Daily Archives: September 6, 2021
The mayor of Calgary didn’t say that Covid-19 was a hoax
Facebook users have been sharing an apparently fake transcript of a legal hearing in which the mayor of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada, supposedly calls Covid-19 “a hoax”. Fact checkers in the US can find no record of this hearing. The mayor, Naheed Nenshi, also told them it did not take place. Moreover, in his other… Read More »
There are far fewer than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK
A post on Facebook, shared hundreds of times, wrongly claims there are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK. There are far fewer than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the UK In May, the National Crime Agency published an estimate which said there could be “between 550,000 and 850,000 people in the UK… Read More »
Daily Mail understates the risks of Covid-19 to children
No healthy child is believed to have died from Covid in the UK. MailOnline, 3 September 2021. The online edition of the Daily Mail claimed that no healthy children have so far died from Covid-19 in the UK. This is not true. A recent study of Covid deaths in England alone, just up to the… Read More »
Video falsely claims that you cannot refuse the Covid-19 vaccines
A widely shared post on social media includes a video featuring the former Pfizer scientist Mike Yeadon. The video includes lots of misleading or incorrect information about the Covid-19 vaccines. We haven’t fact checked every single claim, but some of the false claims include misleading information about the effects of spike protein production after vaccination,… Read More »
5 Things You Should Know – Part 432
Here are 5 things you should know. 1. Plan B is not a pill that causes abortions, it’s a pill that prevents pregnancies. Plan B and abortion pills are not the same. Plan B, or Levonorgestrel, is a dose of hormonal birth control taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy, which is…… Read More »
25 Uplifting Headlines of the Week – Part 245
WTF Fun Fact – Untergunther
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He was frustrated with the fact that he had to go and ask his coworkers what data was on their computer so he can add it to his computer which led to him creating an application that became the world wide Web. The post Sir… Read More »