Latest Fact-checks in Public Health Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.” Facebook posts stated on August 4, 2021 in a Facebook post: "If your employer is mandating any pokes, do not quit. Make them fire you. That way you get unemployment benefits." Bob Good stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post.: “Wearing masks has not been demonstrated to make a significant impact in preventing the spread of COVID.” Viral image stated on August 2, 2021 in a viral image: It’s safer to be unvaccinated than vaccinated against COVID-19. Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ivermectin caused a substantial decrease in the excess mortality rate in Mexico. Facebook posts stated on August 1, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Fauci just told us they found a (coronavirus) variant that ‘evades the test.’” Facebook posts stated on July 31, 2021 in a Facebook post: “The best way to avoid COVID altogether is to exercise, eat healthy and let your immune system beat it naturally.” Facebook posts stated on July 28, 2021 in a post on Facebook: “Thanks to (Israel's) sacrifice, we now know that natural immunity is far superior with 1% experiencing re-infection while 40% of new cases were previously vx'd." Facebook posts stated on July 25, 2021 in social media: CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.” Viral image stated on July 29, 2021 in a tweet: “George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army.” Facebook posts stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ethylene oxide used in COVID-19 testing swabs “literally changes the structure of the building blocks of your own body.” X posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a tweet: Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.” Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post: “CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.” Erin Marie Olszewski stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Don’t believe the hype that Florida” COVID-19 “numbers are up. It’s a blatant lie.” Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2021 in a post: Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination. Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post: "People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test." Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2021 in an Instagram post: “California has a personal belief exemption to any new vaccine added to the schedule after June 2015 for public and private daycare, preschool and K-12.” TikTok posts stated on June 16, 2021 in a TikTok video: Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines. Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2020 in a Facebook post: The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves. Joe Biden stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall: “Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated." Instagram posts stated on July 20, 2021 in Instagram: “Americans not vaccinated before 2022 will be put in camps” Viral image stated on July 16, 2021 in a viral image: “If the shot actually saved lives, they’d be priced so high that you literally could not afford them, you know like insulin.” Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on July 20, 2021 in remarks to reporters.: Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.” Tomi Lahren stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Unvaccinated, you can get COVID and have over 99% chance of survival. Get vaccinated and you can still get COVID and will still have over 99% chance of survival.” Facebook posts stated on July 14, 2021 in a Facebook post: Protest video shows “resistance” to “President Macron’s plan for mandatory COVID vaccinations of all French citizens.” Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Newly obtained emails show UCSF harvesting the clitorises, testicles and penises of murdered babies.” Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2021 in a Facebook post: Haiti, Tanzania and Madagascar refused the COVID-19 vaccines and now all three of their presidents have died unexpectedly. Instagram posts stated on June 29, 2021 in an Instagram post: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome “is absolutely a side effect of vaccination.” Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: A study found an “82% miscarriage rate” among women between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant who got an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Instagram posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: If COVID-19 was real, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wouldn’t have been “allowed to join 50,000 other football fans inside a stadium."
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Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.” Facebook posts stated on August 4, 2021 in a Facebook post: "If your employer is mandating any pokes, do not quit. Make them fire you. That way you get unemployment benefits." Bob Good stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post.: “Wearing masks has not been demonstrated to make a significant impact in preventing the spread of COVID.” Viral image stated on August 2, 2021 in a viral image: It’s safer to be unvaccinated than vaccinated against COVID-19. Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ivermectin caused a substantial decrease in the excess mortality rate in Mexico. Facebook posts stated on August 1, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Fauci just told us they found a (coronavirus) variant that ‘evades the test.’” Facebook posts stated on July 31, 2021 in a Facebook post: “The best way to avoid COVID altogether is to exercise, eat healthy and let your immune system beat it naturally.” Facebook posts stated on July 28, 2021 in a post on Facebook: “Thanks to (Israel's) sacrifice, we now know that natural immunity is far superior with 1% experiencing re-infection while 40% of new cases were previously vx'd." Facebook posts stated on July 25, 2021 in social media: CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.” Viral image stated on July 29, 2021 in a tweet: “George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army.” Facebook posts stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ethylene oxide used in COVID-19 testing swabs “literally changes the structure of the building blocks of your own body.” X posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a tweet: Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.” Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post: “CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.” Erin Marie Olszewski stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Don’t believe the hype that Florida” COVID-19 “numbers are up. It’s a blatant lie.” Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2021 in a post: Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination. Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post: "People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test." Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2021 in an Instagram post: “California has a personal belief exemption to any new vaccine added to the schedule after June 2015 for public and private daycare, preschool and K-12.” TikTok posts stated on June 16, 2021 in a TikTok video: Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines. Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2020 in a Facebook post: The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves. Joe Biden stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall: “Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated." Instagram posts stated on July 20, 2021 in Instagram: “Americans not vaccinated before 2022 will be put in camps” Viral image stated on July 16, 2021 in a viral image: “If the shot actually saved lives, they’d be priced so high that you literally could not afford them, you know like insulin.” Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on July 20, 2021 in remarks to reporters.: Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.” Tomi Lahren stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Unvaccinated, you can get COVID and have over 99% chance of survival. Get vaccinated and you can still get COVID and will still have over 99% chance of survival.” Facebook posts stated on July 14, 2021 in a Facebook post: Protest video shows “resistance” to “President Macron’s plan for mandatory COVID vaccinations of all French citizens.” Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Newly obtained emails show UCSF harvesting the clitorises, testicles and penises of murdered babies.” Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2021 in a Facebook post: Haiti, Tanzania and Madagascar refused the COVID-19 vaccines and now all three of their presidents have died unexpectedly. Instagram posts stated on June 29, 2021 in an Instagram post: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome “is absolutely a side effect of vaccination.” Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: A study found an “82% miscarriage rate” among women between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant who got an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Instagram posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: If COVID-19 was real, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wouldn’t have been “allowed to join 50,000 other football fans inside a stadium."
