D544FEE903/Engagements#contribution-A9E9FA33-D061-43FC-AE47-3AE1E59E7BB7,https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/,https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/,https://fullfact.org/economy/economics-glossary/#:~:text=If%20an%20amount%20of%20money,%E2%80%9Creal%20terms%E2%80%9D%20pay%20rise.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/1C736EA1-AB82-4BE4-81D6-9D2F284BEAB3/Engagements#contribution-630FC374-5980-43EC-A603-37F1237EDAEC,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmproced/622/622ap28.htm,https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1423&startDate=07%2F23%2F2016%2000%3A00%3A00&endDate=07%2F23%2F2021%2000%3A00%3A00&type=Corrections,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament?,,,,,, -8,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-23,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/,Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.,2021-07-23,fullfact,,"In a speech to Parliament on 22 July, the Labour MP Dawn Butler said that Boris Johnson “has lied to this House and the country, over and over again”. This broke the rules about “unparliamentary language”, which say that accusations of “deliberate falsehood” must only be made with prior permission of the Speaker. Ms Butler did not withdraw her comments and was asked to leave the House for the rest of the day as a result. Ms Butler based most of her claims that the Prime Minister lied on a widely viewed video from the lawyer and campaigner Peter Stefanovic. It is often impossible to say for sure whether somebody is “lying”, because you’d need to know that they intended to deceive people. At Full Fact, our focus is on whether the claim being made is true, not the intention behind it. However, it is correct that the majority of Mr Johnson’s claims that Ms Butler mentioned were either false or misleading.   On 29 January 2020, Boris Johnson said: “The economy, under this Conservative government, has grown by 73%.” Ms Butler is correct that this claim is false. As we wrote at the time, and as Mr Stefanovic says in his video, the 73% figure describes growth since 1990, not since 2010, which means it covers a much longer period that also includes 13 years of Labour government.   On 26 February 2020, Boris Johnson did say: “We have restored the nurses’ bursary.” He made similar claims on 4 March 2020 and 19 May 2021. A bursary for student nurses was reintroduced in 2019, but it did not restore funding for tuition fees that existed before. Under the bursary scheme which existed until 2017, new nursing students were entitled to a non-means tested grant of £1,000 a year, and a means tested bursary to help with living costs up to £3,191. Additional funding elements were available for certain students. Students who qualified for a bursary also had the costs of their tuition paid.  In 2017, following plans announced by George Osborne in 2015, the Conservative government led by Theresa May replaced this bursary with access to the full loan system used by other students, and began requiring student nurses to pay their own tuition fees. Some extra grants remained available for students with children or experiencing hardship. In December 2019, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson announced the introduction of an additional £5,000 grant for all student nurses to help with living costs, with an additional £3,000 available for some eligible students. However, students would continue to pay their own tuition fees. This is not the same system that existed before 2017, so in that sense it is not true that the old bursary has been “restored”. Mr Johnson’s government has reintroduced a system in which all student nurses receive a non-repayable grant from the government, but it does not pay their tuition fees on their behalf, which was the system when the old bursary applied.   The Prime Minister said on 24 June 2020: “The [Covid-19 contact-tracing] app would be the icing on the cake, if we can get it to work. If we can get it to work, it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far.” We checked a similar claim that he made the day before, when he said: “No country currently has a functioning track and trace app”. The truth of this really depends on what you think it means for a contact-tracing app to “work” or “function”. Many countries had launched apps that were operational when the Prime Minister was speaking. However, at the time it was not yet clear whether any of their technological approaches were effective, or whether they’d been downloaded widely enough to reduce the spread of Covid. There is now some evidence that contact-tracing apps have been effective to some extent in several countries, including the UK. Arguably, Mr Johnson oversimplified the situation by claiming that no app was working anywhere (when he couldn’t yet be sure, and apps were certainly available and being downloaded by millions of people), but Ms Butler also oversimplified things by claiming that he was definitely wrong (which we can’t be sure he was at the time, either).     Mr Johnson said on 15 July 2020 that “the government are engaged in record investments in the NHS of £34bn.” And it was not the first time he had made this claim. Technically speaking, it is true in absolute cash terms, but this is a misleading way to measure it.   As we explained in November 2019, the government did announce a £34 billion spending increase for the NHS between 2018/19 and 2023/24. However, this figure does not account for inflation, which tends to make the actual value of a sum of money diminish over time. If you do account for inflation, which is the fairest way to compare sums of money across time, then the ‘real terms’ value of the spending increase was £20.5 billion. Nor is this spending increase a “record”. The last time NHS spending rose by at least this much in real terms was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.   This comes from Prime Minister’s Questions on 7 July 2021, when Mr Johnson said: “Scientists are also absolutely clear that we have severed the link between infection and serious disease and death.” Ms Butler is correct that this is not true. Vaccination is highly effective against the worst effects of Covid-19, but it is not perfectly effective. Recent data from Public Health England shows that even fully vaccinated people do sometimes get seriously ill with the disease, and a few still die. It is therefore not right to say that the link has been completely “severed” between infection and serious disease or death, although it has certainly been severely weakened. We have not attempted to determine whether the Prime Minister was ‘lying’ in any of these instances. The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.” The Prime Minister has corrected none of the errors mentioned in this piece, at the time of writing.","https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9085c07-ac3b-43dd-9dbf-71911d435363?in=15:37:55&out=15:39:46,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmproced/writev/language/p19.htm,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-29/debates/821DAC2A-A644-40CF-86AE-5D8CB585640D/Engagements#contribution-6FD04C53-12E7-47D0-B2DF-25B5857BD6C7,https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-02-26/debates/6A733918-AC43-4143-A629-0BA4AF5A932B/Engagements#contribution-5D74B73E-78A7-437F-84C3-5D6DD99E8A8C,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-04/debates/034D0B7F-9941-489F-ADDD-69F0E6FC7CA9/Engagements#contribution-DC09ECB4-8137-41A1-B314-DA2E27FC34D5,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-19/debates/C4EF032A-1F6B-429D-934D-B8BBF28D7B95/Engagements#contribution-357DC6C3-1BD3-49BF-B747-783999136D83,https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7436/CBP-7436.pdf#page=7,https://web.archive.org/web/20170329095234/http:/www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk:80/Documents/Students/Your_guide_to_NHS_Student_Bursaries_2016_-17_(V1)_09.2015_Web.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-and-autumn-statement-2015-key-announcements,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#why-changes-to-funding-have-been-made,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#additional-funding,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-24/debates/A22E1955-6855-4DCA-B5A8-0A0D97A71BB5/PrimeMinister#contribution-68A65581-DFA5-452D-A4EE-91036487A53F,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00451-y,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-07-15/debates/8EB241F4-52D1-4AAD-9A64-D1D544FEE903/Engagements#contribution-A9E9FA33-D061-43FC-AE47-3AE1E59E7BB7,https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/,https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/,https://fullfact.org/economy/economics-glossary/#:~:text=If%20an%20amount%20of%20money,%E2%80%9Creal%20terms%E2%80%9D%20pay%20rise.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/1C736EA1-AB82-4BE4-81D6-9D2F284BEAB3/Engagements#contribution-630FC374-5980-43EC-A603-37F1237EDAEC,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmproced/622/622ap28.htm,https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1423&startDate=07%2F23%2F2016%2000%3A00%3A00&endDate=07%2F23%2F2021%2000%3A00%3A00&type=Corrections,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament?,,,,,, -9,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-23,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/,Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.,2021-07-23,fullfact,,"In a speech to Parliament on 22 July, the Labour MP Dawn Butler said that Boris Johnson “has lied to this House and the country, over and over again”. This broke the rules about “unparliamentary language”, which say that accusations of “deliberate falsehood” must only be made with prior permission of the Speaker. Ms Butler did not withdraw her comments and was asked to leave the House for the rest of the day as a result. Ms Butler based most of her claims that the Prime Minister lied on a widely viewed video from the lawyer and campaigner Peter Stefanovic. It is often impossible to say for sure whether somebody is “lying”, because you’d need to know that they intended to deceive people. At Full Fact, our focus is on whether the claim being made is true, not the intention behind it. However, it is correct that the majority of Mr Johnson’s claims that Ms Butler mentioned were either false or misleading.   On 29 January 2020, Boris Johnson said: “The economy, under this Conservative government, has grown by 73%.” Ms Butler is correct that this claim is false. As we wrote at the time, and as Mr Stefanovic says in his video, the 73% figure describes growth since 1990, not since 2010, which means it covers a much longer period that also includes 13 years of Labour government.   On 26 February 2020, Boris Johnson did say: “We have restored the nurses’ bursary.” He made similar claims on 4 March 2020 and 19 May 2021. A bursary for student nurses was reintroduced in 2019, but it did not restore funding for tuition fees that existed before. Under the bursary scheme which existed until 2017, new nursing students were entitled to a non-means tested grant of £1,000 a year, and a means tested bursary to help with living costs up to £3,191. Additional funding elements were available for certain students. Students who qualified for a bursary also had the costs of their tuition paid.  In 2017, following plans announced by George Osborne in 2015, the Conservative government led by Theresa May replaced this bursary with access to the full loan system used by other students, and began requiring student nurses to pay their own tuition fees. Some extra grants remained available for students with children or experiencing hardship. In December 2019, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson announced the introduction of an additional £5,000 grant for all student nurses to help with living costs, with an additional £3,000 available for some eligible students. However, students would continue to pay their own tuition fees. This is not the same system that existed before 2017, so in that sense it is not true that the old bursary has been “restored”. Mr Johnson’s government has reintroduced a system in which all student nurses receive a non-repayable grant from the government, but it does not pay their tuition fees on their behalf, which was the system when the old bursary applied.   The Prime Minister said on 24 June 2020: “The [Covid-19 contact-tracing] app would be the icing on the cake, if we can get it to work. If we can get it to work, it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far.” We checked a similar claim that he made the day before, when he said: “No country currently has a functioning track and trace app”. The truth of this really depends on what you think it means for a contact-tracing app to “work” or “function”. Many countries had launched apps that were operational when the Prime Minister was speaking. However, at the time it was not yet clear whether any of their technological approaches were effective, or whether they’d been downloaded widely enough to reduce the spread of Covid. There is now some evidence that contact-tracing apps have been effective to some extent in several countries, including the UK. Arguably, Mr Johnson oversimplified the situation by claiming that no app was working anywhere (when he couldn’t yet be sure, and apps were certainly available and being downloaded by millions of people), but Ms Butler also oversimplified things by claiming that he was definitely wrong (which we can’t be sure he was at the time, either).     Mr Johnson said on 15 July 2020 that “the government are engaged in record investments in the NHS of £34bn.” And it was not the first time he had made this claim. Technically speaking, it is true in absolute cash terms, but this is a misleading way to measure it.   As we explained in November 2019, the government did announce a £34 billion spending increase for the NHS between 2018/19 and 2023/24. However, this figure does not account for inflation, which tends to make the actual value of a sum of money diminish over time. If you do account for inflation, which is the fairest way to compare sums of money across time, then the ‘real terms’ value of the spending increase was £20.5 billion. Nor is this spending increase a “record”. The last time NHS spending rose by at least this much in real terms was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.   This comes from Prime Minister’s Questions on 7 July 2021, when Mr Johnson said: “Scientists are also absolutely clear that we have severed the link between infection and serious disease and death.” Ms Butler is correct that this is not true. Vaccination is highly effective against the worst effects of Covid-19, but it is not perfectly effective. Recent data from Public Health England shows that even fully vaccinated people do sometimes get seriously ill with the disease, and a few still die. It is therefore not right to say that the link has been completely “severed” between infection and serious disease or death, although it has certainly been severely weakened. We have not attempted to determine whether the Prime Minister was ‘lying’ in any of these instances. The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.” The Prime Minister has corrected none of the errors mentioned in this piece, at the time of writing.","https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9085c07-ac3b-43dd-9dbf-71911d435363?in=15:37:55&out=15:39:46,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmproced/writev/language/p19.htm,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-29/debates/821DAC2A-A644-40CF-86AE-5D8CB585640D/Engagements#contribution-6FD04C53-12E7-47D0-B2DF-25B5857BD6C7,https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-02-26/debates/6A733918-AC43-4143-A629-0BA4AF5A932B/Engagements#contribution-5D74B73E-78A7-437F-84C3-5D6DD99E8A8C,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-04/debates/034D0B7F-9941-489F-ADDD-69F0E6FC7CA9/Engagements#contribution-DC09ECB4-8137-41A1-B314-DA2E27FC34D5,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-19/debates/C4EF032A-1F6B-429D-934D-B8BBF28D7B95/Engagements#contribution-357DC6C3-1BD3-49BF-B747-783999136D83,https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7436/CBP-7436.pdf#page=7,https://web.archive.org/web/20170329095234/http:/www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk:80/Documents/Students/Your_guide_to_NHS_Student_Bursaries_2016_-17_(V1)_09.2015_Web.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-and-autumn-statement-2015-key-announcements,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#why-changes-to-funding-have-been-made,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#additional-funding,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-24/debates/A22E1955-6855-4DCA-B5A8-0A0D97A71BB5/PrimeMinister#contribution-68A65581-DFA5-452D-A4EE-91036487A53F,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00451-y,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-07-15/debates/8EB241F4-52D1-4AAD-9A64-D1D544FEE903/Engagements#contribution-A9E9FA33-D061-43FC-AE47-3AE1E59E7BB7,https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/,https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/,https://fullfact.org/economy/economics-glossary/#:~:text=If%20an%20amount%20of%20money,%E2%80%9Creal%20terms%E2%80%9D%20pay%20rise.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/1C736EA1-AB82-4BE4-81D6-9D2F284BEAB3/Engagements#contribution-630FC374-5980-43EC-A603-37F1237EDAEC,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmproced/622/622ap28.htm,https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1423&startDate=07%2F23%2F2016%2000%3A00%3A00&endDate=07%2F23%2F2021%2000%3A00%3A00&type=Corrections,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament?,,,,,, -10,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-23,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/,Vaccines have severed the link between Covid-19 infections and serious disease or death.,2021-07-23,fullfact,,"In a speech to Parliament on 22 July, the Labour MP Dawn Butler said that Boris Johnson “has lied to this House and the country, over and over again”. This broke the rules about “unparliamentary language”, which say that accusations of “deliberate falsehood” must only be made with prior permission of the Speaker. Ms Butler did not withdraw her comments and was asked to leave the House for the rest of the day as a result. Ms Butler based most of her claims that the Prime Minister lied on a widely viewed video from the lawyer and campaigner Peter Stefanovic. It is often impossible to say for sure whether somebody is “lying”, because you’d need to know that they intended to deceive people. At Full Fact, our focus is on whether the claim being made is true, not the intention behind it. However, it is correct that the majority of Mr Johnson’s claims that Ms Butler mentioned were either false or misleading.   On 29 January 2020, Boris Johnson said: “The economy, under this Conservative government, has grown by 73%.” Ms Butler is correct that this claim is false. As we wrote at the time, and as Mr Stefanovic says in his video, the 73% figure describes growth since 1990, not since 2010, which means it covers a much longer period that also includes 13 years of Labour government.   On 26 February 2020, Boris Johnson did say: “We have restored the nurses’ bursary.” He made similar claims on 4 March 2020 and 19 May 2021. A bursary for student nurses was reintroduced in 2019, but it did not restore funding for tuition fees that existed before. Under the bursary scheme which existed until 2017, new nursing students were entitled to a non-means tested grant of £1,000 a year, and a means tested bursary to help with living costs up to £3,191. Additional funding elements were available for certain students. Students who qualified for a bursary also had the costs of their tuition paid.  In 2017, following plans announced by George Osborne in 2015, the Conservative government led by Theresa May replaced this bursary with access to the full loan system used by other students, and began requiring student nurses to pay their own tuition fees. Some extra grants remained available for students with children or experiencing hardship. In December 2019, the Conservative government led by Boris Johnson announced the introduction of an additional £5,000 grant for all student nurses to help with living costs, with an additional £3,000 available for some eligible students. However, students would continue to pay their own tuition fees. This is not the same system that existed before 2017, so in that sense it is not true that the old bursary has been “restored”. Mr Johnson’s government has reintroduced a system in which all student nurses receive a non-repayable grant from the government, but it does not pay their tuition fees on their behalf, which was the system when the old bursary applied.   The Prime Minister said on 24 June 2020: “The [Covid-19 contact-tracing] app would be the icing on the cake, if we can get it to work. If we can get it to work, it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far.” We checked a similar claim that he made the day before, when he said: “No country currently has a functioning track and trace app”. The truth of this really depends on what you think it means for a contact-tracing app to “work” or “function”. Many countries had launched apps that were operational when the Prime Minister was speaking. However, at the time it was not yet clear whether any of their technological approaches were effective, or whether they’d been downloaded widely enough to reduce the spread of Covid. There is now some evidence that contact-tracing apps have been effective to some extent in several countries, including the UK. Arguably, Mr Johnson oversimplified the situation by claiming that no app was working anywhere (when he couldn’t yet be sure, and apps were certainly available and being downloaded by millions of people), but Ms Butler also oversimplified things by claiming that he was definitely wrong (which we can’t be sure he was at the time, either).     Mr Johnson said on 15 July 2020 that “the government are engaged in record investments in the NHS of £34bn.” And it was not the first time he had made this claim. Technically speaking, it is true in absolute cash terms, but this is a misleading way to measure it.   As we explained in November 2019, the government did announce a £34 billion spending increase for the NHS between 2018/19 and 2023/24. However, this figure does not account for inflation, which tends to make the actual value of a sum of money diminish over time. If you do account for inflation, which is the fairest way to compare sums of money across time, then the ‘real terms’ value of the spending increase was £20.5 billion. Nor is this spending increase a “record”. The last time NHS spending rose by at least this much in real terms was between 2004/05 and 2009/10.   This comes from Prime Minister’s Questions on 7 July 2021, when Mr Johnson said: “Scientists are also absolutely clear that we have severed the link between infection and serious disease and death.” Ms Butler is correct that this is not true. Vaccination is highly effective against the worst effects of Covid-19, but it is not perfectly effective. Recent data from Public Health England shows that even fully vaccinated people do sometimes get seriously ill with the disease, and a few still die. It is therefore not right to say that the link has been completely “severed” between infection and serious disease or death, although it has certainly been severely weakened. We have not attempted to determine whether the Prime Minister was ‘lying’ in any of these instances. The Ministerial Code states: “It is of paramount importance that Ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.” The Prime Minister has corrected none of the errors mentioned in this piece, at the time of writing.","https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e9085c07-ac3b-43dd-9dbf-71911d435363?in=15:37:55&out=15:39:46,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmproced/writev/language/p19.htm,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1417524808141639682?s=20,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-01-29/debates/821DAC2A-A644-40CF-86AE-5D8CB585640D/Engagements#contribution-6FD04C53-12E7-47D0-B2DF-25B5857BD6C7,https://fullfact.org/economy/boris-johnson-economic-growth/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-02-26/debates/6A733918-AC43-4143-A629-0BA4AF5A932B/Engagements#contribution-5D74B73E-78A7-437F-84C3-5D6DD99E8A8C,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-03-04/debates/034D0B7F-9941-489F-ADDD-69F0E6FC7CA9/Engagements#contribution-DC09ECB4-8137-41A1-B314-DA2E27FC34D5,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-05-19/debates/C4EF032A-1F6B-429D-934D-B8BBF28D7B95/Engagements#contribution-357DC6C3-1BD3-49BF-B747-783999136D83,https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7436/CBP-7436.pdf#page=7,https://web.archive.org/web/20170329095234/http:/www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk:80/Documents/Students/Your_guide_to_NHS_Student_Bursaries_2016_-17_(V1)_09.2015_Web.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/spending-review-and-autumn-statement-2015-key-announcements,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#why-changes-to-funding-have-been-made,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-bursary-reform/nhs-bursary-reform#additional-funding,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nursing-students-to-receive-5-000-payment-a-year,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-06-24/debates/A22E1955-6855-4DCA-B5A8-0A0D97A71BB5/PrimeMinister#contribution-68A65581-DFA5-452D-A4EE-91036487A53F,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00451-y,https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-track-and-trace-app-boris-johnson/,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-07-15/debates/8EB241F4-52D1-4AAD-9A64-D1D544FEE903/Engagements#contribution-A9E9FA33-D061-43FC-AE47-3AE1E59E7BB7,https://fullfact.org/health/boris-johnsons-first-interview-2020-fact-checked/,https://fullfact.org/election-2019/nhs-spending-biggest-boost/,https://fullfact.org/economy/economics-glossary/#:~:text=If%20an%20amount%20of%20money,%E2%80%9Creal%20terms%E2%80%9D%20pay%20rise.,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/1C736EA1-AB82-4BE4-81D6-9D2F284BEAB3/Engagements#contribution-630FC374-5980-43EC-A603-37F1237EDAEC,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmproced/622/622ap28.htm,https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?memberId=1423&startDate=07%2F23%2F2016%2000%3A00%3A00&endDate=07%2F23%2F2021%2000%3A00%3A00&type=Corrections,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Was Dawn Butler right about Boris Johnson ‘lying’ to Parliament?,,,,,, -11,,,,False,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-22,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/,Pictures show Boris Johnson has received a Covid-19 vaccine three times.,2021-07-22,fullfact,,"A number of posts on social media claim that pictures show Boris Johnson receiving three doses of the Covid-19 vaccines.  Two of the pictures do show the Prime Minister receiving a Covid-19 vaccine—his first dose in March 2021 and his second in June.  But the third picture shows him receiving a different vaccine, the annual flu jab, in October 2019.  