# claims

text: Photo of newborn found in a university toilet in Nigeria
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-09-21T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of newborn found in a university toilet used in viral religious hoax
review_date: 2019-05-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photo-newborn-found-university-toilet-used-viral-religious


text: Nigeria’s elections authority is reconsidering 2019 presidential poll results
claimant: Exclusive 103
claim_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, Nigeria’s elections authority isn’t reconsidering 2019 presidential poll results
review_date: 2019-03-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-nigerias-elections-authority-isnt-reconsidering-2019


claimant: Mike Sonko
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nairobi’s water supply: 2 claims about losses & high prices in slums evaluated
review_date: 2018-02-12T13:40:02Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
It is also sad to note that water sold in informal settlements is the most expensive water in Nairobi County.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nairobis-water-supply-2-claims-about-losses-high-prices-slums-evaluated


text: China “accounts for less than 10%” of Kenya’s external debt.
claimant: The Africa Report
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Three claims about Kenya’s billion dollar debt to China, checked
review_date: 2021-03-08T08:42:28Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/three-claims-about-kenyas-billion-dollar-debt-china-checked


claimant: The APC’s Kashim Shettima and Festus Keyamo
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: #NigeriaDecides2023: Ruling APC party chiefs fall flat with TV claims about the economy
review_date: 2022-09-14T06:41:06Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“This is better than what you have in countries like the US, Canada, and Spain which are doing between a 7 to 10% increase in the inflationary rate.”


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-13T00:00:00Z
title: More fake quotes attributed to former South African public protector Thuli Madonsela
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa’s former public protector Thuli Madonsela said that black people “use racism as an excuse for their failures”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/more-fake-quotes-attributed-former-south-african-public


claimant: Ex-president Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:09:08Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“At the level of gender, at senior management level males remain dominant at 67.6% and females at 32.4%.”


claimant: Economic Freedom Fighters
claim_date: 2019-02-02T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Our land and jobs now!’ Fact-checking the EFF’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-03-04T04:43:31Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
”The post-1994 governments have cumulatively bought less than 7% of the targeted 30% of land meant for redistribution over a period of 25 years.”


text: Photo shows Kenyan preacher stoned while preaching good news to the people
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-15T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/preacher-attacked-kenya-no-bloodied-man-photo-ivy-wangechi

title:
Preacher attacked in Kenya? No, bloodied man in photo is Ivy Wangechi murder accused – after vigilante assault


claimant: Tito Mboweni
claim_date: 2019-02-20T12:00:00Z
title: Does South Africa’s finance minister have his job creation numbers right?
review_date: 2019-03-13T10:18:33Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Jobs Fund is a vital component to private sector job creation. The fund has… created well over 200,000 jobs since its inception

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-south-africas-finance-minister-have-his-job-creation-numbers-right


text: “Contagion is a Myth”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-18T12:00:00Z
title: No, contagion and germ theory not ‘myth’ – and viruses do cause disease
review_date: 2022-05-18T13:59:19Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-contagion-and-germ-theory-not-myth-and-viruses-do-cause


text: Rhulani Mokwena now Orlando Pirates head coach after Micho Sredojevic’s resignation
claimant: Trends Daily
claim_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/rhulani-mokwena-now-orlando-pirates-head-coach-after-micho

title:
Rhulani Mokwena now Orlando Pirates head coach after Micho Sredojevic’s resignation? More false news from Trends Daily


text: China Exim Bank has taken ‘absolute control of Eskom power facility in South Africa’
claimant: Newsoweto
claim_date: 2019-01-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, China Exim Bank hasn’t taken ‘absolute control of Eskom power facility in South Africa’
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-china-exim-bank-hasnt-taken-absolute-control-eskom-power


text: R8 out of every R10 spent by government goes to salaries of civil servants
claimant: Tito Mboweni
claim_date: 2018-10-21T12:00:00Z
title: Do South Africa’s civil servants get R8 out of every R10 the government spends?
review_date: 2018-10-24T07:08:53Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-south-africas-civil-servants-get-r8-out-every-r10-government-spends


claimant: Obiageli Ezekwesili
claim_date: 2018-11-28T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Project Rescue Nigeria’: Fact-checking Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential manifesto
review_date: 2019-01-16T12:59:39Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
From 1999 to date, all the projections made by successive governments to grow the supply of electricity to Nigerians to either 6,000MW, 10,000MW or 20,000MW have not been met.


text: eSwatini passed a law to let its king marry ‘14-year-old virgins’
claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2018-12-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, eSwatini hasn’t passed a law to let its king marry ‘14-year-old virgins’
review_date: 2018-12-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-eswatini-hasnt-passed-law-let-its-king-marry-14-year-old


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:46Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Our unrelenting effort at resolving an almost two-decade stalling on the management of our petroleum resources and ensuring equitable consideration to our host communities has resulted in the enactment of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021.”


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-13T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-05-13T07:51:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“National Youth Empowerment Funding Application Form 2022 online for registration exercise which is the quickest to apply for is now out for all bonafide citizens only who needs helping hands in their various business and education,”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/scam-alert-beware-bogus-national-youth-empowerment-fund

title:
Scam alert! Beware bogus ‘National Youth Empowerment Fund’ offer on WhatsApp and Facebook in Nigeria


claimant: Prof Innocent Ujah
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘In search of greener pastures’: Checking five claims about Nigeria’s doctors and the brain drain
review_date: 2022-07-19T10:40:19Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nigeria’s doctor-to-population ratio falls far short of the WHO recommended doctor-to-population ratio of 1:600.”


claimant: Dr William Ruto, the President of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-31T07:16:35Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Kenyan exports as a percentage of gross domestic product came down from 28% eight years ago to 10% this year."


text: US law means Marines are coming to ‘stop genocide in South Africa’
claimant: South Africa Today
claim_date: 2019-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: No, US law doesn’t mean Marines are coming to ‘stop genocide in South Africa’
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-us-law-doesnt-mean-marines-are-coming-stop-genocide-south


text: “Every hour, 50 people die as a result of diseases related to poor toilet hygiene.”
claimant: Advert for Hypo toilet cleaner, a Nigerian cleaning product
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-23T07:29:20Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-50-people-die-every-hour-diseases-related-poor-hygiene-nigeria-television-ad

title:
Do 50 people die every hour from diseases related to poor hygiene, as Nigeria television ad claims? It’s more than that!


text: South African footballer Ekstein resigns from Kaizer Chiefs after fight with manager Middendorp
claimant: Trendsdaily.co.za
claim_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/south-african-footballer-ekstein-resigns-kaizer-chiefs-after

title:
South African footballer Ekstein resigns from Kaizer Chiefs after fight with manager Middendorp? No, the story is fake


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
title: No, Mswati didn’t decree men in eSwatini must marry at least two wives or face jail
review_date: 2019-06-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
King Mswati called for all men in the country to marry at least five wives and the government assured the men that it would pay for the marriage ceremonies and buy houses for them. King Mswati warned that any man or woman who opposes the decision will face a life sentence.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-mswati-didnt-decree-men-eswatini-must-marry-least-two


claimant: Political party the Economic Freedom Fighters
claim_date: 2020-07-02T12:00:00Z
title: Young people are still less susceptible to contracting the virus
review_date: 2020-07-24T07:32:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The deaths of at least 10 South African children between the ages of 10 and 19 from Covid-19 “completely disproves the notion that young people and children are less susceptible to contracting the virus”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-eff-death-10-south-african-children-doesnt-completely-disprove-low-risk


claimant: Parks Tau
claim_date: 2018-02-19T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-south-africa-guzzle-235-litres-water-person-daily
title: Does South Africa guzzle 235 litres of water per person daily?
review_date: 2018-04-16T11:57:13Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
(Average water consumption in South Africa is 235 litres per capita per day) compared to a world average of 185


claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2019-02-23T12:00:00Z
title: ‘One South Africa for All!’ Fact-checking the DA’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-03-24T14:30:27Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Western Cape’s land reform audit found that the provincial government’s pioneering commodity approach, and through innovative solutions like the share equity schemes, had led to the success of 62% of all land reform farms in the Western Cape.


text: South Africa’s caesarean rates are twice the globally accepted average.
claimant: Gauteng MEC Bandile Masuku
claim_date: 2020-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: South Africa’s C-section rate double what it should be? There’s no recommended rate, says WHO
review_date: 2020-02-24T11:39:48Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-c-section-rate-double-what-it-should-be-theres-no-recommended


claimant: TVC News
claim_date: 2021-08-15T12:00:00Z
title: Did journalists’ TV ‘hangout’ get facts about healthcare in Nigeria right?
review_date: 2021-09-12T09:32:35Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria spends close to 3% to 3.5% of GDP on healthcare, while South Africa spends 8.25% and Kenya spends 5.2%.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: No record of Henry Kissinger giving ‘forcible vaccination’ speech at world health body
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Henry Kissinger said “Once the herd accepts mandatory forcible vaccination, it’s game over! They will accept anything – forcible blood or organ donation – for the ‘greater good’. We can genetically modify children and sterilise them – for the ‘greater good’.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-record-henry-kissinger-giving-forcible-vaccination-speech


claimant: President Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2019-01-16T12:00:00Z
title: Battle of the titans: Fact-checking arch-rivals in race for Nigeria’s presidency
review_date: 2019-02-14T07:17:48Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
When this administration came in, Boko Haram was holding 17 local governments in the northeast... they are not holding any local government now.


claimant: African National Congess
claim_date: 2019-01-12T12:00:00Z
title: ‘A better life for all?’ Fact-checking the ANC’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-02-11T06:11:34Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"...The national student financial aid scheme (Nsfas) has hugely increased [funding] from R70 million in 1994 to nearly R15 billion last year.”


claimant: Economist Samuel Jackson
claim_date: 2022-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-10-11T10:31:26Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Liberia peacekeeping ‘largest operation in Africa in the history of the UN’? Fact-checking prominent economist’s claims

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/liberia-peacekeeping-largest-operation-africa-history-un-fact-checking

title:
Liberia peacekeeping ‘largest operation in Africa in the history of the UN’? Fact-checking prominent economist’s claims


claimant: Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-04-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-nation-2019-did-kenyatta-get-his-facts-right
title: State of the Nation 2019: Did Kenyatta get his facts right?
review_date: 2019-04-05T09:36:27Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"Our aggressive push of this [universal access to basic education] agenda has this year seen us achieve 100% transition rate."


text: Zimbabwe continues to import electricity from South Africa
claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, neighbourly South Africa helps keep Zimbabwe’s lights on
review_date: 2018-09-25T06:47:17Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-neighbourly-south-africa-helps-keep-zimbabwes-lights


text: Evidence US report fingers Atiku Abubakar for recent killings in Nigeria
claimant: The Nigerian
claim_date: 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence US report fingers Atiku for recent killings in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-us-report-fingers-atiku-recent-killings-nigeria


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
title: Old South African K9 unit police cars are marked ‘dog unit’
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mixed
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African criminals drive fake police vehicles that can be identified by the marking “dog unit”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/old-south-african-k9-unit-police-cars-are-marked-dog-unit


text: The recommended global funding for the judiciary is 2.5% of the national budget.
claimant: David Maraga
claim_date: 2018-07-29T12:00:00Z
title: Budget cuts hit Kenya’s judiciary – but there’s no ‘global funding target’
review_date: 2018-08-16T07:53:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/budget-cuts-hit-kenyas-judiciary-theres-no-global-funding-target


claimant: Jamyco
claim_date: 2019-02-24T00:00:00Z
title: Israeli prime minister didn’t say Biafra would ‘overtake Nigeria as Africa’s giant’
review_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Biafra would take over from Nigeria as the giant of Africa

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/israeli-prime-minister-didnt-say-biafra-would-overtake


claimant: Musalia Mudavadi
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Kenyan politician Musalia Mudavadi's speech at his party’s delegates conference
review_date: 2022-01-28T05:24:08Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The Auditor General's report for 2019 shows that stalled projects, which we continue to borrow billions to run, run into mind-boggling trillions”


