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Did Macron Say This About the Unvaccinated? No evidence exists that the French president made a viral quote attributed to him.

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Did 45K People Die Within 3 Days of Getting COVID Vaccine? Allegations were said to have come from a “government insider.”

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No, There Weren’t More COVID-19 Vaccine Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths A vaccine adverse reaction tracking tool was misleadingly interpreted by junk news sites.

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The claim is evidence suggests that among other individual factors, mosquitos may be more attracted to people with Type O blood.

Are Mosquitos Attracted to a Certain Blood Type? The annoying pests have been dubbed the “world’s deadliest animal.”

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Did US Life Expectancy in 2020 See Biggest Decline Since WWII? News outlets in the summer of 2021 made a remarkable assertion about the impact of...

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No, 5 JetBlue Pilots Didn’t Die From the COVID-19 Vaccine The claim echoed a similar, baseless claim about British Airways pilots.

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Is It Dangerous To Drink Ice-Cold Water When Overheated? Social media posts claimed drinking cold water could send the body into a state of...

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The claim is that a newspaper article about Bill Gates bearing the headline Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination has been scrubbed from the internet.

The Bill Gates ‘Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination’ Headline, Explained This well-trodden conspiracy theory continues to circulate on social media.

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Was COVID Vaccine Microchip Detected With Pet Scanner? The line between a joke and misinformation often depends on who's telling it.

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No, Those Puncture Holes in Crayola Bath Dropz Packaging Aren’t Caused by Drug Users A viral video claims intravenous drug users clean their needles by using the cotton wad...

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WHO Isn’t Banning ‘Women of Childbearing Age’ from Drinking Alcohol Some headlines distorted details from the UN agency's global action plan on tackling harmful use...

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Is West Virginia Giving Away Free Guns to Those Who Get COVID Vaccinations? Vaccine-related freebies get more and more creative.

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