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FactCheck.org says: The photo actually shows a car-sharing company’s storage lot in China. The cars were to be replaced by updated electric vehicles.
FactCheck.org says: There have been no reports to back the claim that China attacked a Taiwanese armory, and the video gives no supporting evidence.
FactCheck.org says: The FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home looking for classified materials. Social media posts claiming the search was politically motivated have been swirling online, despite there being no evidence.
FactCheck.org says: The bill would make it a crime to knowingly “import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon.” Under the bill, current owners of such firearms would be allowed to keep them.
FactCheck.org says: The bill seeks to lower prescription drug costs by allowing Medicare to negotiate some prescription drug prices. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the bill would lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
FactCheck.org says: The photo was from a 2020 Trump rally and was shared that year by Eric Trump.
FactCheck.org says: The claim is based on an unconfirmed story in a British tabloid, which reported a year later that al-Zawahiri was still alive. The U.S. says al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike on July 31.
FactCheck.org says: The bottom of the webpage said, “This is not a government program nor is it government aid, this is an advertorial for a loan service.”
FactCheck.org says: Monkeypox is a viral disease that spreads through close physical contact. A recent meme on social media gets the facts wrong about how the virus spreads, its severity and symptoms.
FactCheck.org says: Corporations subject to a new minimum tax will pay more in income taxes to the federal government than they otherwise would without the bill. Corporations pass along some of the burden in the form of lower wages.
FactCheck.org says: A false claim casting doubt on the live-saving COVID-19 vaccines suggests that three Canadian doctors died from the shots. But, in reality, they each died of a long-term illness unrelated to the vaccines.
FactCheck.org says: The figures, which pertain to doses not people, come from the country’s Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, which publishes periodic reports on suspected side effects “regardless of the causal link to the vaccination."
FactCheck.org says: There is “unequivocal” evidence that humans are causing global warming, the U.N. climate change panel has said.
FactCheck.org says: It’s not “fact” that the vaccines suppress the immune system, nor is there any reliable evidence to suggest that it could be true. He cherry-picks and misrepresents a study to make his flawed case.
FactCheck.org says: Climate change has affected ocean ecosystems, scientists say. But an unfounded claim on social media that "plankton in the Atlantic Ocean is 90% gone" and the ocean is "now pretty much dead" is based on a faulty paper.
FactCheck.org says: Wuhan Institute of Virology study describes assembling part of a monkeypox viral genome for use in a diagnostic test. The researchers only made a fraction of the genome and it matches a different version of the virus.
FactCheck.org says: Dixon’s campaign website says she believes in “fully funding law enforcement” and she vows to “never reduce funding for law enforcement agencies or public safety initiatives.”
FactCheck.org says: Trump is citing a disputed, partisan report. There is no evidence of fraud and voting rates in the state’s nursing homes were not out of the ordinary.
FactCheck.org says: Kent says he doesn't want to change Social Security for older retirees and workers. He wants younger workers to be able to invest some money in “individual retirement accounts” instead of the “government system."
FactCheck.org says: Tetanus vaccines can prevent deadly disease in infants, but a video circulating on social media is spreading old, unfounded rumors that discourage immunization.