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2017-09-10T12:00:00Z
title: Did historic court ruling wipe out nearly $1 billion from Kenya’s stock exchange?
review_date: 2017-09-19T10:36:49Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
For your information, after the supreme court made this ruling, we lost KSh100 billion in our stock exchange.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-historic-court-ruling-wipe-out-nearly-1-billion-kenyas-stock-exchange


text: Usain Bolt told South Africa’s Caster Semenya to ‘accept testosterone ruling and move on’
claimant: Briefly
claim_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-usain-bolt-didnt-tell-south-africas-caster-semenya-accept

title:
No, Usain Bolt didn’t tell South Africa’s Caster Semenya to ‘accept testosterone ruling and move on’


text: South African final-year high school students will have to rewrite their exams due to leaks.
claimant: Facebook message
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: No national rewrite, or of varsities taking back offers
review_date: 2020-12-03T07:01:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-full-south-african-matric-rewrite-due-paper-leaks-varsity-acceptance


claimant: Peoples Democratic Party statement (January 2022)
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking seven claims about Nigeria’s ‘unemployment capital’
review_date: 2022-02-15T08:18:04Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Last year alone [2021], the [Imo state] regime accessed over N59 billion loans from foreign and domestic sources.”


claimant: South African government
claim_date: 2020-04-02T12:00:00Z
title: More than an inconvenience: Alcohol ban could help South Africans fight Covid-19 infection
review_date: 2020-04-15T12:36:26Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Alcohol weakens the immune system, making it difficult for the body to fight infections such as Covid-19.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/more-inconvenience-alcohol-ban-could-help-south-africans-fight-covid-19


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-09T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence UAE has Nigerian politician Atiku Abubakar on a terror watchlist
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president, has been put on the United Arab Emirates’ terrorism watchlist

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-uae-has-nigerian-politician-atiku-abubakar


text: All the ballot papers have been thumb printed for Buhari/Atiku
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-17T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/rigged-ballots-buhari-atiku-both-sides-recycle-dodgy-2015

title:
Rigged ballots for Buhari? For Atiku? Both sides recycle dodgy 2015 photo after Nigeria’s 2019 elections postponed


text: President of Kenya announces death penalty for poachers.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kenya still hasn’t announced death penalty for poachers, as old claim resurfaces
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-kenya-still-hasnt-announced-death-penalty-poachers-old


claimant: The World Bank
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: World Bank uses outdated stats as it announces $500m Nigeria education plan
review_date: 2020-09-30T11:42:30Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In northern Nigeria, the lack of secondary schools is significantly greater with up to 10 primary schools for every secondary school.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/world-bank-uses-outdated-stats-it-announces-500m-nigeria-education-plan


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:17:15Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In just nine years, we have moved from being the 12th largest economy in Africa to being the sixth largest economy ...”


text: Kissing disease that kills faster than Aids
claimant: Community page
claim_date: 2017-11-27T00:00:00Z
title: It’s a hoax: the ‘kissing disease’ in Kenya’s Kisii county that ‘kills faster than Aids’
review_date: 2018-11-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/its-hoax-kissing-disease-kenyas-kisii-county-kills-faster


claimant: Business Day newspaper editorial
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's education system 'dire'? Grading claims in Business Day editorial
review_date: 2022-04-06T10:41:47Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In 2021, there were 25 attacks on schools. 1,440 children were abducted, and 16 children were killed.”


text: Kenya’s Naivas supermarkets offering 1,500 jobs with KSh350 ‘application fee’
claimant: Google form
claim_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
title: Scam alert: Kenya’s Naivas supermarkets not offering 1,500 jobs with KSh350 ‘application fee’
review_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/scam-alert-kenyas-naivas-supermarkets-not-offering-1500-jobs


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: Busting four false claims about menstruation, cancer and women’s bodies
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Women should not to use shampoo during their periods “because the pores of the head are open during menstruation and it can cause headache”.


claimant: Action Democratic Congress
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: #LagosRace2023: Fact-checking claims by candidates seeking to govern Nigeria’s economic capital
review_date: 2023-02-08T09:59:37Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Only about 1% of about 1 million children in Lagos public schools are in technical schools, that’s about 10,000.”


text: South African schools going to teach 9-year-olds how to masturbate
claimant: Reverend Kenneth Meshoe
claim_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, South African schools aren’t going to teach 9-year-olds how to masturbate
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-south-african-schools-arent-going-teach-9-year-olds-how


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-04-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking 5 claims by Kenya’s deputy president Ruto including on corruption and land
review_date: 2019-05-21T13:55:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The law says, if you are allocated a piece of land, you must develop it within two years. If you do not develop it within two years, it is supposed to revert to government.


claimant: Nigeria candidates
claim_date: 2022-07-16T12:00:00Z
title: #OsunDecides2022: Did debating governor hopefuls in Nigerian state get their facts right?
review_date: 2022-07-12T12:03:42Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The percentage of out-of-school children in primary school is 26.9% and 10.5% for secondary school.”


text: Human papillomavirus is a “new virus discovered in Africa” that is “worse than HIV".
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-21T00:00:00Z
title: Confusing meme gets facts – and photo – of human papillomavirus wrong
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/confusing-meme-gets-facts-and-photo-human-papillomavirus


text: Wildlife poachers in Kenya will be executed
claimant: News 360
claim_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence for heavily shared story that wildlife poachers in Kenya will be executed
review_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-evidence-heavily-shared-story-wildlife-poachers-kenya-will-be-executed


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-04-21T12:15:40Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“If we took a random sample of five people in Nairobi and tested them for Covid, three are likely to be positive.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nairobis-covid-19-positive-cases-tie-kenyan-president-health-ministry-and-major

title:
Nairobi’s Covid-19 positive cases tie Kenyan president, health ministry and major media house in knots


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2020-06-13T12:00:00Z
title: Have 51% of SA women experienced intimate partner violence?
review_date: 2020-07-06T11:35:18Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
As many as “51% of South African women have experienced violence at the hands of someone with whom they are in a relationship”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-president-ramaphosa-have-51-south-african-women-experienced


claimant: Jeff Radebe
claim_date: 2017-05-31T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/sa-minister-got-it-wrong-africas-population-growth
title: SA minister got it wrong on Africa’s population growth
review_date: 2017-06-12T10:11:19Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
By 2050, it is projected that Africa will have the same population as China and India combined today.


claimant: The Star newspaper
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, not ‘all’ Kenya’s revenue used to repay country’s KSh6 trillion debt
review_date: 2020-04-09T09:47:43Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
All the ordinary revenue collected by the Kenya Revenue Authority is used to repay the country’s local and foreign loans, currently worth more than KSh6 trillion.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-not-all-kenyas-revenue-used-repay-countrys-ksh6-trillion-debt


text: Over 10,000 children in Mtwapa used in sex tourism
claimant: Citizen TV
claim_date: 2018-04-13T12:00:00Z
title: Little evidence that 10,000 children abused by sex tourism in Kenyan town
review_date: 2018-05-28T12:27:25Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/little-evidence-10000-children-abused-sex-tourism-kenyan-town


text: US stopped issuing Nigerian study visas
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
title: No, the US hasn’t stopped issuing Nigerian study visas
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-us-hasnt-stopped-issuing-nigerian-study-visas


claimant: ThisDay
claim_date: 2019-02-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claim about stunted kids hard to verify
review_date: 2019-04-11T06:59:38Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"Sadly in Africa, Nigeria, which prides itself as the giant of the continent, has the highest burden of the condition with over 11 million children said to be stunted."

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uncertain-nigeria-population-data-makes-claim-about-stunted-kids-hard-verify


text: It is legal to grow GMO grain in Ukraine.
claimant: Tsoncho Ganev
claim_date: 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Not true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-it-is-not-true-that-gmo-is-legally-grown-in-ukraine-or-that-the-land-is-owned-by-american-companies/

title:
PolitiCheck: It is not true that GMO is legally grown in Ukraine or that the land is owned by American companies


text: 80% of all food on the Bulgarian market is imported.
claimant: Kostadin Kostadinov
claim_date: 2022-10-29T00:00:00Z
title: PolitiCheck: The claim that 80% of all foods on the Bulgarian market are imported is false
review_date: 2022-12-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-the-claim-that-80-of-all-foods-on-the-bulgarian-market-are-imported-is-false/

textual_rating:
Based on the existing information provided by the State Commission for Commodity Exchanges and Auctions, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Modern Trade Association, the claim that 80 % of the food products on the Bulgarian market are not domestically produced is false. The data collected show rather an opposite trend in the ratio between domestic and imported products among the main food groups.


text: A NATO aircraft has prevented the launch of anti-hail missiles near Sadovo.
title: It’s not true that a NATO aircraft has deterred the launch of anti-hail missiles near Sadovo
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/it-s-not-true-that-a-nato-aircraft-has-deterred-the-launch-of-anti-hail-missiles-near-sadovo/

textual_rating:
The claim that a NATO aircraft has deterred the launch of anti-hail missiles near Sadovo on 31st May 2022 is false. The launch was banned because of a landing passenger airliner executing a flight from Paris.


claimant: Plamen Dimitrov
claim_date: 2022-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://factcheck.bg/en/no-haarp-has-not-caused-the-floods-in-karlovo-region/
title: No, HAARP has not caused the floods in Karlovo region
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
The destructive rainfall in Karlovo region has been caused by the US military “climate weapon” HAARP.

textual_rating:
It’s not true that the HAARP program, managed by the U.S. army, has caused the heavy rainfall and respectful floods in the Karlovo region. Russian officials have not warned of the “activation” of HAARP, nor has the Bulgarian caretaker PM “confirmed” its usage. The American research program HAARP has existed till 2014, but it had nothing to do with “controlling the weather”.


claimant: Kostadin Kostadinov
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
title: PolitiCheck: It’s not true that Bulgarian language is not taught in public schools in Ukraine
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
“First I want to say what was already mentioned, I’ll say it once more – there was an awful amount of closed Bulgarian…well, actually not exactly schools. The teaching in Bulgarian in all schools in Ukraine, where there is Bulgarian population, was ceased. Currently, there is not a single public school where it is taught in Bulgarian. It doesn’t exist, and it hasn’t for years. When we said this thing from “Vazrazhdane”, they accused us of lying, saying “it’s not true, there are Sunday schools”. Yes, there are Sunday schools, but they are not public. The state does not participate in their funding, nor does it support them…”

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-it-s-not-true-that-bulgarian-language-is-not-taught-in-public-schools-in-ukraine/

textual_rating:
Following the changes in the Education Law of Ukraine from 2017, the education in the regions with Bulgarian minority is performed in Bulgarian language until the end of primary school. After primary school, subjects begin to be taught in the state language – Ukrainian, but the Bulgarian language and literature remain in the program of state schools and are not prohibited. Meanwhile, Russia prohibited the teaching of Bulgarian language in the Zaporizhzhia region it occupied months ago.


text: Mike Tyson supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
url: https://factcheck.bg/en/no-mike-tyson-has-not-supported-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/
title: No, Mike Tyson has not supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine
review_date: 2023-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
textual_rating:
The claim that Mike Tyson supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not true. The boxer visited Russia and Ukraine in 2005, during which he wore a sports uniform with the inscription "Russia". However, this has nothing to do with current events and the war in Ukraine.


claim_date: 2022-09-15T00:00:00Z
title: You are not going to prison in Switzerland if you heat your home over the recommended limit
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
A text on a billboard in Switzerland encourages citizens to inform the authorities when their neighbours heat their homes above 19C.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/you-are-not-going-to-prison-in-switzerland-if-you-heat-your-home-over-the-recommended-limit/

textual_rating:
It's not true that the Swiss authorities encourage the citizens of Switzerland to report when their neigbours heat their homes over 19C. It's also not true that you can go to prison in Switzerland if you heat your home over the recommended limit of 19C.


claimant: Korneliya Ninova
claim_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
“The opinion of the German Constitutional Court is that the voting machines are not reliable. And they don’t comment on whether or not there are forged ballots.”

