Articles circulating on social media make the false claim that President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration has been canceled and that President Donald Trump “would remain in office”. This is false.
A Facebook post, shared hundreds of times since Jan. 15, claims that the COVID-19 vaccine does not prevent transmission of the disease, meaning vaccinated people will effectively become “silent spreaders”. It uses this as an argument against introducing health passports. This claim, however, lacks evidence.
A video viewed more than 2.8 million times on Twitter shows President-elect Joe Biden apparently looking “lost” and “confused” while on stage at a Jan. 16 event. However, the clip has been edited.
Videos on social media claim House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was accompanied into custody by U.S. Marshals because she was arrested. The photographs show Pelosi walking through the Capitol in Washington on the day the article of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump was signed on Jan. 13, 2021. Pelosi has not been arrested and attended a conference two days later.
Flagged by Facebook in its efforts to combat online information, posts circulating in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration claim that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Italy for the alleged arrest of Italian President Sergio Mattarella. These claims are false and part of a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that Italy interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to secure Biden’s victory. The images in these posts show Pompeo on a state visit to
On Jan. 6, 2021, the day supporters of President Donald Trump gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress and ultimately storm the U.S. Capitol, posts began to circulate widely social media claiming that an employee of an Italian security firm had interfered in the election to secure Joe Biden’s victory. Shared online with the hashtags #ItalyDidIt and #ItalyGate, the claims are part of a conspiracy theory intended to sow doubt i
Social media users have shared a video detailing a conspiracy theories about the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.
An article circulating on social media claims that the Marine Corps ‘rebuked’ U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and told her ‘we don’t work for you’. This report is false.
A post has made the false claim that there are no benefits of testing for COVID-19, because there is no cure for the disease.
Posts on social media make the claim that Poland, Sweden and Norway “are suing” the World Health Organization (WHO) for “infecting Europe” with “chemical pneumonia” released from airplanes. Some iterations include the claim that Reuters reported on this alleged lawsuit. These claims are false: Reuters did not report this or anything similar, nor did any other media organization. Posts feature falsely labeled photographs of aircrafts, some which have been previously used to illustrate the “chemt