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Did the 1981 ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ Predict COVID-19?
An old "prediction" got a new origin story.
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Is It Dangerous to Wear a COVID-19 Protective Mask for Too Long?
Prolonged usage of certain masks can cause some health concerns.
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Did COVID-19 Kill Chuck Norris?
Norris, now 80, has been a frequent subject of hoaxes over the years.
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Is This Obama’s Official White House Portrait?
This isn't the first time the painting was mistaken as an official White House portrait.
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Will Hand Sanitizer Combust If Left in a Hot Car?
Hand sanitizer is definitely flammable ... but enough to start a car fire?
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Did Bill Gates Brief the CIA in 2005 About a Mind-Altering Vaccine?
A 15-year-old hoax recirculated in 2020 — this time with Gates' name attached to it.
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Anti-Lockdown Protests Originated With Tight-Knit Group Who Share Bigger Goal: Trump 2020
The driving force behind Michigan's anti-lockdown protests — and their connections to the family of Betsy DeVos — is even more complex than we initially thought.
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Is Facebook Charging a User Fee?
Some rumors never die — they just grow new heads.
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Did ‘Fox and Friends’ Call Fred Rogers an ‘Evil, Evil Man’?
The segment prompted numerous rebuttals condemning the "maliciousness of the attack" on the legacy of the children's TV host.
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Does This Photo Show Trump Wearing a Protective Mask?
The U.S. president went without a mask for much of his visit to a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan in late spring 2020.
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Are COVID-19 Tracing Apps Secretly Tracking Your Facebook and Phone Contacts?
Two smartphone apps tracking the transmission of COVID-19 raised privacy questions — and where there are questions, there are usually rumors.
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Did Ron Howard Pen the ‘I Am a Liberal’ Essay?
Some people apparently think that tacking a celebrity's name onto a viral opinion can lend it some credibility.
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Did Houston Police Arrest a Man Who Killed, Ate 30-Plus People?
A notorious producer of junk news and hoax articles churned out yet another hoax, this time about the fictional "Ivan Fedorovitch Yanukovych."
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Are Bill Gates and the ID2020 Coalition Using COVID-19 To Build Global Surveillance State?
Conspiracy theorists misrepresent Bill Gates’ funding of vaccination and digital-identity research as evidence of a nefarious global surveillance plan foretold in the Book of Revelation.
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Is a Testicular Blow Exponentially More Painful Than Childbirth?
There are no real winners in this contest.
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Did Trump Say He ‘Tested Very Positively’ for COVID-19, Meaning Negative?
Is the president trying to confuse us?
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Did 28 Million Mail-In Ballots Go ‘Missing’ in Last Four Elections?
"Conflating voters choosing not to cast their ballot with 'missing' ballots is a fundamental flaw," a vote-at-home advocacy group argued.
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Did Joe Biden Say He Didn’t Want His Kids Growing Up in a ‘Racial Jungle’?
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate's history with busing has haunted him on the campaign trail.
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Do Hartz Flea and Tick Products Harm Pets?
Warnings of Hartz products harming pets have been shared since at least 2013.
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Did CDC Issue Strict Rules for Reopening Schools in Pandemic?
A widely shared graphic paraphrased CDC recommendations that can be voluntarily adopted by schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Did CNN ‘Put a Black Guy’s Head on a White Dude’ in Arrest Video?
The video recorded outside a shopping mall after a knife attack in 2019 shows officers using a Taser on a suspect.
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Is Facebook Implementing User Fees?
"Facebook is a free site and will never require that you pay to continue using the site."
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Was a Woman Charged While Off-Duty Cop Who Killed Her Child Was Not?
A meme provided some factual information, but also excluded many complexities in telling the story of a crash that left a 1-year-old dead.
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Will the White House Portrait Ceremony Not Occur in 2020?
Bad blood between U.S. President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama may lead to the skipping of a decades-old tradition.
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Did Piers Morgan End His Friendship with Trump in an Open Letter?
The fallout apparently began when U.S. President Donald Trump unfollowed Morgan on Twitter.
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Is the Sun On ‘Lockdown,’ Threatening Life on Earth?
The concept was very on-brand during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020.
