Inaccurate
Moderna booster vaccine trials didn’t cause “mass heart attacks” in children, contrary to online claims
Claim:
“Moderna Covered Up ‘Mass Heart Attacks of Toddlers’ in COVID Jab Trials”
Articles tagged with
Vaccine
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Source: The People’s Voice, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2025-01-08 -
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 -
MisleadingExperimental study using mosquitoes to vaccinate against malaria wasn’t funded by Bill Gates
Claim:
“Researchers Funded by Bill Gates Turn Mosquitoes into ‘Flying Syringes’ to Deliver Vaccines”
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-01-02 -
InaccurateThe human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been circulating for decades and isn’t a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Claim:
“Pfizer has disclosed that Human Metapneumovirus is one of the potential side effects of their mRNA vaccine”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-06 -
InaccuratePfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media
Claim:
“Pfizer just released a few days ago the side effects of the jab” ; this lists contains more than forty medical conditions that are side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-02 -
IncorrectNew study from Brazil doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of death in the long term
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines had a short-term “negligible” benefit, but caused a "substantially greater risk of death”, a new study showed
Source: Facebook, Patrick Flynn, 2024-12-28 -
UnsupportedIngredients in bird flu vaccine Audenz are safe in the amounts present; no evidence that they’re toxic or cause cancer
Claim:
Bird flu vaccine contains dog DNA and other ingredients that are toxic or carcinogenic
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-01 -
CorrectFacebook meme correctly states that vaccines led to eradication of polio and smallpox, not “natural herd immunity”
Claim:
"I don't know who needs to hear this but Polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity, they were eradicated by vaccines"
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-12-10 -
MisleadingUnvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths
Claim:
How are "Billions of Unvaxxed people with NO Boosters [...] still alive"? Unvaccinated people should be dead.
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2024-12-08 -
InaccurateClaim that 79.4% of SIDS deaths occurred on same day as vaccination misinterprets CDC study
Claim:
“79.4% of babies who die of SIDS had a vaccine the same day”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-03