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A video of U.S. President Joe Biden walking away momentarily during a speech given by U.S. First Lady Jill Biden has been digitally edited to include music played by an ice cream truck reut.rs/3bgYhVG
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While authentic footage and images shared by journalists and local residents documented Russia's invasion of Ukraine (see: reut.rs/3vk9mx3), @ReutersFacts also identified mislabeled imagery
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Digitally altered screenshots have circulated online claiming to show media in the Philippines reporting that presidential candidate Leni Robredo had gained a higher number of votes than she actually did reut.rs/3w3z7BK
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A study of 301 teens in Thailand found mild and temporary heart rhythm changes after a second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine among one in six teenagers, not one-third as social media posts claim reut.rs/3pub6PU
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Contrary to social media claims recirculating online that the U.S. government "silently approved" ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment, the medication remains unapproved for the treatment of COVID-19 by U.S. health authorities reut.rs/3vOvU7b
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A pre-print study that overstated the risk of contracting myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was retracted due to a miscalculation - but not before it featured in social media posts questioning vaccine safety reut.rs/3l0fJA3
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A clip from the videogame Digital Combat Simulator has been miscaptioned online, with social media users claiming it shows a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane reut.rs/3snw0lW
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Russian President Putin appears to declare peace with Ukraine in a doctored video being shared online. The video, however, has been created using footage from last month, and a new audio track has replaced the original reut.rs/3IhtfY7
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A digitally altered video clip has been circulating online in which a child appears to shout a profanity at Jill Biden during a reception to celebrate Diwali.
No profanity can be heard in the original footage released by the White House and news outlets reut.rs/3FjQF1s
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An image purporting to show a screenshot of an opinion piece published by the New York Times calling for teachers to “tolerate bullying towards unvaccinated children” is digitally altered. No such headline or article was published by the outlet reut.rs/3sAQt7H
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A spokesperson for Beto O'Rourke told Reuters that doctors diagnosed him with a bacterial infection, not monkeypox, as some online are claiming
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A photo of three women walking in chains has been described online as showing Afghanistan in 2021. However, the original image was captured in Iraq in 2003 - and it has been digitally altered to add chains. reut.rs/3D7kS0a
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A false claim has resurfaced on social media saying Fauci published a study which attributed 1918 Spanish flu deaths to bacterial pneumonia caused by masks reut.rs/3odhGZk
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Social media users are sharing a misleading video they claim shows U.S. President Joe Biden falling asleep in a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister. However, the clip was cropped and moments later, Biden responded reuters.com/article/factchec…
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Social media posts claiming children as young as five years old can take hormones and change their sex have resurfaced. @ReutersFacts found that the only medical guidance for children this young are noninvasive guidelines, such as social transitioning reut.rs/3O0K5Oa
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Claims by Trump and his allies that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen, also known as the "Big Lie", are unfounded. Read more about this and other debunked falsehoods in a Reuters Factbox, here:
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A screenshot circulating online does not show a Pfizer document but 2020 guidance from Britain’s medicines regulator, which has since been updated. It is not evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe during pregnancy or while breastfeeding reut.rs/3KNvMur
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris did not say that virtually every individual in hospital with COVID-19 is vaccinated, contrary to claims online. The audio of the video has been edited to alter Kamala Harris’ statement on July 12, 2021 reut.rs/3n1A2xL
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A research abstract being widely discussed on social media is not reliable evidence of a link between mRNA vaccines and heart disease reut.rs/3rdwevN
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Hundreds of social media users have mistakenly shared a 30-year-old photo of an anti-government rally in Moscow believing it to show a protest over COVID-19 measures in Vienna. Full story: reut.rs/30QlqsF
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What appears to be a zoomed in version of a viral video of a man dangling from a helicopter in Afghanistan shows him moving and waving. This, along with other photos of a similar scene, dispel the online narrative that he was hanged by the Taliban reut.rs/2WL5kyy
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Social media users are sharing claims that Racine County, Wisconsin, had 23,000 voters with the same phone number, and 4,000 voters registered on Jan. 1, 1918. Election officials say this is not evidence of voter fraud reut.rs/3k2cCGQ
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A clip taken out of context on social media actually shows U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Polish President Andrzej Duda laughing briefly at confusion over who should answer a question first between translations reut.rs/36iLKOI
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Sir Keir Starmer was the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) when it decided to not prosecute late TV host Jimmy Savile. However, a reviewing CPS lawyer - not Starmer - advised that no prosecution could be brought reut.rs/3rgCO4k (1/2)
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Employees were not asked to wear face masks during a Zoom meeting because of a staff member’s “fear of unmasked people”. The screenshot of an email shared on social media originated from a satirical TikTok account reut.rs/32VL2pj