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-it-s-not-true-that-germany-s-constitutional-court-has-declared-voting-machines-unreliable/

title:
PolitiCheck: It’s not true that Germany’s Constitutional Court has declared voting machines unreliable

textual_rating:
A 2009 decision by the German Constitutional Court found unconstitutional only machine voting during the 2005 German federal elections, not machine voting in general. The court did not define the voting machines as “unreliable”. BSP’s position on the issue of machine voting has changed over the years. The party has supported both “one and only” machine voting and the return of the paper ballot as an option.


text: Western media are not reporting on the shelling of Belgorod.
claimant: Patrick Lancaster
claim_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
title: The claim that Western media are silent on the shelling of Belgorod is false
review_date: 2022-12-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/the-claim-that-western-media-are-silent-on-the-shelling-of-belgorod-is-false/

textual_rating:
It is not true that Western media are silent on the shelling of Belgorod in Western Russia. The attacks were actually covered by many major media outlets and news agencies. The author of the claim, Patrick Lancaster, is not an "independent journalist" as he likes to style himself. He has been based in Donbas since 2014 and has been reporting on events there from the Russian perspective.


claimant: Ekaterina Zaharieva
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
“There can be no mechanism in the Commission [author’s note: the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism]. I’ve told them several times, the mechanism for Bulgaria was terminated in 2019, because it fulfilled its commitments under it.”

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-the-european-commission-has-not-canceled-the-cooperation-and-verification-mechanism-for-bulgaria/

title:
PolitiCheck: The European Commission has not canceled the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria

textual_rating:
The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) has not been terminated for Bulgaria in 2019, as Ekaterina Zaharieva claims. In 2019, the European Commission published the last report on Bulgarian under the mechanism, but our country remains under the monitoring of CVM.


claim_date: 2022-09-03T00:00:00Z
title: German libraries are not collecting Russian books in order to burn them during the winter
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
The SLUB in Dresden has issued a message, which encourages readers to bring books from Russian authors in order to burn them during the winter.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/german-libraries-are-not-collecting-russian-books-in-order-to-burn-them-during-the-winter/

textual_rating:
The note, which is claimed to issued by the Dresden library, is falsified. The SLUB in Dresden does not collect Russian or other books in order to burn them in the upcoming months. An official statement of the library confirms that.


text: Sanctions on Russian oil have failed and American media are admitting that.
claimant: Tsoncho Ganev
claim_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
title: PolitiCheck: The claim that oil sanctions on Russia are failing is misleading
review_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-the-claim-that-oil-sanctions-on-russia-are-failing-is-misleading/

textual_rating:
Tsoncho Ganev's claim that sanctions on Russian oil are failing is misleading. It is based solely on the titles of two media articles and deliberately ignores all evidence that international sanctions are having an effect, even the evidence mentioned in the articles themselves. Russian oil prices are substantially lower compared to the same period last year. Russian authorities admit that their budget revenues from oil have been reduced. Oil markets remain relatively stable, with no supply issues and no price spikes.


claimant: Ekaterina Zaharieva
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
“Look, Bulgaria has invested the most funds and human efforts in protecting the external border, the toughest external border of the EU. Let me emphasize, this is the toughest, the longest land border, with the greatest migratory pressure.”

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-the-european-commission-has-not-canceled-the-cooperation-and-verification-mechanism-for-bulgaria/

title:
PolitiCheck: The European Commission has not canceled the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria

textual_rating:
It is not true that the Bulgarian-Turkish border is the longest external land border of the European Union. It is true that the most active route of illegal migration passes through Bulgaria – the Western Balkans route.


claim_date: 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://factcheck.bg/en/was-there-a-coal-renaissance-in-europe-in-2022/
title: Was there a 'coal renaissance' in Europe in 2022
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
In 2022 the media landscape saw multiple claims by various sources warning that Europe was making a U-turn in its energy policy and going back to the use of coal. Some of those voices were cautious, others more bombastic, some came from concerned experts, while others were propaganda publications seeking to promote the narrative that sanctions against Russia were wrecking the EU's energy sector and forcing the countries to step back from their climate goals.

textual_rating:
EU countries did use more coal in 2022 but the significant and lasting return to coal that was predicted did not happen. Coal temporarily provided extra security in the context of an energy deficit and the urgent need to break away from the dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Europe's energy shortage was covered almost entirely by the substantial rise in new renewable capacity. The EU's goals on emission reduction and carbon neutrality remain unchanged.


text: Russia is surrounded by NATO bases, on which there are US nuclear weapons.
claimant: Zlatan Zlatanov
claim_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Russia is not surrounded by "US nuclear weapons bases", as a fabricated map claims
review_date: 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/russia-is-not-surrounded-by-us-nuclear-weapons-bases-as-a-fabricated-map-claims/

textual_rating:
Russia is not situated "in the midst of US bases equipped with nuclear weapons", as maintained in an image circulating on Facebook. The spots marked with the NATO symbol do not correspond to actual military presence by the alliance. NATO presence is not equivalent to "US bases", nor does it presuppose the location of nuclear weapons. Only 5 NATO countries - Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Turkey - host American nuclear warheads under NATO's "nuclear sharing" arrangements.


text: The Hamburg library collects books in order to use them as a source of heating during the winter.
claim_date: 2022-08-31T00:00:00Z
title: German libraries are not collecting Russian books in order to burn them during the winter
review_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/german-libraries-are-not-collecting-russian-books-in-order-to-burn-them-during-the-winter/

textual_rating:
The Hamburg library does not collect books for burning during the winter. An official statement shared by the library confirms the falsity of such claims.


title: There are no abnormal radiation levels after missile strikes on weapons depot in Ukraine
review_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
There are increased radiation level in Ukraine and neighboring European countries after a missile attack on a weapons depot.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/there-are-no-abnormal-radiation-levels-after-missile-strikes-on-weapons-depot-in-ukraine/


claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence of link between Nord Stream leaks and the presence of US military equipment in the area
review_date: 2022-12-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
On 2 September an American helicopter carried out a flight with the call sign FFAB123 over the Baltic Sea in the area of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The flight is linked to the pipeline leaks which occurred at the end of September.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/no-evidence-of-link-between-nord-stream-leaks-and-the-presence-of-us-military-equipment-in-the-area/

textual_rating:
The flight on 2 September did take place over the Baltic Sea but its itinerary does not match the coordinates of Nord Stream 1 and 2 and the places where the leaks were found.


claimant: Tsoncho Ganev
claim_date: 2022-12-05T00:00:00Z
title: PolitiCheck: US General Jack Keane did not say the US made Ukraine go to war with Russia
review_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
US general Jack Keane said in a FOX interview that the United States made Ukraine go to war with Russia in exchange for 66 billion US dollars. He said there was a plan to also involve Poland, Romania and Bulgaria in the war. The interview was recorded at the beginning of 2022 and was removed from the TV network's website shortly after it was first aired.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-us-general-jack-keane-did-not-say-the-us-made-ukraine-go-to-war-with-russia/

textual_rating:
Tsoncho Ganev's Facebook post contains claims that are false and others that are based on quotes taken out of their original context. Such an interview with general Jack Keane was aired on FOX Business on 4 October. The military expert presents arguments in favour of the $66 billion US financial aide to Ukraine but does not say the the US "made" the country go to war with Russia for that amount. He talks about the security of the NATO member states in Eastern Europe and specifically mentions Poland and Romania, but not Bulgaria. He does not say that there is "a plan" for any of those countries to be involved in the war. Parts of the video have appeared on Russian media and blogs with an altered content and manipulative titles. Those versions have then made their way into the Bulgarian media landscape. The original interview has not been removed from the FOX Business website.


claimant: Blitz.bg
claim_date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
German child protection services are seizing Ukrainian refugee children from their parents in large numbers.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/russian-fearmongering-about-children-seized-from-parents-in-eu-this-time-from-ukrainian-refugees/

title:
Russia fearmongering again about children seized from parents in EU - this time from Ukrainian refugees

textual_rating:
Personal stories published in the media about children seized from refugee parents can not be confirmed because child protection services do not publish information about the cases they are working on. The original source for the Blitz.bg article is a Ukrainian website known for spreading pro-Russian disinformation. This is not the first time pro-Russian media are spreading stories of Ukrainian refugee children taken from their parents in large numbers. The theme is part of a larger Russian narrative about the West as an enemy of the family and traditional values.


claimant: viral tweet
claim_date: 2023-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: It's true that a residential tower in Kyiv hit by a Russian missile has been fully restored
review_date: 2023-03-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
A residential tower in Kyiv, which was damaged by a Russian rocket strike in February 2022, is now completely restored.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/it-s-true-that-a-residential-tower-in-kyiv-hit-by-a-russian-missile-has-been-fully-restored/

textual_rating:
The high-rise residential building in Kyiv whose photographs are circulating on Twitter has indeed been restored, after it was hit by a Russian missile on 26 February 2022. Despite the extent of the damages and the relatively short timeframe the affected parts of the building are now habitable. Damages on the tower, as well as the process of its renovation, were closely covered by Ukrainian and international media.


claimant: Ivaylo Mirchev
claim_date: 2022-11-11T00:00:00Z
title: PolitiCheck: The claim that the Netherlands promised F-16 fighter jets to Bulgaria is misleading
review_date: 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
text:
The Netherlands is willing to give F-15 fighter jets to Bulgaria if our country supplies its MiG-29s to Ukraine.

url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/politicheck-the-claim-that-the-netehrlands-promised-f-16-fighter-jets-to-bulgaria-is-misleading/

textual_rating:
MP Ivaylo Mirchev’s claim that the Netherlands is ready to give Bulgaria F-16s if Bulgaria provides its MiG-29s and SU-25s to Ukraine is misleading. The idea is indeed being discussed in the Netherlands, but it is about Eastern European countries, not Bulgaria specifically. The published article that Ivaylo Mirchev referred to does not specifically mention Bulgaria either. No official decision has been made by the Dutch government. According to the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence, discussions are limited to pilot training.


text: Trade between Bulgaria and Russia increased in 2022.
claim_date: 2022-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://factcheck.bg/en/bulgaria-s-trade-with-russia-grew-in-2022-driven-by-fuels/
title: Bulgaria's trade with Russia grew in 2022 driven by fuels
review_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
textual_rating:
It is true that the overall value of trade between Bulgaria and Russia grew in 2022 and import more than doubled. The increase, however, did not begin after the invasion of Ukraine, as a number of publications on Bulgarian media suggest. It was most pronounced in the first months of 2022 and is due mainly to the rise in oil and gas prices, as well as the economic recovery from the Covid pandemic. The increased value of imports does not mean that Bulgaria or other EU countries are breaching sanctions or that their steps towards energy independence from Russia are not effective.


text: US president Joe Biden promised to attack Nord Stream if Russia attacked Ukraine.
claimant: Nicholas Nicolov
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence of link between Nord Stream leaks and the presence of US military equipment in the area
review_date: 2022-12-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Factcheck.bg
publisher_site: factcheck.bg
url:
https://factcheck.bg/en/no-evidence-of-link-between-nord-stream-leaks-and-the-presence-of-us-military-equipment-in-the-area/

textual_rating:
The video is authentic and it is from February 2022, before the war in Ukraine began. It is not true that Joe Biden promises to attack Nors Stream of Russia went into Ukraine. His words have been taken out of context in order to suggest that.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hanks-obama-among-names-on-fake-epstein-list/
title: Hanks, Obama among names on fake Epstein list
review_date: 2024-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Kimmel are among the names on the Jeffrey Epstein list.

textual_rating:
False. The individuals do not feature on any of the lists or documents released relating to the paedophile financier.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dozy-vaccine-sedation-claim-is-still-nonsense/
title: Dozy vaccine sedation claim is still nonsense – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian government enables health practitioners to vaccinate patients under sedation without their knowledge.

textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a misreading of government advice on vaccination under sedation, which stipulates vaccination can only be given with consent.


text: A Cairns high school has installed a giant litter tray for students who identify as cats.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/school-student-kitty-litter-claim-lands-in-qld/
title: School student kitty litter claim lands in Qld
review_date: 2024-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim is part of a long-running hoax about schoolchildren using litter trays. Queensland’s Department of Education confirmed the claim is false.


text: A biologist has revealed the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine contains 200 billion pieces of dangerous DNA.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senate-hearing-used-to-propel-vaccine-dna-fears/
title: Senate hearing used to propel vaccine DNA fears
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The biologist said any risk of harm is theoretical and untested. Health agencies have said there is no evidence that any DNA in the vaccine causes harm.


