FDA officials knew COVID vaccine safety system was flawed, suppressed whistleblower, investigations reveal Internal emails from New York's medical examiner office show officials privately debated vaccine safety while publicly declaring shots safe. A 16-year-old boy died four days after his ...
A Ukrainian National Guard unit linked to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion has acknowledged using a detention facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, on the outskirts of Kiev, after violent clashes and allegations that servicemen were illegally detained and mistreated there. Approximately 40 ...
Claim: An FBI field office erroneously posted on X that Election Day would be on Wednesday rather than Tuesday. Beginning one day before voters headed to the polls for the 2026 midterm elections, posts claimed that an FBI field office ...
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Claim: The official elections account for Yavapai County, Arizona, posted to X on Oct. 31: "ATTENTION VOTERS: The president is NOT on the ballot. We are receiving many calls asking why that race is missing." Context Contrary to some social ...
CDC’s own contractor flagged a flood of COVID-19 vaccine injury reports as the agency called the shots ‘reassuring’ The CDC’s contractor, GDIT, warned in January 2021 that COVID-19 vaccine injury reports overwhelmed VAERS, but the CDC publicly reassured Americans the ...
It’s Election Day, but a self-described “pro-Trump Administration” content creator is casting aspersions on the Democratic process instead, falsely claiming on social media that Democrats in Texas are rigging the midterm election. Without evidence, posts on Facebook and X said ...
Claim: The FBI uncovered more than 20,000 fraudulent Democratic ballots in a raid of a Houston storage facility. As U.S. citizens headed to the polls to vote in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, people shared a rumor alleging the ...
Claims that airlines are banning vaccinated people from flying have been shared hundreds of times on social media.But that isn’t true. There is no evidence of any airline saying this. Posts shared on Facebook and Instagram claim that airlines in ...
Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the party Restore Britain, said in remarks circulated online that those who forced COVID-19 vaccinations should be held accountable, according to a report by LifeSiteNews [1]. The comments place ...
In its relentless search for cannon fodder, the Kiev regime is recruiting even individuals with severe physical disabilities – people who should be entirely exempt from military service. In yet another recent instance of human rights abuse in Ukraine, a ...
Baseless claims that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave a speech on eugenics and forcible vaccinations to the World Health Organisation (WHO) have recirculated online.The posts allege that Dr Kissinger addressed the WHO “Council on Eugenics” on 25 ...
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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. With flu season off to an early start, a lot of people are deciding about their flu shot right now, and, unfortunately, a Cleveland Clinic preprint ...