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Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 17, 2021 a story's headline
“World Health Organization wants to BAN all women aged 18-50 from drinking alcohol.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • June 22, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2021 an Instagram post
Says Greta Thunberg said, "the climate crisis doesn’t exist."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2021 a Facebook post
“The unvaccinated have escaped every single strain or 'variant’” of SARS-CoV-2.
False
By Andy Nguyen • June 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 7, 2021 a Facebook post
Gov. Gavin Newsom has “no power or authority” to extend the state of emergency in California because it expired “automatically” on May 6, 2020.
False
By Sasha Hupka • June 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 21, 2021 a post on Facebook
Says President John F. Kennedy said, “There are people in Washington, D.C., in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 22, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 17, 2021 Facebook post
A heat wave melted turbine blades at a Texas wind farm.
False
By Michael Majchrowicz • June 21, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 15, 2021 a Facebook post
Photo shows a semi-truck that crashed with a Chevy pickup that cut in front of it.
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 21, 2021
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Viral image
stated on June 20, 2021 a Facebook post
AstraZeneca means “weapon that kills.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 21, 2021
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on June 9, 2021 an interview
“We see an uncompleted wall that was duly appropriated dollars during the Trump days to build over 700 miles. Only 150 miles were constructed.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • June 21, 2021
Diamond and Silk
Diamond and Silk
stated on June 17, 2021 a Facebook post
It was “the left” that “finally” made Juneteenth a national holiday.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • June 21, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2021 a Facebook post
“Coolmath Games is being taken down cause it was run by the Mexican drug cartel?”
False
By Madison Czopek • June 21, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 a press conference
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 Twitter
“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”
True
By Madeline Heim • June 19, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on June 8, 2021 Twitter
“We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.”
True
By Laura Schulte • June 18, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on May 30, 2021 a Twitter post
“Police budgets are at their highest they've ever been, there hasn’t actually been any defunding the police.”
Mostly False
By Emily Tian • June 18, 2021
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 14, 2021 a Facebook post
The 2020 election results in Pennsylvania “show a statistically impossible pattern” and votes were manufactured for Joe Biden.
False
By Tom Kertscher • June 18, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 15, 2021 an Instagram post
“Austin mass shooter still at large, but media won’t provide description because he’s Black.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 18, 2021
Mark Born
Mark Born
stated on June 2, 2021 Twitter
“Before the pandemic, just over 40,000 were on continuing UI claims. Now, there are well over 100,000 on state or federal UI benefits.”
True
By D.L. Davis • June 18, 2021
Dean Arp
Dean Arp
stated on June 2, 2021 in a committee meeting
Says North Carolina’s proposed abortion bill would not “govern the conversation between the doctor and patient.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • June 18, 2021
The Gateway Pundit
The Gateway Pundit
stated on June 1, 2021 a blog post
Says Joe Biden “imports oil from Iran.”
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 17, 2021
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