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

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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

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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

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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

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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