Claim reviews
France passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines
CLAIM
“France will send citizens to jail if they question mRNA vaccines”; “It’s now a crime in France to oppose the mRNA vax”
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
CLAIM
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits
CLAIM
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Vaccines don’t cause autism; difference in infant mortality rates between Japan and the U.S. unrelated to childhood vaccine coverage
CLAIM
Vaccines contain unhealthy levels of aluminum; Japan’s elimination of vaccines has reduced infant mortality
SOURCE: Social Media User, Instagram
Published: 20 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Childhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens
CLAIM
Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.
SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter
Published: 16 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
CLAIM
Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur
SOURCE: Matt Roeske, Cultivate Elevate
Published: 15 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Claim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study
CLAIM
Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death
SOURCE: Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze
Published: 08 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Epidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
CLAIM
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
SOURCE: Jaclyn Simone, Instagram
Published: 01 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Incorrect claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 143,233% surge in cancer results from flawed calculations that misuse adverse event reporting data
CLAIM
“Official CDC data: 143,233% surge in fatal cancers among Vaxxed Americans”
SOURCE: Anonymous, The Exposé
Published: 01 Feb 2024
VERDICT
False-positive HIV tests don’t imply that a person is immunodeficient, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
CLAIM
“The HIV test can turn positive after COVID-19 as well as the vaccine”; “maybe a form of immunodeficiency is there”
SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Rumble, Instagram
Published: 30 Jan 2024
VERDICT