Reuters Fact Check

A digitally altered photograph of former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama with celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz is circulating online.

Claims that Bill Gates invested in a company working to create lab-produced breast milk company just as the United States experiences a baby formula shortage are misleading. There is no evidence that the years-old investment has anything to do with the current shortage, the motives of which have been documented by Reuters and other media outlets.

The Polish Post Office has not released an official stamp emblazoned with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, despite images of such stamps circulating online. A local councilor in Krakow said on Facebook that he designed the stamps and the sale of the stamps would go toward humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

A fake tweet attributed to CNN about Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is circulating on social media.

Users on social media have shared a falsified image claiming to show a CNN headline reporting that Russian military forces set fire to a building in Ukraine. No such article was published by the outlet

Social media users have shared video game footage from the game ‘Arma 3’ with captions suggesting that the clips show authentic footage of drone attacks on Russian marine military forces.

Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, did not meet U2 front man Bono in Ukraine in May 2022, contrary to claims made online. An image circulated on social media to make this allegation traces back to 2016 and was captured in Davos, Switzerland.

Draft legislation being debated in the Australian state of Victoria will not prevent people from growing their own food, as has been claimed online.

Users online have claimed without evidence that Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn only supports contraception for married couples. The claim likely misconstrues the senator’s comments in March 2022 where she called a 1965 Supreme Court ruling that allowed the right to marital privacy with regards to using birth control “constitutionally unsound.”

A woman who on the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was photographed with head injuries and appeared on newspaper front pages, has not been captured in Ukraine, contrary to claims on social media.