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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 a Facebook post:
$100B contact tracing bill “is about controlling/tracking population, not about coronavirus.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 15, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 9, 2020 a Facebook post:
“It’s not that there’s a virus shield between Canada (4,500 deaths) and the U.S. (80,000 deaths). What exists is a difference in leadership.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 15, 2020
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on May 11, 2020 an MSNBC interview:
Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 13, 2020
Coalition for the Homeless
Coalition for the Homeless
stated on April 8, 2020 a newspaper interview:
New York City could pay to house its homeless population in hotel rooms currently sitting vacant, but Mayor Bill de Blasio “has absolutely to this point refused to do that.”
Mostly True
By Rachel Kimmel, Julia Schneider • May 13, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 5, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says gloves shouldn’t be worn in public because “if you are wearing the same set of gloves all over town you are only spreading germs everywhere you go.”
True
By Eric Litke • May 13, 2020
Louis Riggs
Louis Riggs
stated on April 21, 2020 an opinion piece in the Missouri Times:
“Nearly half of (Missouri) counties have not reported positive (COVID-19) cases.”
False
By Sara Dingmann • May 13, 2020
Jeff Shipley
Jeff Shipley
stated on April 28, 2020 a Tweet:
Young people "have a greater chance of being killed by the HPV vaccine than COVID-19.”
Pants on Fire!
By Rylee Wilson • May 12, 2020
South West News Service
South West News Service
stated on April 24, 2020 a news story:
Black cats in Vietnam are being killed and consumed as a COVID-19 cure.
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 8, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2020 a Facebook post:
“So 2 doctors from Bakersfield discover that coronavirus mortality rate is 0.03%. 13x less deadly than what was previously thought! Their analysis has since been banned from YouTube.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • May 7, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says the current survival rate for COVID-19 in the U.S. is “98.54%”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • May 7, 2020
Dan Forest
Dan Forest
stated on April 24, 2020 an interview:
"We’ve still had more deaths to the flu this year than we've had COVID-19."
False
By Paul Specht • May 6, 2020
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on May 4, 2020 a TV segment:
"There was no real scientific basis for believing that" social distancing would be necessary, "since it had never been studied."
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 6, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 27, 2020 an article:
Dr. Anthony Fauci "has known for 15 years that chloroquine and … hydroxychloroquine will not only treat a current case of coronavirus but prevent future cases.”
False
By Daniel Funke • May 6, 2020
Tom McClintock
Tom McClintock
stated on April 29, 2020 an interview on CapRadio's Insight program.:
“The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year according to the CDC.”
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 5, 2020
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on April 26, 2020 a TV interview:
Wisconsin has “no tracing program going on that we can speak of."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 4, 2020
Cindy O’Laughlin
Cindy O’Laughlin
stated on March 22, 2020 a Facebook post:
“I see no time in the history of this country when perfectly healthy people have been basically confined to their homes or only able to do essential things as in Kansas City or St. Louis.”
False
By Jack Kosowski • May 4, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 28, 2020 a Facebook post:
A photo shows a “Center for Global Population Reduction” at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 4, 2020
Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
stated on April 27, 2020 a TV segment:
“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 21, 2020 Facebook post:
Homeless people are immune to COVID-19
Pants on Fire!
By Laura Schulte • May 1, 2020
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 21, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Wisconsin measures have "prevented the death of at least 300 Wisconsinites, and perhaps as many as 1,400 lives."
Mostly True
By Eric Litke • May 1, 2020
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