A clue that this third photograph was taken before vaccine roll out began in December is the fact that, unlike in the other two pictures, Mr Johnson is not wearing a face mask.  This photograph was also taken in Downing Street, rather than in a medical setting like the other two pictures.  The NHS has been given the go-ahead to start a programme of booster Covid-19 vaccines before winter, but the rollout is not expected to start until the autumn. This will mean that all adults aged 50 or over— which will include Mr Johnson—as well as anyone over 16 who qualifies for a flu jab will be offered a third vaccination.  Only two doses are being given at present.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159938653122697&set=a.10150496491497697&type=3,https://www.instagram.com/p/CRga4vGJ1-e/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.instagram.com/p/CRe7uj3Joiz/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-first-dose-of-astrazeneca-oxford-covid-19-jab-b925189.html#:~:text=else.%22-,The%20Prime%20Minister%20urged%20everyone,%2F%20%20AP,-The%20Prime,https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-03/covid-boris-johnson-receives-second-coronavirus-vaccine-dose#:~:text=boris%20johnson%20receives%20his%20second%20dose%20of%20the%20astrazeneca%20coronavirus%20vaccine.%20credit%3A%20pa,https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/02/boris-johnson-may-take-newly-approved-covid-vaccine-live-on-tv/?sh=574530234e28#:~:text=speed.-,Prime%20Minister%20Boris%20Johnson,Getty%20Images,-Key,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55227325,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57667987,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/#:~:text=the%20covid-19%20vaccines%20currently%20available%20are%20given%20in%202%20doses.,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Boris Johnson hasn’t had three Covid-19 vaccines,,,,,, -12,,,,Other,Abbas Panjwani,2021-07-22,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/,"Everybody who’s self-isolating is entitled, in addition to the equivalent of the living wage and statutory sick pay, to help in extreme circumstances from their local councils and also to a £500 payment to help them with self-isolation.",2021-07-22,fullfact,,"At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson suggested that everybody who’s self-isolating due to Covid-19 is entitled to the equivalent of living wage, statutory sick pay, council support in extreme circumstances and a £500 payment. This is not true. All employees (with a few exceptions) are entitled to statutory sick pay from their employer of £96.35 a week if they are self-isolating (provided the reason for self-isolating isn’t that they have recently returned from abroad). But people are not legally entitled to the equivalent of the living wage (£8.91 an hour for over 23s) while they are self-isolating. Although some employers may of course choose to continue to pay them the living wage while they’re off, as if it were sick leave, and this may be a part of their contractual obligations.  It’s unclear whether Mr Johnson just meant that all employees are entitled to the living wage in general, which is broadly true, except under-23s and apprentices. However, the suggestion that people are entitled to receive the “equivalent” of the living wage while self-isolating, is not. People on low incomes who receive certain benefits, including self-employed people, can also apply for a £500 support payment from their local council.  Some of those who do not receive the right benefits to qualify may get a discretionary payment from their council instead. However, this is an alternative to the support payment, not an additional payment. Nor is “everybody” entitled to it, as the Prime Minister’s comments might have suggested. There is provision for councils to make the £500 payment to people in “extreme circumstances”, but it remains a “discretionary” payment that they are not guaranteed to receive. We have asked Downing Street to clarify Mr Johnson’s comments but at the time of writing it had not responded.","https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/when-to-self-isolate-and-what-to-do/,https://www.gov.uk/employers-sick-pay/eligibility-and-form-ssp1,https://www.gov.uk/employers-sick-pay,https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates,https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme,https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/coronavirus-getting-benefits-if-youre-self-isolating/,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme#:~:text=for%20a%20%C2%A3500-,discretionary,-payment%20if%20all,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Boris Johnson was wrong to say that “everybody” is entitled to extra self-isolation support,,,,,, -13,,,,Mixture,Pippa Allen-Kinross,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/,Sir Patrick Vallance said 60% of people currently in hospital with Covid-19 were double vaccinated.,2021-07-21,fullfact,,"The government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has corrected comments made at a press conference on 19 July, when he claimed that 60% of people currently in hospital with Covid-19 were double vaccinated.  Writing on Twitter the same evening, he clarified: “About 60% of hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people.” However, some users on social media are continuing to share the original, incorrect claim without acknowledging the correction in their posts.  The most recent data publicly available from Public Health England, covering the period between 1 February and 21 June 2021, shows there were 1,165 confirmed Delta variant cases where presentation to emergency care resulted in an overnight stay (although this is likely an underestimate). Of these, 733 cases were people who were unvaccinated (63%). Of those who had been vaccinated, 173 cases had received both doses of the vaccine (14.8%), 162 cases had received their first dose of the vaccine more than 21 days ago (13.9%) and 74 had received the first dose less than 21 days ago (6.4%).  As we have written before, none of the Covid-19 vaccines currently available are 100% effective, but vaccines have been found to be highly effective against the risk of hospitalisation. The fact so many people have been vaccinated, and vaccine take up has been very high amongst those most at risk, means it is expected that many people now presenting with Covid in hospitals will have received one or more doses of the vaccine. We welcome Sir Patrick’s correction. It is important that public figures are transparent about errors that they make and issue corrections in a timely manner.","https://youtu.be/3EkYBeoGgV8?t=1544,https://twitter.com/uksciencechief/status/1417204235356213252?s=20,https://www.instagram.com/p/CRjOscMNAiF/,https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhSSlONDC6/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.facebook.com/jordan.nixon.946/posts/10224820733767355,https://www.facebook.com/janine.davies.129/posts/10226433634405379,https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRhWEN2hAHT/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=17,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1001358/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_18.pdf#page=18,https://fullfact.org/online/fully-vaccinated-deaths-daily-expose/,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Double vaccinated people do not make up 60% of Covid-19 hospitalisations,,,,,, -14,,,,False,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/,"“Forcing” young women to have Covid-19 vaccines is “almost certain” to lead to increased stillbirths, miscarriages, disabled children and infertility.",2021-07-21,fullfact,,"In a widely shared and now-deleted tweet, Reform UK leader Richard Tice claimed that “forcing” young women to have the Covid-19 vaccine is “almost certain” to lead to “increased stillbirths, miscarriages, disabled children, infertility”. There is no evidence to support this claim. Mr Tice appeared to be reacting to the announcement that people attending nightclubs and other venues where large numbers of people gather in England will need to be fully vaccinated from the end of September.  When asked on Twitter to back up his claim, Mr Tice later cited the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Yellow Card scheme, and a similar programme also used to monitor suspected side effects of vaccines in the US called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).  After being questioned on why he shared inaccurate information about the vaccines, Mr Tice  later deleted the tweet and apologised.  As we have written before, the Yellow Card scheme relies on voluntary reporting from medics and members of the public, and is intended to provide an early warning of any previously unknown risks. An adverse event that occurs after vaccination did not necessarily occur because of it. As the MHRA explains: “The nature of Yellow Card reporting means that reported events are not always proven side effects. Some events may have happened anyway, regardless of vaccination.”  The VAERS site includes a similar caveat, stating: “Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to VAERS. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness.  “The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. Most reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases.” Claims that the vaccine can affect a woman’s fertility due to the generation of the spike protein have circulated since the start of the vaccine rollout. As we have written before, there is no evidence this is true.  The latest government data shows that 46 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.  The most recent adverse reaction data published by the MHRA shows that there have been six reports of stillbirths after a Covid-19 vaccine, four reports of foetal death, 339 reports of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), and nine reports of infertility (two male, one female, five unspecified).  As we have written before, it’s sadly estimated one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage, with an estimated 250,000 miscarriages in the UK each year, so the number of miscarriages reported after vaccination doesn’t appear to exceed the expected level.  Advice from the NHS says there is no evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines affect fertility, and the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have been “widely used during pregnancy in other countries and no safety concerns have been identified.” Evidence reviewed by the MHRA “has raised no specific concerns for safety in pregnancy”. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists states on its website: “Covid-19 vaccines do not contain ingredients that are known to be harmful to pregnant women or to a developing baby.  “Studies of the vaccines in animals to look at the effects on pregnancy have shown no evidence that the vaccine causes harm to the pregnancy or to fertility.” Mr Tice also said the Covid-19 vaccines have “emergency approval only”. All three of the vaccines currently in use in the UK (Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna) have been authorised for use. A fourth, Janssen has been authorised, but is not yet in use.  Across the UK, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has a temporary authorisation (sometimes known as a regulation 174 authorisation) issued by the MHRA, which is an emergency authorisation.  In Great Britain, the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna and Janssen vaccines have another type of authorisation, called a “conditional marketing authorisation” which has been issued by the MHRA.  We have written more about the difference between these types of authorisation before.","https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1417173243782475783,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57893788,https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1417462595175522305,https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/,https://vaers.hhs.gov/,https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1417534451534467073,https://fullfact.org/online/yellow-card-astrazeneca-reactions/#:~:text=REACTIONS-,The%20Yellow%20Card%20scheme,who%20have%20underlying%20illness,-The,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting#summary,https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html#:~:text=Healthcare,scientifically,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccine-covid-fertility/,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003227/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=66,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003228/COVID-19_AstraZeneca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=85,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003227/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=66,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003227/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=66,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003228/COVID-19_AstraZeneca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=85,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003230/COVID-19_Moderna_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=30,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003231/COVID-19_Brand_Unspecified_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=19,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003227/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=78,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003228/COVID-19_AstraZeneca_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=97,https://fullfact.org/online/Covid-vaccine-miscarriage-false/,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/pregnancy-breastfeeding-fertility-and-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination/,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-of-covid-19-vaccines-when-given-in-pregnancy/the-safety-of-covid-19-vaccines-when-given-in-pregnancy,https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/coronavirus-covid-19-pregnancy-and-womens-health/covid-19-vaccines-and-pregnancy/covid-19-vaccines-pregnancy-and-breastfeeding/,https://fullfact.org/online/car-multiclaim-video/#:~:text=All%20three,authorisation%20before,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/information-for-uk-recipients-on-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/conditions-of-authorisation-for-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca#history,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-moderna,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-janssen,https://fullfact.org/health/covid-vaccines/,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Richard Tice makes misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines and fertility,,,,,, -15,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/charles-walker-youngsters-covid-risk/,Young people are not at risk from Covid-19 at all.,2021-07-21,fullfact,,"During a conversation about nightclub rules on the BBC radio programme World at One, the Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker said that young people are not at risk from Covid-19. This is not true. Although the risks of Covid-19 to young people are very low, it is not right to say that they face no risk at all. In England and Wales, since the pandemic started, 237 people under the age of 30 have died with Covid mentioned on their death certificates as either an underlying or contributory cause. Within this group, the risk is higher among those old enough to go to nightclubs. A small number of young people also become seriously ill with Covid, even if they do not die. The latest data from England, Wales and Northern Ireland suggests that since September about 2.9% of hospital patients critically ill with Covid were younger than 30. There also appears to be a risk of ‘long Covid’, when symptoms last for a long time, although the size of this risk is currently difficult to quantify.","https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-risks-of-covid-particularly-to-children-and-younger-adults-a5cbf7060c49,https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1406714693507375106?s=20,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales,https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770542/#:~:text=Young%20adults%20age%2018%20to%2034%20years%20hospitalized%20with%20COVID-19%20experienced%20substantial%20rates%20of%20adverse%20outcomes%3A%2021%25%20required%20intensive%20care%2C%2010%25%20required%20mechanical%20ventilation%2C%20and%202.7%25%20died.,https://www.icnarc.org/our-audit/audits/cmp/reports,https://www.icnarc.org/our-audit/audits/cmp/reports,https://www.icnarc.org/our-audit/audits/cmp/reports,https://www.icnarc.org/our-audit/audits/cmp/reports,https://fullfact.org/health/extrapolating-figures-around-long-covid-kids-not-way-go/,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Young people do face a small risk from Covid,,,,,, -16,,,,True,Grace Rahman,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/,"In the UK on 1 July 2021, 66% had had their first vaccination, 49% had had their second, and there were 27,989 new cases of Covid-19.",2021-07-21,fullfact,,"A post on Instagram seems to imply that the vaccine is causing more Covid-19 cases, by comparing the number of new cases at the start of July 2021, with the same time last year. It correctly states that there were 27,989 new cases reported on 1 July 2021, but incorrectly suggests that there were 63 new daily cases reported on 1 July 2020 in the UK, when there were actually 829. The national Covid-19 vaccine roll-out didn’t start until 8 December. It’s true that, by 1 July 2020, 66% of the total population had received a first dose and 49% had received their second, although that population includes those under 18, who are not routinely advised to have the vaccine. The percentage of adults who had had their first and second vaccines by 1 July 2021 was 86% and 63% respectively. But to suggest then that the vaccines have not slowed transmission, or even increased it, ignores the fact that a lot of other things have changed in the year between these dates. A more transmissible strain of Covid-19 is now dominant, testing is much more prominent now, and restrictions have generally eased across the UK.  The Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing Covid-19, and at preventing hospitalisations and death following Covid-19 infection, including from the Delta variant. There’s also evidence that they can reduce the risk of you passing Covid-19 to household contacts, if you do happen to get infected.  Getting vaccinated doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get Covid-19, but it does decrease the chance of getting seriously ill and having to hospitalised, and dying of the disease. It certainly isn’t causing more cases, as the Instagram post implies.","https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZ26g9LIIz/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_date_reported,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_specimen_date,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-55153325,https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-07-01&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+vaccinated+%28by+dose%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~GBR,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations#card-latest_reported_vaccination_uptake,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1000661/8_July_2021_Risk_assessment_for_SARS-CoV-2_variant_DELTA_02.00-1.pdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing#card-virus_tests_conducted,https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/charts/uk-government-coronavirus-lockdowns,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report-published,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vaccination+on+household+transmission+of+SARS-COV-2+in+England.pdf/35bf4bb1-6ade-d3eb-a39e-9c9b25a8122a?t=1619601878136,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=3,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase,,,,,, -17,,,,True,Grace Rahman,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/,"In the UK on 1 July 2021, 66% had had their first vaccination, 49% had had their second, and there were 27,989 new cases of Covid-19.",2021-07-21,fullfact,,"A post on Instagram seems to imply that the vaccine is causing more Covid-19 cases, by comparing the number of new cases at the start of July 2021, with the same time last year. It correctly states that there were 27,989 new cases reported on 1 July 2021, but incorrectly suggests that there were 63 new daily cases reported on 1 July 2020 in the UK, when there were actually 829. The national Covid-19 vaccine roll-out didn’t start until 8 December. It’s true that, by 1 July 2020, 66% of the total population had received a first dose and 49% had received their second, although that population includes those under 18, who are not routinely advised to have the vaccine. The percentage of adults who had had their first and second vaccines by 1 July 2021 was 86% and 63% respectively. But to suggest then that the vaccines have not slowed transmission, or even increased it, ignores the fact that a lot of other things have changed in the year between these dates. A more transmissible strain of Covid-19 is now dominant, testing is much more prominent now, and restrictions have generally eased across the UK.  The Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing Covid-19, and at preventing hospitalisations and death following Covid-19 infection, including from the Delta variant. There’s also evidence that they can reduce the risk of you passing Covid-19 to household contacts, if you do happen to get infected.  Getting vaccinated doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get Covid-19, but it does decrease the chance of getting seriously ill and having to hospitalised, and dying of the disease. It certainly isn’t causing more cases, as the Instagram post implies.","https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZ26g9LIIz/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_date_reported,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_specimen_date,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-55153325,https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-07-01&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+vaccinated+%28by+dose%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~GBR,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations#card-latest_reported_vaccination_uptake,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1000661/8_July_2021_Risk_assessment_for_SARS-CoV-2_variant_DELTA_02.00-1.pdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing#card-virus_tests_conducted,https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/charts/uk-government-coronavirus-lockdowns,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report-published,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vaccination+on+household+transmission+of+SARS-COV-2+in+England.pdf/35bf4bb1-6ade-d3eb-a39e-9c9b25a8122a?t=1619601878136,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=3,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase,,,,,, -18,,,,True,Grace Rahman,2021-07-21,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/,"In the UK on 1 July 2021, 66% had had their first vaccination, 49% had had their second, and there were 27,989 new cases of Covid-19.",2021-07-21,fullfact,,"A post on Instagram seems to imply that the vaccine is causing more Covid-19 cases, by comparing the number of new cases at the start of July 2021, with the same time last year. It correctly states that there were 27,989 new cases reported on 1 July 2021, but incorrectly suggests that there were 63 new daily cases reported on 1 July 2020 in the UK, when there were actually 829. The national Covid-19 vaccine roll-out didn’t start until 8 December. It’s true that, by 1 July 2020, 66% of the total population had received a first dose and 49% had received their second, although that population includes those under 18, who are not routinely advised to have the vaccine. The percentage of adults who had had their first and second vaccines by 1 July 2021 was 86% and 63% respectively. But to suggest then that the vaccines have not slowed transmission, or even increased it, ignores the fact that a lot of other things have changed in the year between these dates. A more transmissible strain of Covid-19 is now dominant, testing is much more prominent now, and restrictions have generally eased across the UK.  The Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing Covid-19, and at preventing hospitalisations and death following Covid-19 infection, including from the Delta variant. There’s also evidence that they can reduce the risk of you passing Covid-19 to household contacts, if you do happen to get infected.  Getting vaccinated doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get Covid-19, but it does decrease the chance of getting seriously ill and having to hospitalised, and dying of the disease. It certainly isn’t causing more cases, as the Instagram post implies.","https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZ26g9LIIz/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_date_reported,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases#card-cases_by_specimen_date,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-55153325,https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-07-01&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+vaccinated+%28by+dose%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~GBR,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-and-young-people,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations#card-latest_reported_vaccination_uptake,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1000661/8_July_2021_Risk_assessment_for_SARS-CoV-2_variant_DELTA_02.00-1.pdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing#card-virus_tests_conducted,https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/charts/uk-government-coronavirus-lockdowns,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=4,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-vaccine-surveillance-report-published,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant,https://khub.net/documents/135939561/390853656/Impact+of+vaccination+on+household+transmission+of+SARS-COV-2+in+England.pdf/35bf4bb1-6ade-d3eb-a39e-9c9b25a8122a?t=1619601878136,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002580/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_28.pdf#page=3,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Vaccines have not caused daily cases to increase,,,,,, -19,,,,True,Abbas Panjwani,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/tfl-self-isolation-pilot/,TfL is part of a pilot whereby staff required to self-isolate can instead take daily Covid-19 tests at work.,2021-07-20,fullfact,,"Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed to Full Fact that it has been participating in a pilot where staff can take daily Covid-19 tests at work instead of self-isolating, after earlier suggesting it was unaware of its formal involvement in the trial. On Sunday, 18 July, it was announced that, as part of this pilot, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor were not required to self-isolate after coming into contact with the health secretary Sajid Javid, who then tested positive for Covid-19. This decision was later reversed and both are now self-isolating.  