text: A crypto trader has posed for photos with several of her cashed-up clients.
claimant: Isabella Thomas fx
claim_date: 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/government-ministers-social-photos-swiped-in-crypto-swindle/
title: Government minister’s social photos swiped in crypto swindle
review_date: 2024-01-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The photos of the supposed trader are actually of Queensland Education Minister Di Farmer, who has complained about the suspicious account using her images.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/energy-jail-threat-claim-fails-to-ignite/
title: Energy jail threat claim fails to ignite – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2024-01-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The UK Energy Act 2023 doesn't empower the government to issue fines or jail people.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A law will give the UK government the power to fine or even jail people if their homes don’t meet energy efficiency standards.


text: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contains cells from an aborted fetus.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-covid-vaccine-doesnt-contain-aborted-fetal-cells/
title: No, COVID vaccine doesn’t contain aborted fetal cells
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The vaccine was developed using material originally sourced from a human embryo. But it does not contain fetal cells.


claimant: Yoseph Haddad
claim_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-trickery-deceives-about-palestine-prisoner-exchange/
title: Video trickery deceives about Palestine prisoner exchange – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. A video has been selectively edited to show a different prisoner boarding the bus.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Palestinian prisoner seen in a video using his hands to pull himself onto a bus is a teenager who says he has two broken hands.


text: Mercury in flu vaccines causes Alzheimer's and exacerbates symptoms of people who have the disease.
claimant: Barbara O’Neill
claim_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/facts-put-flu-vaccine-mercury-claim-to-bed/
title: Facts put flu vaccine mercury claim to bed
review_date: 2024-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Flu vaccines in Australia and New Zealand do not contain mercury. Regardless, no link has been found between mercury in vaccines and Alzheimer’s disease.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-12-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/scammers-plump-new-depths-with-teen-hospital-picture/
title: Scammers plumb new depths with teen hospital picture
review_date: 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The photos depict a US teen injured in a 2016 car crash and are part of a scam.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Authorities are trying to identify a young woman who was recently robbed, stabbed, and left for dead on the side of the road in Australia.


claimant: Jason Miles
claim_date: 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/data-debunks-daft-child-vaccine-deaths-claim/
title: Data debunks daft child vaccine deaths claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2024-01-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There have been no reports of children under five dying after vaccination.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Health department data reveals five children under the age of four have died from COVID-19 vaccines in Australia.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/netanyahu-broadside-falsely-linked-to-2023-gaza-war/
title: Netanyahu broadside falsely linked to 2023 Gaza war – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-12-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Israeli prime minister has used a broadcast to rail against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the body accused his country of war crimes during the 2023 conflict in Gaza.

textual_rating:
False. The prime minister's comments are from February 2021 after an earlier ICC ruling. The body has not accused Israel of war crimes in relation to the ongoing conflict.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-11-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claimed-gazan-hospital-scene-is-from-malaysian-tv-satire/
title: Claimed Gazan hospital scene is from Malaysian TV satire
review_date: 2023-12-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The image is from a Malaysian comedy TV show from 2018.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An image of a man in a Gaza hospital is proof that Palestinians are using actors to exaggerate civilian casualties.


claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/health-treaty-alarmists-cant-tell-whos-who/
title: Health treaty alarmists can’t tell who’s WHO
review_date: 2023-12-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: The speaker does not represent the WHO.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A World Health Organization (WHO) representative spoke about removing human rights protections through pandemic preparedness plans.


text: Elon Musk has been named Time Person of the Year 2023.
claimant: Various Facebook pages
claim_date: 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-news-pages-inflame-culture-wars-with-barrage-of-content/
title: Fake news pages inflame culture wars with barrage of content
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim is one of many fake news items shared among a suite of supposedly genuine news pages.


text: An image shows an Israeli tank using a Supernova festival massacre victim as a human shield.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/massacre-victim-used-to-distort-events-of-october-7/
title: Massacre victim used to distort events of October 7
review_date: 2023-12-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The tank was shielding festival participants from Hamas militants, not using them as a human shield.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ev-critics-stuck-in-slow-lane-with-battery-bashing/
title: EV critics stuck in slow lane with battery bashing
review_date: 2023-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Manufacturing an electric vehicle (EV) battery produces the same amount of CO2 as running a petrol car for eight years.

textual_rating:
False. Manufacturing EV batteries produces roughly a quarter of the CO2 from running a petrol car over eight years.


text: Australian vapers face up to two years in jail under Labor’s new vape ban.
claimant: The Australian Taxpayers' Alliance
claim_date: 2023-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hazy-facts-link-jail-threat-to-new-vape-crackdown/
title: Hazy facts link jail threat to new vape crackdown
review_date: 2023-12-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. Vapers already face the potential of two-year sentences in some states and territories. However, nobody has ever been jailed for vaping.


text: Wellington Airport in New Zealand is selling customers’ lost luggage on Facebook for $3.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lost-luggage-bargain-is-a-flight-of-fancy/
title: Lost luggage bargain is a flight of fancy
review_date: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The posts are a scam and have used edited images from airports in Germany, England and the US.


text: A video of a dead Palestinian baby is really just a doll.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/images-show-gazan-baby-not-a-doll/
title: Images show Gazan baby, not a doll – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Journalists at the scene confirmed the baby was real and a pathologist said the doll-like appearance is consistent with normal post-death processes.


text: 1609 scientists have signed a declaration stating there is no climate emergency.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/climate-list-claim-melts-away-under-closer-inspection/
title: Climate list claim melts away under closer inspection
review_date: 2023-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The list of signatories includes lawyers, teachers, IT workers and relatively few climate scientists.


text: The South Australian government has cancelled the Anzac Day public holiday.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/posts-hit-wrong-note-with-anzac-day-cancellation-claim/
title: Posts hit wrong note with Anzac Day cancellation claim
review_date: 2023-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. April 25 is enshrined as a public holiday and existing legislation recognises this date as Anzac Day.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccination-key-to-japans-low-infant-mortality/
title: Vaccination key to Japan’s low infant mortality – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-12-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Infant mortality in Japan dropped 96 per cent after vaccines for children aged under 24 months ceased in 1994.

textual_rating:
False. Vaccinations didn't end in 1994 and an ongoing fall in the infant mortality rate is associated with an increase in vaccination coverage.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/indian-bombing-turned-into-israel-hamas-propaganda/
title: Indian bombing turned into Israel-Hamas propaganda – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Jews in an Indian city were targeted in a bomb attack following the appearance of a former Hamas chief at a rally.

textual_rating:
False. A meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses was bombed, with a former member arrested in connection. Jewish people were not targeted.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/global-health-documents-claim-is-nonsense/
title: Global health documents claim is nonsense – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The World Health Organization will use a digital health certificate to list which vaccines are required to travel internationally.

textual_rating:
False. Countries will continue to make decisions around what rules should apply for international travel and vaccination requirements.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-11-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pro-palestine-censorship-claim-falsely-targets-state-government/
title: Pro-Palestine censorship claim falsely targets state government
review_date: 2023-12-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The state government has not passed any bills banning the use of the phrase.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The NSW government has passed a bill banning people saying "free Palestine from the river to the sea".


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-health-logo-used-to-spread-fake-government-policies/
title: NZ health logo used to spread fake government policies
review_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. New Zealand Health and the National party both say the announcement is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand Health has announced the National government's new policies including sacking 7000 nurses and doctors.


text: The European Union (EU) has declared the COVID-19 vaccines were approved illegally.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-eu-hasnt-declared-covid-vaccines-were-illegally-approved/
title: No, EU hasn’t declared COVID vaccines were illegally approved
review_date: 2023-12-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. A small number of European Parliament MPs have complained, but the EU continues to support the approval process.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-palestinian-hospital-patient-doesnt-admit-hes-acting/
title: No, Palestinian hospital patient doesn’t admit he’s acting
review_date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The video does not include any audible mention of cameras or fake injuries.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video captures a hospitalised Palestinian man telling his mother in Arabic that he is pretending to be injured for the cameras.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-11-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/treasurer-chalmers-video-used-by-ai-scammers-on-social-media/
title: Treasurer Chalmers video used by AI scammers on social media
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have promoted a new investment platform.

textual_rating:
False. It's a scam. Artificial intelligence techniques have been used to manipulate audio and video of Mr Chalmers and Mr Lowe.


claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-post-seeks-to-change-festival-massacre-narrative/
title: Viral post seeks to change festival massacre narrative
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Footage proves Hamas did not target Supernova festival attendees and that they were instead caught in the crossfire of gun battles with IDF soldiers.

textual_rating:
False. The footage does not show IDF soldiers, but a small number of Israeli police officers. There is abundant evidence of Hamas militants killing unarmed festival-goers.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2013-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/councils-christmas-lights-ban-is-a-ho-ho-hoax/
title: Council’s Christmas lights ‘ban’ is a ho, ho, hoax
review_date: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is no ban, complaint or even a mosque in the town.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Christmas lights have been banned in a Queensland town after a complaint from members of a local mosque.


claimant: Maria Zeee
claim_date: 2023-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/30-pct-un-land-grab-claim-is-100-pct-wrong/
title: 30 pct UN land grab claim is 100 pct wrong – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-11-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is nothing in the MOU that gives the UN power to confiscate land.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia has signed an international memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will give the United Nations (UN) the authority to take 30 per cent of our land.


text: A video shows Palestinians faking a funeral in Gaza.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-funeral-has-no-relation-to-gaza-conflict/
title: Fake funeral has no relation to Gaza conflict
review_date: 2023-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The footage is from 2020 and shows Jordanian citizens trying to avoid COVID lockdown restrictions.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/gaza-aid-convoy-video-dates-back-to-2021/
title: Gaza aid convoy video dates back to 2021 – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-11-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The video shows an Egyptian aid convoy in 2021 that entered Gaza without incident.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video shows dozens of aid trucks blocked by the Israelis at the Egypt-Gaza border during the current conflict.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/instagram-user-unknowingly-debunks-own-claim-in-viral-video/
title: Instagram user unknowingly debunks own claim in viral video
review_date: 2023-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An electric vehicle charging station in Australia's outback is entirely powered by a diesel generator.

textual_rating:
False. Solar panels on the station's roof are the initial power source. The generator is only used as a backup.


claimant: Social media users.
claim_date: 2023-10-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pallywood-video-is-decade-old-egyptian-protest/
title: ‘Pallywood video’ is decade-old Egyptian protest – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The man in the shroud was participating in a student protest in Egypt in 2013.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A man who was filmed moving around inside a burial shroud is a Palestinian crisis actor pretending to be dead.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hospital-video-isnt-proof-of-palestinian-crisis-actors/
title: Hospital video isn’t proof of Palestinian ‘crisis actors’
review_date: 2023-11-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The videos feature two different men and were filmed months apart.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Videos show a Palestinian ‘crisis actor’ in critical condition in hospital one day but perfectly fine the next.


text: A behind-the-scenes video reveals Palestinians attempting to fake war casualties.
claimant: Social media users.
claim_date: 2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/gaza-footage-mislabelled-in-war-fakery-claim/
title: ‘Gaza footage’ mislabelled in war fakery claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-11-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The footage is from the set of a Lebanese short film about Palestine. It does not purport to be real-life footage.


claimant: Senator Simon Birmingham
claim_date: 2023-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senators-child-abuse-surge-claim-misleads/
title: Senator’s child abuse ‘surge’ claim misleads – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-11-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There have been an additional 30,000 reports of abuse or concern relating to children in the Northern Territory in 2021/22 - around 3,000 of which refer to child sexual abuse.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The 30,000 figure refers to unsubstantiated reports - 1,710 of these were substantiated, with six per cent of these involving sexual exploitation.


text: One billion people have died since the rollout of COVID vaccines.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/data-debunks-wild-claim-of-one-billion-deaths/
title: Data debunks wild claim of one billion deaths
review_date: 2023-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. About 200 million humans have died of any cause since COVID vaccination began in December 2020.