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Contrary to social media posts, recounts of the 2020 U.S. presidential election were not conducted "in 46 states" reut.rs/3MjvUTI
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A screenshot of an alleged report by CNN claiming that former U.S. President Donald Trump died has duped some social media users. The content is fabricated and likely originated as satire reut.rs/3SWm0dz
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Despite repeated misinformation being shared online about the "Great Reset”, this sustainability plan proposed by the World Economic Forum is not a secret plot to end private property or create a totalitarian state. Read more here: reut.rs/3Fxrnu5, reut.rs/2NnALdz
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A recently discovered, more virulent HIV variant that is circulating in the Netherlands arose in the 1990s, according to authors of a study. It was not caused by COVID-19 vaccination efforts reut.rs/3rzU9p8
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The U.S. Supreme Court has not voted to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, despite claims made online reut.rs/3uFZSLs
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Posts with a photograph of an abandoned car lot are falsely claiming it shows an electric car graveyard in France. The photo in question, however, was taken in Hangzhou, China reut.rs/3xGe4TX
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Contrary to online claims, the absence of cameras in the upcoming Ghislaine Maxwell trial is not evidence of “media manipulation”: while some state and local courts in the U.S. allow live broadcasts of certain proceedings, federal courts largely do not reut.rs/3kZn16n
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Digitally altered images and misleading claims regarding the Oscars ceremony are being shared on social media. For example, an altered version of a Reuters photograph claiming to show that Chris Rock was wearing a pad on his cheek reut.rs/3uvuU7K
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A fabricated Christmas card attributed to former U.S. President Donald Trump is doing the rounds online, tricking some social media users into believing it is authentic reut.rs/3DtxAoS
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A screenshot of a CNN news report on Russian President Vladimir Putin has been digitally altered to include a fake chyron reading: “Sources: Putin to delay invasion until Biden delivers weapons to Ukraine for Russia to capture” reut.rs/3uHdJlr
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Some social media users claim “mass formation psychosis” has occurred during the pandemic. Experts in crowd psychology, however, said this is not a term recognized in the field of psychology, nor is there evidence of any such phenomenon reut.rs/3zzespc
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The Atlantic did not publish a headline calling Biden’s fall from his bike in June 2022 ‘heroic.’ The image circulating online is fabricated reut.rs/3O5g945
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World soccer governing body FIFA says it is not aware of a rise in cardiac arrests in players and has received no reports of cases linked to COVID-19 vaccines. This follows viral posts that have linked vaccinations to athletes collapsing with heart issues reut.rs/31dUi6M
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An edited clip from 1985 is being shared widely without context to appear like US President Joe Biden used a racist word. @ReutersFacts had earlier debunked this claim among several others in a fact-check reut.rs/3GIcIfc
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Social media users are misrepresenting findings from the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics on Omicron’s ability to break through vaccine protection reut.rs/3qkjfXo
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A screenshot of a fabricated CNN Twitter post that reports on what it says is a former primary school teacher travelling through a besieged Ukrainian city to look for unaccompanied children has been interpreted as authentic by some on social media reut.rs/376D8ep
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A widely shared online post compares images of Sydney Harbour to falsely claim that there has been no sea level rise.
It is not possible to measure sea level rise just by looking at photos taken at different periods of time, experts told Reuters reut.rs/3PnNNTo
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Video of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre where she appears to ignore a question by Fox News journalist Peter Doocy on oil companies has been digitally altered. The edited version is being taken seriously by some online reut.rs/3W6iY9n
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Comorbidities, while they may raise the risk of severe COVID-19, may not necessarily be the cause of death. The virus itself can be the cause of otherwise preventable death among those who had manageable health conditions reut.rs/3rAGg8Y
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There is no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is a billionaire. Financial disclosures and reports from investigative journalists indicate that he is more likely a millionaire. reut.rs/3uXEWjh
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A photo of two children watching Ukrainian soldiers roll past atop two tanks have been falsely linked to the 2022 invasion by Russia. The image dates to 2016 reut.rs/3tdcYOp
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There is no evidence to support claims that voting machines have been intentionally calibrated to switch votes in Texas despite claims made online, experts have told Reuters reut.rs/3fHGwB0
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U.S. President Joe Biden's hand gesture at a CNN town hall in Baltimore did not indicate white power, contrary to claims on social media. He made the hand gesture while saying corporations pay “zero cents”, in response to a question about tax rates reut.rs/30T0XU2
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A Fox News segment, in which host Sean Hannity discussed the FBI’s raid at former U.S. president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, has been edited to include an unrelated 2020 clip of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reut.rs/3T20BB8
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Users on social media have miscaptioned videos and photos claiming to show the "Freedom Convoy" protest in Canada over the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for truckers. The thread below includes some examples.