After accusations that the government had received preferential treatment, ministers including Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi stressed that the pilot scheme included other participants including TfL, and not just the government. TfL, however, responded suggesting it was not part of the trial and was “waiting for formal notification from [the government] that we are part of this trial.” The head of the RMT trade union said: “For the government to claim there is an agreed scheme or system is totally untrue.” But the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) told us that TfL currently have two sites registered as part of the pilot And a TfL spokesperson later confirmed: “We have been part of a limited location-based trial at two sites which allows staff who have been notified by Test & Trace to take a lateral flow test at one of these sites on seven consecutive days and continue working throughout if negative.” The two locations included its own main office in Southwark, as well as King’s Cross station.  DHSC said that the trial has been running since December among organisations in England with workplace testing sites, and that Downing Street joined the trial in May.  TfL confirmed that when it said it was “waiting for formal notification from them that we are part of this trial”, it had been referring to a different trial, whereby employees can take tests at home instead of self-isolating, after being told to do so by NHS Test & Trace.","https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57877373,https://news.sky.com/story/pm-and-sunak-not-isolating-despite-being-pinged-after-javids-positive-covid-test-12358198,https://twitter.com/RidgeOnSunday/status/1416735259740225536,https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000y35m/breakfast-19072021,https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/unions-deny-rail-and-tube-staff-in-scheme-to-skip-self-isolation,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",TfL is part of self-isolation pilot scheme,,,,,, -20,,,,Other,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/news/boris-johnson-whatsapp-covid-life-expectancy-cummings/,"The average age of Covid-19 deaths is higher than the average life expectancy, which means that people who get Covid live longer.",2021-07-20,fullfact,,"In an allegedly leaked WhatsApp message, shared with the BBC by the Prime Minister’s former chief political adviser Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson appears to say “get Covid and live longer”, alluding to the average age of Covid-19 deaths.  Screenshots of the supposed message from Mr Johnson, shared on Twitter and dated 15 October 2020, read: “I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of the data on Covid fatalities. The median age is 82 - 81 for men 85 for women.  “That is above life expectancy. So get Covid and live longer.”  While Downing Street has denied other claims made by Mr Cummings, they have so far not denied that the message was sent by Mr Johnson. The idea that people who die of Covid have lived longer than average fails to appreciate these are the very people who would have been expected to live much longer. As we have written before, people dying of Covid lose about a decade of life, on average. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not regularly publish information on the average age of Covid-19 deaths but, as we have written before, a response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request published in January 2021 shows that between the week ending 9 October, 2020, and the week ending 1 January, 2021, the median age of deaths involving Covid-19 was 83.  Data published through a different FOI request to the ONS shows that the median age of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales, up to and including 2 October, 2020, was also 83. According to the most recent statistics from the ONS, the average life expectancy at birth in the UK from 2017 to 2019 was 79.4 years for males and 83.1 years for females.  This would appear to show that the message attributed to Mr Johnson was correct—but it is not how life expectancy works in reality.  Life expectancy is an average, which means it is pulled down by people who die young. It also means that life expectancy increases as you age.  A set of data called the National Life Tables, produced by the ONS, shows how life expectancy adjusts as a person ages.  An 82-year-old man can expect to live for another 7.4 years on average, while an 85-year-old woman can expect to live another 6.87 years on average.  People dying of Covid in their 80s before they otherwise would have died, itself reduces average life expectancy.  The idea that you can ‘get Covid and live longer’ fails to take this into account, and therefore misunderstands the impact of Covid-19 deaths.","https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57854811#:~:text=the%20%22median%20age%22%20for%20those%20dying%20was%20between%2081%20and%2082%20for%20men%20and%2085%20for%20women%2C%20the%20prime%20minister%20allegedly%20wrote%2C%20adding%3A%20%22that%20is%20above%20life%20expectancy.%20so%20get%20covid%20and%20live%20longer.,https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1417397768931401754,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57854811#:~:text=downing%20street%20denied%20that%20this%20incident%20took%20place%20and%20buckingham%20palace%20declined%20to%20comment.],https://fullfact.org/health/covid19-behind-the-death-toll/#:~:text=people%20dying%20of%20covid%20have%20still%20lost%20about%20a%20decade%20of%20life%2C%20on%20average.,https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-cremation-pcr-asymptomatic-transmission/#:~:text=The%20ONS%20does,was%20also%2083,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/12773averageageofdeathmedianandmeanofpersonswhosedeathwasduetocovid19orinvolvedcovid19bysexdeathsregisteredinweekending9october2020toweekending1january2021englandandwales,https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/averageageofthosewhohaddiedwithcovid19,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2017to2019#:~:text=life%20expectancy%20at%20birth%20in%20the%20uk%20in%202017%20to%202019%20was%2079.4%20years%20for%20males%20and%2083.1%20years%20for%20females,https://www.covid-arg.com/post/get-covid-and-live-longer#:~:text=above-,life%20expectancy%20is%20an,at%20least%2080%20years,-The,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2017to2019#:~:text=national%20life%20tables%3A%20uk%20dataset%20%7C%20released%2024%20september%202020,https://fullfact.org/news/dawn-butler-boris-johnson-lying/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/what-has-prime-minister-said-about-booing-england-players/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/times-woke-survey/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/michael-gove-public-first/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/news/sun-cancel-culture/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Average Covid-19 victim dies years before they otherwise would,,,,,, -21,,,,Mixture,Grace Rahman,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/,"There have been 1,400 deaths and one million injured from Covid-19 vaccinations in the UK.",2021-07-20,fullfact,,"The front page of free newspaper ‘The Light’, shared on Facebook, claimed that there have been 1,400 deaths and a million injuries “from covid injections” in the UK. There have been just over 1,470 deaths following a Covid-19 vaccination in the UK, according to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Yellow Card reporting scheme, as of 7 July 2020. These deaths aren’t necessarily caused by the vaccine though. The MHRA says: “Vaccination and surveillance of large populations means that, by chance, some people will experience and report a new illness or events in the days and weeks after vaccination.  “A high proportion of people vaccinated early in the vaccination campaign were very elderly, and/or had pre-existing medical conditions. Older age and chronic underlying illnesses make it more likely that coincidental adverse events will occur, especially given the millions of people vaccinated.” The MHRA has identified a possible link between a type of extremely rare blood clot occurring with low levels of platelets and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. There have been 74 fatal cases of this following this vaccination as of 7 July. There have been just over a million suspected reactions reported as of 7 July. Again, these adverse reactions weren’t definitely caused by the vaccination, but were reported afterwards, either by the individual themselves or a healthcare professional. Not all of these were serious “injuries”, as The Light describes them. For example, there were over 14,000 reported suspected side effects of fatigue following the Pfizer vaccine. The main body of The Light’s front page text, which is blurry in the Facebook picture, goes on to say: “More than 1400 deaths have been reported following covid injections in the UK”. This is technically correct but, as said, the fact a death is reported following a vaccination is no proof the vaccine was the cause.","https://thelightpaper.co.uk/assets/pdf/The-Light-11D-Miki-FINAL.pdf,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158628780561795&set=a.493612736794&type=3,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003414/Coronavirus_vaccine_-_summary_of_Yellow_Card_reporting_07.07.2021_-_Clean.pdf#page=17,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003414/Coronavirus_vaccine_-_summary_of_Yellow_Card_reporting_07.07.2021_-_Clean.pdf#page=17,https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-issues-new-advice-concluding-a-possible-link-between-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-and-extremely-rare-unlikely-to-occur-blood-clots,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003414/Coronavirus_vaccine_-_summary_of_Yellow_Card_reporting_07.07.2021_-_Clean.pdf#page=9,https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/about,https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1003227/COVID-19_Pfizer-BioNTech_Vaccine_Analysis_Print_DLP_07.07.2021.pdf#page=22,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Free paper repeats falsehoods on deaths following vaccination,,,,,, -22,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/,"Only hundreds, not thousands, of people have died of Covid without any other pre-existing condition mentioned on their death certificate.",2021-07-20,fullfact,,"The former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption made several mistakes with Covid-19 data when talking about the disease on the Today programme this morning. First of all, he said that the virus had not killed more than 100,000 people, because many of the deaths recorded may have been people who were infected with Covid, but died for other reasons. This is not true. The daily data on the number of people who have died after a positive test does include some people who died for other reasons. However, we also have data from death certificates, which records whether or not Covid itself was the “underlying cause”. This shows that up to 2 July this year, 124,082 people died with Covid as the underlying cause of death in England and Wales alone. Lord Sumption went on to say that the people who died of Covid would soon have died anyway. He said: “At the age which they had reached, they would probably have died within a year after, as even Professor Ferguson has I think admitted.""  [1.19.00] This is not supported by the evidence. The mention of Professor Ferguson seems to be a reference to the government’s former scientific advisor’s comments before the Science and Technology Select Committee on 25 March 2020, when he said that the proportion of people dying of Covid in 2020 who would have died that year anyway “might be as much as half to two thirds of the deaths we are seeing from COVID-19”. In other words, he was talking at a very early stage of the pandemic about what might be seen by the end of the year, not stating a fact, or predicting what the facts would be. Research suggests that people dying of Covid lost far more than a year of life—about a decade on average. We have written about this in detail before.  Lord Sumption also said: ""The number of people who have died who are not in highly vulnerable groups who have died without a sufficiently serious comorbidity to appear on the death certificate is very small. It's a matter of hundreds and not thousands."" [1.19.42] This is not true either. It seems that Lord Sumption is talking about the number of death certificates that mention Covid as the underlying cause but do not mention any pre-existing medical condition. There were 15,883 of these deaths in England and Wales alone, up to the end of March 2021. All of them had Covid as the underlying cause. If you added all the deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland too, the total would be higher.","https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths#card-deaths_within_28_days_of_positive_test_by_date_of_death,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending2july2021#:~:text=Deaths%20involving%20and%20due%20to%20COVID-19%20and%20influenza%20and%20pneumonia%2C%20England%20and%20Wales%2C%20deaths%20registered%20in%202020%20and%202021,https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/237/pdf/#page=10,https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75,https://fullfact.org/health/covid19-behind-the-death-toll/,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/preexistingconditionsofpeoplewhodiedduetocovid19englandandwales,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today,,,,,, -23,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/,"Only hundreds, not thousands, of people have died of Covid without any other pre-existing condition mentioned on their death certificate.",2021-07-20,fullfact,,"The former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption made several mistakes with Covid-19 data when talking about the disease on the Today programme this morning. First of all, he said that the virus had not killed more than 100,000 people, because many of the deaths recorded may have been people who were infected with Covid, but died for other reasons. This is not true. The daily data on the number of people who have died after a positive test does include some people who died for other reasons. However, we also have data from death certificates, which records whether or not Covid itself was the “underlying cause”. This shows that up to 2 July this year, 124,082 people died with Covid as the underlying cause of death in England and Wales alone. Lord Sumption went on to say that the people who died of Covid would soon have died anyway. He said: “At the age which they had reached, they would probably have died within a year after, as even Professor Ferguson has I think admitted.""  [1.19.00] This is not supported by the evidence. The mention of Professor Ferguson seems to be a reference to the government’s former scientific advisor’s comments before the Science and Technology Select Committee on 25 March 2020, when he said that the proportion of people dying of Covid in 2020 who would have died that year anyway “might be as much as half to two thirds of the deaths we are seeing from COVID-19”. In other words, he was talking at a very early stage of the pandemic about what might be seen by the end of the year, not stating a fact, or predicting what the facts would be. Research suggests that people dying of Covid lost far more than a year of life—about a decade on average. We have written about this in detail before.  Lord Sumption also said: ""The number of people who have died who are not in highly vulnerable groups who have died without a sufficiently serious comorbidity to appear on the death certificate is very small. It's a matter of hundreds and not thousands."" [1.19.42] This is not true either. It seems that Lord Sumption is talking about the number of death certificates that mention Covid as the underlying cause but do not mention any pre-existing medical condition. There were 15,883 of these deaths in England and Wales alone, up to the end of March 2021. All of them had Covid as the underlying cause. If you added all the deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland too, the total would be higher.","https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths#card-deaths_within_28_days_of_positive_test_by_date_of_death,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending2july2021#:~:text=Deaths%20involving%20and%20due%20to%20COVID-19%20and%20influenza%20and%20pneumonia%2C%20England%20and%20Wales%2C%20deaths%20registered%20in%202020%20and%202021,https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/237/pdf/#page=10,https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75,https://fullfact.org/health/covid19-behind-the-death-toll/,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/preexistingconditionsofpeoplewhodiedduetocovid19englandandwales,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today,,,,,, -24,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/lord-sumption-covid-errors/,"Only hundreds, not thousands, of people have died of Covid without any other pre-existing condition mentioned on their death certificate.",2021-07-20,fullfact,,"The former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption made several mistakes with Covid-19 data when talking about the disease on the Today programme this morning. First of all, he said that the virus had not killed more than 100,000 people, because many of the deaths recorded may have been people who were infected with Covid, but died for other reasons. This is not true. The daily data on the number of people who have died after a positive test does include some people who died for other reasons. However, we also have data from death certificates, which records whether or not Covid itself was the “underlying cause”. This shows that up to 2 July this year, 124,082 people died with Covid as the underlying cause of death in England and Wales alone. Lord Sumption went on to say that the people who died of Covid would soon have died anyway. He said: “At the age which they had reached, they would probably have died within a year after, as even Professor Ferguson has I think admitted.""  [1.19.00] This is not supported by the evidence. The mention of Professor Ferguson seems to be a reference to the government’s former scientific advisor’s comments before the Science and Technology Select Committee on 25 March 2020, when he said that the proportion of people dying of Covid in 2020 who would have died that year anyway “might be as much as half to two thirds of the deaths we are seeing from COVID-19”. In other words, he was talking at a very early stage of the pandemic about what might be seen by the end of the year, not stating a fact, or predicting what the facts would be. Research suggests that people dying of Covid lost far more than a year of life—about a decade on average. We have written about this in detail before.  Lord Sumption also said: ""The number of people who have died who are not in highly vulnerable groups who have died without a sufficiently serious comorbidity to appear on the death certificate is very small. It's a matter of hundreds and not thousands."" [1.19.42] This is not true either. It seems that Lord Sumption is talking about the number of death certificates that mention Covid as the underlying cause but do not mention any pre-existing medical condition. There were 15,883 of these deaths in England and Wales alone, up to the end of March 2021. All of them had Covid as the underlying cause. If you added all the deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland too, the total would be higher.","https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths#card-deaths_within_28_days_of_positive_test_by_date_of_death,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending2july2021#:~:text=Deaths%20involving%20and%20due%20to%20COVID-19%20and%20influenza%20and%20pneumonia%2C%20England%20and%20Wales%2C%20deaths%20registered%20in%202020%20and%202021,https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xzdf,https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/237/pdf/#page=10,https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75,https://fullfact.org/health/covid19-behind-the-death-toll/,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/preexistingconditionsofpeoplewhodiedduetocovid19englandandwales,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Lord Sumption made several errors about Covid on Today,,,,,, -25,,,,False,Abbas Panjwani,2021-07-20,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/economy/george-freeman-africa-eu-tariffs/,The EU has a 40% tariff on food from Africa.,2021-07-20,fullfact,,"Following the government’s decision to reduce its commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income on foreign aid to 0.5%, Conservative MP George Freeman appeared on Newsnight to talk about the other ways in which the government supported poorer nations. One thing he claimed was that the UK had reduced the EU’s 40% tariff on food imports from Africa. It was something he previously said in Parliament in April. But the EU doesn’t have a 40% tariff on food from Africa.  Tariffs are taxes on imports. They are largely used to protect domestic producers from foreign competition. For example, if a government wanted to protect domestic beef farmers from being undercut by foreign competitors, it might choose to place a tariff on foreign imports of beef. The EU has tariffs on various products, but there isn’t just one flat 40% tariff on food. Tariffs vary by foodstuff. For instance, the average tariff placed on dairy products imported into the EU is 37% while on tea and coffee it’s 6%.  In practice there are many different products within each of these categories which have their own specific tariff.  But what’s more important, is that the EU waives most tariffs on the majority of African countries.  By our count, 43 of 55 African countries face no tariffs whatsoever when exporting to the EU, with the exception of arms. This is because of schemes where the EU unilaterally waives tariffs on the least developed nations worldwide, or bilateral “economic partnership agreements”, where the EU drops its import tariffs, often in exchange for better access to the other signatory country’s market.  Another eight African countries face either reduced or removed tariffs on most exports to the EU, by virtue of schemes the EU has to help low and lower-middle income countries, or free trade agreements.  Goods originating from Western Sahara are subject to the same terms as goods from Morocco which claims the area (a free trade agreement with some tariffs on fish and agri-foods) .   Only three countries in Africa do not have preferential trading terms with the EU: Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Libya.  Going back to Mr Freeman’s original claim, there may well be a particular foodstuff from the continent which the EU charges an import tariff of 40% on, and which the UK does not. And that may mean that exporters from those 12 countries without complete tariff free access to the EU face lower tariff barriers exporting that product to the UK than the EU. But that’s hardly the same as saying that the EU puts a 40% tariff on food imports from Africa. After publication Mr Freeman acknowledged the statistic was incorrect.","https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-conditions-for-returning-to-07-aid-target,https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000xwmw/newsnight-13072021,https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-04-13/debates/9158B8BB-DBAE-4495-86F7-57A3C5B05CD2/Finance(No2)Bill#contribution-27E3A907-13A5-46A1-9875-A89DCF05C156,https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/trade-tariffs#:~:text=What%20are%20tariffs%20and%20why,domestic%20industries%20from%20foreign%20competition.,https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/daily_update_e/tariff_profiles/CE_E.pdf,https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/how-many-countries-africa-how-hard-can-question-be,https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17kCrdVtZr8ziSFFA0EeVJ0QGCYNWV7rXgx23Li88R-A/edit?usp=sharing,https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/development/generalised-scheme-of-preferences/,https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/development/economic-partnerships/index_en.htm,https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/october/tradoc_152818.pdf,https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17kCrdVtZr8ziSFFA0EeVJ0QGCYNWV7rXgx23Li88R-A/edit?usp=sharing,https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/development/generalised-scheme-of-preferences/index_en.htm,https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/november/tradoc_156399.pdf,https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2019.034.01.0004.01.ENG,https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/2021/05/04/eu-western-sahara/,https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/november/tradoc_156399.pdf,https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/central-africa/index_en.htm,https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/libya/index_en.htm,https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1417950084017397760,https://fullfact.org/economy/millionaire-pensioners/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/economy/april-2021-trade-figures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-foreign-aid-g7/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/economy/labours-record-on-unemployment/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/economy/foreign-aid-2021/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",The EU doesn’t have a 40% tariff on African food imports,,,,,, -26,,,,False,Pippa Allen-Kinross,2021-07-19,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/paris-protests-photograph/,Photograph of people filling the streets of Paris was taken during protests against Covid-19 regulations on 17 July 2021.,2021-07-19,fullfact,,"A post on Facebook shared almost 1,000 times shows people lining the streets of Paris. The caption of the post claims this photograph was taken on 17 July 2021, when there were protests in the French capital over Covid-19 rules. However, this photograph actually shows celebrations in the city after France won the World Cup in 2018.  Since this fact check was published, the Facebook post has been updated to show a different image of people protesting against Covid-19 regulations. On 12 July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced new measures against Covid-19, including the introduction of Covid-19 ‘passports’ and that vaccination will become mandatory for all health workers.  The planned new measures have led to large protests in the country. Reuters reported that there were 137 protests across France on 17 July, gathering nearly 114,000 people. Of these protestors, 18,000 were in Paris, according to the French government.  