claimant: Maria Zeee
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/indigenous-rights-declaration-wont-hand-australia-over-to-the-un/
title: Indigenous rights declaration won’t hand Australia over to the UN
review_date: 2023-11-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The declaration protects the "territorial integrity" of all states.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia will be signed over to the United Nations if it implements the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.


claimant: Jahannah James
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-forest-structure-mystery-is-based-on-myth/
title: NZ forest structure mystery is based on myth
review_date: 2023-11-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A 75-year embargo on an archaeological site in New Zealand could be hiding evidence of pre-Maori settlers.

textual_rating:
False. The embargo was lifted in 1996 and there is no evidence at the site of a pre-Maori community.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-10-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-blaming-hamas-for-hospital-bombing-is-a-hoax/
title: Post blaming Hamas for hospital bombing is a hoax
review_date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An Al Jazeera journalist has confirmed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza was struck by a misfired Hamas rocket.

textual_rating:
False. The post is a hoax. Al Jazeera said the creator of the post was not affiliated with them in any way.


text: A pro surfer has promoted a weight loss product championed by pop star Kelly Clarkson.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pro-surfers-hacked-account-spruiks-kelly-clarkson-scam/
title: Pro surfer’s hacked account spruiks Kelly Clarkson scam
review_date: 2023-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
SurferFalse. The surfer’s account has been hacked to promote the AI-generated scam featuring the American Idol winner.


text: A total of 105,000 asylum seekers have entered Australia since Labor took government in May 2022.
claimant: Peter Dutton
claim_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dutton-gets-it-wrong-with-labor-asylum-seeker-claim/
title: Dutton gets it wrong with Labor asylum seeker claim
review_date: 2023-10-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The figure relates to people with failed or pending asylum applications. Most entered Australia under the previous coalition government.


claimant: Facebook Users
claim_date: 2023-10-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-qatari-emir-has-not-issued-gaza-ultimatum/
title: No, Qatari emir has not issued Gaza ultimatum
review_date: 2023-10-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. He has made no such threat. A video used as evidence to support the claim is from 2017.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The emir of Qatar has threatened to cut off the world’s gas supply if the bombing of Gaza does not stop.


text: The Australian government is sending tens of millions of dollars to Hamas each year.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-australian-government-is-not-sending-money-to-hamas/
title: No, the Australian government is not sending money to Hamas
review_date: 2023-10-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The government provides money to assist Palestinians through the United Nations and various international aid organisations.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-skewer-indigenous-vote-claim/
title: Experts skewer Indigenous vote claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-10-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The referendum results from electorates with the largest Indigenous populations show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people did not support the voice.

textual_rating:
False. The results cannot be used accurately to show how Indigenous people voted as they are among the minority of voters in all electorates.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/once-again-no-the-proposed-voice-is-not-part-of-a-un-land-grab/
title: Once again: no, the proposed voice is not part of a UN land grab
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The United Nations (UN) is listed as the executor and trustee of land, titles, deeds and trusts in the 1948 National Citizenship Act.

textual_rating:
False. The act concerns citizenship, not lands and titles. There is no mention of the UN as an executor or trustee of Australian land.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-delegates-were-not-given-uluru-statement-ultimatum/
title: No, delegates were not given Uluru Statement ultimatum
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Indigenous people were forced to sign around the edge of a blank piece of paper - not knowing the Uluru Statement from the Heart would later be inserted.

textual_rating:
False. The delegates signed a border of what would later become the Uluru Statement having earlier voted in favour of the wording.


text: Referendum officials have declared you can vote multiple times and that all votes will be counted.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misleading-multiple-votes-claim-omits-vital-details/
title: Misleading multiple votes claim omits vital details – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-10-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. Voting more than once is a crime and there is a system in place to ensure such fraud does not affect the referendum result.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/campaign-material-claim-fails-to-account-for-the-small-print/
title: Campaign material claim fails to account for the small print
review_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Yes23 campaign material features the 'authorised by' small print as required by law.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Yes23 campaign material for the voice referendum does not feature the required 'authorised by' small print.


text: Anyone who looks over 18 and is currently in New Zealand can vote in the election.
claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voter-fraud-claim-misleads-ahead-of-nz-election/
title: Voter fraud claim misleads ahead of NZ election
review_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. While people can vote without providing ID, there is a robust system in place to catch fraudulent votes.


text: Aboriginal land will be transferred to the British monarch if the Indigenous voice succeeds.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/aboriginal-lands-claim-a-total-abdication-of-facts/
title: Aboriginal lands claim a total abdication of facts
review_date: 2023-10-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The proposed voice would have no impact on land rights, native title or property laws in Australia.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-09-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-chance-blank-ballots-will-count-as-yes-votes/
title: No chance blank ballots will count as ‘yes’ votes
review_date: 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. A blank ballot paper is considered an informal vote - it won't count towards either side.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
If you leave your ballot paper blank, your vote will automatically count as ‘yes’ in the voice referendum.


text: The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a copy of the Zaire Statement from the Heart.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-uluru-document-is-not-copy-of-zaire-statement-from-the-heart/
title: No, Uluru document is not copy of ‘Zaire Statement from the Heart’
review_date: 2023-10-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The Uluru Statement incorporates and acknowledges a definition of spiritual sovereignty from an International Court of Justice case.


claimant: Steve Dickson
claim_date: 2023-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ex-mp-is-x-tremely-wrong-with-ballot-paper-claim/
title: Ex-MP is X-tremely wrong with ballot paper claim
review_date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A 2004 document provides proof the rules have changed about using an ‘X’ on referendum ballot papers.

textual_rating:
False. The document relates to senate elections, not referendums. Referendum voting rules have not changed for more than 30 years.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-08-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tax-claims-about-voice-donations-deduct-the-truth/
title: Tax claims about voice donations deduct the truth
review_date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Both campaigns have been given deductible gift recipient status.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Donations for the ‘yes’ campaign in the voice referendum are tax deductible, but not for the ‘no’ campaign.


text: Australian governments spend around $39.5 billion a year on direct support for Indigenous people.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-09-23T00:00:00Z
title: Do Indigenous people really get $39.5bn in direct support each year?
review_date: 2023-10-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/do-indigenous-people-really-get-39-5bn-in-direct-support-each-year/

textual_rating:
Misleading. The figure includes a share of general government expenditure on things like defence, foreign aid and border control.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/zero-truth-in-nonsense-illegal-writ-claim/
title: Zero truth in nonsense illegal writ claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-10-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The writ was signed by the governor-general and witnessed by the special minister of state.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The voice referendum writ is invalid because a government minister signed it in place of the governor-general.


claimant: Steve Dickson
claim_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/absurd-albanese-clip-fools-voice-voters/
title: Absurd Albanese clip fools voice voters – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video shows Anthony Albanese saying the United Nations will control all land in Australia if the voice referendum is successful.

textual_rating:
False. The clip has been edited to remove important context. The prime minister was giving examples of “absurd” conspiracies about the voice.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ignorant-post-spreads-land-rights-misinformation/
title: ‘Ignorant’ post spreads land rights misinformation – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-10-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
If the voice is implemented the government will no longer have to seek approval from Indigenous people about developments on their land.

textual_rating:
False. The proposed constitutional amendment has no impact on the legal rights of Indigenous people in relation to their lands.


text: The prime minister already has his own advisory body in the Indigenous Advisory Council.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-05-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-comparison-to-pms-indigenous-advisory-council-is-defunct/
title: Voice comparison to PM’s Indigenous Advisory Council is defunct
review_date: 2023-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The Indigenous Advisory Council ceased operating in 2019 under the previous coalition government.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misinformation-writ-large-in-video-on-referendums-legitimacy/
title: Misinformation writ large in video on referendum’s legitimacy
review_date: 2023-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The voice referendum is a fraud because no writ was issued for the House of Representatives at the 2022 federal election.

textual_rating:
False. All writs for the election were issued within the appropriate time frame and are publicly available online.


text: More than 1000 children are still missing after the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-truth-to-missing-maui-children-conspiracy/
title: No truth to missing Maui children conspiracy – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim misinterprets a document that said 2050 Maui students were yet to re-enrol in school. They are not missing.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/motley-list-of-voice-misinformation-goes-viral/
title: Motley list of voice misinformation goes viral – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A successful 'yes' vote will result in Indigenous people becoming Australian citizens and losing their sovereignty.

textual_rating:
False. Indigenous people are already Australian citizens and the voice would not change their sovereignty status.


text: The voice would increase the number of Indigenous parliamentarians to 35.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-chance-yes-vote-will-create-extra-indigenous-parliamentarians/
title: No chance ‘yes’ vote will create extra Indigenous parliamentarians
review_date: 2023-09-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The voice would be an advisory body. Its members would not be parliamentarians and would not have voting powers.


text: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a 'revolutionary' investment platform.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pm-gets-american-accent-in-latest-ai-scam/
title: PM gets American accent in latest AI scam
review_date: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. It's a scam. Artificial intelligence techniques have been used to manipulate audio and vision of the PM.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-vote-tampering-claim-doesnt-hold-up-to-scrutiny/
title: NZ vote tampering claim doesn’t hold up to scrutiny
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. New Zealand electoral laws allow for the presence of scrutineers throughout vote counting.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Scrutineers are not allowed to view the counting of special votes and postal votes at the New Zealand election.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/epidemic-emergency-cant-stop-new-zealand-election/
title: Epidemic emergency can’t stop New Zealand election
review_date: 2023-09-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The Act cannot be used to stop an election and continue a government's tenure.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand's prime minister can use the Epidemic Preparedness Act to stop the election and continue his government.


text: COVID vaccination during pregnancy increases the risk of stillbirth.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senator-shares-baseless-claim-linking-vaccines-to-stillbirths/
title: Senator shares baseless claim linking vaccines to stillbirths
review_date: 2023-09-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Studies have found vaccinated women are equally or less likely than unvaccinated women to have a pregnancy end in stillbirth.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-legislation-does-not-authorise-a-land-grab/
title: Voice legislation does not authorise a land grab
review_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Voice legislation proves the advisory body will have the power to seize private property, land and assets.

textual_rating:
False. The legislation, from South Australia, gives the state-based voice the ability to buy, sell and own land like other government bodies.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-09-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/social-media-gives-voice-to-farnham-fee-furphy/
title: Social media gives voice to Farnham fee furphy
review_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Taxpayer funds were used to pay John Farnham for the use of his 1986 song You're the Voice in a pro-Indigenous voice advert.

textual_rating:
False. The singer said he gifted his song to the campaign which, regardless, is not funded by the taxpayer.


text: The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) gets more government funding than Medicare.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/medicare-funding-comparison-doesnt-add-up/
title: Medicare funding comparison doesn’t add up – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Medicare has been allocated more than seven times as much funding as the NIAA this financial year.


claimant: Anthony Albanese
claim_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pm-mostly-right-with-bilateral-visit-claim/
title: PM mostly right with bilateral visit claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Anthony Albanese’s trip to the Philippines is the first bilateral visit by an Australian prime minister in over two decades.

textual_rating:
Mostly true. PM Malcolm Turnbull had meetings in the Philippines with two Filipino presidents but was already in the country for other events.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-02-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/images-of-outback-fishnado-smell-a-bit-funny/
title: Images of outback ‘fishnado’ smell a bit funny
review_date: 2023-09-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The photos are from a 2015 fish truck mishap in China.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Photos show the aftermath of hundreds of fish having fallen from the sky in a remote Australian town.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-08-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/posts-mislead-on-duttons-voice-voting-record/
title: Posts mislead on Dutton’s voice voting record – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has voted consistently for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice.

textual_rating:
False. Mr Dutton voted for the referendum to proceed, but has never supported the proposed constitutionally enshrined voice.


text: No empire in history has existed for more than 250 years.
claimant: Espen Hjalmby
claim_date: 2022-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/empires-strike-back-against-false-250-year-claim/
title: Empires strike back against false 250-year claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Many have lasted much longer than 250 years, including the Roman, Egyptian and Ottoman empires.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-jim-carrey-covid-19-quote-is-no-laughing-matter/
title: Fake Jim Carrey COVID-19 quote is no laughing matter
review_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that actor and comedian Jim Carrey said COVID-19 is being used to manipulate the world through fear.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/selective-editing-distorts-experts-climate-change-views/
title: Selective editing distorts expert’s climate change views – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A respected US academic has downplayed the impact of global warming and suggested it may benefit civilisation.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The video is edited to omit a key disclaimer that he was being intentionally contrarian as part of a broader discussion on the dangers of climate change.


