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Video of person smoking in a pile of body bags isn’t a staging of COVID-19 victims but part of a Russian music video
Claim:
A video showed people “preparing body bags for the evening news clip during the pandemic”
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Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-04-11 -
UnsupportedVirologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
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COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID”
Source: Kunstlercast, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2024-03-31 -
Flawed reasoningCountry-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
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“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
Source: Facebook, Sharyl Attkisson, 2024-04-01 -
UnsupportedMamavation report doesn’t provide sufficient evidence for the claim that Band-Aids contain “cancer-causing forever chemicals”
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Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in Band Aids
Source: TikTok, Social media users, 2024-04-03 -
Review of Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) reveals numerous, well-known misinformation talking points and inaccuracies
On 21 March 2024, a movie titled “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)” was released on YouTube, and widely shared…
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UnsupportedIt’s safe to use aluminum foil when cooking food; no evidence to date showing it causes Alzheimer’s or cancer
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Cooking with aluminum foil can cause Alzheimer’s, cancer
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-03-22 -
MisleadingFebrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
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“FDA admits” that “young children are at a ‘significantly elevated’ risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Ben Kew, 2024-03-24 -
IncorrectClaim that the HPV vaccine increases risk of cervical cancer misleads by cherry-picking data from FDA document
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HPV vaccine increases the risk of developing cervical cancer
Source: Instagram, Pierre Kory, 2024-03-27 -
Misleading2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism
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Government silenced “top expert witness” who denied the vaccine-autism link in court and changed opinion; his testimony could have changed the court’s decision
Source: Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson, 2019-01-06 -
InaccurateNo, a court didn’t rule that the FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19
Claim:
Court rules FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19; FDA lost lawsuit, proving ivermectin is effective against COVID-19
Source: Vigilant Fox, Twitter, Gateway Pundit, Roger O'Handley, Pierre Kory, Jim Hoft, 2024-03-22