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An image of a group of people standing alongside Dr. Mehmet Oz, in which one person appears to hold an “OZ” sign on its side so that it reads “NO”, has been digitally altered reut.rs/3RfRTgT
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An image purportedly showing a tweet posted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about a hashtag opposing his leadership has been digitally altered. No such tweet was published on his official accounts reut.rs/3BwazCO
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Comments about reducing CO2 emissions made by Bill Gates at a 2010 TED talk have repeatedly been taken out of context by users on social media reut.rs/2QLkz7p
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Unfounded claims that the results of the U.S. 2020 election, when Joe Biden defeated former U.S. president Donald Trump, saw significant voter fraud continue to circulate online as the country gears up for midterm elections scheduled for November reut.rs/3aw6lRH
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A video of U.S. President Joe Biden signing a bipartisan infrastructure bill with a blurred presidential seal on the podium is not evidence that he’s "not the real president" or that the clip used CGI reut.rs/3ntJFFH
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A poster did not advertise vaccines whilst encouraging parents to donate their children’s organs. The text calling for children’s organ donations was digitally altered onto the original photograph reut.rs/30dBYKX
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The UK Health Security Agency observed lower anti-N antibodies in people who caught COVID-19 after double vaccination. Experts said this does not mean vaccines have hindered natural immunity to the disease reut.rs/3cFwkUu
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A photograph circulating online of an injured girl is from 2018 and was taken during the Syrian war, not Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as users claim reuters.com/article/factchec…
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Invitations for Dutch politicians to the WEF summit have been misrepresented online to claim they are “leaked” letters and evidence of “The Great Reset”, a proposed economic plan at the centre of widespread conspiracy theories reut.rs/3Fp4au0
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Time magazine never published a cover comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler. The image was created by a graphic designer as a sequence of artworks about the invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3svCVKg
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According to the Food and Drug Administration, "While there are approved uses for ivermectin in people and animals, it is not approved for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.” Reuters debunked posts recommending animal-use ivermectin for humans, here reut.rs/3CH0O4u
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Social media users are sharing an image of what appears to be a large polar ice cap and claiming that it shows Antarctica from space. However, the image is a computer-generated illustration by NASA based on satellite data reut.rs/3PyuxCc
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Claims that the CDC is requiring all schoolchildren across the U.S. to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend school are misleading. While the CDC may provide recommendations, the decision is ultimately up to each state reut.rs/3gphbfs
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A video was widely shared as showing the office of Ukraine's president was destroyed in a missile strike.
Reuters geolocated the video to a different area in Kyiv and found no reliable information that the presidential office building was destroyed reut.rs/3ewUfKm
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KFC did not tweet an image of a chicken drumstick casting the shadow of a raised fist in honour of Black History Month. The image was originally used to mark Emancipation Day 2020 by a regional account for KFC, which later removed the post reut.rs/3h8x3ju
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A video of a frilled shark is being shared online with claims that it is 80 million years old.
The video was taken at the Awashima Marine Park in Japan in 2007 and the average lifespan of a frilled shark is about 25 years reut.rs/3gdmgaD
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Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said he would take up arms alongside his brother Wladimir after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A picture being shared on social media of him in military garb and holding a machine gun, however, was taken in March 2021 reut.rs/3HBdSK4
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Refuting claims on social media, scientists told Reuters the tiny level of spike protein measured in the bloodstream of vaccinated people does not cause toxicity; rather, they show the vaccine is getting to work reut.rs/3puKy2j
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Florida Rep. Randy Fine did not tweet that elementary school children are a “small sacrifice” to make for the Second Amendment. The tweet was sent by an imposter account that describes itself as a satirical profile reut.rs/3lKjLfp
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A screenshot purporting to show a Facebook message posted by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau encouraging people to ostracize those not vaccinated against COVID-19 is digitally altered reut.rs/3s7iaDb
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An image of a KKK billboard being shared on social media is not recent and was not built ahead of a rally held by former U.S. President Donald Trump in North Carolina in April 2022 reut.rs/3vfPBom
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Recent research about myocarditis has led to heated debate online. Reuters Fact Check looked into what we know so far about myocarditis after COVID-19 infection and vaccination reut.rs/3rTeDYR
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Contrary to social media posts, monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection, nor is it only spread between men who engage in sexual relations with other men reut.rs/3LPh8TZ
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump did not send a fundraising email that included “nuke codes.” A screenshot circulating online appears to be a digitally altered version of an authentic message sent days earlier, after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home reut.rs/3pgIABe
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A dramatic video is described in some recent social media posts as showing a wildfire being started deliberately. It actually depicts a firefighter setting a controlled blaze in 2020. reuters.com/article/factchec…
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A photo of a medical book page that lists the common cold as a condition caused by coronaviruses has been shared online recently. However, the common cold is not caused by the same coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reut.rs/2X4ic2Y
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Former president Barack Obama’s words were cropped and taken out of context in a video shared on social media reuters.com/article/uk-fact-…
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Photos and videos of positive COVID-19 home test results for tap water are not evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is in water supplies. Full story: reut.rs/3JB2cZI
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@Logo_Daedalus Hello! We sent you a DM if you could please take a look. Thank you!
