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- Health
Posted on: 2020-05-15
Contrary to claims in viral social media posts, the novel coronavirus was not man-made nor patented before outbreak

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The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was lab-created and patented; SARS-CoV-2 is not a new virus; COVID-19 pandemic was man-made and planned

Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, 2020-01-23
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- Health
Posted on: 2020-01-24
Contrary to claims in viral social media posts, 2019 coronavirus was not lab-created nor was it patented years before outbreak

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[The coronavirus is] “new” yet it was lab-created and patented in 2015

Source: Twitter/X, Facebook, Jordan Sather, Chris Kirckof, 2020-01-23
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- Climate
Posted on: 2018-08-07
President Trump's claim that water supply policy has worsened California wildfires is baseless

Claim:

California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.

Source: Twitter/X, Donald Trump, 2018-08-05

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