“Digital IDs were given to residents in East Palestine, Ohio, “to track long term health problems like difficulty breathing” before the Feb. 3 train derailment.”
Social media posts
Instagram post. Claim dated 24 Feb 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The devices have no tracking capability — either geolocation or biometric monitoring — and none of the devices had been distributed to East Palestine residents as of March 1.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 24 February 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 March 2023, 19 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/CpEoI_bMzjv/
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