However, this photograph, which appears to show far more than 18,000 people, was not taken during these protests. A reverse image search shows this photograph was used by multiple news outlets reporting on France’s victory in the 2018 World Cup. Posts suggesting the image was taken during the protests on 17 July have also been widely shared on Twitter, including by lockdown sceptic Ivor Cummins.","https://www.facebook.com/red.hat.121398/posts/193482426124960,https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-protests-call-freedom-amid-government-vaccine-push-2021-07-17/,https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210712-follow-live-france-s-macron-addresses-the-nation-as-covid-19-delta-variant-surges,https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-protests-call-freedom-amid-government-vaccine-push-2021-07-17/,https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/frankreich-ist-weltmeister-so-schoen-feiert-paris-fotostrecke-162444.html,https://www.lejsl.com/actualite/2018/07/15/apres-la-victoire-les-champs-elysees-pris-d-assaut,https://twitter.com/adsportwereld/status/1018580749186928640,https://twitter.com/MaryMbois/status/1416729576701579265,https://twitter.com/StealthGrooove/status/1416949079301496837,https://twitter.com/avokasianssi/status/1416871116384182280?s=20,https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1416874308249559045?s=20,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Photo doesn’t show Covid protest in Paris,,,,,, -27,,,,Other,Tom Norton,2021-07-16,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/death-rate-statistics-Covid-19/,Death rates are lower than previous years which proves Covid-19 hasn’t killed or is killing anyone.,2021-07-16,fullfact,,"A Facebook post shows a meme of actor John Krasinski in TV show The Office sitting next to a white board with edited text which states that death rates are the same level as previous years therefore proving there is “nothing new killing people”. Other text accompanying the image adds “Actually lower”. Firstly, it’s true that death rates are lower than previous years, at least in England and Wales. To measure this we can use the age-standardised mortality rate which is the number of deaths per 100,000 people, adjusted to even out the changing age structure of the country over time. As of May 2021, the rate is at its lowest since records began in 2001. Mortality rates have been broadly declining since 2001. However, the Facebook post seems to be suggesting that lower death rates indicate that Covid-19 is not killing anyone or perhaps that it does not exist. Using the same data we can see the age-standardised mortality rate in May 2020 (near the peak of the pandemic in England) was at its highest level for both men and women since 2007. Looking back further to April 2020, mortality rates were then at their highest since the Office for National Statistics’ mortality records began. While deaths are lower now compared to the same time last year, owed in part to the vaccination programme, people are still dying from Covid-19.  Hundreds of people are also still being infected and hospitalised every day. We’ve fact checked similar claims before.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10225170874115640&set=a.10209627838189456&type=3&theater,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/may2021,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/may2021,https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/april2021,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare,https://fullfact.org/online/death-rate-2020-2003/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",A fall in death rates doesn’t prove Covid-19 isn’t killing anyone,,,,,, -28,,,,Other,Tom Norton,2021-07-16,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/Allison-Pearson-Covid-stats-hospital/,The number of Covid hospitalisations is 0.5% of the level of cases.,2021-07-16,fullfact,,"Columnist Allison Pearson tweeted on Monday that only 0.5% of patients with Covid-19 have been hospitalised, looking at the recent weekly average of cases and hospitalisations. This is a misleading calculation to make because of the lag between cases and hospitalisations, and, regardless, the calculation has been done incorrectly. It's unclear but it appears Ms Pearson was looking at the data for England. When she tweeted, the seven-day average daily case count was around 26,000 (taken on 4 July). She compares this with the seven-day average of patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 (which was 444 on 7 July, the latest data when she tweeted). You can’t compare these numbers to calculate the hospitalisation risk of Covid. It takes time for symptoms to develop to the point someone with Covid may need to be hospitalised, meaning, they are likely to be hospitalised later than the date they were first tested. We’re also not sure where the 0.5% proportion figure has come from either, as (although as noted these figures shouldn’t be compared) 433 is 1.67% of 26,000, not 0.5%.","https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation&areaName=England,https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=nation&areaName=England,https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html#:~:text=Symptoms%20may%20appear%202%2D14,Fever%20or%20chills,https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.18.20156307v1,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Allison Pearson tweets misleading stats about Covid hospital patients,,,,,, -29,,,,False,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-16,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/health/Rife-machines/,"Rife machines can cure over 5,000 diseases including all cancers, infections and more.",2021-07-16,fullfact,,"A post on social media claims that Raymond Rife created a device that could “cure over 5000 diseases including all cancers, infections and more” and asks “why aren’t we using it”? This claim is not proven. Cancer Research UK says that “there is no reliable evidence to use [Rife machines] as a treatment for cancer”. RIFE machines were created in the 1920-30s by the scientist Raymond Rife, and they work by omitting low electromagnetic energy waves. Supporters of the machine say that all medical conditions have an electromagnetic frequency, and by matching the frequency, the RIFE machine can kill or disable affected cells.  RIFE machines are not an established treatment in the UK (or in other countries such as the US), as there is no reliable evidence to say that they work and they have not been through the rigorous testing required for a treatment to be used.  Cancer Research UK says: “Many websites promote the Rife machine as a cure for cancer. But no reputable scientific cancer organisations support any of these claims.” It also says there is no evidence that these machines do not cause harm to people who use them, and warns: “You could harm your health if you stop your cancer treatment for an unproven treatment.” There are some studies which have explored the use of low energy waves as a treatment for cancer, but further research in this area is required.  There are cancer treatments which use high frequency sound waves to kill cancer cells, and these have a good evidence base for their use.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=173655694783084&set=a.125066426308678&type=3&theater,https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/rife-machine-and-cancer,https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.3322/canjclin.44.2.115#page=5,https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8124604/,https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/rife-machine-and-cancer#:~:text=The%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Administration,machines%20against%20making%20unproven%20claims.,https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/rife-machine-and-cancer,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097732/,https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/rife-machine-and-cancer,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3261663/,https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26762464/,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845545/#b11,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5119968/,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3188936/,https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/other/high-intensity-focused-ultrasound-hifu,https://fullfact.org/health/tetanus-risk-social-media/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/robert-peston-reinfections/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/vaccinated-Covid-19-deaths/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/self-isolation-support/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/health/richard-tice-covid-vaccine-infertility-stillbirth/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",No evidence Rife machines can cure all cancers,,,,,, -30,,,,Other,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-16,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/education/evening-standard-missing-school-children-covid/,"100,000 children have not returned to school since the start of the pandemic.",2021-07-16,fullfact,,"An Evening Standard article claims that “almost 100,000 ‘ghost children’ have not returned to school since [the] start of [the] Covid pandemic”.  We have fact checked the use of this figure before. It is based on a report produced by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), which states that during September to December 2020, 93,514 pupils in England were severely absent, which means they missed school more often than they attended. This does not include pupils who missed lessons directly due to Covid-19, for example, school bubble closures. As the figure is now quite old, it tells us nothing about attendance during the spring and summer terms so it is not accurate to say that “nearly 100,000 children have failed to return to school full-time since they reopened [our emphasis]”, as stated in the article. The phrasing that these children “have not returned to school” is also problematic. The CSJ found 100,000 children attended less than 50% of available sessions in the autumn term, not that they weren’t present at school at all.  Finally, the idea that these children have failed to “return” is inaccurate, in suggesting that these children (or this many equivalent children) were regularly attending school before the pandemic, which is not the case.  Even before Covid-19, in the autumn term of 2019, 60,244 pupils were classed as severely absent. The number of severely absent children has risen by more than 50% in a year, a significant increase, but it’s important to bear in mind that the factors contributing to the absence of a large number of these children may not be related to, or at least dependent on, Covid-19.","https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/school-absence-children-covid-pandemic-b945551.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626187865-1,https://fullfact.org/education/school-pupils-return-classroom-covid/,https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Cant_Catch_Up_FULL-REPORT.pdf#page=3,https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Cant_Catch_Up_FULL-REPORT.pdf#page=7,https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/school-absence-children-covid-pandemic-b945551.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#:~:text=nearly%20100%2C000%20children%20have%20failed%20to%20return%20to%20school%20full-time%20since%20they%20reopened.,https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Cant_Catch_Up_FULL-REPORT.pdf#page=3,https://fullfact.org/education/maria-miller-nine-ten-girls-ofsted/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-sexual-abuse-schools/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/school-pupils-return-classroom-covid/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/literacy-numeracy-uk-telegraph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/pupil-funding-conservatives/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content","Figure of 100,000 children missing from school is out of date",,,,,, -31,,,,Other,Tom Norton,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/wolf-pack-BBC-frozen-planet/,"A photo of a wolf pack shows how they are separated in formation based on strength, with an alpha wolf that pulls up the rear and controls the whole group.",2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A Facebook post shows a photo of a wolf pack, with text alongside the photo explaining their formation. It claims that while on the move the pack organises a formation based on strength, with the “alpha” wolf pulling up the rear and controlling the direction of the entire group, while the old and sick wolves set the pace at the front of the group. While the photograph is real (taken from the 2011 documentary Frozen Planet filming in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta, Canada), the accompanying description isn’t accurate. As this fact check by Snopes points out, the documentary explains that one “alpha female” leads the pack while other wolves follow to conserve energy. It is not correct that the wolves at the front are old or sick, or that the wolves at the back are the strongest. The post has been in circulation online since at least 2015. The photo is incorrectly attributed to “Cesare Brai” but was actually taken by Chadden Hunter.","https://www.facebook.com/groups/welovewolf/posts/505338357438884/,https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/oct/19/bbc-frozen-planet-in-pictures,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wolf-pack-photo/,https://twitter.com/chaddenh/status/679623256404398080?lang=en,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Facebook post about wolves makes howling errors,,,,,, -32,,,,Other,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/fuel-tank-car-heatwave-explode/,Filling up your car in hot weather could cause the fuel tank to explode.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A post on Facebook, shared more than half a million times, warns that filling a fuel tank in hot weather could cause the tank to explode.  “Due to [an] increase in temperature in the coming days, please don’t fill petrol to the maximum limit. It may cause [an] explosion in the fuel tank. Please fill the tank about half and allow space for air.”  This is not true, and has already been debunked a number of times online.  In 2018, a spokesperson for motoring organisation RAC, Rod Dennis, said: “All fuel systems on passenger vehicles are designed to cope with any expansion of fuel, or vapour coming from the fuel. “There is no risk of explosion from filling up a fuel tank fully and drivers should have no concerns in doing so.” In their fact check of a similar post, fact checking service Snopes write: “The temperature at which fuel auto-ignites (i.e. the temperature at which fuel will combust without a trigger or spark) is around 495ºF [257C].  “This level is far higher than any temperature a covered, insulated tank could possibly achieve simply by being driven or parked on planet Earth.”","https://www.facebook.com/highwaypolicepakistan/photos/a.407439279293874/1055122731192189/?type=3&theater,https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/no-truth-to-exploding-petrol-tank-reports-rac/,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/full-gas-tank-explosion/,https://inews.co.uk/essentials/lifestyle/cars/car-news/filling-up-heatwave-do-cars-expode-170259,https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/no-truth-to-exploding-petrol-tank-reports-rac/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20no,via%20social%20media.%E2%80%9D,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/full-gas-tank-explosion/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Your fuel tank won’t explode if you fill it during a heatwave,,,,,, -33,,,,Other,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/google-removed-churchill-photograph/,Google has removed Churchill.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A Facebook post shares a picture of Winston Churchill with the text: “As Google have removed him let's share him all over Facebook.” The post was published on 17 June 2020, but it is still being widely shared, with more than 36,000 shares so far. It seems to refer to the disappearance of Churchill’s photograph from Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ in late April last year. The Knowledge Graph is the panel of basic information that appears after some searches on Google, and which sometimes creates lists at the top of the page. Photographs of Churchill continued to be available on Google through web and image searches. Google subsequently restored the image on 14 June 2020, and said that it was never deliberately removed. According to the company, the image failed to update as a result of a bug following its decision to use a more recognisable picture. The photograph of Churchill had already been restored by Google when this Facebook post was first published.","https://www.facebook.com/andy.penaluna.1/posts/3321214734569190,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050711,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272234504594141184?s=20,https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272234504594141184?s%3D20&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1626361548908000&usg=AOvVaw2QeXhLzT1UfQmjvbK0yvWT,https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+prime+ministers&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB888GB888&ei=wUTwYN3QObKLhbIP7_uG2A4&oq=uk+pr&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMYADIICAAQsQMQkQIyAggAMgQIABADMgIIADIFCAAQyQMyAggAMgIIADIFCAAQsQMyCAgAELEDEIMBMgIIADoKCC4QsQMQQxCTAjoECAAQQzoCCC46BwgAELEDEEM6CggAELEDEIMBEEM6CAguEMcBEK8BOgQILhBDOgUILhCxAzoLCAAQsQMQgwEQyQNKBAhBGABQ5-4mWNbzJmCM_yZoAnACeACAAWqIAeIDkgEDNi4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272077557454655490?s=20,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272112542576328706,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272112542576328706,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272234502421708800?s=20,https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1272234502421708800?s=20,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Churchill’s photograph has not been removed from Google,,,,,, -34,,,,Mixture,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/jonathan-tortoise-190-oldest-animal/,"A picture shows the world's oldest living land animal, a tortoise named Jonathan.",2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A picture of a tortoise, claimed to be the oldest known living land animal in the world, has been shared widely on social media.  It’s true that the oldest known living land animal in the world is a tortoise named Jonathan, at almost 190 years old.  But the picture shared on social media is not of Jonathan, who lives on the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic.  The picture can instead be sourced to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. A post from 2014 on the zoo’s Instagram page identifies the animal as a male Galapagos Tortoise.  While fact checking the same picture, Check Your Fact contacted the zoo itself. A spokesperson said the tortoise pictured was in its 50s.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158862630436091&set=a.10150979184681091&type=3&theater,https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=283652683330876&set=gm.771326640425104,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2834547610192780&set=a.1403261623321393&type=3&theater,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10225429101704294&set=a.10204941070356315&type=3&theater,https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/2/introducing-jonathan-the-worlds-oldest-animal-on-land-561882,https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/2/introducing-jonathan-the-worlds-oldest-animal-on-land-561882#:~:text=St%20Helena%20in%20the%20South%20Atlantic%20since%201882,https://www.instagram.com/p/nZpsJNQPk6/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.instagram.com/p/nZpsJNQPk6/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://checkyourfact.com/2021/06/24/fact-check-jonathan-tortoise-oldest-land-animal-alive/?fbclid=IwAR093rMoqhGqfVNEvOwOtI3mgkEGpc0URLASIEn7lxKXYqFA1U2GpG_UhAc,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Viral social media picture doesn’t show world’s oldest living land animal,,,,,, -35,,,,Other,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/three-president-deaths-refuse-vaccines/,"The presidents of Haiti, Tanzania and Zambia died ‘unexpectedly’, and this is linked to the fact they refused the Covid-19 vaccines for their nations.",2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A meme shared on Facebook features actor John Krasinski in The Office with a whiteboard with edited text, which says: “3 countries refused the covid vaccine”, followed by: “Now all 3 of their presidents have died unexpectedly”. Beneath the image are the names of the former presidents of Haiti (Jovenel Moïse), Tanzania (John Magufuli) and Zambia (Kenneth Kaunda).  The posts suggest that the death of these three men is linked to a refusal of the Covid-19 vaccines. There is no evidence to support this claim.  Haiti is eligible for provision of Covid-19 vaccines through the Covax programme, but roll out has been slow, with Haiti yet to give any doses to residents, and only receiving its first vaccines this week.   President Moïse did not explicitly refuse all of the Covid-19 vaccines, but the country did initially refuse the AstraZeneca vaccine due to safety concerns.   There have also been administrative and supply difficulties around the arrival of vaccinations to Haiti, and concerns about the logistics of organising the vaccine roll out.  Mr Moïse was fatally shot at home on 7 July 2021. Arrests have been made but there are still many unknown details about the assasination. There is no evidence to suggest that there is a link to the lack of progress made regarding Haiti’s vaccine roll out.  President Magufuli reportedly said that home treatments such as steam inhalation were preferable to “dangerous foreign vaccines”, and in February 2021 the country’s health minister said that Tanzania had no plans to accept Covid-19 vaccines.   Mr Magufuli’s successor,  president Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that the president’s death in March 2021 was due to heart disease. There is no evidence to suggest that the death was related to Mr Magufuli’s stance on the Covid-19 vaccines.  There has been some speculation from Tanzanian opposition leaders, and on social media, that Mr Magufuli’s death may have been caused by Covid-19, however this has been discredited.  President Kaunda died of pneumonia at a military hospital in Lusaka in June 2021, age 97. The president did not refuse the Covid-19 vaccines for Zambia. In fact, in March 2021, the Zambian health minister announced plans to vaccinate all over 18s in the country. Similar claims have been fact checked before.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=274927637691526&set=a.154530876397870&type=3&theater,https://www.gavi.org/news/media-room/92-low-middle-income-economies-eligible-access-covid-19-vaccines-gavi-covax-amc,https://www.gavi.org/sites/default/files/covid/covax/COVAX-Interim-Distribution-Forecast.pdf,https://apnews.com/article/africa-coronavirus-vaccine-coronavirus-pandemic-business-government-and-politics-2d5eab50c1ef8bd63b1a48331f4c3025,https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/coronavirus-wave-takes-haiti-yet-begin-vaccinations-by-surprise-2021-06-09/,https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/haiti-is-the-only-country-in-western-hemisphere-without-vaccines,https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/world/haiti-covid-vaccine.html,https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/world/haiti-covid-vaccine.html,https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/haiti-is-the-only-country-in-western-hemisphere-without-vaccines,https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2021/7/5/haiti-still-awaiting-first-covid-vaccines-as-cases-surge,https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-haiti-puerto-rico-public-health-health-40bd0544848fd37b28414c37281be86e,https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/covax-aims-deliver-520-mln-vaccine-doses-africa-this-year-2021-07-08/,https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haitian-president-shot-dead-home-overnight-pm-2021-07-07/,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-57800152,https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania-idUSKBN29W1Z6,https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00362-7/fulltext,https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tanzania-president-idUSKBN2B92R0,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56437852,https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-magufuli-covid-idUSL1N2M11DF,https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-magufuli-covid-idUSL1N2M11DF,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57517729,https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-zambia-vaccine-idUSKBN2BH2NS,https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/former-zambian-president-kenneth-kaunda-97-hospitalised-2021-06-14/,https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/12/facebook-posts/theres-no-evidence-these-politicians-were-killed-o/?fbclid=IwAR3nn2jIyk-pzxIw5UCQ0h5eFqlKIyRmVzEAY0y4dtiJ5FjVKob9lQY1HCc,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",No evidence three presidents died because they refused vaccines for their nations,,,,,, -36,,,,False,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/wolf-retreating-not-protecting-partner-neck/,Female wolf is acting as part of a ‘fighting unit’ and showing trickery and loyalty by protecting her partner’s neck in a fight.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A Facebook post shows a picture of three wolves entitled ‘a fighting unit’. Underneath, a caption says “A she-wolf hides under a male. She doesn’t seem frightened by his opponent, but that’s only because she trusts her partner and believes in his strength. Male wolves never attack a female, and she knows it. Why does she hide then? By doing this, the resourceful female protects her partner’s throat against an attack”.  This narrative is untrue. The image, ‘wolf fight’, was taken by photographer Jean Paul and uploaded to Flickr in 2009. It shows three wolves, two of which appear about to fight. The third wolf is cowering beneath one of the fighting wolves’ heads and is covering its neck. The caption says that the image was taken in Ely, Minnesota. The claim attached to the image on Facebook—that one of the wolves is female, and is using her stance to protect a male wolf's neck—appears to come from a post on Reddit in 2016.  Fact checkers Snopes, previously spoke to wolf expert Cameron Feaster at the International Wolf Center in Ely who said that “little of anything in that photo’s statement is correct.”  Mr Feaster was familiar with the wolves, and said none of the three shown in the image are female. He also said that the crouching wolf was simply submitting and trying to turn back, and collided into another male wolf.  Rather than showing a female wolf protecting the neck of her male partner, the photograph simply shows a collision between two male wolves as one tries to flee.