“Dr. Leo Ferreira, a cancer researcher shown in a video clip, was on the plane that crashed in Brazil on Aug. 9.”
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Claim dated 12 Aug 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Leonardo Ferreira, an immunologist at the Medical University of South Carolina, told PolitiFact he is alive and that he was not on the plane that crashed in Brazil Aug. 9.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 12 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 August 2024, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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