“COVID-19 vaccines are gene therapy and a recent Forbes article proves that.”
Social media posts
Instagram. Claim dated 2 Dec 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The column itself attacks anti-vaccine activists and states that the vaccines do not alter DNA.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 2 December 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 December 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CW9yN-Xt9Cs/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=3cfd0772-118b-41fe-b1…
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