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2639763119652582&set=gm.979222356242137&type=3&theater,https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanpaulphotos/3409921252,https://www.reddit.com/r/wolves/comments/4esyro/the_female_wolf_appears_to_hide_under_the/,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wolf-fight-female-throat/,https://wolf.org/wolf-log/feeding-time/,https://wolf.org/visit/hours-fees-programs/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content","Image shows a retreating wolf, not a protector",,,,,, -37,,,,Other,Abbas Panjwani,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/vaers-adverse-event-reports/,"In the USA there have been 387,087 reports of adverse events after the Covid-19 vaccination.",2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A Facebook post claims that, in the USA there have been 387,087 reports of adverse events “of this evil shot in the arm”, presumably referring to the Covid-19 vaccine, up until 18 June 2021. As we have said before, the fact that an adverse event was reported after a vaccination is no proof that it was caused by the vaccine. Public health authorities do monitor these reports to see if there may be genuine issues associated with vaccination, and this has uncovered issues such as a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots.    But the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) says these ”reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness.” Some of the reports submitted include things we know can be a result of vaccination, such as fatigue and headaches.  The most recent data shows 438,441 reports detailing 1,919,081 adverse events have been submitted to the CDC following a Covid-19 vaccine, up until 2 July 2021. A small number of these reports come from outside the United States.   The USA’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is similar to the UK’s Yellow Card scheme, which we have written about before.","https://www.facebook.com/Dawn.Jesusismylife/posts/1447389282284898,https://fullfact.org/health/VAERS-reporting-america/,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting,https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html,https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/safety-and-side-effects/,https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D8/D185F526,https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D8/D185F540,https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/index.html,https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/,https://fullfact.org/online/MHRA-yellow-card-poster/,https://fullfact.org/online/police-station-video/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Adverse event reports after vaccines are not necessarily due to vaccines,,,,,, -38,,,,False,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/stonehenge-not-1950s-fake/,Stonehenge is a modern fake.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A video claiming that Stonehenge is a modern fake has been widely viewed on Facebook. (At least one other post has made similar claims.) Stonehenge isn’t fake, just to be clear. The video appears to come from TikTok. It begins with the caption: “And you thought Stonehenge was real?!” It then shows a series of pictures of the site. The video claims that the first picture shows “Metal framing with poured concrete”. In fact this is a picture of “Stone 60”, which is ancient like the rest, but was reinforced with concrete in 1959. The other pictures show people working on the site with various pieces of scaffolding and equipment. The video captions say: “These are just props… Created in the 1950s… Then Faked old pictures from the 1800s… To fool the masses… ‘His-story’ is a lie... We are now learning the mainstream narrative of history was completely fabricated!” A post accompanying the video claims something slightly different, saying: “They built the fake Stonehenge in the 1800's”. In fact, these pictures simply show the stones being restored at various times in history. Stonehenge was built in stages, between 5,000 and 4,500 years ago. It wasn’t made in the 1800s, or the 1950s.","https://www.facebook.com/stevenjdbeattie/videos/244340077179183/,https://www.facebook.com/davidewingjr/videos/1596385043886808/,https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373/,https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/stone-circle/stones-of-stonehenge/,https://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehenge-100-years-of-care/,https://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/stonehenge-early-excavations-restoration/,https://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/excavation-restoration-stonehenge-1950s-60s/,https://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/excavation-restoration-stonehenge-1950s-60s/,https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/history/description/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Stonehenge wasn’t built in the 1950s,,,,,, -39,,,,Other,Abbas Panjwani,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/this-isnt-a-real-image-of-the-northern-lights-from-space/,An image from NASA shows the Northern Lights from space.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"An image claiming to show the Northern Lights from space has been going viral on Facebook.  The post says the image comes “courtesy of NASA” which is true. But the image is not a real photo from space but a computer generation. As Snopes reported back in 2018, the image is a still image taken from a short video made by NASA to explain the Earth’s magnetic field.  The Northern Lights, also called the aurora borealis, are a natural phenomenon caused when electrically charged particles from the Sun collide with the Earth and are drawn to the magnetic poles, where they become heated and then glow.  While this particular image is not real, NASA has taken many genuine photos of the Northern Lights from space.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4954700961223273&set=a.288421267851289&type=3,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/northern-lights-seen-space/,https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=20056,https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-causes-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-explained,https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/aurora-image-gallery/index.html,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",This isn’t a real image of the Northern Lights from space,,,,,, -40,,,,False,Tom Norton,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/social-media-food-covid-tests/,"Tomatoes, raspberries, blackberries and lemons produce positive lateral flow test results for Covid-19.",2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A number of Facebook posts have claimed that tomatoes, raspberries, blackberries and lemons produce positive lateral flow test results for Covid-19. This isn’t true. The photos in both posts show pictures of fruit accompanied by a completed lateral flow test with two lines next to areas marked “C” and “T”. These lines indicate a positive result for Covid-19. Any other result is either negative or invalid. One of the posts shows a lemon with a positive result, which it claims is evidence of the tests producing multiple false positives, while the other shows ‘positive’ results next to a tomato, a raspberry and a blackberry. However, as we’ve established before, foods high in acid break lateral flow tests, causing it to appear like a positive result. The fact that these tests can effectively be broken with fruit does not make them inaccurate or unreliable for use in the general population.  Lateral flow tests are unlikely to give a false positive result if used correctly. We have previously fact checked, among others, claims that kiwi fruit, Coca Cola, ketchup, fruit squash, strawberries, grapes, oranges and diluted cordial have incorrectly produced “positive” results.  Using food and drinks on lateral flow tests has been in the news after reports that pupils are attempting to get time off school by using liquids like lemon juice to create false positive results.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=175025971311811&set=a.108946811253061&type=3,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4779371318745742&set=a.178099415539645&type=3,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4779371318745742&set=a.178099415539645&type=3,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=175025971311811&set=a.108946811253061&type=3,https://fullfact.org/online/orange-covid-positive/,https://www.apr.cz/data/uploads/covid-19/cpr_05_diaquick-covid-19-ag-cassette_2020-09-18.pdf,https://en.joysbio.com/covid-19-antigen-rapid-test-kit/,https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Options-use-of-rapid-antigen-tests-for-COVID-19.pdf#page=4,https://fullfact.org/online/kiwi-covid/,https://fullfact.org/online/ketchup-squash-fruit/,https://fullfact.org/online/orange-covid-positive/,https://fullfact.org/online/lateral-flow-tests-cordial/,https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/tiktok-fake-covid-positive-test-schools-1079693,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Acidic foods don’t test positive for Covid,,,,,, -41,,,,False,Sarah Turnnidge,2021-07-15,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/david-attenborough-red-black-ants/,An analogy about red and black ants in a jar and society was made by Sir David Attenborough.,2021-07-15,fullfact,,"A post on Facebook, shared thousands of times, attributes an analogy about red and black ants in a jar to broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.  “If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a glass jar, nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake it violently and leave it on the table, the ants will start killing each other. Red believes that black is the enemy, while black believes that red is the enemy, when the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. The same is true in society. Men vs Women. Black vs White. Faith vs Science. Young vs Old. Etc… Before we fight each other, we must ask ourselves: Who shook the jar?”  There is no evidence of Sir David ever having made this analogy. Full Fact can find no credible sources attributing this quote to the naturalist.  We also couldn’t find any record online of an experiment of the nature described in the quote ever having been carried out.  The quote has appeared elsewhere online, including on Facebook, without attribution to Sir David. It was also referenced, and directly attributed to Sir David, in an opinion article about prisons published in the Express and Star, and has been shared hundreds of times on Twitter.  Fact checking service Snopes have also written about this quote, and found no evidence it had originated with Sir David.  This is not the first time we have seen a quote incorrectly sourced to Sir David. Posts like these, where quotes are misattributed to public figures, are relatively common on social media.","https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=338170754332034&set=a.281579096657867&type=3&theater,https://m.facebook.com/IamSouthAfrican/photos/a.144762078905365/3254961457885396/?type=3&source=48,https://www.expressandstar.com/news/voices/opinions/2021/06/08/star-comment-we-must-look-at-our-prisons/,https://twitter.com/freebabarahmad/status/1397595453470957568?lang=en,https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/black-and-red-ants-attenborough/,https://fullfact.org/online/david-attenborough-tree-HS2/,https://fullfact.org/online/no-evidence-boris-johnson-said-he-wanted-to-lop-the-heads-off-of-smelly-peasants/,https://fullfact.org/online/martin-lewis-city-of-london-police/,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",No record of Sir David Attenborough talking about red and black ants in a jar,,,,,, -42,,,,False,Daniella de Block Golding,2021-07-14,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/online/graphene-oxide/,The Pfizer vaccine is 99% graphene oxide.,2021-07-14,fullfact,,"There have been multiple claims made online which say that the Pfizer vaccine contains 99% graphene oxide, a substance which is derived from graphite. The claims originate from a Spanish study and have been circulating in English (across the UK and the US), in Spanish and in Portugese. They are not true. Some of the claims highlight concerns about the toxicity of graphene oxide, while others suggest that graphene oxide may provide an explanation for the ‘magnetism’ that has been commonly claimed to be associated with the Covid-19 vaccines (this is false and we have fact checked this claim previously).  In addition to seeing posts shared on social media, Full Fact has also been asked about these claims by our own readers. Several users on social media have claimed graphene oxide in the vaccine is being used to poison people and create a mass genocide. This is not true, and there is no graphene oxide in the Pfizer vaccine. Graphene oxide is a nanomaterial (a chemical substance or material that is at a very small scale, for example with an external dimension of 1-100nm) which is thought to be of important potential use for biomedicine. There are concerns, however, around toxicity and potential adverse effects. There are modifications which are being explored, and Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialist Dr. Amesh Adalja previously told AP News that there has been research on potentially using graphene oxide in other vaccines, but the amounts would not be toxic to human cells. The concern around the presence of graphene oxide in the Pfizer vaccine seem to be based on a Spanish study which says that on transmission electron microscopy (a microscopy technique which allows particularly fine details and structures to be seen), the solution created from a vial of the Pfizer vaccine takes a very similar form to graphene oxide.  Graphene oxide is not listed as an ingredient of the vaccine, and the Medical and Health product Regulatory Agency (MHRA)  told Full Fact that these claims are “completely incorrect”.  A spokesperson for Pfizer also told Full Fact that “Graphene oxide is not used in the manufacture of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine”. With regards to the Spanish study, there are a number of problems with the claims that it makes, and the way that these findings have been interpreted by some people on social media.  The claim that the Pfizer vaccine is largely made up of graphene oxide has been fact checked many times before.    Firstly, we have no way of verifying what the scientists actually looked at through electron microscopy. The paper says that the sample of Pfizer vaccine for testing was received by the testing laboratory from a courier and, although the sample was sealed, its provenance and traceability is unknown. The author says in the study limitations that these findings are from “one single sample” of Pfizer vaccine and therefore, “significant sampling of similar vials” is required in order to “draw conclusions that can be generalized”.    When referring to the images which compare electron microscopy of the Pfizer vaccine with images of microscopy of graphene oxide, the study says that they “represent a high similarity” but also says that this does not provide “definitive identification” or “conclusive evidence”.  Importantly, the document says that it is an interim report. It has not been published in a reputable scientific journal, or received peer review.  Thirdly, while the researcher who authors the paper reportedly works at the University of Almeria in Spain—a claim that has been used to add legitimacy when circulated online—the author clearly states that the results and conclusions of the report “do not imply any institutional position of the University of Almeria”.  The university has also publicly distanced itself from the paper on Twitter and in a released statement, saying that it is an “unofficial report by a university professor about an analysis of a sample of unknown origin with total lack of traceability”.  The university said it does not subscribe to this report.","https://roguemale.org/2021/07/07/murder-by-injection-the-vile-vials/?fbclid=IwAR17MwbuL8YLrZ3M_YToUeQVeuIEfHHGcjCq5VRd09tR4VV8x4q21t6CPr4,https://truth11.com/2021/06/30/no-biological-content-in-pfizer-vaccine-spanish-researchers-put-the-pfizer-vaccine-under-an-electron-microscope-and-found-it-contains-99-graphene-oxide-and-hardly-anything-else/,https://www.henrymakow.com/2021/06/no-biological-content-in-pfize.html,https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/graphene-oxide,https://www.docdroid.net/rNgtxyh/microscopia-de-vial-corminaty-dr-campra-firma-e-1-fusionado-pdf#page=16,https://www.globalresearch.ca/actual-contents-inside-pfizer-vials-exposed/5749458,https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20210704/analizamos-bulo-grafeno-vacuna-informe/2119721.shtml,https://observador.pt/factchecks/fact-check-vacinas-contem-grafeno-na-sua-composicao/,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-magnet/,https://www.instagram.com/p/CQsk4_SNWEO/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.facebook.com/oluwole.adebiyi/videos/vb.1360171672/1111292026061642/?type=2&theater,https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRBnSVVAgPO/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=345722947084202&set=pcb.553492665657573&type=3&theater,https://www.instagram.com/reel/CRBnSVVAgPO/?utm_source=ig_embed,https://www.facebook.com/oluwole.adebiyi/videos/vb.1360171672/1111292026061642/?type=2&theater,https://www.safenano.org/knowledgebase/resources/faqs/what-is-a-nanomaterial/,https://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/nanotech/faq/definition_en.htm,https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210520/Could-graphene-oxide-nanosheets-be-an-effective-SARS-CoV-2-antiviral-in-PPE.aspx,https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202101483,https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1742706120303305,https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2024998118,https://particleandfibretoxicology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12989-016-0168-y,https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2024998118,https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-oxide-gives-boost-new-intranasal-flu-vaccine,https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-430816913228,https://www.docdroid.net/Ov1M99x/official-interim-report-in-english-university-of-almeria-pdf#page=8,https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/current/postgraduate/regs/mpagswarwick/ex5/techniques/structural/tem/,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/summary-of-product-characteristics-for-covid-19-vaccine-pfizerbiontech,https://www.newtral.es/grafeno-vacuna-pfizer-universidad-almeria-bulo/20210702/,https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/there-is-no-conclusive-evidence-that-the-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-contains-graphene-oxide/,https://maldita.es/malditaciencia/20210709/informe-universidad-almeria-vacuna-covid-19-pfizer-grafeno-oxido/,https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20210704/analizamos-bulo-grafeno-vacuna-informe/2119721.shtml,https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/07/10/graphene-oxide-in-pfizer-covid-19-vaccines-here-are-the-latest-unsupported-claims/?sh=2301198974d7,https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-430816913228?fbclid=IwAR2PeKAzhQNulH_xFDS5BAac4YGQ4vXw2DRLwBfsSmuG1dx2Yj5EGTFBsZg,https://www.docdroid.net/rNgtxyh/microscopia-de-vial-corminaty-dr-campra-firma-e-1-fusionado-pdf#page=3,https://www.docdroid.net/rNgtxyh/microscopia-de-vial-corminaty-dr-campra-firma-e-1-fusionado-pdf#page=22,https://www.docdroid.net/rNgtxyh/microscopia-de-vial-corminaty-dr-campra-firma-e-1-fusionado-pdf,https://twitter.com/ualmeria/status/1410884237377560579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1410884237377560579%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhealthfeedback.org%2Fclaimreview%2Fthere-is-no-conclusive-evidence-that-the-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-contains-graphene-oxide%2F,https://www.newtral.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/COMUNICADO-DE-LA-UNIVERSIDAD-DE-ALMERI%CC%81A_2-julio-2021_def.pdf?x32658,https://fullfact.org/online/mandatory-vaccine-care-workers/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/boris-johnson-three-covid-vaccine-pictures/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/covid-hospitalisations-vaccine-patrick-vallance/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/daily-cases-vaccine-coverage/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/online/the-light-vaccines/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",The Pfizer vaccine isn’t 99% graphene oxide,,,,,, -43,,,,True,Leo Benedictus,2021-07-14,,fullfact,,https://fullfact.org/education/maria-miller-nine-ten-girls-ofsted/,Nine in 10 school-age girls are being sent explicit images.,2021-07-14,fullfact,,"During Prime Minister’s Questions last week, and on Twitter, the Conservative MP Maria Miller misinterpreted recent Ofsted research on sexual abuse in schools. As we have said before, based on evidence from a variety of sources, it seems very likely that sexual harassment and abuse are a common problem among schoolchildren, and especially among girls. However, the Ofsted survey does not tell us how common the problem is. Ofsted visited 32 schools and colleges, which it specifically said “should not be assumed to be a fully representative sample of all schools and colleges nationally.” During these visits, inspectors asked students to complete a questionnaire, which showed them a list of different types of abusive behaviour and asked: “How often do these things happen between people of your age”. (This is slightly different from the wording that Ofsted originally told us it had used.) Roughly nine out of 10 girls (88%) said that “being sent pictures or videos they did not want to see” happened “a lot” or “sometimes”. However, they were not answering a question about what happened to them. The question was whether people their age are sent pictures or videos that they do not want to see. It’s unclear how students might have interpreted that in their answers so we can’t say that the figure refers to the number of girls, or even students, that this has happened to. Ms Miller’s office told us that her claim was based on Ofsted’s press statement and its review. We subsequently explained why Ofsted’s statement and review did not support Ms Miller’s claim. She has now added a clarification to her original tweet. Ms Miller is by no means the only person who misinterpreted Ofsted’s research. As we said in our original fact check, the i, Mirror, Metro, Times, Telegraph, Mail, BBC and ITV all made the same mistake in their reporting. The day after we published our first fact check, the BBC amended its article and added a clarification. The fact that many people misunderstood Ofsted’s research in the same way suggests that its press statement and review were not easy for others to understand correctly. We contacted Ofsted to ask whether it planned to clarify the press release or reach out to news outlets to correct these mistakes. However, Ofsted denies that its communication was misleading, and has told us that it will not clarify it.","https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-07-07/debates/71BD3D91-1486-41C0-904C-3B5836088E4C/TopicalQuestions#contribution-335CAA50-3B51-4DFF-9B53-15AF33D123F9,https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-sexual-abuse-schools/,https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-sexual-abuse-in-schools-and-colleges/review-of-sexual-abuse-in-schools-and-colleges#what-did-we-find-out-about-the-scale-and-nature-of-sexual-abuse-in-schools,https://twitter.com/MariaMillerUK/status/1415238835609477123?s=20,https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-sexual-abuse-schools/,https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57411363,https://fullfact.org/education/evening-standard-missing-school-children-covid/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/ofsted-sexual-abuse-schools/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/school-pupils-return-classroom-covid/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/literacy-numeracy-uk-telegraph/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content,https://fullfact.org/education/pupil-funding-conservatives/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content",Nine in 10 girls did not say they’d been sent explicit images,,,,,, +0,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/china-received-8-months-of-rain-in-just-5-days-in-july-2021/,"""China received 8 months of rain in just 5 days.""",2021-07-27,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged 1000 year climate event, china flooding 2021, extreme weather, floods in china 2021, how much rain did china get, viral facebook posts, zhengzhou flood 2021","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/1000-year-climate-event/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/china-flooding-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/extreme-weather/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/floods-in-china-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/how-much-rain-did-china-get/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/zhengzhou-flood-2021/",‘China Received 8 Months of Rain in Just 5 Days’ in July 2021,"1000 year climate event, china flooding 2021, extreme weather, floods in china 2021, how much rain did china get, viral facebook posts, zhengzhou flood 2021",,,,, +1,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/bics-martha-and-snoop-ad/,"Image shows a real advertisement for Bic lighters, featuring Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.",2021-07-27,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Entertainment, Fact ChecksTagged bic, bic martha and snoop, cannabis, cheerful nihilism, cheerful nihilism facebook, martha stewart, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/entertainment/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bic/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bic-martha-and-snoop/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cannabis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cheerful-nihilism/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cheerful-nihilism-facebook/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/martha-stewart/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Bic’s ‘Martha and Snoop’ Ad,"bic, bic martha and snoop, cannabis, cheerful nihilism, cheerful nihilism facebook, martha stewart, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts",,,,, +2,,,,Unknown,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/banana-peel-water-for-plants/,Banana peel water or banana peel tea is superior to water for home gardeners.,2021-07-26,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged bad advice, bad science, banana peel tea, banana peel water, banana peel water for plants, folk cures, folk gardening, Gardening, gardening myths, Pinterest, tiktok, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bad-advice/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bad-science/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-tea/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-water/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-water-for-plants/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/folk-cures/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/folk-gardening/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/gardening/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/gardening-myths/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pinterest/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Banana