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AI-generated videos promote false herbal cure for COPD, a currently incurable lung disease
Claim:
“A revolutionary pill that combines over 60 natural herbs” cures COPD within three days
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-11-26 -
1.3HighWashington Post article accurately describes latest estimate of accelerating Antarctic ice loss
…where the action is amplifies that rate of sea level rise by up to an about additional 25 percent in a city like Boston or New York.’ That’s because as…
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IncorrectScientific evidence supports the use of face masks for reducing the transmission of respiratory diseases including COVID-19
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Masks do nothing to prevent the spread of pathogens
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-05-17 -
MisleadingCloth masks are effective at reducing virus transmission because it spreads in respiratory droplets, which are larger than smoke particles and the pores in fabric
Claim:
Cloth masks cannot block smoke particles which are larger than viruses, so masks cannot stop virus transmission
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-08-31 -
UnsupportedClaim that the COVID-19 vaccine is riskier than the disease for children is based on an economist’s incorrect calculation of the metric “number needed to vaccinate”
Claim:
“more children will die from the vaccine than will die from COVID in the first place and there’s proof”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Substack, Toby Rogers, 2021-11-01 -
-2Very lowPopular “Friends of Science” video promoted by Youtube presents long list of climate myths
…it does not make up a majority of the current greenhouse effect: “Ample physical evidence shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) is the single most important climate-relevant greenhouse gas in Earth’s…
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InaccurateHurricane predictions aren’t perfect, but that does not ‘invalidate climate change theory’, contrary to Daily Wire claims
Claim:
There were no hurricanes this season even despite forecasts for a high activity, revealing a problem with climate change ‘theory’; it has been a light hurricane season.
Source: The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, 2024-09-10 -
IncorrectHeartland Institute report incorrectly claims no evidence of human impacts in melting ice
Claim:
Melting of Arctic sea ice and polar icecaps is not occurring at ‘unnatural’ rates and does not constitute evidence of a human impact on the climate.
Source: Heartland Institute, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, Craig Idso, 2026-06-26 -
UnsupportedArticle by cardiologist Aseem Malhotra made unsupported claims about the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccination
Claim:
mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might do more harm than good
Source: Journal of Insulin Resistance, Aseem Malhotra, 2022-09-26 -
Flagged and Ignored: Testing X’s Response to EU Sanction Violations
…SDA starts by using one account, which typically has very few followers, to post the first instance of a manipulative piece of content. Then, a series of other accounts amplify…