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Claim: To receive assisted suicide in Germany, you must first be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Context Germany’s government has never mandated such a regulation for assisted suicide, but a nongovernmental assisted suicide organization in Germany — Verein Sterbehillfe — did mandate, in November …
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Claim: The Russian state media outlet RT published an online article claiming the pilot of the plane carrying Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin when it crashed had post-vaccine myocarditis and may have suffered a heart attack. Amid intense speculation about the cause of the Aug. 23, 2023, plane …
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Claim: Former U.S. President Barack Obama — a Democrat — once said Democrats have rigged elections. Context What Obama actually said during a 2008 campaign rally was that both Republicans and Democrats had “monkeyed around with elections in the past,” and that it’s important to ensure it doesn’t …
Read MoreClaim: A book describing the Maui, Hawaii, fires of August 2023 was published before they started. Context A book “Fire and Fury: The Story of the 2023 Maui Fire and its Implications for Climate Change” was published on Aug. 10, 2023, two days after the wildfires broke out in Maui, Hawaii. On Aug. …
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Claim: In August 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reversed course and admitted that doctors would be allowed to prescribe ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19. Context The FDA has never asserted that the off-label prescribing of ivermectin for COVID-19 was prohibited; the agency has …
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Claim: An episode of the animated series “The Simpsons” predicted the use of a “directed energy weapon.” Context In the 2016 “Simpsons” episode entitled “Monty Burns’ Fleeing Circus,” a newly erected chrome statue in downtown Springfield unexpectedly reflects the sun’s rays in a focused beam …
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Claim: A viral video showed a directed energy weapon attack on Maui in August 2023. A conspiracy theory that went viral during the Maui wildfires in August 2023 that devastated parts of the Hawaiian island and killed at least 90 people posited that the fires were purposely started using directed …
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Claim: A screenshot authentically shows that on Jan. 23, 2021, Bill Gates’ Twitter account posted, “The tracking chip was in the MAGA flags. That’s [sic] how we have been rounding up the 6th Protesters so quickly.” A viral screenshot appears to show a 2021 tweet from billionaire Bill Gates and …
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Claim: The August 2023 wildfires that devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui were caused by a “direct energy weapon.” Deadly wildfires fueled by hot, dry, and windy weather conditions devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui in early 2023, killing at least 53 people, as of this …
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Claim: A video that went viral in August 2023 authentically depicted three UFOs spotted either over New Mexico or Nevada. Context The video in question was captured in Digital Combat Simulator, a combat flight simulation video game. In August 2023, a video went viral on social media allegedly …
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