Peel Water for Plants,"bad advice, bad science, banana peel tea, banana peel water, banana peel water for plants, folk cures, folk gardening, Gardening, gardening myths, Pinterest, tiktok, viral facebook posts",,,,, +3,,,,True,Arturo Garcia,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/art/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/peyo-horse-hospital/,A French hospital allows terminal patients and patients dealing with cancer to receive visit from a horse named Peyo.,2021-07-26,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged facebook, Hassen Bouchakour, Les Sabots Du Coeur, Peyo, The Guardian, twitter","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/facebook/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/hassen-bouchakour/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/les-sabots-du-coeur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/peyo/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-guardian/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/twitter/",Does a Hospital in France Allow Terminal Patients to Meet With...,"facebook, Hassen Bouchakour, Les Sabots Du Coeur, Peyo, The Guardian, twitter",,,,, +4,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-i-find-it-very-suspicious/,"@RepJackKimble (Rep. Jack Kimble) tweeted, ""I find it very suspicious that the virus now all of a sudden seems to be targeting people who didn't get that ridiculous vaccine. Has anybody else noticed this? Hmm, why is the virus only targeting those who stand up to government vaccination all of a sudden?""",2021-07-23,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged @repjackkimble, decontextualized, out of context, parody, rep jack kimble, satire, satirical twitter, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/repjackkimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/parody/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-jack-kimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satirical-twitter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Rep. Jack Kimble: ‘I Find It Very Suspicious …’,"@repjackkimble, decontextualized, out of context, parody, rep jack kimble, satire, satirical twitter, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +5,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/catholic-leader-who-wanted-to-deny-biden-communion-resigns-after-caught-using-gay-dating-app/,"A ""Catholic leader who wanted to deny Biden communion"" resigned after he was caught using a dating app.",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged biden, biden communion, catholic, catholic church, church scandals, grindr, misleading, monsignor burrill, speculation, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-communion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic-church/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/church-scandals/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/grindr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/monsignor-burrill/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/speculation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",‘Catholic Leader Who Wanted to Deny Biden Communion Resigns After...,"biden, biden communion, catholic, catholic church, church scandals, grindr, misleading, monsignor burrill, speculation, viral facebook posts",,,,, +6,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,"""Doc and Marty made it to 2021.""",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged back to the future, decontextualized, doc and marty made it to 2021, imgur, instagram, reddit comments, viral facebook posts, viral reddit posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/back-to-the-future/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/reddit-comments/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/",‘Doc and Marty Made it to 2021’,"back to the future, decontextualized, doc and marty made it to 2021, imgur, instagram, reddit comments, viral facebook posts, viral reddit posts",,,,, +7,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/in-tthe-cayman-islands-there-is-a-modest-five-story-building-that-is-home-to-18857-companies/,"""In the Cayman Islands, there is a modest five-story building that is home to 18,857 companies.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged barack obama, bernie sanders, cayman islands, imgur, mitt romney, ro khanna, tax evasion, tax shelter, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/barack-obama/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bernie-sanders/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cayman-islands/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mitt-romney/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ro-khanna/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-evasion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-shelter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘In the Cayman Islands, There Is a Modest Five-Story Building That...","barack obama, bernie sanders, cayman islands, imgur, mitt romney, ro khanna, tax evasion, tax shelter, viral tweets",,,,, +8,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/abraham-lincoln-and-the-samurai-fax-machine/,"""There was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln samurai fax machine, fax machine, samurai, samurai sending a fax to abraham lincoln, technically true, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln-samurai-fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai-sending-a-fax-to-abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/technically-true/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Abraham Lincoln and the Samurai Fax Machine,"abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln samurai fax machine, fax machine, samurai, samurai sending a fax to abraham lincoln, technically true, viral facebook posts",,,,, +9,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/snapchat-plant-identifier/,"""If you focus your Snapchat camera on ANY plant & hold the screen it will tell you EXACTLY what that plant is.. DOPE. THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THIS‼️🌳☘️🌵🌿🪴 (or maybe everyone already knew this & I’m just late & easily amused 🤔) PS: WORKS ON DOG BREEDS ALSO ‼️🤯""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged dog scanner, plantsnap, snapchat, snapchat plant identifier, snapchat plants, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dog-scanner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/plantsnap/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plant-identifier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plants/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Snapchat Plant Identifier,"dog scanner, plantsnap, snapchat, snapchat plant identifier, snapchat plants, viral facebook posts",,,,, +10,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-wenche-thikke/,"A Tumblr post includes an accurate excerpt from Canterbury Tales, including ""this wenche thikke"" and ""[I will not lie.]""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged canterbury tales, history memes, Tumblr, viral facebook posts, wenche thikke","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canterbury-tales/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tumblr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/wenche-thikke/",‘This Wenche Thikke’,"canterbury tales, history memes, Tumblr, viral facebook posts, wenche thikke",,,,, +11,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-matt-gaetz-says-if-democrats-pass-voting-bill-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,"In July 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz said if Democrats passed a voting rights bill, no Republicans would ever win an election again.",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged for the people act, matt gaetz, matt gaetz republicans will never win another election, Rep. Matt Gaetz, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/for-the-people-act/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","Rep. Matt Gaetz Says if Democrats Pass Voting Bill, Republicans...","for the people act, matt gaetz, matt gaetz republicans will never win another election, Rep. Matt Gaetz, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +12,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/hundreds-of-cars-are-lined-up-along-hwy-18-into-mission-south-dakota-as-the-remains-of-native-children-were-returned-to-their-homelands/,"On July 16 2021, ""hundreds of cars lined up along Hwy 18 into Mission, South Dakota as the remains of Native children were returned to their homelands.""",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged caravan for native children, residential school scandal, residential schools in the US, rosebud sioux children, sicangu, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/caravan-for-native-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-school-scandal/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-schools-in-the-us/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rosebud-sioux-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sicangu/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘Hundreds of Cars Are Lined Up Along Hwy 18 Into Mission, South...","caravan for native children, residential school scandal, residential schools in the US, rosebud sioux children, sicangu, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +13,,,,Not True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,Image shows Canadian peanut butter sold in a styrofoam tray.,2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged amish peanut butter, canadian peanut butter, canadian peanut butter packaging, deleted tweets, miscaptioned, mislabeled, out of context, viral facebook posts, viral images, viral reddit posts, viral tweets, why is canadian milk in bags","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/amish-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/deleted-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/miscaptioned/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mislabeled/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/why-is-canadian-milk-in-bags/",‘Canadian Peanut Butter’ Packaging,"amish peanut butter, canadian peanut butter, canadian peanut butter packaging, deleted tweets, miscaptioned, mislabeled, out of context, viral facebook posts, viral images, viral reddit posts, viral tweets, why is canadian milk in bags",,,,, +14,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/captain-america-31-years-ago/,"A comic from 1990 contradicts actor Dean Cain's complaint about a newly ""woke"" Captain America.",2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, captain america, captain america 31 years ago, daredevil 283, dean cain, drug war, imgur, latin america, viral clapbacks, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america-31-years-ago/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/daredevil-283/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dean-cain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/drug-war/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/latin-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-clapbacks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘Captain America 31 Years Ago’,"art out of context, captain america, captain america 31 years ago, daredevil 283, dean cain, drug war, imgur, latin america, viral clapbacks, viral tweets",,,,, +15,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/were-cooks-the-largest-occupational-group-to-die-in-the-pandemic/,"""I wish Anthony Bourdain were alive today to articulate the insanity of living in a country where cooks were the largest occupational group to die in a pandemic and restaurant owners are pouting that nobody wants to work in restaurants anymore.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged anthony bourdain, cooks excess mortality, excess mortality, imgur, largest occupational group to die cooks, ucsf, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/anthony-bourdain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cooks-excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/largest-occupational-group-to-die-cooks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ucsf/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Were Cooks the Largest Occupational Group to Die in the Pandemic?,"anthony bourdain, cooks excess mortality, excess mortality, imgur, largest occupational group to die cooks, ucsf, viral tweets",,,,, +16,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-picture-was-taken-in-1925-of-a-girl-visiting-her-twin-sisters-grave/,"""This picture was taken in 1925. Its of a girl visiting her twin sisters grave. The twin sister had died the previous year in a house fire. Parents saw her many times talking and playing with her twin sister after she has passed away. They thought it was just part of the grieving process, that is until this was developed.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged after death communication, afterlife, art out of context, creepy images, ghost, imgur, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/after-death-communication/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afterlife/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/creepy-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ghost/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","‘This Picture Was Taken in 1925, Of a Girl Visiting Her Twin...","after death communication, afterlife, art out of context, creepy images, ghost, imgur, viral facebook posts",,,,, +17,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/national-kool-aid-day-2021-and-mike-lindells-trump-return-claim/,"""My Pillow guy Mike Lindell says August 13th [2021] is the date that Donald Trump will be 'reinstated.' Do you know what else is on August 13th? NATIONAL KOOL-AID DAY. For real. It's the second Friday in August every year. You can't make this up.""",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged august 13 trump reinstated, election conspiracies, imgur, memes, mike lindell, national kool aid day 2021, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/august-13-trump-reinstated/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/election-conspiracies/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mike-lindell/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/national-kool-aid-day-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",National Kool Aid Day 2021 and Mike Lindell’s ‘Trump Return’ Claim,"august 13 trump reinstated, election conspiracies, imgur, memes, mike lindell, national kool aid day 2021, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +18,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/friendly-roast-in-2015-hrc-being-roasted/,"TikTok videos labeled ""Friendly Roast in 2015"" and ""HRC Being Roasted"" show then-candidate Donald Trump ""roasting"" Hillary Clinton in 2015.",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged al smith dinner 2016, donald trump, hillary clinton, out of context, roasts, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/al-smith-dinner-2016/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-trump/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/hillary-clinton/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/roasts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tiktok-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/","‘Friendly Roast in 2015,’ ‘HRC Being Roasted’","al smith dinner 2016, donald trump, hillary clinton, out of context, roasts, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral videos",,,,, +19,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/jaleel-white-and-purple-urkel/,"Image depicts Jaleel White (the actor who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters) promoting a cannabis strain called ""Purple Urkel"" with Snoop Dogg.",2021-07-13,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Entertainment, Fact ChecksTagged cannabis, jaleel white snoop dogg, purple urkel, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/entertainment/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cannabis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/jaleel-white-snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/purple-urkel/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Jaleel White and ‘Purple Urkel’,"cannabis, jaleel white snoop dogg, purple urkel, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts",,,,, +20,,,,Misattributed,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint-posts/,"A photograph Finland's reindeer with reflective antlers, painted to prevent roadway accidents.",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, finland, finland reindeer reflective paint, instagram, misleading, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Finland Reindeer Reflective Paint Posts,"art out of context, finland, finland reindeer reflective paint, instagram, misleading, viral facebook posts, viral images",,,,, +21,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/albert-einstein-lecturing-a-black-college-facebook-post/,"Albert Einstein spoke at Lincoln University in 1946, and said ""The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.""",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged albert einstein, albert einstein quotes, albert einstein racism, einstein lincoln university, lost images, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-quotes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-racism/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/einstein-lincoln-university/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/lost-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Albert Einstein Lecturing a Black College Facebook Post,"albert einstein, albert einstein quotes, albert einstein racism, einstein lincoln university, lost images, viral facebook posts, viral images",,,,, +22,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/ogx-dmdm-hydantoin-facebook-post/,"Consumers should avoid OGX products due to the presence of DMDM hydantoin, as the brand was sued over its formulations.",2021-07-09,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged cosmetics, dmdm hydantoin, dmdm hydantoin ogx, does dmdm hydantoin cause hair loss, facebook warnings, formaldehyde, ogx, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cosmetics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin-ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/does-dmdm-hydantoin-cause-hair-loss/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/facebook-warnings/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/formaldehyde/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",OGX DMDM Hydantoin Facebook Post,"cosmetics, dmdm hydantoin, dmdm hydantoin ogx, does dmdm hydantoin cause hair loss, facebook warnings, formaldehyde, ogx, viral facebook posts",,,,, +23,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/biden-admin-hhs-secretarys-absolutely-the-governments-business-vaccine-remarks/,"Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said it is ""absolutely the government's business"" to know whether Americans are vaccinated.",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged becerra knocking on doors, biden vaccine, cnn, decontextualized, misleading, out of context, steven crowder, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/becerra-knocking-on-doors/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-vaccine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cnn/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/steven-crowder/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Biden Admin HHS Secretary’s ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’...,"becerra knocking on doors, biden vaccine, cnn, decontextualized, misleading, out of context, steven crowder, viral tweets",,,,, +24,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/sf-gay-mens-chorus-convert-your-children-song/,"San Francisco's (SF) Gay Men's chorus literally sang they'll ""convert your children"" or are ""coming for your children.""",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged basically an outright lie, dinesh d'souza, rumble.com, sf gay mens chorus, sf gay mens chorus coming for your children, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/basically-an-outright-lie/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dinesh-dsouza/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumble-com/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus-coming-for-your-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",SF Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Convert Your Children’ Song,"basically an outright lie, dinesh d'souza, rumble.com, sf gay mens chorus, sf gay mens chorus coming for your children, viral tweets",,,,, +25,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/darnella-fraziers-uncle-killed-by-minneapolis-police/,"Darnella Frazier, the girl who filmed the murder of George Floyd, disclosed via Facebook that her uncle was killed by Minneapolis police in July 2021.",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged darnella frazier uncle, darnella frazier uncle MPD, imgur, leneal frazier, minneapolis, Minneapolis Police Department, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle-mpd/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/leneal-frazier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis-police-department/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Darnella Frazier’s Uncle Killed by Minneapolis Police,"darnella frazier uncle, darnella frazier uncle MPD, imgur, leneal frazier, minneapolis, Minneapolis Police Department, viral facebook posts",,,,, +26,,,,Mixed,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-pledge-of-allegiance-was-adopted-in-1923-the-star-spangled-banner-was-adopted-in-1929/,"""The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1923. The Star Spangled Banner was adopted in 1929. 'Under God' was added to the Pledge in 1954. 'In God We Trust' was added to our money in 1956. So no. They were not created by our Founding Fathers.""",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged founding fathers, history memes, in god we trust, in god we trust 1956, pledge of allegiance, pledge of allegiance 1923, star spangled banner, star spangled banner 1929, under god, under god 1954, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/founding-fathers/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust-1956/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance-1923/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner-1929/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god-1954/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","The Pledge of Allegiance Was Adopted in 1923, the Star Spangled...","founding fathers, history memes, in god we trust, in god we trust 1956, pledge of allegiance, pledge of allegiance 1923, star spangled banner, star spangled banner 1929, under god, under god 1954, viral facebook posts",,,,, +27,,,,Not True,Arturo Garcia,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/art/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/shacarri-richardson-rebecca-washington-replacement/,"Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson will be replaced by a Mormon athlete, Rebecca Washington, on the U.S. Olympic Team",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged 2021 Summer Olympics, marijuana, olympics, running, Sha'Carri Richardson, twitter","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/2021-summer-olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/marijuana/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/running/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/shacarri-richardson/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/twitter/",Is Rebecca Washington Replacing Sha’Carri Richardson on the U.S...,"2021 Summer Olympics, marijuana, olympics, running, Sha'Carri Richardson, twitter",,,,, +28,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night-onion-story/,"In 2011, ten years before July 2021 news about the United States leaving Afghanistan in the dead of night, satirical outlet The Onion published a headline predicting it.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged Afghanistan, associated press, not satire, ostension, satire, the onion, the onion 10 years ago AP today, US Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afghanistan/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/associated-press/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/not-satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ostension/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion-10-years-ago-ap-today/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/us-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night’ Onion Story,"Afghanistan, associated press, not satire, ostension, satire, the onion, the onion 10 years ago AP today, US Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night, viral tweets",,,,, +29,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/donald-rumsfeld-and-mount-misery/,"Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld purchased Mount Misery, a house with a violent history.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged donald rumsfeld, frederick douglass, mount misery, rachel maddow, rumsfeld mount misery, viral facebook posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-rumsfeld/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/frederick-douglass/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rachel-maddow/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumsfeld-mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/",Donald Rumsfeld and Mount Misery,"donald rumsfeld, frederick douglass, mount misery, rachel maddow, rumsfeld mount misery, viral facebook posts, viral videos",,,,, diff --git a/samples/output_sample_truthorfiction.csv b/samples/output_sample_truthorfiction.csv index d2d40ae..286cbcf 100644 --- a/samples/output_sample_truthorfiction.csv +++ b/samples/output_sample_truthorfiction.csv @@ -1,31 +1,31 @@ ,rating_ratingValue,rating_worstRating,rating_bestRating,rating_alternateName,creativeWork_author_name,creativeWork_datePublished,creativeWork_author_sameAs,claimReview_author_name,claimReview_author_url,claimReview_url,claimReview_claimReviewed,claimReview_datePublished,claimReview_source,claimReview_author,extra_body,extra_refered_links,extra_title,extra_tags,extra_entities_claimReview_claimReviewed,extra_entities_body,extra_entities_keywords,extra_entities_author,related_links -0,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-i-find-it-very-suspicious/,"@RepJackKimble (Rep. Jack Kimble) tweeted, ""I find it very suspicious that the virus now all of a sudden seems to be targeting people who didn't get that ridiculous vaccine. Has anybody else noticed this? Hmm, why is the virus only targeting those who stand up to government vaccination all of a sudden?""",2021-07-23,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged @repjackkimble, decontextualized, out of context, parody, rep jack kimble, satire, satirical twitter, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/repjackkimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/parody/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-jack-kimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satirical-twitter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Rep. Jack Kimble: ‘I Find It Very Suspicious …’,,,,,, -1,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/catholic-leader-who-wanted-to-deny-biden-communion-resigns-after-caught-using-gay-dating-app/,"A ""Catholic leader who wanted to deny Biden communion"" resigned after he was caught using a dating app.",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged biden, biden communion, catholic, catholic church, church scandals, grindr, misleading, monsignor burrill, speculation, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-communion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic-church/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/church-scandals/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/grindr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/monsignor-burrill/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/speculation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",‘Catholic Leader Who Wanted to Deny Biden Communion Resigns After...,,,,,, -2,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,"""Doc and Marty made it to 2021.""",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged back to the future, decontextualized, doc and marty made it to 2021, imgur, instagram, reddit comments, viral facebook posts, viral reddit posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/back-to-the-future/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/reddit-comments/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/",‘Doc and Marty Made it to 2021’,,,,,, -3,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/in-tthe-cayman-islands-there-is-a-modest-five-story-building-that-is-home-to-18857-companies/,"""In the Cayman Islands, there is a modest five-story building that is home to 18,857 companies.