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What’s worse: lithium mining or oil extraction? Viral social media posts suggest misleading answers to complex question.
Claim:
Lithium mining for electric cars has a greater environmental impact than oil extraction for gas cars.
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-08-16 -
AccurateEvidence suggests that political partisanship is associated with higher COVID-19 mortality rates among Republicans compared to Democrats
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“Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows”
Source: NBC News, Aria Bendix, 2022-10-06 -
MisleadingMortality in the U.S. noticeably increased during the first months of 2020 compared to previous years
Claim:
The U.S. is not losing “tons more lives in 2020” compared to 2019 (18,433) ... the increase is virtually non-existent
Source: Facebook, Gateway Pundit, Candace Owens, Joe Hoft, 2020-05-13 -
InaccurateMislabeled and manipulated videos of natural disasters go viral amidst recent hurricane activity
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Recent footage is real and shows accurately-labeled natural disasters, such as tornadoes and storms that occurred from Hurricane Milton.
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-10-11 -
InaccurateThe CDC reports more than 2.9 million deaths in the U.S. in 2020; there were at least 377,000 more deaths in 2020 compared to previous years
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the number of deaths in America in 2020 was not greater than that in 2019
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, Facebook users, 2020-12-31 -
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AccurateThe U.S. sees record numbers of daily new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in November 2020
Claim:
“There were 144,305 newly reported COVID-19 cases in the United States today. This beats the previous record of 133,819 cases reported on Monday, November 9. This is the 8th day in a row with over 100,000 cases reported.”
Source: NBC News, Twitter/X, Ali Velshi, 2020-11-11 -
MisleadingMisleading Instagram posts use news headlines out of context to imply COVID-19 vaccines increase COVID-19 mortality risk
Claim:
Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates in White people are related to higher COVID-19 death rates
Source: Instagram, Carl Higbie, David Harris Jr., 2023-08-22 -
MisleadingVaccines, treatments reduced public health threat posed by COVID-19, explaining different approach in 2024 compared to 2020
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COVID-19 has been like the flu since the beginning of the pandemic
Source: Instagram, Instagram users, 2024-03-02 -
Hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with azithromycin, found ineffective for treating COVID-19 in large clinical trials
Claim:
“Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc cure [COVID-19]”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-08-04