The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is the third COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. Here, we give a rundown of basic facts about the vaccine and an overview of how it works. The post A Guide to Johnson & Johnson’

Q: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility? A: There’s no evidence that approved vaccines cause fertility loss. Although clinical trials did not study the issue, loss of fertility has not been reported among thousands of trial participants nor con

A popular image is made to appear as if President Joe Biden posted a racist tweet discussing Coca-Cola and "cultural reappropriation." There is no record of Biden ever posting that tweet. The post Posts Spread Fake Biden Tweet About Coca-Cola, Divers

In remarks at a Pfizer manufacturing site, President Joe Biden made misleading claims while boasting about his administration's progress in getting Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. The post Biden’s Misleading Vaccine Boasts appeared first on Fa

The U.S. Department of Energy approved a request to allow power plants in snowstorm-battered Texas to temporarily bypass some environmental limits during its energy crisis, in order to produce more power. Viral headlines falsely claim the department

A tweet shared on Instagram baselessly claims that a person is 300 to 900 times more likely to die “after getting the #Covid vaccine than the flu vaccine.”  But the comparison is faulty -- and there is no proof that people are dying from COVID-19 vac

President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Texas after a winter storm began wreaking havoc, and held a call with its governor as the state experienced power outages. But Facebook posts misleadingly claim there has not been "one word" o

A screenshot purports to show a 2016 tweet from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz concerning climate change. Cruz's office said the tweet was fake, and there is no record of Cruz ever posting it. The phony screenshot went viral anyway. The post Viral Posts Attribu

President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and spun others in a Feb. 16 town hall that aired on CNN. The post FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Evidence of the efficacy of face masks to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus has grown since the start of the pandemic. But a Facebook video uses false and misleading claims to tell viewers that masks are "unsafe" and "ineffective." The

Sen. Lindsey Graham twisted the facts about then-Sen. Kamala Harris encouraging donations to pay bail for protesters to claim “she actually bailed out rioters," including one who "went back to the streets and broke somebody’s head open." The post Gra

Two studies show a school reopening goal detailed by the Biden administration for his first 100 days may have already been met before President Joe Biden took office. The post Biden’s Underwhelming School Reopening Goal appeared first on FactCheck.or

A video falsely claims that people receiving authorized COVID-19 vaccines are taking part in a deadly clinical trial and that those administering the doses are war criminals under the Nuremberg Code. That’s bogus. People getting the vaccines, which h

One America News Network recently spotlighted one man's analysis that wrongly suggests precinct-level voting data in Georgia proved a computer algorithm was used to swing the election to President Joe Biden. A hand tally of paper ballots confirmed th

Democratic ads claim eight House Republicans “stood with Q, not you,” because they voted against Donald Trump's second impeachment. But they aren't known to be QAnon followers, and three of them supported censuring Trump as an alternative to impeachi

Headlines shared on social media distort the facts of a recent order by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that mandates face masks be worn on public transportation. The order doesn't require that individuals wear two masks. CDC guidance

Dubious websites and viral posts falsely claim that the World Health Organization changed COVID-19 testing protocols for political reasons following Joe Biden's inauguration and admitted that false-positive cases had been inflating the case count. Th

Baseball legend Henry "Hank" Aaron died from natural causes, according to the medical examiner’s office in Fulton County, Georgia. There's no evidence that his death was a result of being vaccinated against COVID-19 in early January, as multiple post

A highly viewed Facebook video distorts a CNN interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci to falsely suggest that a COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S doesn’t “protect you from covid.” The vaccine does protect against COVID-19, which is the disease caused b