Ron DeSantis stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference: Says Joe Biden has driven the current coronavirus surge because he “imported more virus from around the world by having a wide open southern border.”
Facebook posts stated on August 4, 2021 in a Facebook post: "If your employer is mandating any pokes, do not quit. Make them fire you. That way you get unemployment benefits."
Bob Good stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post.: “Wearing masks has not been demonstrated to make a significant impact in preventing the spread of COVID.”
Viral image stated on August 2, 2021 in a viral image: It’s safer to be unvaccinated than vaccinated against COVID-19.
Facebook posts stated on July 24, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ivermectin caused a substantial decrease in the excess mortality rate in Mexico.
Facebook posts stated on August 1, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Fauci just told us they found a (coronavirus) variant that ‘evades the test.’”
Facebook posts stated on July 31, 2021 in a Facebook post: “The best way to avoid COVID altogether is to exercise, eat healthy and let your immune system beat it naturally.”
Facebook posts stated on July 28, 2021 in a post on Facebook: “Thanks to (Israel's) sacrifice, we now know that natural immunity is far superior with 1% experiencing re-infection while 40% of new cases were previously vx'd."
Facebook posts stated on July 25, 2021 in social media: CDC "will revoke the emergency use authorization" of the PCR COVID tests because those tests don't differentiate between COVID and flu viruses. "Translation: They've been adding flu cases to Covid cases when using that test.”
Viral image stated on July 29, 2021 in a tweet: “George Washington mandated smallpox vaccines for the Continental Army.”
Facebook posts stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: Ethylene oxide used in COVID-19 testing swabs “literally changes the structure of the building blocks of your own body.”
X posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a tweet: Says Joe Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”
Facebook posts stated on July 22, 2021 in a Facebook post: “CDC quietly deletes 6,000 COVID vaccine deaths from its CDC website total in one day.”
Erin Marie Olszewski stated on July 25, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Don’t believe the hype that Florida” COVID-19 “numbers are up. It’s a blatant lie.”
Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2021 in a post: Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination.
Facebook posts stated on July 26, 2021 in a Facebook post: "People are being diagnosed with delta variant" even though "there is no delta variant test."
Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2021 in an Instagram post: “California has a personal belief exemption to any new vaccine added to the schedule after June 2015 for public and private daycare, preschool and K-12.”
TikTok posts stated on June 16, 2021 in a TikTok video: Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris distrusted COVID-19 vaccines.
Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2020 in a Facebook post: The coronavirus can’t be so dangerous because there are no biohazard bins for COVID-19 masks and gloves.
Joe Biden stated on July 21, 2021 in a CNN town hall: “Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated."
Instagram posts stated on July 20, 2021 in Instagram: “Americans not vaccinated before 2022 will be put in camps”
Viral image stated on July 16, 2021 in a viral image: “If the shot actually saved lives, they’d be priced so high that you literally could not afford them, you know like insulin.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on July 20, 2021 in remarks to reporters.: Questions about whether she’s been vaccinated are “a violation of my HIPAA rights.”
Tomi Lahren stated on July 18, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Unvaccinated, you can get COVID and have over 99% chance of survival. Get vaccinated and you can still get COVID and will still have over 99% chance of survival.”
Facebook posts stated on July 14, 2021 in a Facebook post: Protest video shows “resistance” to “President Macron’s plan for mandatory COVID vaccinations of all French citizens.”
Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in a Facebook post: “Newly obtained emails show UCSF harvesting the clitorises, testicles and penises of murdered babies.”
Facebook posts stated on July 11, 2021 in a Facebook post: Haiti, Tanzania and Madagascar refused the COVID-19 vaccines and now all three of their presidents have died unexpectedly.
Instagram posts stated on June 29, 2021 in an Instagram post: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome “is absolutely a side effect of vaccination.”
Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: A study found an “82% miscarriage rate” among women between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant who got an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
Instagram posts stated on July 6, 2021 in an Instagram post: If COVID-19 was real, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wouldn’t have been “allowed to join 50,000 other football fans inside a stadium."