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U.S. chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci was not involved in controversial research on monkeys, the National Institute of Mental Health told Reuters reut.rs/3BeaBx3
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Users are once again sharing a fabricated quote attributed to singer Billie Eilish about wanting to be poor so that she can relate to most of her fans. The quote originated from a Twitter page not affiliated with Eilish reut.rs/3C7nXg7
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A video shared on social media has been digitally manipulated to distort the side of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s face reut.rs/3bZ6yue
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The World Health Organization has clarified why it avoided letters of the Greek alphabet ‘Nu’ and ‘Xi’ when naming the most recent coronavirus variant, Omicron. Full story: reut.rs/3CXpxjV
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There is no evidence that U.S. television host Jim Cramer posted a tweet about the likelihood of Russia using nuclear weapons.
Remarks accompanying the original fabricated tweet image suggest the post was intended as satire reut.rs/3SX8Ope
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A news report allegedly showing staged body bags and crisis actors in Ukraine is from a February 2022 climate policy demonstration held by the activist group “Fridays for Future” in Austria reut.rs/3pAnuhQ
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Some social media users are sharing claims that 95.58% of Omicron cases in Germany are among the fully vaccinated. The claims are partly based on a mistake in an Robert Koch Institute report that has since been corrected reut.rs/3JCUfTY
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A widely circulated video showing a young girl confronting a soldier is unrelated to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The video dates to 2012 and shows a Palestinian activist confronting Israeli soldiers in the West Bank reut.rs/3hy90e0
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A video of a 2019 health panel discussion, now being shared on social media, is not evidence that Fauci and others were plotting a new influenza virus to enforce vaccine mandates reut.rs/3FIRYEE
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An image circulating on social media has been inaccurately described as if showing an event for former U.S. President Donald Trump in Wisconsin in August 2022. The photo is from at least November 2020 reut.rs/3SxklMx
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Confusion continues to spread online over the impact COVID-19 vaccines can have on transmission. @ReutersFacts delved into what was known about this in November 2021. See our explainer reut.rs/3DCEZTy
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A study found that viral loads in Delta variant breakthrough COVID-19 cases were 251 times higher than in cases involving earlier variants. It did not find viral loads were higher in the vaccinated compared to unvaccinated, as some have suggested reut.rs/3DeG2tj
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Noncitizens are not eligible to vote in California congressional elections, despite claims that resurfaced online before the November midterm elections reut.rs/3G71LHz
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that despite being the "number one target" he plans to stay in Kyiv in the face of the Russian attack. However, photos of him in military garb being shared on social media were taken in December 2021 reut.rs/3hg5DrM
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A satirical map showing the Mediterranean Sea superimposed on to the United States has misled people online, who think it shows an authentic prediction of climate change impact reut.rs/3Rit9W2
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An old video, said by social media users to show the queen throwing food at children, was misattributed. The footage was filmed around 25 years before her birth and shows two French women throwing coins for people in Annam, Indochina reut.rs/3qyX2W2
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Drone footage of armored vehicles involved in a conflict is being shared online with claims it shows Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The video, however, does not relate to the offensive and was filmed at least as early as March 2020 reut.rs/35vHRW4
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Footage circulating on social media does not show the Taliban hanging a man in 2021. It dates back to 2018 and shows a man being rescued after a suicide attempt. (Graphic warning) reut.rs/2ZDdmdZ
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U.S. President Joe Biden did not claim at a rally that he attended Delaware State University, one of the country's top HBCUs. He said he “got his start” from the institution, in reference to the support he received when announcing his bid for Senate
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