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COVID & HEALTH
COVID-19 vaccines aren't magnetic (USA Today)
There Is NOT Guidance That Women Cannot Bear Children Within Six Months Of COVID-19 Vaccine (Lead Stories)
No, video doesn't prove COVID-19 vaccines will connect you to Bluetooth (USA Today)
UK not in 'crisis talks' with British Airways over safety of vaccinated pilots (USA Today)
No, Four British Airways Pilots Did Not Die From COVID-19 Vaccine (Snopes)
Misleading claims about magnetism spread to meat, poultry (Agence France Presse)
Unvaccinated people haven’t ‘escaped’ COVID-19 variants (PolitiFact)
Post Misrepresents Details of Postmortem Study of Vaccinated Patient (FactCheck.org)
Airlines Are Encouraging, Not Banning, Vaccinated Passengers (FactCheck.org)
'Candidates' Transferred In December 2019 Were NOT For The Coronavirus That Causes COVID-19 -- They Were For MERS (Lead Stories)
Post On WHO's Advice That Children Not Get A COVID-19 Vaccine Is Missing Context (Lead Stories)
Four British Airways Pilots Did NOT Die In One Week And There Is NO Proof Deaths Were From COVID-19 Vaccine (Lead Stories)
SCIENCE
The WHO hasn’t said women should be banned from drinking (FullFact)
No, the WHO isn’t trying to ban women ages 18-50 from drinking alcohol (PolitiFact)
FALSE: The American author Naomi Wolf is a medical doctor (Logically)
You can’t tell how a banana was ripened by looking at it (FullFact)
POLITICS
Do These Photos Show Democrats Celebrating Juneteenth? (Check Your Fact)
Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Say, ‘We All Want Earth to be the Best Planet in the World’? (Check Your Fact)
Police rarely prosecuted for on-duty shootings (USA Today)
Trump’s baseless claim about ballot drop boxes in Fulton County, Ga. (Washington Post)
Has the US Redesigned Its Flag Before? (Snopes)
Did NYC Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang Say This About Mentally Ill People? (Snopes)
Did California Tell Residents Not To Charge Electric Cars Due to Power Shortage? (Snopes)
Liberty U. confuses its Kennedys: Louisiana senator, not ex-president talked tough on immigration (PolitiFact)
Yes, Gov. Newsom Has the Authority to Continue California’s State of Emergency, Legal Experts Say (PolitiFact)
Manipulated video distorts Greta Thunberg’s comments on climate change (PolitiFact)
Bill Clinton Is NOT Facing A Military Tribunal At Guantanamo Bay (Lead Stories)
OTHER
No evidence to support viral story about firefighter who died on 9/11 (USA Today)
Police say no reports of car door kidnappings in Midwestern city (Agence France Presse)
Is Disney Trademarking Norse Gods? (Snopes)
Is Breyers Labeled ‘Frozen Dessert’ in Canada, Not Ice Cream? (Snopes)
Did 9:21 P.M. on June 21, 2021 Mark ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Run of Numbers? (Snopes)
Some Used Vehicles Now Cost More Than Original Sticker Price (Snopes)
Did American Airlines Receive Billions in Federal Aid Then Lay Off 30,000 Employees? (Snopes)
Instagram Did NOT Remove Double-Tap Feature For Most Users (Lead Stories)
A Three-Hour Traffic Jam Would NOT Strand All Electric Cars, And They Do NOT Lack Heating Systems (Lead Stories)
This Image Of A Massive Highway Is NOT The Katy Freeway In Texas (Lead Stories)
Does This Image Show the ‘G7 Parking Lot’ Packed with Planes? (Check Your Fact)
Did a New York Artist Sell Invisible Art? (Check Your Fact)
Did George Carlin Author this Essay about ‘The Paradox of Our Time’? (Check Your Fact)
‘My First Vape’ toy is not real (FullFact)
Charles Bronson has not attacked Ian Huntley (FullFact)
Ronaldo didn’t visit a mosque in Birmingham (FullFact)
Japan hasn’t banned Olympic athletes from taking the knee (FullFact)
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