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Advertisment: Claim: After Damar Hamlin collapsed from cardiac arrest during an NFL game on Jan. 2, 2023, he died due to the COVID-19 vaccine, and a “body double” began standing in for him at public appearances. On Jan. 22, 2023, weeks after collapsing during an NFL game and being hospitalized for …
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Advertisment: Claim: The CEO of Moderna “admitted” during the 2023 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the company was making a COVID-19 vaccine in January of 2020 “before SARS-CoV-2 even had a name.” Context It is neither a “breaking” revelation nor an “admission” that Moderna was working …
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Advertisment: Claim: The World Economic Forum was hiring unvaccinated pilots to transport the wealthy and powerful to the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2023. Both COVID-19 vaccines and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are lightning rods for conspiracy theorists. In recent years, …
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Advertisment: Claim: The BBC aired a controversial interview with Dr. Aseem Malhotra who fraudulently claimed without evidence that some coronavirus vaccines could be behind excess deaths from coronary artery disease. The BBC came under fire in mid-January 2023 for airing an interview with a …
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Advertisment: Claim: In early 2020, conservative commentator duo Diamond and Silk were fired from Fox News for spreading conspiracy theories about COVID-19. In early January 2023, online users searched for whether the conservative commentator duo known as Diamond and Silk truly were once fired from …
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Advertisment: Claim: In response to a question about her past as a follower of QAnon conspiracy theories, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “Well, like a lot of people today, I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet.” U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has long been …
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Advertisment: Claim: A “Dr. Benjamin Eidelman” gave Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot days before he collapsed during a game. A baseless conspiracy theory is making the rounds about a person supposedly named “Dr. Benjamin Eidelman,” Buffalo Bills defensive …
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Advertisment: Claim: CDC data issued in October 2022 provide evidence that COVID-19 vaccines increase a person’s risk of death. A superficial analysis of publicly available data published by an anti-vaccine outlet named “The Exposé” went viral in December 2022. The piece, entitled “CDC quietly …
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Advertisment: Claim: A photograph shows a woman wearing a special “mechanical nozzle mask” during the so-called Spanish influenza pandemic. Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic …
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Advertisment: Claim: “Balenciaga” is Latin for “Baal is king.” Luxury fashion brand Balenciaga has been the focus of outrage and conspiracy theories due to a backlash over ads published in November 2022 showing child models holding bags shaped like teddy bears outfitted in bondage gear. The bags …
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