A meme circulating on social media lists nine “questions to ask someone who thinks Biden is the President”. This image includes six false claims and three allegations that are missing context and are not evidence that Biden’s presidency is invalid.
Social media users have been sharing a quote attributed to George Washington about the right to bear arms. This quote has been misattributed; it was not said by the first President of the United States.
Coronavirus is not being recorded as the cause of death for every person who dies in the UK, despite a Facebook video claiming otherwise. The virus was, however, the leading cause of death in 2020 in England and Wales according to provisional data.
In the run-up to President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, an op-ed allegedly written by the mayor of a San Francisco Bay Area city began re-circulating on social media. The piece defends Donald Trump’s “lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship,” and praises the former president for “defeating the Left using their own tactics” and “fight(ing) for America.” The words, however, have been wrongly attributed to Dr Marshall Kamena, an optometrist and former mayor of Livermore, California. The
On Jan. 19, 2021, one day before the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, supporters of former President Donald Trump began sharing a video claiming to show military vessels off the coach of Long Beach, California. They either claimed or suggested that U.S. Navy ships had arrived to keep Trump in office.
Social media users have been sharing a video, which claims that President Biden’s inauguration was staged because his granddaughters suddenly disappeared while he was taking the oath of office and also because First Lady Jill Biden wore two different pairs of shoes during the day. This claim is false: Biden’s granddaughters were present throughout the oath and the video gives no clear reason as to why Jill Biden changing her shoes would be proof that the inauguration was staged.
Social media posts, shared thousands of times, show a text attributed to Ted Nugent which is addressed to President Joe Biden that says: “This Trump supporter will be giving you the same respect you gave my President Trump.”. While the musician did post this “letter” on his Facebook page on Nov. 18, 2020, a spokeswoman for Nugent confirmed to Reuters that he was not the author of the letter.
Facebook users have suggested a recent app outage was planned so Facebook’s developers could install tracking devices onto mobile phones. This is not true.
A post on social media features two photographs of President Joe Biden’s swearing in ceremony that appear to show a different set up of the people on the background. Some users claim this mismatch between the images is proof that Biden’s inauguration was pre-recorded or somehow staged and inauthentic. This is false: the images, a photograph and a screengrab from C-SPAN footage, were captured from different angles.
A video that covers a range of conspiracies regarding COVID-19 vaccines is being shared on social media. The video includes the false suggestion that the vaccine manufacturer Pfizer shut down production because of deaths among vaccine recipients. There are other claims and opinions in the video that are outside the scope of this check.