claimant: A Facebook group Openyoureyes.pro
claim_date: 2020-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: The name “COVID-19” has nothing to do with sheep, Latin or surrendering
review_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post names several claims about the name "COVID-19" including that is an acronym for 'See a Sheep Surrender'.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-name-covid-19-has-nothing-to-do-with-sheep-latin-or-surrendering/


claimant: Pauline Hanson
claim_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hanson-wrong-to-say-mps-would-have-to-consult-the-voice/
title: Hanson wrong to say MPs would have to consult the voice
review_date: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australian federal politicians would have to consult the Indigenous voice to parliament about private members’ bills they put forward.

textual_rating:
False. The solicitor-general and constitutional lawyers say MPs would be under no obligation to consult the voice.


text: Face masks increase the risks of respiratory diseases.
claimant: Dr Graham Lyons
claim_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-that-face-masks-increase-disease-risk-is-on-the-nose/
title: Video airs false claims about face masks and respiratory diseases
review_date: 2022-01-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Mask-wearing helps to prevent the spread of airborne diseases. There is no evidence masks increase respiratory illnesses.


claimant: no5gaustralia Instagram page
claim_date: 2020-10-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-5g-exposure-like-living-in-an-airport-scanner/
title: Is 5G exposure like living in an airport scanner?
review_date: 2020-11-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context – Content that may mislead without additional context.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An Instagram post claims Australia has some of the least protective standards for electromagnetic radiation in the world, and compares the radiation from 5G mobile networks to living in an airport security scanner.


claimant: Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi.
claim_date: 2019-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/make-a-submission/
title: Make a Submission – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2019-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False -The checkable claims are all false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Senator Cory Bernardi accuses Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews of spending more than Clive Palmer on federal election advertising.


text: New Zealand has passed an anti free speech language compliance law.
claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-anti-free-speech-claim-muzzles-the-truth/
title: NZ anti-free speech claim muzzles the truth
review_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The Plain Language Bill requires government to use language that is easy to understand. It does not impose any limits on free speech.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccine-court-testimony-claim-back-from-the-dead/
title: Vaccine court testimony claim back from the dead
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The claim is based on a falsified court testimony from 2021.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An infectious diseases expert told a court double vaccinated people are 13 times more likely to catch and spread COVID-19.


claimant: Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labor-deputy-misleads-with-clive-palmer-legal-fund-claim/
title: Labor deputy misleads with Clive Palmer legal fund claim
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison used $1 million of public money to help Clive Palmer sue Western Australia.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The $1m relates to three separate High Court cases. Mr Palmer’s WA case accounts for an unknown portion of the joint costs.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-shows-huge-madrid-protest-but-its-not-over-covid-19/
title: Video shows huge Madrid protest – but it’s not over COVID-19
review_date: 2020-10-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video shows thousands in Madrid protesting the health system and "new world order" amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.


text: Root canals are toxic and scientifically proven to cause chronic illnesses.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/toxic-root-canal-claim-serves-up-old-discredited-toothless-theory/
title: Toxic root canal claim serves up old, discredited, toothless theory
review_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Root canal therapy takes place in a closed system and if done properly the risk of infection is minimal.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/story-about-einsteins-maths-mistake-doesnt-add-up/
title: Story about Einstein’s maths mistake doesn’t add up
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Albert Einstein made an intentional error on a basic maths question to teach students about making mistakes.

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence Einstein said the words attributed to him. Einstein experts say the story is false.


claimant: Facebook page, Backing the Kiwi Meme
claim_date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/manipulated-collins-quote-misrepresents-praise-for-trump/
title: Manipulated Collins quote misrepresents praise for Trump – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-10-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A meme circulated by a pro-Labour Facebook page quotes New Zealand's National Party leader, Judith Collins, as praising US president Donald Trump during the second debate of the 2020 election campaign.


claim_date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z
title: Pic of untouched vegan food in supermarket has nothing to do with COVID-19 coronavirus
review_date: 2020-03-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post links an image of vegan food products left on otherwise emptied supermarket shelves to the COVID-19 outbreak.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pic-of-untouched-vegan-food-in-supermarket-has-nothing-to-do-with-covid-19-coronavirus/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wtf-street-protests-are-not-related-to-the-wef/
title: WTF! Street protests are not related to the WEF
review_date: 2023-02-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Thousands in Spain, Israel and Portugal have taken to the streets in protest against the effects of World Economic Forum globalism.

textual_rating:
False. The protests were about domestic matters in each nation including legal system reforms, healthcare and the education sector.


claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2021-01-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/news-corp-and-pm-defrauding-the-taxpayer-claim-is-fake-news/
title: News Corp and PM ‘defrauding the taxpayer’ claim is fake news
review_date: 2021-01-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian government gave News Corp $50 million to maintain its regional newspapers before the company shut them down.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-10-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccine-expert-injects-some-truth-into-u-turn-claim/
title: Vaccine expert injects some truth into U-turn claim
review_date: 2022-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A New Zealand vaccine expert has backtracked on her pro-COVID vaccine stance during a radio interview.

textual_rating:
False. Dr Helen Petousis-Harris says her views remain unchanged and her comments have been misrepresented.


claimant: Steve Dickson
claim_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/former-queensland-mp-mixes-up-chinese-leaders-in-conspiracy-video/
title: Former Queensland MP mixes up Chinese leaders in conspiracy video
review_date: 2022-12-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The man escorted was his successor Hu Jintao. Mr Jiang's last public appearance was in 2019.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Ex-Chinese president Jiang Zemin was escorted from the CCP Congress just weeks before he died on November 30.


claimant: Fraser Anning
claim_date: 2022-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/miami-open-vaccine-injury-claim-aced-by-the-facts/
title: Miami Open vaccine injury claim aced by the facts
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Fifteen tennis players withdrew or retired from the Miami Open after suffering adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
False. Official tournament records cite various sports injuries and illnesses. This is supported by news reports and players' social media posts.


claimant: Topher Field
claim_date: 2022-11-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/blogger-bungles-analysis-of-swiss-covid-figures/
title: Blogger bungles analysis of Swiss COVID figures – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A graph showing Swiss COVID-19 mortality proves hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus.

textual_rating:
False. The data used does not match official figures. Additionally, experts say the selective analysis of the data cannot be used to draw conclusions about the drug.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/un-megacities-claim-is-a-mishmash-of-misinformation/
title: UN megacities claim is a mishmash of misinformation
review_date: 2023-07-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A 1976 United Nations resolution sought to move people into mega-cities in a bid to assert control over them.

textual_rating:
False. The 1976 UN conference offered guidance for improving living conditions impacted by increasing migration to cities.


text: Finland defeated Russia with a single bullet in the Winter War of 1939-40.
claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-finland-didnt-win-the-winter-war-with-a-bullet-and-a-prayer/
title: No, Finland didn’t win the Winter War with ‘a bullet and a prayer’
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence, experts say. The war ended with signing of the Moscow Treaty where Finland ceded about 10 per cent of its territory to the Soviet Union.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-26T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Murray did not tell parents to teach kids about tax by eating 30 per cent of their ice-cream
review_date: 2019-08-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim within the post is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
AAP FactCheck examined a Facebook post on that claimed to be a quote from US actor and comedian Bill Murray.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/bill-murray-did-not-tell-parents-to-teach-kids-about-tax-by-eating-30-per-cent-of-their-ice-cream/


claimant: Ross Walter Nutritionist & Naturopath
claim_date: 2021-06-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/toxic-spike-protein-claims-misinterpret-vaccine-study/
title: ‘Toxic’ spike protein claims misinterpret vaccine study – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 vaccines can cause serious harm by spreading "toxic" spike proteins into a recipient’s bloodstream and internal organs.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-01-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lithium-mining-meme-digs-itself-a-hole-with-deceptive-photo/
title: Lithium mining meme digs itself a hole with deceptive photo
review_date: 2021-02-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A meme shows a giant open-cut lithium mine and suggests battery-powered vehicles like electric cars are environmentally damaging.


claimant: Naomi Wolf
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/author-is-crying-wolf-over-pfizer-vaccine-batches/
title: Author is crying Wolf over Pfizer vaccine batches
review_date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An American Medical Association document confirms Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine ingredients and effects vary depending on their "batch".

textual_rating:
False. The claim misunderstands the AMA document listing vaccine ingredient data for different age groups.


text: England has banned COVID vaccines for pregnant women and children aged under five.
claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/uk-vaccination-bans-claim-is-heavy-with-misinformation/
title: UK vaccination bans claim is heavy with misinformation
review_date: 2022-10-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The UK government advises pregnant women to get vaccinated. COVID vaccination has not been offered for UK children aged under five.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/indigenous-recognition-wont-take-away-treaty-rights/
title: Indigenous recognition won’t take away treaty rights
review_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Recognising Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution will prevent them from pursuing a treaty.

textual_rating:
False. Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will not prevent a treaty.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-aec-doesnt-misdirect-voting-preferences/
title: No, the AEC doesn’t misdirect voting preferences
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Voters' preferences can be misdirected by the use of the two-candidate-preferred (TCP) vote on election night.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The TCP count is used to get an early indication of a result on the night, however all votes and preferences are counted in full in the days after.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-06-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/private-property-safe-as-houses-under-proposed-voice/
title: Private property safe as houses under proposed voice
review_date: 2023-07-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Indigenous voice to parliament will convert all private land in Australia into native title land.

textual_rating:
False. The proposed voice will have no impact on native title laws or existing private property rights.


claimant: A Facebook meme
claim_date: 2022-09-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tesla-free-energy-meme-shockingly-short-on-truth/
title: Tesla free energy meme shockingly short on truth
review_date: 2022-09-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The US government demolished Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower to prevent him giving free energy to the world.

textual_rating:
False. Tesla’s plans were for wireless electricity transmission but he was unable to make it commercially viable and the tower was demolished to pay his debts.


text: Australia has 85,000 fewer apprentices and trainees since 2013, when the coalition took government.
claimant: Anthony Albanese
claim_date: 2021-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labor-nearly-nails-it-on-apprentice-and-trainee-numbers/
title: Labor nearly nails it on apprentice and trainee numbers
review_date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly True. Official data for March 2021 shows 83,000 fewer apprenticeships and traineeships since 2013. However, recent interim figures show a smaller gap.


claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2023-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/triple-whammy-of-falsehoods-in-vaccine-cover-up-post/
title: Triple-whammy of falsehoods in vaccine ‘cover-up’ post
review_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There was no mention of any vaccine effects cover-up at the public senate committee meeting.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A government health boss used a secret senate meeting to urge politicians not to reveal a vaccine effects cover-up.


text: The New Zealand government plans to lock down schools for 72 hours with children inside.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-student-lockdown-rumour-is-uneducated-schoolyard-gossip/
title: NZ student lockdown rumour is uneducated schoolyard gossip
review_date: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. New Zealand’s Ministry of Health says the claims are baseless. Experts say no laws allow school lockdowns in the way it's been claimed.


text: The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has been withdrawn from Australia
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/moderna-vaccine-claim-gets-a-jab-of-truth/
title: Moderna vaccine claim gets a jab of truth
review_date: 2023-01-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Moderna’s bivalent booster and paediatric dose vaccine are widely available across the country.


text: The 2020 New Zealand election was rigged and 200,000 or more votes were removed from the tally.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
title: Thousands of ‘missing votes’ from NZ election are a social media mirage
review_date: 2020-10-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/thousands-of-missing-votes-from-nz-election-are-a-social-media-mirage/


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pendant-protection-from-radiation-claims-sink-like-a-stone/
title: Pendant ‘protection from radiation’ claims sink like a stone
review_date: 2021-08-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Jewellery made from shungite will absorb and neutralise EMF, protecting the wearer from harmful electromagnetic radiation.