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Does a Leaked Video Reveal a Government Plot to Vaccinate Against ‘Thoughts, Ideas, and Religion?’
The FunVax rumor largely hinges on the "God gene" theory, a bit of pop science that doesn't quite stand up to peer reviewed scrutiny.
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Is Italy Calling for Bill Gates’ Arrest?
While an Italian politician truly did call for Bill Gates to be arrested, this position has not been endorsed by the Italian government.
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Why Do Red Solo Cups Have ‘Measuring Lines’?
The lines on red Solo brand party cups are supposedly designed for measuring servings of various kinds of alcohol.
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Will a Bee Sting Cause Permanent Penis Enlargement?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Has President Trump Ever Voted by Mail?
As Trump criticized voting by mail, some social media users shined a light on the president's own voting record.
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Is This COVID-19 Mask Efficacy Chart Accurate?
The CDC recommends wearing a cloth face mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic to help slow the spread of the disease.
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Is China Producing Corned Beef from Dead Bodies?
Unverified, unvetted postings on social media used photographs from video game promotions to advance tropes about China's food industry.
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Did a U.S. Military Airplane Lost in 1945 Reappear 75 Years Later?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Did Sexual Assault Allegations Against Donald Trump Only Start With the 2016 Election?
Although many women accused then-candidate Trump of sexual assault during the 2016 election, that wasn't the first time that he faced these sorts of allegations.
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Did Melinda Gates Wear an Upside-Down Cross?
Critics claimed the billionaire philanthropist purposefully donned the symbol in video interviews about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Does Trump Benefit Financially by Promoting Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Treatment?
The U.S. president is invested in several mutual funds — some of which include very minor stakes in pharmaceutical companies.
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Did Bill Gates ‘Admit’ Vaccinations Are Designed So Governments Can ‘Depopulate’ the World?
The computer magnate believes that vaccines can be used to reduce childhood mortality and ultimately reduce population growth through associated social changes, not as an agent of death.
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Does This Video Shows Giraffes Jumping Off a High Dive?
Giraffe-diving is not yet an Olympic sport.
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Does Microsoft Own Patent ‘666’ About Implanting Microchips in People?
The Redmond, Wash.-based computer company published a patent for a "cryptocurrency system using body activity data."
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Is Disney’s Goofy Character Actually a Cow?
While some might argue that Goofy is actually a cow and not a dog, the popular character can most accurately be described as a cartoon.
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Was ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Si Robertson Found Dead?
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Did LBJ Say ‘I’ll Have Those N*****s Voting Democratic for 200 Years’?
President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly made a crude racist remark about his party's voter base. There's little evidence to back it up.
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Did Self-Described Psychic Sylvia Browne Predict the Coronavirus?
Lobbing vague claims about likely events does not a prediction make.
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Did All Democrats Vote Against a 2.8 Percent Social Security COLA Increase?
Social Security cost of living allowances are established by formula and don't require Congressional approval.
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Is Bill Gates Being Sued by India Over Vaccination Deaths?
A fresh meme resurrected and combined some stale claims that we had already investigated at length.
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Is Kroger Requiring Employees to Repay Coronavirus Emergency Pay?
An image showing a letter purportedly sent from the grocery chain to employees sparked outrage on social media.
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Did Police in Georgia Force a Man to Cut Off His Own Dog’s Head?
The incident, which included police orders and threats of arrest, was captured on video.
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Did Playgirl Run a ‘Sleep with Donald Trump’ Contest in 1990?
Always read the fine print.
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Is ‘Center for Global Human Population Reduction’ Inscribed on a Gates Foundation Building?
A doctored image was used to promulgate an old conspiracy theory about Bill Gates.
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Did the 1981 ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ Predict COVID-19?
An old "prediction" got a new origin story.
Is It Dangerous to Wear a COVID-19 Protective Mask for Too Long?
Prolonged usage of certain masks can cause some health concerns.
Did COVID-19 Kill Chuck Norris?
Norris, now 80, has been a frequent subject of hoaxes over the years.
Is This Obama’s Official White House Portrait?
This isn't the first time the painting was mistaken as an official White House portrait.
Will Hand Sanitizer Combust If Left in a Hot Car?
Hand sanitizer is definitely flammable ... but enough to start a car fire?