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Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 23, 2020 in social media posts:
“Putin has stated: Russian citizens (have) 2 options: Stay home for 15 days or in jail for 5 years.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:
"Huge! Results From Breaking Chloroquine Study Show 100% Cure Rate For Patients Infected With The Coronavirus."
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2020
Greg Murphy
Greg Murphy
stated on March 16, 2020 in a tweet:
“Sunlight actually can kill the (novel coronavirus.)”
False
By Paul Specht • March 20, 2020
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on March 16, 2020 in an opinion article:
Says Anthony Fauci’s statement that the coronavirus death rate is 10 times that of the seasonal flu is “a claim without any scientific basis."
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 in a screenshot:
President Donald Trump “will evoke (sic) what is called the Stafford act” and “order a two week mandatory quarantine for the nation.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2020
Chain message
Chain message
stated on March 16, 2020 in a text:
Donald Trump is “announcing tomorrow that the US is going into quarantine for the next 14 days.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 17, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 12, 2020 in a post on the internet:
“The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“‘The Simpsons' predicted Tom Hanks getting coronavirus in 2007.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on March 13, 2020 in a viral image:
Drinking “water a lot and gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates” the coronavirus.
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 7, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 13, 2020
Ainsley Earhardt
Ainsley Earhardt
stated on March 13, 2020 in the Fox & Friends show:
“It’s actually the safest time to fly.”
False
By Daniel Funke • March 13, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:
"Akira’ is a 1988 movie about an apocalyptic event taking place months before Tokyo 2020 Olympics, showing the (World Health Organization) advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk"
False
By Madison Czopek • March 13, 2020
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 in an episode of ABC's "The View":
“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 6, 2020 in an image:
If the coronavirus gets in your mouth, "drinking water or other liquids will WASH them down through your esophagus and into the stomach. Once there in tummy ... your stomach ACID will kill all the virus."
False
By Daniel Funke • March 11, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on March 11, 2020 in a news release:
“The coronavirus has officially reached Milwaukee County.”
False
By Eric Litke • March 11, 2020
YouTube videos
YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 in a YouTube post:
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“People Of Color May Be Immune To The Coronavirus Because Of Melanin.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 1, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The coronavirus is “simply the common cold.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Coronavirus Hoax: Fake Virus Pandemic Fabricated to Cover-Up Global Outbreak of 5G Syndrome.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 4, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
“Man visited Albany, N.Y. days before dying from coronavirus.”
False
By Madison Czopek • March 4, 2020
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