claimant: Anthony Albanese
claim_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pms-claim-about-higgins-report-misleads/
title: PM’s claim about Higgins’ report misleads – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading. The report was never completed as the inquiry was suspended.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A report related to the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins was never released by the former coalition government.


claim_date: 2020-04-27T00:00:00Z
title: COVIDsafe app location detection post is a hoax message, says Department of Health
review_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A screenshot claiming to show a location warning message generated by Australia's new COVIDSafe app is circulating on Facebook followng the federal government's launch of the coronavirus tracking tool.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covidsafe-app-location-detection-post-is-a-hoax-message-says-department-of-health/


claimant: Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-australia-a-world-leader-in-renewable-energy-investment/
title: Is Australia a ‘world leader’ in renewable energy investment?
review_date: 2021-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Energy Minister Angus Taylor claims Australia is deploying solar and wind projects 10 times faster than the rest of the world.

textual_rating:
Somewhat True – A part or parts of the claim are accurate but there is also a significant problem or inaccuracy.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/medical-mask-colour-instructions-are-misleading-and-false/
title: Medical mask colour instructions are misleading and false
review_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims in the post are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the coloured side of a medical mask should be worn on the outside when a person is sick and the white side when healthy.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-03-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/high-court-claim-misleads-on-power-of-the-voice/
title: High Court claim misleads on power of the voice
review_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The voice will give Indigenous people the right to change anything that parliament approves by taking it to the High Court.

textual_rating:
Misleading. Experts say High Court challenges are unlikely. If one does eventuate, the court cannot change a decision made by parliament. It can only send a matter back for reappraisal.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-11-12T00:00:00Z
title: NZ ‘inhalation chambers’ story from 1918 flu epidemic is on the wrong track
review_date: 2021-12-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealanders needed proof of zinc sulphate inhalation treatment to use trains during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-inhalation-chambers-story-from-1918-flu-epidemic-is-on-the-wrong-track/

textual_rating:
Mostly false. While experts say there was no widespread mandate, newspaper articles from the time reported on at least two local rulings.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/unvaccinated-australians-wont-be-forced-into-isolation-camps/
title: Unvaccinated Australians won’t be forced into isolation camps
review_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australians who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by the end of 2021 will be put into isolation camps.


text: Government-funded PCR tests for COVID-19 cost $100 apiece.
claimant: Jim Chalmers
claim_date: 2022-01-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/mixed-results-for-shadow-treasurers-claim-of-100-pcr-tests/
title: Mixed results for shadow treasurer’s claim of $100 PCR tests
review_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mixture.  The maximum Medicare rebate for PCR tests was previously $100, but rates have been reduced. The average cost to taxpayers to date is $82 per test.


text: Smoking doesn’t cause cancer.
claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/science-stubs-out-claim-smoking-doesnt-cause-cancer/
title: Science stubs out claim smoking doesn’t cause cancer
review_date: 2023-06-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Decades of scientific studies have established links between tobacco smoking and a range of cancers.


claimant: Tim Wilson
claim_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/near-net-zero-truth-in-wilsons-climate-bill-claim/
title: Near net zero truth in Wilson’s climate bill claim
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Zali Steggall's climate change bill required emissions targets to be set by an unelected commission, which could override elected officials.

textual_rating:
Mostly False: MPs would have set the target by voting for the bill. The minister’s decision could only be vetoed if trying to bring the target forward - a measure removed before the bill was tabled in parliament.


claimant: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
claim_date: 2022-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pms-omission-misleads-on-medicare-rebate-claim/
title: PM’s omission misleads on Medicare rebate claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Medicare rebates were frozen when Peter Dutton was health minister in the Abbott coalition government.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The coalition froze Medicare rebates between 2013 and 2020 but the freeze was initiated by the Rudd/Gillard Labor government in 2013.


claimant: Carrie Madej
claim_date: 2021-03-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-evidence-of-delayed-killswitch-in-mrna-vaccines/
title: No evidence of ‘delayed killswitch’ in mRNA vaccines
review_date: 2021-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
mRNA vaccines to prevent COVID-19 cause a severe immune response called a cytokine storm. This was not shown in animal trials because these trials were skipped.


text: Indigenous people own or control 49.4 per cent of Australia.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-inflates-indigenous-land-ownership-figure/
title: Post inflates Indigenous land ownership figure – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The figure is around 30 per cent. Even then, much of this land ‘ownership’ does not align with Western land ownership principles.


text: A viral photo shows a Himalayan flower that blooms only once in 400 years.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-himalayan-flower-doesnt-bloom-every-400-years/
title: No, a Himalayan flower doesn’t bloom every 400 years
review_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The plant, Rheum nobile, blooms once before dying. Researchers say this occurs on average after about 33 years.


text: The Religious Discrimination Bill will make it unlawful to promote Christianity.
claimant: Bernard Gaynor
claim_date: 2022-04-16T00:00:00Z
title: No truth in claim proposed law would ban promotion of Christianity
review_date: 2022-04-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The bill would protect Christian rights as well as those of other religions.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-truth-in-claim-proposed-law-would-ban-promotion-of-christianity/


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/long-list-of-australian-taxes-short-on-sense/
title: Long list of Australian taxes short on sense
review_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Several taxes in the list did exist 100 years ago and others don't apply in Australia.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Thirty five major taxes including income and inheritance tax did not exist in Australia 100 years ago.


text: Football fans in Amsterdam held a giant banner in support of Julian Assange.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-assange-football-banner-shown-the-red-card/
title: Fake Assange football banner shown the red card
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The photo has been manipulated as the original image shows fans holding a giant flag of Israel.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/anti-vaxx-post-pinpoints-wrong-factor-for-autism-rates/
title: Anti-vaxx post pinpoints wrong factor for autism rates
review_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An increase in child vaccines has caused autism rates to rise from one in 10,000 to one in 36 over the past four decades.

textual_rating:
False. The increase in the number of people diagnosed is due to an improved understanding of the condition and a broader diagnostic criteria.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/minuscule-wind-and-solar-production-claim-needs-a-jolt-of-truth/
title: Minuscule wind and solar production claim needs a jolt of truth
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Experts say, and data shows, wind and solar generate about one-fifth of the NEM's power.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Wind and solar power contribute less than two per cent of the National Electricity Market's (NEM) total energy.


text: Independent MP Zoe Daniel has promoted a fossil fuel trading scheme.
claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-teal-mp-did-not-spruik-fossil-fuel-trading-scheme/
title: No, teal MP did not spruik fossil fuel trading scheme
review_date: 2022-10-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The clip of Ms Daniel has been taken out of context. The federal MP confirmed she had nothing to do with the scheme.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-09T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence to link flu vaccinations to increased COVID-19 risk, say experts
review_date: 2020-08-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The claims in the post are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims medical studies show the flu vaccination will increase a person's susceptibility to COVID-19 and could be "contributing to the outbreak".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-evidence-to-link-flu-vaccinations-to-increased-covid-19-risk-say-experts/


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/council-impersonated-in-re-writing-history-claim/
title: Council impersonated in ‘re-writing history’ claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The Facebook post purporting to be from the council is a fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Dunedin City Council said it will not be holding Otago Day celebrations due to the re-writing of history.


claimant: Maori Party co-leader John Tamihere
claim_date: 2020-10-03T00:00:00Z
title: Has NZ spent more on Corrections in two years than on all Treaty of Waitangi settlements?
review_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True - The checkable claim is true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Maori Party co-leader John Tamihere claims that two years' Vote Corrections budget is greater than the total amount paid out in all Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-nz-spent-more-on-corrections-in-two-years-than-on-all-treaty-of-waitangi-settlements/


text: A Facebook post claims former Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase died from the coronavirus.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
title: COVID-19 did not claim the life of former Fijian PM Laisenia Qarase
review_date: 2020-05-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-did-not-claim-the-life-of-former-fijian-pm-laisenia-qarase/


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/clogged-dutch-motorway-pic-doesnt-show-nz-farming-protest/
title: Clogged Dutch motorway pic doesn’t show NZ farming protest
review_date: 2021-07-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A viral image of tractors clogging a motorway shows the New Zealand farmer protest from July 16, 2021.


claimant: Jacinda Ardern, Labour Party leader and NZ Prime Minister.
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labour-and-national-both-claim-credit-for-nz-public-housing-rise/
title: Labour and National both claim credit for NZ public housing rise
review_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – The claim is mostly accurate but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said National sold 6000 public houses while Labour had created 5000 places. Her party also claimed if National had built at the same rate there would be enough houses for the current waiting list.


claimant: Internet meme
claim_date: 2022-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lego-lgbtqi-sets-sales-meme-is-a-poorly-constructed-fake/
title: Lego LGBTQI set’s sales meme is a poorly constructed fake
review_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The New York Times said the story is fake and Lego has not released its sales figures.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The New York Times reported a Lego set celebrating the LGBTQI community generated the worst sales figures in the toy-maker's history.


claim_date: 2020-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hillary-clinton-has-not-had-her-day-in-court-nor-lost-her-case/
title: Hillary Clinton has not had her day in court, nor lost her case
review_date: 2020-06-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly false - The claims of the content are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post claims media coverage of US riots and the COVID-19 pandemic "distracted" people from a court appearance by former US secretary of state Hilary Clinton.


claimant: Australian Christian Lobby
claim_date: 2022-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lobbys-law-reform-claim-doesnt-stand-up-to-scrutiny/
title: Lobby’s law reform claim doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Parents who urge caution to children questioning their gender or sexuality would be committing a crime if proposed legal changes are implemented.

textual_rating:
False. The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute proposal specifically puts in place protections for parental care and guidance.


text: Bibles have been banned in California.
claimant: Facebook videos
claim_date: 2023-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/exodus-of-facts-in-barmy-bible-ban-claim/
title: Exodus of facts in barmy Bible ban claim
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a proposed anti-conversion therapy bill that was discontinued in 2018. Even so, the bill would not have banned Bibles.


claimant: National Party deputy leader Senator Bridget McKenzie
claim_date: 2019-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/
title: AAP FactCheck – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2019-05-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The checkable claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National Party deputy leader Senator Bridget McKenzie claims Australians had taken to renewables “with open arms” and her government should be congratulated for its costed climate change policy.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/do-face-masks-cause-staph-infections/
title: Do face masks cause ‘staph’ infections? – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-11-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that wearing face masks can cause infections from bacteria such as staphylococcus.


claimant: Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi
claim_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
title: Greens senator says Labor’s 43 per cent target fails to achieve Paris commitment
review_date: 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor’s pledge to reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 falls short of Australia’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/greens-senator-says-labors-43-pct-target-fails-to-achieve-paris-commitment/

textual_rating:
True. Experts say the 43 per cent cut in emissions would not be enough to meet our Paris Agreement obligations.


text: Food flavouring is made using cells from aborted babies.
claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-08-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/processed-foods-contain-human-fetal-cells-is-pure-junk/
title: Processed foods contain human fetal cells claim is pure junk
review_date: 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Commercial food does not contain any human tissue. A US firm reportedly tested new flavours using lab-grown cells derived from a 1970s human fetus but the technique is not common.


claimant: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
claim_date: 2020-10-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/does-nz-spend-less-on-pensions-than-most-wealthy-countries/
title: Does NZ spend less on pensions than most wealthy countries?
review_date: 2020-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True - The claim is mostly accurate but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters claims that government spending on superannuation is 4.4 per cent of GDP, and its commitment is low by international standards.


claimant: A facebook page
claim_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: Marcus Cicero wrote many pithy quotes – but not the ones in this meme
review_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post attributes a series of observations to the Roman philosopher Cicero, with the text adding that although the musings were "written in 43 B.C." they were "valid even today".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/marcus-cicero-wrote-many-pithy-quotes-but-not-the-ones-in-this-meme/


claimant: Kevin Annett
claim_date: 2022-01-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/arrest-warrants-for-queen-and-pope-a-work-of-legal-fiction/
title: Arrest warrants for Queen and Pope a work of legal fiction
review_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An international court has issued arrest warrants and sentenced the Queen and other notable figures for crimes against humanity.

