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Messages about employer mask requirements for Zoom meetings originated on satire accounts

January 6, 2022

An email shows that employers are requiring employees to wear masks during Zoom meetings.

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No, Tylenol doesn’t ruin your ability to fight COVID-19

By Samantha Putterman January 5, 2022

Tylenol "ruins your ability to kill” COVID-19.

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No, John Roberts didn’t criticize Supreme Court justices’ ‘inappropriate political influence’

January 5, 2022

“Chief Justice John Roberts goes after the highest court in the land, citing their ‘inappropriate political influence.’”

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Old video clip of Pfizer CEO is not referring to microchips in COVID-19 treatment

January 5, 2022

“Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”

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Biden’s ‘no federal solution’ clip doesn’t save Trump PAC’s attack on Biden and COVID-19 plan

January 5, 2022

President Joe Biden “never had a” COVID-19 “plan.”

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Claim about omicron risk for the vaccinated is missing key context

January 4, 2022

“It feels amazing” that unvaccinated people are “4.5 times LESS LIKELY to catch omicron” than people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.

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Other presidents have had lower approval ratings than Biden

January 4, 2022

President Joe Biden “has the lowest approval rating of any president ever.”

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Danish study shows decline in vaccine protection against omicron is restored with Pfizer booster

January 4, 2022

"Yale study: Vaccinated people more likely to be infected than those without the jab.”

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False claims about Jan. 6 insurrection and 2020 presidential election rely on debunked information

January 4, 2022

“Jan. 6 was NOT an insurrection…but Nov. 4 at 3 a.m. was!”

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Judge in Ghislaine Maxwell trial did not seal “all evidence and proof”

January 4, 2022

A judge sealed “all the evidence and proof of who helped Ghislaine Maxwell sex traffic children.”

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Wisconsin Republican candidate mostly wrong on numbers of Americans left behind in Afghanistan

By Alan Hovorka January 4, 2022

Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan."

The CDC didn’t say its COVID-19 tests can’t differentiate between the virus and the flu

January 3, 2022

The CDC finally admits its COVID-19 test can’t tell the difference between the virus and the flu

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