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Social media posts

“An old tweet from Joe Biden shows he's a "hypocrite" for criticizing former President Donald Trump for issuing the "same [pandemic-related] travel ban.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: Social media posts claim President Joe Biden was critical of pandemic travel restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump. But that his remark was about an immigration order directed at largely Muslim countries.

Ted Cruz, Senator (R-Tex.)

“At a Senate hearing in May, Dr. Fauci said, ‘The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ That was under oath, under testimony. On October 20th, the NIH principal deputy director in writing directly contradicted it.”

Washington Post rated this: Two Pinocchios

Washington Post says: Cruz is spinning an NIH letter as confirming what it does not say. He is welcome to offer an opinion about its meaning. But, so far, it’s not a fact that NIH has admitted funding gain-of-function research.