Social Media Posts Twist Harris Campaign’s ‘Joyful’ Message
Instagram posts, however, have falsely claimed the phrase âstrength through joy,â which echoes a Nazi-era program, has become a Harris campaign slogan.
Misleading Democratic Ad in Nevada on ‘Sunsetting Medicare and Social Security’
In 2013, economist Henry J. Aaron of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center warned the House Judiciary Committee that a Republican BBA proposal at that time âwould negatively impact the economy and threaten the nationâs financial stability.â
Mpox isnât misdiagnosed shingles
In the video that accompanies it, Dr Wodargâs voice has been replaced with an English translation, which says: âIf regional blisters occur, they are linked to severe pain in monkeypox.
Edited CNN headline makes false claims about Kamala Harris pledge
The screenshot appears to show an article on the politics page of the CNN website with the headline: âHarris and Walz pledges [sic] free Costco membership for all SNAP recipientsâ, and features a photo of them on a stage at Temple University in Philadelphia earlier this month.
The Royal Family doesnât receive ÂŁ320 million a year from the taxpayer
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook.
âIllegal immigrantsâ canât claim Jobseekerâs Allowance
If this is granted and includes accommodation that does not provide meals, an asylum seeker is entitled to a cash allowance of ÂŁ49.18 per week for each person in a household (with some extra money available for young children and pregnant mothers).
Harris Has Not Flipped on Trump Border Wall
âIf sheâs elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border â a project she once opposed and called âun-Americanâ during the Trump administration,â the article begins.
FactChecking Harris’ CNN Interview
In her first media interview as the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris stretched the facts on her past stance on fracking and the number of clean energy jobs created by recent legislation:
No, Apple has not said it will remove Telegram from iPhones
Apple has previously removed other apps from its store for violating its policies, including social media platform Parler and video game Fortnite.
Claims Labour pledged to freeze energy bills appears to refer to old policy
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as missing context because this is an old pledge made by Labour in response to rising energy prices in 2022, and no such promise featured in the partyâs recent election manifesto.
No evidence WHO has ordered preparation for mpox âmega lockdownsâ
The full report states that there is âmoderate riskâ of spread of mpox in other countries outside of West, Central and East Africa, and the focus there will be on preventing a resurgence in cases through âsurveillance and preparednessâ.
California did vote for Kamala Harris as Democratic presidential nominee
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as missing context because California initially passed as it is tradition for a candidateâs home state to vote towards the end of the roll call, and it did assign 482 delegates to Ms Harris.
The UAE has not frozen a contract for fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
Claims that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has âfrozenâ a contract for 80 fighter jets from France over the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov are circulating on social media, as part of a fake Al Jazeera video.
Trump TV Ad Falsely Claims Harris Has ‘Unleashed’ IRS on Tipped Workers
But the proposal is partly the basis for a Trump campaign TV ad that falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris âweaponizedâ and âliterally unleashedâ the IRS on tipped workers.
Trump Calls a Routine Revision of Job Numbers a ‘Lie’
âItâs a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,â Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Boardâs statistics division, told us.
Fake USA Today video falsely claims Church of Satan praised Paris Olympics opening ceremony
The Olympic Games organisers did apologise after a sequence of the opening ceremony depicting Greek god Dionysus came under criticism by some Christian groups, including the Catholic Church in France, as it was perceived to be a parody of Leonardo da Vinciâs painting âThe Last Supperâ.
NHS diversity officers donât all make ÂŁ96,000
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz video in front of a communist poster has been edited
A videocirculating on social media appears to show Democratic presidential candidate and current US Vice President, Kamala Harris, with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, posing for a selfie in front of a Revolutionary Communists of America poster.
Estimate of ÂŁ400,000 cost per asylum seeker based on the Netherlands, not the UK
But the ÂŁ400,000 figure is based on a report published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam which estimated that the net cost of âasylum migrationâ to the Dutch treasury averages âŹ475,000 per immigrant (approximately ÂŁ400,000).
9.4 million people are classed as economically inactive, not unemployed
For the purposes of that scheme, weâve rated this claim as missing context because the post refers to the number of people in the UK who meet the official definition of economic inactivity, rather than being unemployed.
The Pope has not appointed Klaus Schwab âuniversal bishopâ
The Peopleâs Voice article claims Pope Francis appointed Mr Schwab âuniversal bishopâ because âhis plan to restore nature to its position of primacy in the world order means he is more relevant figure than Jesus Christ in 2024 [sic]â.
Trump Revives – and Further Decreases – His Absurdly Low Estimate of Sea Level Rise
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just âone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.â Heâs previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.
Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy
Wheeler, for instance, said that the kit âhas everything that you or I will need to combat this lab-created virus that Iâm sure the globalists are going to unleash on us,â referring to H5N1 bird flu and listing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as components, while telling followers to buy it using her promo code.
Walz Twists Some Labor Claims
âWhile the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,â Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day.
Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention
Trumpâs proposal to end federal taxes on tips (which Vice President Kamala Harris later said she also supports) is aimed at benefiting mostly low-income workers, though some economists doubt it will work.
Third Night of the Democratic Convention
The late criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, who wrote about crime trends for the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice at the end of his long career in this field, told us in 2021 that presidents âcan facilitate a response,â citing an initiative by Biden at the time to work with cities to reduce gun violence.
How Walz Responded to Riots in Minnesota After the Death of George Floyd
Meanwhile, an independent âafter-action reviewâ commissioned by Minneapolis concluded that the delayed deployment of the state National Guard was at least partly the result of inexperienced city officials not following the proper protocols when Walz was first contacted about providing military assistance.