REUTERS FACT CHECK HEADLINES

[yota691]

REUTERS FACT CHECK HEADLINES

Fact Check- Night-time footage of Kabul does not show August 26 attack

 

Following a deadly Islamic State attack outside Kabul airport on August 26, users on social media shared a weeks-old night-time clip of a cloud of smoke rising allegedly showing further attacks on the Afghan capital.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-Video shows explosion in Kazakhstan, not Aug. 26 Kabul airport attack

 

Footage of an explosion in Zhambyl province, Kazahkstan has been miscaptioned by social media users who have falsely claimed it shows an explosion that occurred at Kabul airport on August 26 in Afghanistan.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-FDA did not approve thalidomide for pregnant women in 1950s or 1960s

 

Social media users are falsely claiming that the drug thalidomide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1950s or 1960s.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-The milk crate challenge is not a satanic ritual

 

The milk crate challenge seen in videos all over the web was created in the spirit of neighborhood fun and is not a satanic ritual, contrary to the belief of some social media users.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-Meme comparing products it says were approved by FDA is missing context

 

A viral meme that claims United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals are meaningless is missing context.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-Photo of bullet-riddled classroom photo is from Gaza, not Afghanistan

 

A photo of a schoolteacher writing on a blackboard littered with bullet holes and one giant cavity was captured in Gaza, though it has been posted online with captions that claim it shows Afghanistan.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-Purported CNN article about 40-year-old vaccinated COVID-19 victim is fabricated

 

Social media users have shared a screenshot of an article purporting to be from CNN about a 40-year-old vaccinated victim of COVID-19.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-There is no evidence that mRNA vaccines are linked to blood clots

 

A video has flooded Facebook claiming that 62% of people given an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 have developed blood clots. However, experts told Reuters there is no evidence of this.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-Photos of ‘before and after USA involvement in Syria’ were not captured in the same country 

 

A meme comparing photos of a bank and a collapsed building have been falsely claimed by social media users to show the same structure in Syria, allegedly before and after air strikes from the United States.

AUG 27 2021

Fact Check-This image of a man falling from a U.S. military plane is photoshopped; it is not linked to recent events in Afghanistan

 

During the evacuation of United States forces from Afghanistan, a photoshopped image of a man falling from a plane began circulating on social media.

AUG 27 2021

[md11fr8dawg]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, I am the great and powerful dementia Joke POTUS. Watch the shiny objects!!! I pulled off the GREATEST and FASTEST pullout of a war zone EVER!!

 

What the HELL do we believe anymore???

[nstoolman1]

1 hour ago, yota691 said:

 

Fact Check-There is no evidence that mRNA vaccines are linked to blood clots

 

A video has flooded Facebook claiming that 62% of people given an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 have developed blood clots. However, experts told Reuters there is no evidence of this.

AUG 27 2021

I question this. I would not ask the very experts who are funded by Big Pharma if Big Pharma was lying. Too many independent studies are out to refute this.

 

Thanks Yota for bringing this.

[caddieman]

Since this is now a fact check site that is considered legit by some members here. Here ya go.

 

 

Fact Check-Photo of Kamala Harris with Jeffrey Epstein is digitally altered 

By Reuters Fact Check

4 MIN READ

Social media users have shared an image alleging it shows U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris with late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The image is not authentic and has been digitally altered to include Epstein.

Examples of the image are viewable (here), (here), (here), (here), (here), (here) and (here).

 

One individual added in the comments: “Somehow this doesn’t surprise me..... [sic] not much does these days!”

 

The image is not authentic, however. The original photograph was captured by photographer Jerod Harris in September 2015 and shows Harris alongside her husband, Doug Emhoff (here).

Epstein’s head was added into the photograph by superimposing it onto Emhoff’s body.

The caption of the original photograph on Getty Images reads: “Douglas Emhoff and Kamala Harris [attend] The Broad Museum Black Tie Inaugural Dinner at The Broad on September 17, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.”

The authentic image has been published by numerous outlets, including Grazia (here) and Bustle (here).

Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in 2019 at the Manhattan Detention Complex on August 10, 2019, after pleading not guilty to sex trafficking charges involving dozens of underage girls at his mansions in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida (here).

 

Longtime associate of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, lost a bid to dismiss her sex-trafficking indictment on August 13 (here).

Reuters has previously addressed digitally altered images appearing to show Jeffrey Epstein alongside high profile individuals (here), (here), (here) and (here).

VERDICT

Altered. The original image was taken in September 2015 and shows U.S. VP Harris alongside her husband, Doug Emhoff at an event in Los Angeles.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-photo-harris-and-epstein/fact-check-photo-of-kamala-harris-with-jeffrey-epstein-is-digitally-altered-idUSL1N2Q1292

 

 

 

[md11fr8dawg]

Never saw that caddieman, but don't need to see it, "Heels Up" has enough photo and video baggage that one fake photo/video DOES NOT exonerate her from her sleeping her incompetent, corrupt and unqualified Arse to the top.

Edited September 2, 2021 by md11fr8dawg

["Fred"]

[caddieman]

5 hours ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Never saw that caddieman, but don't need to see it, "Heels Up" has enough photo and video baggage that one fake photo/video DOES NOT exonerate her from her sleeping her incompetent, corrupt and unqualified Arse to the top.

Just pointing out the fact that many posters here use almost exclusively social media,YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc and post it as fact when many times it is just doctored up garbage. I’ve said many times on here to fact-check anything that is posted here only to be told fact check sights are all fake and government controlled. I’m glad we now have a fact check sight that is excepted by some of the radical right people. 

[md11fr8dawg]

I agree with you on the part of FB Twitter and youtube, I don't use the first 2 EVER and youtube only when I need to learn how to repair something not for politics.

[yota691]

I don't see anything wrong with you tube, better then any article or any op ed....I don't do FB and the point of this post, was to show how far we all have come, that world needs fact check due to lack of the Media covering the real True Story instead of the agenda. Which come from the Hate Everything America Party or the AKA Radical Right People

[yota691]

Glad I'm not alone to see what going on...Big Brother just produce this video after the above....Heck the Whole World see it, except the D's and few R's. Party and Power over everything...Divide and Destroy 

 

Stinchfield: They spin the facts but we see right through their lies
16,248 viewsSep 1, 2021

 

 

 

Ron Sanderson
1 day ago
Drive by media will pay for their part in the cover up. America won't forget.

 

Winifred Breaux
1 day ago
Biden admistration leaves AMERICAN,S BEHIND    |

 

Angels - are - Real
1 day ago
As a non American ... I've never seen such grand delusions as we're witnessing from this Biden Administration

 

Eden Bascar
1 day ago
Dogs have better brain than Biden and his staff.

 

lana kopeikin
1 day ago
They are hiding nothing they just don’t know what’s coming to them their hatred is transparent and telling