CORRECTED-Fact Check-Gallup says Biden’s approval rating is 54%, not 11%
Adds paragraph five to clarify the Daily Caller did not report Biden's approval rating was at 11%
Adds paragraph five to clarify the Daily Caller did not report Biden's approval rating was at 11%
A video of a refuge chamber used to protect workers in hazardous environments has been mislabeled on social media, with users claiming it is a shipping container used for human trafficking.
Social media users have been sharing a photo of what they claim is a Spanish Dancer jellyfish found in Papua New Guinea’s lagoons. This claim is false.
A photograph circulating online claims to show a World War Two veteran wearing medals and crying while walking at a parade. Users claim that the man is walking alone at a parade in the United States. This claim is false: the image shows an unidentified man at the St Petersburg Victory Day Parade in Russia in 2007.
Images buzzing around social media show a photograph of a Black man mistakenly identified as Anthony Johnson and described as the first slaveholder in the United States. The photo, though, is falsely labeled. It is of formerly enslaved Lewis Hayden, who helped dozens of people escape slavery in the 1800s. A particularly popular version of the image, which has been shared more than 2,000 times on Facebook, presents the photo next to a drawing of a man mistakenly labeled “first slave!” That drawin
As a giant container ship blocked Egypt’s Suez Canal for almost a week causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway, posts circulated on social media claiming that Q, the anonymous web poster whose followers adhere to the QAnon conspiracy theory, had predicted the jam, and that the crisis had been orchestrated by the Clinton Foundation. These claims are baseless.
As a giant container ship blocked Egypt’s Suez Canal for almost a week causing a huge build-up of vessels around the waterway, posts circulated on social media claiming that Q, the anonymous web poster whose followers adhere to the QAnon conspiracy theory, had predicted the jam, and that the crisis had been orchestrated by the Clinton Foundation. These claims are baseless.
A video viewed tens of thousands of times on social media shows a TV interview with an 8-year-old boy identified as Lucas who says he used his dad’s gun to stop a burglar. The clip, which was made to look like a real morning show interview has been circulating since 2009 and was created by satirical publisher The Onion.
In the weeks after the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a flagship election reform bill known as H.R. 1 or the For the People Act of 2021, posts on social media claimed the legislation “would shift control of elections from cities, counties and states to Washington, D.C.,” “make mass mail-in ballots permanent,” “prohibit voter ID,” “allow same-day registration and voting (allowing zero time to vet potential voters for eligibility,” “enshrine ballot harvesting,” and “fun
Updated to correct repeated clause and quotation in paragraph 12.
President Joe Biden's administration is backing away from a campaign pledge to swiftly create a U.S. police oversight commission, a White House aide said, concluding that legislation would better address officers using excessive force.