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Dave Grohl - Should we thank Canada for football? Pretty much. Dave Grohl’s Super Bowl claim is largely right

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:49:55 +0000

Canada is to thank for American football.

Tweets - Rumor about NFL investigating Patrick Mahomes for drug use during Super Bowl started as satire

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 23:02:13 +0000

The Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl win has been “put on hold as NFL plans to launch an investigation on possible (performance-enhancing drug) use by Patrick Mahomes during halftime.”

Joe Biden - Biden says U.S. is losing ground to China in R&D spending. His rankings are off.

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:04:16 +0000

“We used to rank No. 1 in the world in research and development, now we rank No. 9. China used to rank No. 8, now it ranks No. 2.”

Era of ‘free’ COVID-19 vaccines, test kits, and treatments is ending. Who will pay the tab now?

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:58:27 +0000

Era of ‘free’ Covid-19 vaccines, test kits, and treatments is ending. Who will pay the tab now?

Joe Biden - Joe Biden is right that preschool benefits college attendance, though research varies

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:13:10 +0000

"Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from."

Instagram posts - We know all about pants. Doctored image falsely shows Joe Biden wearing his backward.

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:24:23 +0000

“Joe Biden put his pants on backwards”

Viral image - Gen. Mark Milley served multiple combat tours, despite claims otherwise

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:17:46 +0000

Gen. Mark Milley “never served in combat.”

Facebook posts - Was someone in a Joe Biden mask at the State of the Union? No, It was Biden himself

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:44:47 +0000

Photos show someone in a President Joe Biden mask at the State of the Union.

Facebook posts - Photo doesn’t show a deputy U.S. marshal behind President Joe Biden at the State of the Union

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:13:51 +0000

A photo shows a deputy U.S. marshal “keeping a close eye” on President Joe Biden at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7.

Viral image - Puppy rescue filmed in India in 2019, not in Turkey or Syria after the recent earthquake

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:28:28 +0000

A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.

Viral image - Have COVID-19 vaccines caused all COVID-19 deaths in Canada? No

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:04:39 +0000

“100% of COVID deaths in Canada now due to mRNA vaccine.”

Viral image - Photo of Donald Trump, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing is altered

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:02:59 +0000

Photo shows former President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador kissing.

Facebook posts - GOP wants a ‘30% tax on everything’? That ignores taxes that would end, bill’s limited chances

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 20:33:31 +0000

"In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything."

Rick Scott - Sen. Rick Scott’s false claim that Joe Biden ‘cheated’ on taxes

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:56:52 +0000

President Joe Biden “cheated on his taxes and got away with it.”

Viral image - The Mars Curiosity rover photographed rocks, not Third Reich relics

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:56:30 +0000

“NASA Curiosity finds Nazi helmet on Mars."

This statistic on police indictments is misleading. Here's why.

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:32:08 +0000

A House Democrat said less than 2% of police officers who engage in misconduct are indicted. We’ve seen that data point before; it refers to officers charged in police shootings. But experts say there’s not enough data to draw clear conclusions.

Kayleigh McEnany - Are Biden’s border policies to blame for fentanyl deaths? Experts say no

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:22:34 +0000

"Joe Biden's wide open southern border" is to blame for fentanyl deaths in the U.S.

Mike Palicz - Check, please. Are IRS agents coming for servers’ tips?

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:27:58 +0000

The 87,000 new IRS agents who were supposed to “only target the rich” are now “coming after waitresses’ tips.”

Facebook posts - Houston, we have a problem: Misinformation about the Space Station is spreading on Earth

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:35:42 +0000

“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.

Instagram posts - The earthquake in Syria and Turkey was a real natural disaster, and not a political attack

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:26:06 +0000

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "a systemic attack against Kurdish people."