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged barack obama, bernie sanders, cayman islands, imgur, mitt romney, ro khanna, tax evasion, tax shelter, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/barack-obama/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bernie-sanders/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cayman-islands/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mitt-romney/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ro-khanna/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-evasion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-shelter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘In the Cayman Islands, There Is a Modest Five-Story Building That...",,,,,, -4,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/abraham-lincoln-and-the-samurai-fax-machine/,"""There was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln samurai fax machine, fax machine, samurai, samurai sending a fax to abraham lincoln, technically true, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln-samurai-fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai-sending-a-fax-to-abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/technically-true/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Abraham Lincoln and the Samurai Fax Machine,,,,,, -5,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/snapchat-plant-identifier/,"""If you focus your Snapchat camera on ANY plant & hold the screen it will tell you EXACTLY what that plant is.. DOPE. THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THIS‼️🌳☘️🌵🌿🪴 (or maybe everyone already knew this & I’m just late & easily amused 🤔) PS: WORKS ON DOG BREEDS ALSO ‼️🤯""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged dog scanner, plantsnap, snapchat, snapchat plant identifier, snapchat plants, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dog-scanner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/plantsnap/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plant-identifier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plants/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Snapchat Plant Identifier,,,,,, -6,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-wenche-thikke/,"A Tumblr post includes an accurate excerpt from Canterbury Tales, including ""this wenche thikke"" and ""[I will not lie.]""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged canterbury tales, history memes, Tumblr, viral facebook posts, wenche thikke","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canterbury-tales/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tumblr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/wenche-thikke/",‘This Wenche Thikke’,,,,,, -7,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-matt-gaetz-says-if-democrats-pass-voting-bill-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,"In July 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz said if Democrats passed a voting rights bill, no Republicans would ever win an election again.",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged for the people act, matt gaetz, matt gaetz republicans will never win another election, Rep. Matt Gaetz, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/for-the-people-act/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","Rep. Matt Gaetz Says if Democrats Pass Voting Bill, Republicans...",,,,,, -8,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/hundreds-of-cars-are-lined-up-along-hwy-18-into-mission-south-dakota-as-the-remains-of-native-children-were-returned-to-their-homelands/,"On July 16 2021, ""hundreds of cars lined up along Hwy 18 into Mission, South Dakota as the remains of Native children were returned to their homelands.""",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged caravan for native children, residential school scandal, residential schools in the US, rosebud sioux children, sicangu, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/caravan-for-native-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-school-scandal/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-schools-in-the-us/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rosebud-sioux-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sicangu/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘Hundreds of Cars Are Lined Up Along Hwy 18 Into Mission, South...",,,,,, -9,,,,Not True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,Image shows Canadian peanut butter sold in a styrofoam tray.,2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged amish peanut butter, canadian peanut butter, canadian peanut butter packaging, deleted tweets, miscaptioned, mislabeled, out of context, viral facebook posts, viral images, viral reddit posts, viral tweets, why is canadian milk in bags","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/amish-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/deleted-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/miscaptioned/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mislabeled/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/why-is-canadian-milk-in-bags/",‘Canadian Peanut Butter’ Packaging,,,,,, -10,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/captain-america-31-years-ago/,"A comic from 1990 contradicts actor Dean Cain's complaint about a newly ""woke"" Captain America.",2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, captain america, captain america 31 years ago, daredevil 283, dean cain, drug war, imgur, latin america, viral clapbacks, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america-31-years-ago/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/daredevil-283/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dean-cain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/drug-war/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/latin-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-clapbacks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘Captain America 31 Years Ago’,,,,,, -11,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/were-cooks-the-largest-occupational-group-to-die-in-the-pandemic/,"""I wish Anthony Bourdain were alive today to articulate the insanity of living in a country where cooks were the largest occupational group to die in a pandemic and restaurant owners are pouting that nobody wants to work in restaurants anymore.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged anthony bourdain, cooks excess mortality, excess mortality, imgur, largest occupational group to die cooks, ucsf, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/anthony-bourdain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cooks-excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/largest-occupational-group-to-die-cooks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ucsf/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Were Cooks the Largest Occupational Group to Die in the Pandemic?,,,,,, -12,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-picture-was-taken-in-1925-of-a-girl-visiting-her-twin-sisters-grave/,"""This picture was taken in 1925. Its of a girl visiting her twin sisters grave. The twin sister had died the previous year in a house fire. Parents saw her many times talking and playing with her twin sister after she has passed away. They thought it was just part of the grieving process, that is until this was developed.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged after death communication, afterlife, art out of context, creepy images, ghost, imgur, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/after-death-communication/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afterlife/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/creepy-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ghost/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","‘This Picture Was Taken in 1925, Of a Girl Visiting Her Twin...",,,,,, -13,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/national-kool-aid-day-2021-and-mike-lindells-trump-return-claim/,"""My Pillow guy Mike Lindell says August 13th [2021] is the date that Donald Trump will be 'reinstated.' Do you know what else is on August 13th? NATIONAL KOOL-AID DAY. For real. It's the second Friday in August every year. You can't make this up.""",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged august 13 trump reinstated, election conspiracies, imgur, memes, mike lindell, national kool aid day 2021, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/august-13-trump-reinstated/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/election-conspiracies/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mike-lindell/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/national-kool-aid-day-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",National Kool Aid Day 2021 and Mike Lindell’s ‘Trump Return’ Claim,,,,,, -14,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/friendly-roast-in-2015-hrc-being-roasted/,"TikTok videos labeled ""Friendly Roast in 2015"" and ""HRC Being Roasted"" show then-candidate Donald Trump ""roasting"" Hillary Clinton in 2015.",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged al smith dinner 2016, donald trump, hillary clinton, out of context, roasts, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/al-smith-dinner-2016/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-trump/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/hillary-clinton/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/roasts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tiktok-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/","‘Friendly Roast in 2015,’ ‘HRC Being Roasted’",,,,,, -15,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/jaleel-white-and-purple-urkel/,"Image depicts Jaleel White (the actor who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters) promoting a cannabis strain called ""Purple Urkel"" with Snoop Dogg.",2021-07-13,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Entertainment, Fact ChecksTagged cannabis, jaleel white snoop dogg, purple urkel, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/entertainment/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cannabis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/jaleel-white-snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/purple-urkel/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Jaleel White and ‘Purple Urkel’,,,,,, -16,,,,Misattributed,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint-posts/,"A photograph Finland's reindeer with reflective antlers, painted to prevent roadway accidents.",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, finland, finland reindeer reflective paint, instagram, misleading, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Finland Reindeer Reflective Paint Posts,,,,,, -17,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/albert-einstein-lecturing-a-black-college-facebook-post/,"Albert Einstein spoke at Lincoln University in 1946, and said ""The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.""",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged albert einstein, albert einstein quotes, albert einstein racism, einstein lincoln university, lost images, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-quotes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-racism/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/einstein-lincoln-university/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/lost-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Albert Einstein Lecturing a Black College Facebook Post,,,,,, -18,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/ogx-dmdm-hydantoin-facebook-post/,"Consumers should avoid OGX products due to the presence of DMDM hydantoin, as the brand was sued over its formulations.",2021-07-09,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged cosmetics, dmdm hydantoin, dmdm hydantoin ogx, does dmdm hydantoin cause hair loss, facebook warnings, formaldehyde, ogx, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cosmetics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin-ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/does-dmdm-hydantoin-cause-hair-loss/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/facebook-warnings/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/formaldehyde/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",OGX DMDM Hydantoin Facebook Post,,,,,, -19,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/biden-admin-hhs-secretarys-absolutely-the-governments-business-vaccine-remarks/,"Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said it is ""absolutely the government's business"" to know whether Americans are vaccinated.",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged becerra knocking on doors, biden vaccine, cnn, decontextualized, misleading, out of context, steven crowder, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/becerra-knocking-on-doors/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-vaccine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cnn/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/steven-crowder/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Biden Admin HHS Secretary’s ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’...,,,,,, -20,,,,Decontextualized,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/sf-gay-mens-chorus-convert-your-children-song/,"San Francisco's (SF) Gay Men's chorus literally sang they'll ""convert your children"" or are ""coming for your children.""",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged basically an outright lie, dinesh d'souza, rumble.com, sf gay mens chorus, sf gay mens chorus coming for your children, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/basically-an-outright-lie/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dinesh-dsouza/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumble-com/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus-coming-for-your-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",SF Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Convert Your Children’ Song,,,,,, -21,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/darnella-fraziers-uncle-killed-by-minneapolis-police/,"Darnella Frazier, the girl who filmed the murder of George Floyd, disclosed via Facebook that her uncle was killed by Minneapolis police in July 2021.",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged darnella frazier uncle, darnella frazier uncle MPD, imgur, leneal frazier, minneapolis, Minneapolis Police Department, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle-mpd/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/leneal-frazier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis-police-department/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Darnella Frazier’s Uncle Killed by Minneapolis Police,,,,,, -22,,,,Mixed,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-pledge-of-allegiance-was-adopted-in-1923-the-star-spangled-banner-was-adopted-in-1929/,"""The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1923. The Star Spangled Banner was adopted in 1929. 'Under God' was added to the Pledge in 1954. 'In God We Trust' was added to our money in 1956. So no. They were not created by our Founding Fathers.""",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged founding fathers, history memes, in god we trust, in god we trust 1956, pledge of allegiance, pledge of allegiance 1923, star spangled banner, star spangled banner 1929, under god, under god 1954, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/founding-fathers/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust-1956/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance-1923/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner-1929/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god-1954/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","The Pledge of Allegiance Was Adopted in 1923, the Star Spangled...",,,,,, -23,,,,Not True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/shacarri-richardson-rebecca-washington-replacement/,"Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson will be replaced by a Mormon athlete, Rebecca Washington, on the U.S. Olympic Team",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged 2021 Summer Olympics, marijuana, olympics, running, Sha'Carri Richardson, twitter","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/2021-summer-olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/marijuana/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/running/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/shacarri-richardson/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/twitter/",Is Rebecca Washington Replacing Sha’Carri Richardson on the U.S...,,,,,, -24,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night-onion-story/,"In 2011, ten years before July 2021 news about the United States leaving Afghanistan in the dead of night, satirical outlet The Onion published a headline predicting it.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged Afghanistan, associated press, not satire, ostension, satire, the onion, the onion 10 years ago AP today, US Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afghanistan/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/associated-press/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/not-satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ostension/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion-10-years-ago-ap-today/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/us-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night’ Onion Story,,,,,, -25,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/donald-rumsfeld-and-mount-misery/,"Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld purchased Mount Misery, a house with a violent history.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged donald rumsfeld, frederick douglass, mount misery, rachel maddow, rumsfeld mount misery, viral facebook posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-rumsfeld/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/frederick-douglass/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rachel-maddow/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumsfeld-mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/",Donald Rumsfeld and Mount Misery,,,,,, -26,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-history-of-left-handedness/,A graph shows a sharp perceived rise in the number of left-handed people from approximately the 1920s onward.,2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged charts, left handed, left handed chart, LGBT, stat memes, transgender, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/charts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/left-handed/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/left-handed-chart/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/lgbt/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/stat-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/transgender/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘The History of Left-Handedness’,,,,,, -27,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/walmart-national-anthem-video/,"In July 2021, Walmart shoppers sand the national anthem in Haslet, Texas in July 2021.",2021-07-05,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged National Anthem, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral tweets, walmart, walmart national anthem","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/national-anthem/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tiktok-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/walmart/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/walmart-national-anthem/",Walmart ‘National Anthem’ Video,,,,,, -28,,,,True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/why-bill-cosby-was-released/,"Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned in June 2021 due to an error made by prosecutors, as detailed in a Facebook post.",2021-07-01,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged bill cosby, imgur, popehat, shaun king, viral facebook posts, why was bill cosby released","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bill-cosby/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/popehat/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/shaun-king/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/why-was-bill-cosby-released/",Why Bill Cosby Was Released,,,,,, -29,,,,Not True,,,,truthorfiction,,https://www.truthorfiction.com/white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-blames-gop-for-defunding-police/,"""White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki continued to promote her outrageous claim that Republicans are the ones who pushed for defunding the police yet, when pushed by a reporter on [June 30 2021], she was unable to name a single Republican who has ever championed defunding the police.""",2021-07-01,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged daily wire, Jen Psaki, misquotes, Psaki Blames GOP For Defunding Police But She Can’t Name 1 Republican Who Called For Defunding Police","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/daily-wire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/jen-psaki/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misquotes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/psaki-blames-gop-for-defunding-police-but-she-cant-name-1-republican-who-called-for-defunding-police/",‘White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Blames GOP for Defunding...,,,,,, +0,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/china-received-8-months-of-rain-in-just-5-days-in-july-2021/,"""China received 8 months of rain in just 5 days.""",2021-07-27,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged 1000 year climate event, china flooding 2021, extreme weather, floods in china 2021, how much rain did china get, viral facebook posts, zhengzhou flood 2021","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/1000-year-climate-event/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/china-flooding-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/extreme-weather/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/floods-in-china-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/how-much-rain-did-china-get/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/zhengzhou-flood-2021/",‘China Received 8 Months of Rain in Just 5 Days’ in July 2021,"1000 year climate event, china flooding 2021, extreme weather, floods in china 2021, how much rain did china get, viral facebook posts, zhengzhou flood 2021",,,,, +1,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/bics-martha-and-snoop-ad/,"Image shows a real advertisement for Bic lighters, featuring Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.",2021-07-27,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Entertainment, Fact ChecksTagged bic, bic martha and snoop, cannabis, cheerful nihilism, cheerful nihilism facebook, martha stewart, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/entertainment/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bic/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bic-martha-and-snoop/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cannabis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cheerful-nihilism/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cheerful-nihilism-facebook/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/martha-stewart/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Bic’s ‘Martha and Snoop’ Ad,"bic, bic martha and snoop, cannabis, cheerful nihilism, cheerful nihilism facebook, martha stewart, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts",,,,, +2,,,,Unknown,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/banana-peel-water-for-plants/,Banana peel water or banana peel tea is superior to water for home gardeners.,2021-07-26,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged bad advice, bad science, banana peel tea, banana peel water, banana peel water for plants, folk cures, folk gardening, Gardening, gardening myths, Pinterest, tiktok, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bad-advice/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bad-science/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-tea/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-water/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/banana-peel-water-for-plants/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/folk-cures/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/folk-gardening/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/gardening/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/gardening-myths/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pinterest/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Banana Peel Water for Plants,"bad advice, bad science, banana peel tea, banana peel water, banana peel water for plants, folk cures, folk gardening, Gardening, gardening myths, Pinterest, tiktok, viral facebook posts",,,,, +3,,,,True,Arturo Garcia,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/art/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/peyo-horse-hospital/,A French hospital allows terminal patients and patients dealing with cancer to receive visit from a horse named Peyo.,2021-07-26,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged facebook, Hassen Bouchakour, Les Sabots Du Coeur, Peyo, The Guardian, twitter","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/facebook/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/hassen-bouchakour/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/les-sabots-du-coeur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/peyo/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-guardian/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/twitter/",Does a Hospital in France Allow Terminal Patients to Meet With...,"facebook, Hassen Bouchakour, Les Sabots Du Coeur, Peyo, The Guardian, twitter",,,,, +4,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-i-find-it-very-suspicious/,"@RepJackKimble (Rep. Jack Kimble) tweeted, ""I find it very suspicious that the virus now all of a sudden seems to be targeting people who didn't get that ridiculous vaccine. Has anybody else noticed this? Hmm, why is the virus only targeting those who stand up to government vaccination all of a sudden?""",2021-07-23,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged @repjackkimble, decontextualized, out of context, parody, rep jack kimble, satire, satirical twitter, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/repjackkimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/parody/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-jack-kimble/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satirical-twitter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Rep. Jack Kimble: ‘I Find It Very Suspicious …’,"@repjackkimble, decontextualized, out of context, parody, rep jack kimble, satire, satirical twitter, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +5,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/catholic-leader-who-wanted-to-deny-biden-communion-resigns-after-caught-using-gay-dating-app/,"A ""Catholic leader who wanted to deny Biden communion"" resigned after he was caught using a dating app.",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged biden, biden communion, catholic, catholic church, church scandals, grindr, misleading, monsignor burrill, speculation, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-communion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/catholic-church/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/church-scandals/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/grindr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/monsignor-burrill/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/speculation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",‘Catholic Leader Who Wanted to Deny Biden Communion Resigns After...,"biden, biden communion, catholic, catholic church, church scandals, grindr, misleading, monsignor burrill, speculation, viral facebook posts",,,,, +6,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,"""Doc and Marty made it to 2021.""",2021-07-22,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged back to the future, decontextualized, doc and marty made it to 2021, imgur, instagram, reddit comments, viral facebook posts, viral reddit posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/back-to-the-future/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/doc-and-marty-made-it-to-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/reddit-comments/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/",‘Doc and Marty Made it to 2021’,"back to the future, decontextualized, doc and marty made it to 2021, imgur, instagram, reddit comments, viral facebook posts, viral reddit posts",,,,, +7,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/in-tthe-cayman-islands-there-is-a-modest-five-story-building-that-is-home-to-18857-companies/,"""In the Cayman Islands, there is a modest five-story building that is home to 18,857 companies.