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“Las vacunas tienes contienen "metales pesados" y producen efecto magnético”
“Photo shows R. Kelly being released from prison in 2021.”
“Photo shows Tom Hanks after “wife Rita exposed his condition after he was spotted in a bad state. Tom will spend the remainder of his life in and out of hospitals.”
“Says Donald Trump signed the Insurrection Act and “still is president.”
PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence that Trump invoked the law during his final days in office. He is not president anymore.
“Says Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried “spent millions of dollars to put her face on every gas pump across this state.”
PolitiFact says: The stickers cost about $5,000, not "millions of dollars."
“There is a place in the U.S. where murder is legal.”
PolitiFact says: Murder is not legal anywhere in the United States. A provision in the Sixth Amendment might make prosecuting felonies committed within the Idaho portion of Yellowstone National Park more complicated.
“U.S. military arrests Dr. Deborah Birx.”
“Congress created “a generous mortgage relief program” for veterans.”
PolitiFact says: There is no evidence that Congress established a program that would substantially reduce veterans’ mortgage payments. Veterans are advised to be wary of offers to refinance VA home loans that seem too good to be true.
“Dominion LOST their law suits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.”
FactCheck.org says: Dominion has sued Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell for defamation after the 2020 election. Both of those lawsuits are ongoing, but a false claim circulating on social media says that “Dominion LOST their law suits.
“If we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America — as the nurses can tell you — every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient — every one.”
Washington Post says: Our calculations show there is no evidence to support this claim.
“Says he can't get much of his legislative agenda passed because there's "a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
FactCheck.org says: Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin by one measure have voted with Biden's position 100% of the time since he has been in office.
“The CDC lowered the PCR threshold while no longer recording asymptomatic cases...but only for the vaccinated.”
PolitiFact says: While it’s true the CDC are no longer officially scrutinizing asymptomatic breakthrough infections, the agency has not “lowered” the general cycle threshold for determining COVID-19.
“The New York Times published an old stock photo of a young girl and claimed Israeli forces killed her during its recent war with Hamas.”
“An email from Dr. Anthony Fauci shows "everyone was lied to" about wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
PolitiFact says: A social media post using old Fauci email falsely claims that Fauci ‘lied’ about mask wearing
“Emails show "Fauci's fellow scientist could tell early on that the (coronavirus) looked manufactured.”
PolitiFact says: One credible researcher noted the possibility of an engineered virus, but said more work was needed.
“La mitad de los empleados de los CDC, NIH y FDA han rechazado las vacunas experimentales contra el COVID-19”.”
FactCheck.org says: Funcionarios federales de salud testificaron que cerca del 60% de sus empleados había sido vacunado contra COVID-19.
“No hicieron pruebas con humanos [para las vacunas contra el COVID-19] y suspendieron las pruebas con animales porque los animales se estaban muriendo, y luego las pusieron a disposición del público”.”
“Not one word” from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris honoring service members for Memorial Day.”
“The filibuster, if it does not get reformed, still means that maybe 30% of the population potentially controls the majority of Senate seats.”
PolitiFact says: That's all it would take to successfully wield the filibuster, but given today's partisan patterns in the states, it's not enough to assemble a 51-seat majority.