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stated on April 14, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Videos show “how they celebrated the CERN opening.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 17, 2024
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Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2024 in a Facebook post:
CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • April 5, 2024
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stated on March 19, 2024 in una publicación enTikTok:
Expertos dicen que el eclipse solar del 8 de abril “será el eclipse más peligroso que ha habido, la guardia nacional se está preparando para este acontecimiento”.
False
By Maria Briceño, Madison Czopek • March 28, 2024
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Instagram posts
stated on March 18, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:
Reportaje sobre "Eclipse solar 8 de abril 2024" habla sobre una fase del sol que "podría desatar catástrofes a nivel global y hambruna".
False
By Maria Briceño • March 26, 2024
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Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2024 in a video posted on Facebook.:
The Oklahoma National Guard’s assistance for the April 8 eclipse signals something “bigger.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 20, 2024
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Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2024 in Facebook reel:
Emergency officials warn to “stock up on food, water, and fuel ahead of the eclipse.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • March 19, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 12, 2024 in a speech to county officials:
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act “attracted $640 billion in private companies’ investments.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 29, 2024
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stated on February 22, 2024 in a post on Instagram:
“Study reveals Bill Gates’ Fake Meat causes ‘turbo cancers’ in humans.”
False
By Madison Czopek • February 28, 2024
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Instagram posts
stated on January 31, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The presence of soft tissue and carbon-14 in dinosaur bones proves they lived “only a few thousand years” ago, not millions of years ago.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • February 8, 2024
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on January 31, 2024 in a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News:
“We think the Earth’s warming” because “we’re literally cooking the books” with flawed temperature data.
False
By Madison Czopek • February 8, 2024
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Instagram posts
stated on January 15, 2024 in a post:
Women "store DNA" from all their male sexual partners.
False
By Grace Abels • January 17, 2024
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Instagram posts
stated on December 1, 2023 in a photo:
The International Space Station is in a pool, not in space.
Pants on Fire!
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • December 5, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on October 12, 2023 in a town hall in Exeter, N.H.:
China is “the largest developer of neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • November 1, 2023
Steve Kirsch
Steve Kirsch
stated on October 21, 2023 in a post on X:
“The FDA is required to take the COVID vaccines off the market” because they are “adulterated.”
False
By Madison Czopek • October 27, 2023
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Instagram posts
stated on August 30, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Bill Gates-funded research into genetically engineered cattle ticks is responsible for red-meat allergies from alpha-gal syndrome in the U.S.
False
By Jeff Cercone • September 1, 2023
Steve Milloy
Steve Milloy
stated on June 7, 2023 in on “The Ingraham Angle”:
Particulate matter, found in wildfire smoke, has “no effect” on human health and is “total junk science.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • June 20, 2023
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TikTok posts
stated on May 30, 2023 in a video:
Roseanne Barr made a video of a rainbow in a sprinkler questioning 'what the heck is in our water supply.'
False
By Grace Abels • May 31, 2023
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Facebook posts
stated on April 20, 2023 in an image:
The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth.
False
By Andy Nguyen • April 28, 2023
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Instagram posts
stated on April 6, 2023 in a post:
"Scientists struggle to understand why Antarctica hasn’t warmed for over 70 years despite rise in CO2."
False
By Andy Nguyen • April 21, 2023
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Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2023 in a video:
A video proves that “our own government is acknowledging that they’re spraying the skies” with toxic chemicals.
False
By Jeff Cercone • April 20, 2023
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