Inaccurate
No, the ocean is not ‘cooling’, contrary to viral claims – it’s been warming at an accelerating rate
Claim:
Global ocean temperatures have been cooling, proving there is no global warming.
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Source: X/Twitter, Peter Clack, 2025-07-20 -
Lacks contextWide Awake Media repeats misleading claims that wind turbines are expensive and environmentally unfriendly
Claim:
Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-07-18 -
MisleadingDiesel generators did not power wind farms in Scotland, nor anywhere else
Claim:
Diesel generators are powering wind turbines.
Source: X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-06-14 -
UnsupportedCandace Owens repeats unsubstantiated claim about HPV vaccine causing infertility
Claim:
HPV vaccine Gardasil causes infertility
Source: X/Twitter, Candace Owens, 2025-05-09 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that eroding wind turbine blades harm farmland
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Farmers have lost their crops and livelihood due to microplastics and fiberglass from eroding wind turbine blades.
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MisleadingContrary to Wide Awake Media’s misleading claims, wind turbines are greener than fossil fuels by multiple measures
Claim:
A staggering quantity of CO2 emissions are required to erect a single wind turbine. A significant proportion of retired turbine blades end up in landfill sites, unable to be recycled.
Source: Wide Awake Media, X/Twitter, 2025-01-27 -
Lacks contextSome evidence that wind turbines can harm eagles, but more are killed by other causes
Claim:
Windmills are a threat to eagles’ population.
Source: Instagram, X/Twitter, Social media users, 2025-01-16 -
MisleadingFlawed analysis of Florida Medicaid data used to promote false claim that vaccines cause autism
Claim:
“New peer-reviewed study again confirms childhood vaccines are likely responsible for nearly 80% of the autism cases in US”
Source: X/Twitter, Substack, Steve Kirsch, 2025-01-25 -
InaccurateNature Biotechnology study misrepresented in social media posts claiming “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
Claim:
Nature study shows “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
Source: X/Twitter, Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-15 -
MisleadingEarth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change
Claim:
It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
Source: Wide Awake Media, X/Twitter, Patrick Moore, 2025-01-07
