MediaWise says: While Gates is one of SCoPex’s funders, the experiment is overseen by advisers run by Harvard. Additionally, the SCoPEx experiment will not actually block or dim the sun. Instead, the experiment will only release nontox…
MediaWise says: The video was created in the year 2020, not 1956, and the video’s creator has clarified that this was just meant to be funny.
MediaWise says: While this video does show Mars’ actual surface, it was not recent footage from the newly landed Perseverance rover. Instead, the video is a recording of a panorama image taken by the Curiosity rover years earlier. The …
MediaWise says: Not Legit. There is no truth to the claim that homework spelled backwards translates to “child abuse” in Latin. The letter W does not exist in the Latin language.
MediaWise says: The viral video was edited to include Slenderman in the background
MediaWise says: While the actual video from 700 Club Interactive never states that a chip is inside the vaccine, the title and description are both misleading, and would definitely benefit from more information.
MediaWise says: While a YouTube title accuses the protesters in the video of taking part in a violent mob and storming the U.S Capitol, it actually shows people protesting the GOP’s health care bill in 2017.
MediaWise says: While this video does show Greene confronting Hogg after the Parkland shooting, claims that the video was recorded “just after” or “weeks after” the shooting are not entirely accurate, since this happened about a year l…
MediaWise says: While it’s true that 10 Kentucky counties made a list of the 25 “worst” counties to live in, that does not automatically mean that those counties are also the poorest — since poverty was not the only factor considered. …
MediaWise says: According to FDA documents, during the trials, two out of 21,000 trial participants who got the vaccine died. One of those two people died from a heart attack while the other died from arteriosclerosis. However, this do…
MediaWise says: Several reputable fact-checking organizations have found that there is no nurse by the name of Khalilah Mitchell in Tennessee. On top of that, experts have not found a definitive correlation between Bell’s palsy and the…
MediaWise says: Claims that this video shows the Trump family celebrating while watching the riots in a private tent are not accurate, since this video was recorded and posted well before the events at the Capitol took place.
MediaWise says: Because the video was actually filmed in November, long before the events that took place at the Capitol on Jan. 6, we will rate this YouTube video as Not Legit.
MediaWise says: NASA didn’t actually send Sally Ride to space with 100 tampons, like the song says. However, according to Ride, NASA did ask if that was the correct number. Since there are some minor historical inaccuracies weaved into…
MediaWise says: While the White House did put up smaller non-scalable barriers around its perimeter around Election Day, the photo depicting the tall grey wall is not real. The photo of the White House comes from 2009 and was doctored …
MediaWise says: Trusted local reporting and public health authorities have confirmed that New Zealand did contact trace coronavirus transmission back to a trash can lid and an elevator button.
MediaWise says: While Biden does support wind power among other alternative sustainable sources of power, his plan does not include taking air conditioning, heat and electricity away from seniors. We found no evidence to indicate it wo…
MediaWise says: Biden did own the home, but he no longer does. He bought it in 1974 for $185,000 when the home was in poor condition, and remodeled the home before selling it in 1996.
MediaWise says: The voting numbers Kanye West shared aren't real. They show random mock election data used for testing ahead of the election.
MediaWise says: The ingredients and processes mentioned in this claim do not alter DNA. Reliable public health authorities clearly explain the roles they serve in vaccination. Vaccination does not change DNA.