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“A new report from '60 Minutes' includes an interview with a scientist from the Pentagon who says that there is now a COVID microchip.”
Ben Swann RT journalist. Claim dated 13 Apr 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse

What FactCheck.org found

A company is developing sensors to monitor the wearer’s health and could potentially help to detect future disease outbreaks. But conspiracy theorists are falsely claiming that they are microchips that will track people.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Ben Swann (RT journalist) made this claim around 13 April 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 August 2021, 136 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Ben Swann has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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