Inaccurate
Japanese study misrepresented in posts claiming “heart failure surges among Covid-vaccinated”
Claim:
“Japan sounds alarm as heart failure surges among Covid-vaccinated”
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Source: Facebook, TikTok, Slay News, Social media users, Frank Bergman, 2025-01-18 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that COVID-19 vaccination left actor Jamie Foxx “paralyzed and blind” from brain blood clot
Claim:
“Jamie Foxx Left ‘Paralyzed and Blind’ From ‘Blood Clot in His Brain’ After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine”
Source: Ask Dr. Drew, OK! Magazine, A.J. Benza, 2023-05-30 -
Flawed reasoningSocial media post claiming that fully vaccinated people are “filling up” morgues and hospitals is based on flawed reasoning; unvaccinated people are actually over ten times more likely to die
Claim:
“they are needing to change the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated” “40% of deaths from C19 last week [...] were fully vaccinated, [...] that’s a jump of 51.2%”
Source: Instagram, Twitter/X, Elijah Schaffer, 2021-10-23 -
IncorrectVaccination does not weaken the immune system against natural infection
Claim:
With repeated use of vaccines, cell-mediated immunity weakens
Source: Newstarget, Andrew Wakefield, Lance D Johnson, 2019-04-19 -
Lacks contextFlu vaccine reduces risk of flu-related illness and hospitalization, even though it hasn’t eradicated flu
Claim:
“We’ve had the flu vaccine for 78 years. We still have the flu.”
Source: Threads, Social media user, 2025-02-08 -
InaccuratePolio vaccine plays a critical role in eradicating polio; polio is caused by a virus, not by DDT
Claim:
“Did vaccines get rid of polio? The answer is NO!”
Source: Instagram, Rizza Islam, Ty Bollinger, 2020-12-02 -
InaccurateBreast cancer cases haven’t doubled in U.S. women under 45, despite social media claims
Claim:
“There is a huge boom in cancer, especially in female breast cancer in the younger ages of 45 and below.”
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2023-06-18 -
InaccurateCDC study finds five percent of teens hospitalized due to COVID-19 require ventilation, vaccinating against COVID-19 can help reduce the risk of severe disease in teens
Claim:
“The kids who were [in hospital for other reasons] were the ones [...] on the ventilators. Not the kids who [were in hospital for COVID-19].”
Source: Facebook, Wendy Bell, 2021-06-07 -
InaccurateMajority of ten countries listed in viral chain message haven’t dropped all COVID-19 restriction measures and aren’t considering COVID-19 as a seasonal flu, despite claims
Claim:
Ten countries “announced the cancellation of all quarantine procedures, Corona tests, and compulsory vaccination”
Source: Telegram, Christiane Northrup, 2022-02-02 -
Shedding light on LinkedIn’s enforcement of health misinformation policies: A pilot study
…a total of nine searches conducted. In each search, we screened the first 50 search results for posts that contained misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. It should be noted that LinkedIn…