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A widely shared article on the Express website about the safety of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is misleading in several ways. It incorrectly claims that a recently published document about adverse events following vaccination is the first time the public have been allowed to see the clinical trial …
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A video on Facebook claims to show news footage of the war in Ukraine, in which a man can apparently be seen moving inside a body bag while posing as a dead body. The video is accompanied by the caption “EVERYTHING YOU ARE TOLD IS A LIE”. This video has been manipulated. The original is actually a …
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A photo purportedly showing a Ukrainian tractor pulling a trailer carrying a Russian rocket has been shared on Facebook by a group called ‘Farmers Against Misinformation’. The post is an edited image of a Soyuz space rocket from 2018, not a military rocket. The original shows the rocket being …
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Several posts shared thousands of times on Facebook show a black-and-white photograph of a crowded railway station in Ukraine. The captions read: “This is not a photo from 1941. This is a Photo from March 2022 with all the colour taken out. A chilling reminder that history repeats…” The image has …
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A Facebook video viewed over seven million times shows American paratroopers, and falsely claims these are “American soldiers in Ukraine”. The footage has actually been around since at least 2016 and reportedly shows paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions performing parachute …
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The broadcaster Maajid Nawaz got many of the facts about Covid-19 wrong while talking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The podcast was released on 19 February 2022, but it was recorded around three weeks earlier, on or around 25 January. At one point [1h, 56m, 40s], Mr Nawaz describes an …
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23 February 2022 What was claimed Raw data from a recent Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in vaccine effectiveness against infection in most age groups Our verdict This is based on comparing Covid-19 case rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals which is …
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18 February 2022 What was claimed At least 50% of people who survive Covid-19 have debilitating health issues in the months afterwards. Our verdict This is far too high. There are various estimates for the prevalence of long Covid. The Office for National Statistics estimated that 7.5% of people …
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17 February 2022 What was claimed You are not meant to have unprotected sex after a second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as it could cause birth defects due to genetic manipulation. Our verdict This is not advice for everyone who’s had the Pfizer vaccine. There is no evidence the vaccine …
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Health / Coronavirus 16 February 2022 What was claimed The BBC said there is HIV in the Covid-19 vaccines. Our verdict The BBC was talking about a vaccine which was trialled but never rolled out, which contained a small piece of HIV protein. None of the Covid-19 vaccines in use contain HIV …
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