U.S. Republican Senator Ron Johnson used health data gathered in England to claim more vaccinated people have been seriously affected by the Delta COVID-19 variant than the unvaccinated. Johnson's statements, and subsequent social media posts sharing them, do not explain the details underlying the data quoted, however.
A video showing vehicles being washed down a steep-sided ravine is being shared on social media with captions connecting it to a cyclone in Oman. However, the video was posted online a year ago and appeared in reports about flash-flooding in the United Arab Emirates.
Correction Oct. 2: corrects spelling of denominator in paragraph 13, and in the same paragraph corrects "25 orders of magnitude off" to "25 times bigger".
Social media users are comparing the number of 7-day average deaths in the United States in September 2020 with September 2021 and falsely claiming that the numbers prove COVID-19 vaccines have caused the increase in COVID-19 deaths.
Social media users are claiming that employees working in Congress, the judicial branch, the White House, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the United States Postal Service (USPS), Pfizer and Moderna, as well as undocumented immigrants, are not subject to vaccine mandates. This is partly false.
Claims that the devastating volcano eruption in La Palma, in the Canary Islands, currently risks causing a “mega tsunami” that would hit the U.S. East Coast are baseless, officials and experts continue to say.
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Update October 1, 2021: Removing spokesperson's name in paragraph 3.
A video and a photograph of a massive 2017 protest in Bucharest against government corruption have been miscaptioned online, with users claiming they show a recent demonstration against COVID-19 vaccination.
A sign from a Chick-fil-A restaurant in California advertising a $16.50 an hour starting wage has sparked confusion online.