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, PoliticsTagged barack obama, bernie sanders, cayman islands, imgur, mitt romney, ro khanna, tax evasion, tax shelter, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/politics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/barack-obama/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/bernie-sanders/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cayman-islands/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mitt-romney/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ro-khanna/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-evasion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tax-shelter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘In the Cayman Islands, There Is a Modest Five-Story Building That...","barack obama, bernie sanders, cayman islands, imgur, mitt romney, ro khanna, tax evasion, tax shelter, viral tweets",,,,, +8,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/abraham-lincoln-and-the-samurai-fax-machine/,"""There was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.""",2021-07-21,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln samurai fax machine, fax machine, samurai, samurai sending a fax to abraham lincoln, technically true, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/abraham-lincoln-samurai-fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/fax-machine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/samurai-sending-a-fax-to-abraham-lincoln/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/technically-true/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Abraham Lincoln and the Samurai Fax Machine,"abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln samurai fax machine, fax machine, samurai, samurai sending a fax to abraham lincoln, technically true, viral facebook posts",,,,, +9,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/snapchat-plant-identifier/,"""If you focus your Snapchat camera on ANY plant & hold the screen it will tell you EXACTLY what that plant is.. DOPE. THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THIS‼️🌳☘️🌵🌿🪴 (or maybe everyone already knew this & I’m just late & easily amused 🤔) PS: WORKS ON DOG BREEDS ALSO ‼️🤯""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged dog scanner, plantsnap, snapchat, snapchat plant identifier, snapchat plants, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dog-scanner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/plantsnap/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plant-identifier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snapchat-plants/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Snapchat Plant Identifier,"dog scanner, plantsnap, snapchat, snapchat plant identifier, snapchat plants, viral facebook posts",,,,, +10,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-wenche-thikke/,"A Tumblr post includes an accurate excerpt from Canterbury Tales, including ""this wenche thikke"" and ""[I will not lie.]""",2021-07-20,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged canterbury tales, history memes, Tumblr, viral facebook posts, wenche thikke","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canterbury-tales/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tumblr/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/wenche-thikke/",‘This Wenche Thikke’,"canterbury tales, history memes, Tumblr, viral facebook posts, wenche thikke",,,,, +11,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-matt-gaetz-says-if-democrats-pass-voting-bill-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,"In July 2021, Rep. Matt Gaetz said if Democrats passed a voting rights bill, no Republicans would ever win an election again.",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged for the people act, matt gaetz, matt gaetz republicans will never win another election, Rep. Matt Gaetz, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/for-the-people-act/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/matt-gaetz-republicans-will-never-win-another-election/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rep-matt-gaetz/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","Rep. Matt Gaetz Says if Democrats Pass Voting Bill, Republicans...","for the people act, matt gaetz, matt gaetz republicans will never win another election, Rep. Matt Gaetz, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +12,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/hundreds-of-cars-are-lined-up-along-hwy-18-into-mission-south-dakota-as-the-remains-of-native-children-were-returned-to-their-homelands/,"On July 16 2021, ""hundreds of cars lined up along Hwy 18 into Mission, South Dakota as the remains of Native children were returned to their homelands.""",2021-07-19,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged caravan for native children, residential school scandal, residential schools in the US, rosebud sioux children, sicangu, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/caravan-for-native-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-school-scandal/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/residential-schools-in-the-us/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rosebud-sioux-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sicangu/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/","‘Hundreds of Cars Are Lined Up Along Hwy 18 Into Mission, South...","caravan for native children, residential school scandal, residential schools in the US, rosebud sioux children, sicangu, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +13,,,,Not True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,Image shows Canadian peanut butter sold in a styrofoam tray.,2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged amish peanut butter, canadian peanut butter, canadian peanut butter packaging, deleted tweets, miscaptioned, mislabeled, out of context, viral facebook posts, viral images, viral reddit posts, viral tweets, why is canadian milk in bags","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/amish-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/canadian-peanut-butter-packaging/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/deleted-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/miscaptioned/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mislabeled/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-reddit-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/why-is-canadian-milk-in-bags/",‘Canadian Peanut Butter’ Packaging,"amish peanut butter, canadian peanut butter, canadian peanut butter packaging, deleted tweets, miscaptioned, mislabeled, out of context, viral facebook posts, viral images, viral reddit posts, viral tweets, why is canadian milk in bags",,,,, +14,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/captain-america-31-years-ago/,"A comic from 1990 contradicts actor Dean Cain's complaint about a newly ""woke"" Captain America.",2021-07-16,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, captain america, captain america 31 years ago, daredevil 283, dean cain, drug war, imgur, latin america, viral clapbacks, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/captain-america-31-years-ago/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/daredevil-283/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dean-cain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/drug-war/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/latin-america/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-clapbacks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘Captain America 31 Years Ago’,"art out of context, captain america, captain america 31 years ago, daredevil 283, dean cain, drug war, imgur, latin america, viral clapbacks, viral tweets",,,,, +15,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/were-cooks-the-largest-occupational-group-to-die-in-the-pandemic/,"""I wish Anthony Bourdain were alive today to articulate the insanity of living in a country where cooks were the largest occupational group to die in a pandemic and restaurant owners are pouting that nobody wants to work in restaurants anymore.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged anthony bourdain, cooks excess mortality, excess mortality, imgur, largest occupational group to die cooks, ucsf, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/anthony-bourdain/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cooks-excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/excess-mortality/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/largest-occupational-group-to-die-cooks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ucsf/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Were Cooks the Largest Occupational Group to Die in the Pandemic?,"anthony bourdain, cooks excess mortality, excess mortality, imgur, largest occupational group to die cooks, ucsf, viral tweets",,,,, +16,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/this-picture-was-taken-in-1925-of-a-girl-visiting-her-twin-sisters-grave/,"""This picture was taken in 1925. Its of a girl visiting her twin sisters grave. The twin sister had died the previous year in a house fire. Parents saw her many times talking and playing with her twin sister after she has passed away. They thought it was just part of the grieving process, that is until this was developed.""",2021-07-15,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged after death communication, afterlife, art out of context, creepy images, ghost, imgur, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/after-death-communication/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afterlife/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/creepy-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ghost/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","‘This Picture Was Taken in 1925, Of a Girl Visiting Her Twin...","after death communication, afterlife, art out of context, creepy images, ghost, imgur, viral facebook posts",,,,, +17,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/national-kool-aid-day-2021-and-mike-lindells-trump-return-claim/,"""My Pillow guy Mike Lindell says August 13th [2021] is the date that Donald Trump will be 'reinstated.' Do you know what else is on August 13th? NATIONAL KOOL-AID DAY. For real. It's the second Friday in August every year. You can't make this up.""",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged august 13 trump reinstated, election conspiracies, imgur, memes, mike lindell, national kool aid day 2021, viral facebook posts, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/august-13-trump-reinstated/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/election-conspiracies/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mike-lindell/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/national-kool-aid-day-2021/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",National Kool Aid Day 2021 and Mike Lindell’s ‘Trump Return’ Claim,"august 13 trump reinstated, election conspiracies, imgur, memes, mike lindell, national kool aid day 2021, viral facebook posts, viral tweets",,,,, +18,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/friendly-roast-in-2015-hrc-being-roasted/,"TikTok videos labeled ""Friendly Roast in 2015"" and ""HRC Being Roasted"" show then-candidate Donald Trump ""roasting"" Hillary Clinton in 2015.",2021-07-14,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged al smith dinner 2016, donald trump, hillary clinton, out of context, roasts, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/al-smith-dinner-2016/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-trump/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/hillary-clinton/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/roasts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/tiktok/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tiktok-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/","‘Friendly Roast in 2015,’ ‘HRC Being Roasted’","al smith dinner 2016, donald trump, hillary clinton, out of context, roasts, tiktok, viral facebook posts, viral tiktok posts, viral videos",,,,, +19,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/jaleel-white-and-purple-urkel/,"Image depicts Jaleel White (the actor who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters) promoting a cannabis strain called ""Purple Urkel"" with Snoop Dogg.",2021-07-13,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Entertainment, Fact ChecksTagged cannabis, jaleel white snoop dogg, purple urkel, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/entertainment/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cannabis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/jaleel-white-snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/purple-urkel/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/snoop-dogg/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Jaleel White and ‘Purple Urkel’,"cannabis, jaleel white snoop dogg, purple urkel, snoop dogg, viral facebook posts",,,,, +20,,,,Misattributed,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint-posts/,"A photograph Finland's reindeer with reflective antlers, painted to prevent roadway accidents.",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged art out of context, finland, finland reindeer reflective paint, instagram, misleading, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/art-out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/finland-reindeer-reflective-paint/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/instagram/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Finland Reindeer Reflective Paint Posts,"art out of context, finland, finland reindeer reflective paint, instagram, misleading, viral facebook posts, viral images",,,,, +21,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/albert-einstein-lecturing-a-black-college-facebook-post/,"Albert Einstein spoke at Lincoln University in 1946, and said ""The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.""",2021-07-12,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged albert einstein, albert einstein quotes, albert einstein racism, einstein lincoln university, lost images, viral facebook posts, viral images","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-quotes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/albert-einstein-racism/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/einstein-lincoln-university/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/lost-images/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-images/",Albert Einstein Lecturing a Black College Facebook Post,"albert einstein, albert einstein quotes, albert einstein racism, einstein lincoln university, lost images, viral facebook posts, viral images",,,,, +22,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/ogx-dmdm-hydantoin-facebook-post/,"Consumers should avoid OGX products due to the presence of DMDM hydantoin, as the brand was sued over its formulations.",2021-07-09,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged cosmetics, dmdm hydantoin, dmdm hydantoin ogx, does dmdm hydantoin cause hair loss, facebook warnings, formaldehyde, ogx, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cosmetics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dmdm-hydantoin-ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/does-dmdm-hydantoin-cause-hair-loss/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/facebook-warnings/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/formaldehyde/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ogx/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",OGX DMDM Hydantoin Facebook Post,"cosmetics, dmdm hydantoin, dmdm hydantoin ogx, does dmdm hydantoin cause hair loss, facebook warnings, formaldehyde, ogx, viral facebook posts",,,,, +23,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/biden-admin-hhs-secretarys-absolutely-the-governments-business-vaccine-remarks/,"Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said it is ""absolutely the government's business"" to know whether Americans are vaccinated.",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged becerra knocking on doors, biden vaccine, cnn, decontextualized, misleading, out of context, steven crowder, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/becerra-knocking-on-doors/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/biden-vaccine/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/cnn/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/decontextualized/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/misleading/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/out-of-context/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/steven-crowder/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",Biden Admin HHS Secretary’s ‘Absolutely the Government’s Business’...,"becerra knocking on doors, biden vaccine, cnn, decontextualized, misleading, out of context, steven crowder, viral tweets",,,,, +24,,,,Decontextualized,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/sf-gay-mens-chorus-convert-your-children-song/,"San Francisco's (SF) Gay Men's chorus literally sang they'll ""convert your children"" or are ""coming for your children.""",2021-07-08,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Disinformation, Fact ChecksTagged basically an outright lie, dinesh d'souza, rumble.com, sf gay mens chorus, sf gay mens chorus coming for your children, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/disinformation/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/basically-an-outright-lie/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/dinesh-dsouza/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumble-com/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/sf-gay-mens-chorus-coming-for-your-children/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",SF Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Convert Your Children’ Song,"basically an outright lie, dinesh d'souza, rumble.com, sf gay mens chorus, sf gay mens chorus coming for your children, viral tweets",,,,, +25,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/darnella-fraziers-uncle-killed-by-minneapolis-police/,"Darnella Frazier, the girl who filmed the murder of George Floyd, disclosed via Facebook that her uncle was killed by Minneapolis police in July 2021.",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged darnella frazier uncle, darnella frazier uncle MPD, imgur, leneal frazier, minneapolis, Minneapolis Police Department, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/darnella-frazier-uncle-mpd/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/imgur/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/leneal-frazier/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/minneapolis-police-department/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/",Darnella Frazier’s Uncle Killed by Minneapolis Police,"darnella frazier uncle, darnella frazier uncle MPD, imgur, leneal frazier, minneapolis, Minneapolis Police Department, viral facebook posts",,,,, +26,,,,Mixed,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/the-pledge-of-allegiance-was-adopted-in-1923-the-star-spangled-banner-was-adopted-in-1929/,"""The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1923. The Star Spangled Banner was adopted in 1929. 'Under God' was added to the Pledge in 1954. 'In God We Trust' was added to our money in 1956. So no. They were not created by our Founding Fathers.""",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged founding fathers, history memes, in god we trust, in god we trust 1956, pledge of allegiance, pledge of allegiance 1923, star spangled banner, star spangled banner 1929, under god, under god 1954, viral facebook posts","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/founding-fathers/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/history-memes/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/in-god-we-trust-1956/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/pledge-of-allegiance-1923/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/star-spangled-banner-1929/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/under-god-1954/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/","The Pledge of Allegiance Was Adopted in 1923, the Star Spangled...","founding fathers, history memes, in god we trust, in god we trust 1956, pledge of allegiance, pledge of allegiance 1923, star spangled banner, star spangled banner 1929, under god, under god 1954, viral facebook posts",,,,, +27,,,,Not True,Arturo Garcia,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/art/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/shacarri-richardson-rebecca-washington-replacement/,"Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson will be replaced by a Mormon athlete, Rebecca Washington, on the U.S. Olympic Team",2021-07-07,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged 2021 Summer Olympics, marijuana, olympics, running, Sha'Carri Richardson, twitter","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/2021-summer-olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/marijuana/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/olympics/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/running/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/shacarri-richardson/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/twitter/",Is Rebecca Washington Replacing Sha’Carri Richardson on the U.S...,"2021 Summer Olympics, marijuana, olympics, running, Sha'Carri Richardson, twitter",,,,, +28,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/u-s-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night-onion-story/,"In 2011, ten years before July 2021 news about the United States leaving Afghanistan in the dead of night, satirical outlet The Onion published a headline predicting it.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged Afghanistan, associated press, not satire, ostension, satire, the onion, the onion 10 years ago AP today, US Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night, viral tweets","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/afghanistan/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/associated-press/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/not-satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/ostension/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/satire/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/the-onion-10-years-ago-ap-today/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/us-quietly-slips-out-of-afghanistan-in-dead-of-night/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-tweets/",‘U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night’ Onion Story,"Afghanistan, associated press, not satire, ostension, satire, the onion, the onion 10 years ago AP today, US Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night, viral tweets",,,,, +29,,,,True,Kim LaCapria,,,truthorfiction,https://www.truthorfiction.com/author/kim/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/donald-rumsfeld-and-mount-misery/,"Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld purchased Mount Misery, a house with a violent history.",2021-07-06,truthorfiction,,"Posted in Fact Checks, Viral ContentTagged donald rumsfeld, frederick douglass, mount misery, rachel maddow, rumsfeld mount misery, viral facebook posts, viral videos","https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/category/fact-checks/viral-content/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/donald-rumsfeld/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/frederick-douglass/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rachel-maddow/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/rumsfeld-mount-misery/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-facebook-posts/,https://www.truthorfiction.com/tag/viral-videos/",Donald Rumsfeld and Mount Misery,"donald rumsfeld, frederick douglass, mount misery, rachel maddow, rumsfeld mount misery, viral facebook posts, viral videos",,,,,