textual_rating:
False. The so-called “International Common Law Court of Justice" is meaningless and has no legal authority.


text: Canadian immunologist Sir John Bell said COVID-19 vaccines could sterilise most of the population.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
title: Professor’s vaccine ‘sterilisation’ comment used out of context to mislead
review_date: 2021-04-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/professors-vaccine-sterilisation-comment-used-out-of-context-to-mislead/

textual_rating:
Missing Context. Professor Bell's comments were about sterilisation from the COVID-19 virus and not fertility despite this implication being made in social media posts.


text: The coalition government has narrowed the gender pay gap.
claimant: Marise Payne
claim_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ministers-claim-about-gender-pay-gap-doesnt-pay-off/
title: Minister’s claim about gender pay gap doesn’t pay off
review_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The gender pay gap narrowed under the coalition but experts say the primary driver was workplace equality laws introduced by Labor in 2012.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pandemic-treaty-wont-give-un-health-agency-global-control/
title: Pandemic treaty won’t give UN health agency global control
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An international pandemic treaty will allow the World Health Organization to dictate health policy in member countries.

textual_rating:
False. The draft treaty specifically states member countries will retain sovereignty over domestic health matters.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-11T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook post of Angelina Jolie and young boy is not the full picture
review_date: 2020-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post showing US actor Angelina Jolie hugging a young boy in Africa suggests a hidden agenda.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/facebook-post-of-angelia-jolie-and-young-boy-is-not-the-full-picture/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/suggestion-airlines-will-ban-vaccinated-travellers-doesnt-fly/
title: Suggestion airlines will ban vaccinated travellers doesn’t fly
review_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
People vaccinated for COVID-19 won’t be allowed on flights because the vaccine makes them infectious.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/canberra-cafe-find-sparks-flurry-of-voice-misinformation/
title: Canberra cafe ‘find’ sparks flurry of voice misinformation
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) has proposed an 11-point plan it wants enacted if the voice to parliament is approved.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The NIAA has not proposed any such plan. The claim is based on an anonymous letter sent to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.


text: The sea level in Oslo is falling.
claimant: Climate Discussion Nexus
claim_date: 2023-01-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/norway-sea-level-claim-is-in-choppy-waters/
title: Oslo sea level claim is in choppy waters
review_date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. It is falling in relation to the land due to a localised geological process. However, the actual surface level of the sea is rising.


claimant: Jason Miles
claim_date: 2021-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-eus-covid-passport-doesnt-anticipate-eight-vaccine-doses/
title: The EU’s COVID ‘passport’ doesn’t anticipate eight vaccine doses
review_date: 2021-09-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The European Union's digital COVID certificate or "passport" includes provision for eight vaccine doses.


claimant: Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
claim_date: 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/email-misleads-with-secret-voice-documents-claim/
title: Email misleads with ‘secret voice documents’ claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Secret voice documents reveal plans to change the flag and pay reparations to Indigenous Australians.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The documents are minutes from voice consultation meetings. The comments in question were made by individuals who attended those meetings.


text: NSW has the fastest-growing economy in Australia.
claimant: NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
claim_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/perrottet-wrong-on-fastest-growing-economy-claim/
title: Perrottet wrong on fastest-growing economy claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-02-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. NSW’s economy grew by 1.8 per cent in 2021-22, the lowest growth of all states and territories.


text: Global temperatures have been going sideways for 25 years.
claimant: Topher Field
claim_date: 2022-08-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/sideways-view-of-global-temperatures-is-nonsense/
title: Sideways view of global temperatures is nonsense – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-08-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The most reliable temperature records show the earth has experienced significant warming over the past 25 years.


claimant: Labour leader and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
claim_date: 2020-09-30T00:00:00Z
title: NZ PM makes flawed claim about police numbers under National
review_date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern claims that there was a decrease in the number of NZ police under Judith Collins' tenure as police minister.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/national-leader-presided-over-drop-in-police-numbers-says-nz-pm-jacinda-ardern/

textual_rating:
Somewhat False - The claim has a problem or inaccuracy but it does contain a significant element or elements of truth.


claimant: One Nation
claim_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Newcastle weather station an unreliable measure for One Nation no warming claim
review_date: 2022-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia’s longest-running weather station shows no pattern of warming since temperature records were first collected in 1862.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/newcastle-weather-station-an-unreliable-measure-for-one-nation-no-warming-claim/

textual_rating:
Misleading. Data from the weather station in question shows a clear warming pattern since 1910 and experts say pre-1910 data from the site is unreliable.


claimant: Tasmanian government’s leader of the house, Michael Ferguson.
claim_date: 2019-09-13T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-09-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Somewhat True - Mostly accurate but there is more than one error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Tasmanian government’s leader of the house, Michael Ferguson, says 10,000 jobs were lost under the Labor-Green minority government that held power in the island state from 2010 to 2014.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/were-10000-jobs-lost-in-tasmania-under-the-labor-greens-government-that-held-power-from-2010-to-2014/

title:
Were 10,000 jobs lost in Tasmania under the Labor-Greens government that held power from 2010 to 2014?


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/mars-astronaut-memes-boldly-go-beyond-whats-actually-happened/
title: Mars astronaut memes boldly go beyond what’s actually happened
review_date: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Alyssa Carson is preparing to become the first human on Mars. She will never return to earth, get married or have children.


text: A common electrolyser can be used to accurately test bottled and tap water quality.
claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/water-quality-experiment-offers-murky-evidence/
title: Water quality experiment offers murky evidence – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Electrolysers are not designed to assess water quality but can discolour water samples through oxidation.


text: There is more melanin in the heart and internal organs than in the skin.
claimant: Instagram user
claim_date: 2023-06-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dark-melanin-harvesting-claim-light-on-evidence/
title: Dark melanin-harvesting claim light on evidence – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Most melanin in the body is produced in external organs such as the skin and hair. The heart and almost all other internal organs do not contain any melanin.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/climate-sceptic-muddles-his-maths-with-emissions-claim/
title: Climate sceptic muddles his maths with emissions claim
review_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A graph proves humans are responsible for only around 3.5 per cent of the increase in atmospheric CO2 from 1870 to 2020.

textual_rating:
False. The author has mistaken the graph’s annual emissions figure for the cumulative total since 1870. Humans are responsible for 100 per cent of the increase.


claimant: Adam La Rosa
claim_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/low-voter-turnout-claim-high-on-misinformation/
title: Low voter turnout claim high on misinformation – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The claim is based on an incomplete count of votes.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian Electoral Commission revealed one quarter of Australians who enrolled for the 2022 federal election did not vote.


claimant: Senator Jane Hume
claim_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
title: Claim the government cancelled 10,000 visas of ‘violent criminals’ should be put away
review_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The coalition government has cancelled the visas of 10,000 violent criminal offenders since it came to power in 2013.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-the-government-cancelled-10000-visas-of-violent-criminals-should-be-put-away/

textual_rating:
Mostly False. The 10,000 figure refers to the number of visas cancelled and refused to people deemed to be of bad character, not just violent criminals. Some of those cancellations were later overturned.


claimant: Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton
claim_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The checked claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton claims a publicly-accessible national register of child sex offenders will act as a deterrent to pedophiles.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-a-national-public-register-of-child-sex-offenders-have-a-strong-deterrent-effect-on-pedophiles/

title:
Will a national public register of child sex offenders have a strong deterrent effect on pedophiles?


text: Aboriginal people were not the first to inhabit Australia.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-in-one-voice-over-first-australians-claim/
title: Experts in one voice over first Australians claim
review_date: 2023-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. All archaeological and DNA evidence indicates Aboriginal people were the first to inhabit the Australian landmass.


text: Indigenous Australians already have at least 50 organisations providing them with a voice.
claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2023-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/laughable-list-misleads-on-indigenous-representation/
title: Laughable list misleads on Indigenous representation – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False: The list includes defunct groups, reports, surveys and even a Canadian organisation. None are comparable to the proposed voice to parliament.


claimant: Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-12-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/supposed-ex-chief-justice-letter-is-made-up-drivel/
title: Claimed ex-Chief Justice letter is ‘made up drivel’
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The late former Chief Justice Sir Harry Gibbs wrote a letter claiming Australia’s legal and political system has no basis in law.

textual_rating:
False. Friends of Sir Harry and legal experts familiar with his work say the letter is a clear fake.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/purported-papal-vaccine-prayer-an-unholy-fabrication/
title: Purported papal vaccine prayer an unholy fabrication – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2021-05-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Pope Francis asked followers to say the prayer: "I am vaccinated by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, no virus can touch me."


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-01-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/truth-evicted-with-voice-to-parliament-rent-claim/
title: Truth evicted with voice to parliament rent claim
review_date: 2023-05-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is no such provision or law within the voice proposal.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The voice to parliament will require landowners to pay one per cent of their income in rent to an Aboriginal council.


text: The coalition has only completed one, small dam project since coming to power.
claimant: Terri Butler
claim_date: 2022-03-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labors-dam-figures-not-quite-watertight/
title: Labor’s dam figures not quite watertight – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mixture. Only one dam of substantial size has been completed under the coalition, however several water storage schemes involving dams have also been built with federal funding.


claimant: An Australian Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/seedy-floods-claim-doesnt-hold-water/
title: Seedy floods claim doesn’t hold water – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A March 2022 article proves the Queensland government caused the devastating floods through cloud seeding.

textual_rating:
False. The article is a copy of a 2008 press release and experts say La Nina, not cloud seeding, caused the floods.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/old-news-rehashed-in-spurious-wa-digital-id-claim/
title: Old news rehashed in spurious WA digital ID claim
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. A digital ID is not required - and will not be required from January 31 - to enter venues.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
No one can enter a restaurant, pub or club in Western Australia without a digital ID from January 31.


text: A rise in ocean temperatures is helping coral reefs to survive.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-pour-cold-water-over-coral-health-claim/
title: Experts pour cold water over coral health claim
review_date: 2022-06-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly False. While some corals will survive and even prefer warmer waters, global coral coverage has decreased largely as a result of rising temperatures.


claimant: Josephine Cashman
claim_date: 2022-11-20T00:00:00Z
title: Claim UN framework was used to skip vaccine testing is pure fantasy
review_date: 2022-12-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The UN Sendai Framework was used to allow COVID-19 vaccines to skip standard Australian vaccine testing.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-un-framework-was-used-to-skip-vaccine-testing-is-pure-fantasy/

textual_rating:
False. COVID-19 vaccines did not skip standard testing. The Sendai Framework focuses on disaster risk reduction and is unrelated to vaccine testing and approvals.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nsw-lockdown-orders-arent-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law/
title: NSW lockdown orders aren’t on the wrong side of the law
review_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Public health orders introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19 in New South Wales are unenforceable.


text: Welcome to Country ceremonies are a modern invention.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-03-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/modern-ceremonies-claim-misleads-on-indigenous-history/
title: Modern ceremonies claim misleads on Indigenous history – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading: While the contemporary ceremonies date back to the 1970s, they have their roots in pre-colonial practices.


text: Children are much more likely to die from COVID-19 vaccination than the coronavirus.
claimant: Dr Vladimir Zelenko
claim_date: 2021-12-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-makes-false-comparison-between-kids-covid-and-vaccine-risks/
title: Video makes false comparison between kids COVID and vaccine risks
review_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. While COVID-19 deaths among children are rare, vaccine monitoring systems have not identified any causal links between vaccinations and child deaths.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-18T00:00:00Z
title: Claim German papers must be 75 per cent factual is 100 per cent wrong
review_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Germany has no rules requiring newspapers to guarantee a percentage of content is factual.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
If a German newspaper cannot guarantee 75 per cent of its articles are factual, it cannot call itself a newspaper.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-german-papers-must-be-75-per-cent-factual-is-100-per-cent-wrong/


claimant: Banana Stella
claim_date: 2021-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/einstein-island-ad-is-all-at-sea-with-fakery/
title: ‘Einstein island’ ad is all at sea with fakery
review_date: 2021-10-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An island mental health facility founded by Dr Nathaniel Roberts produces patients with IQs in excess of 140.


text: Cows only produce as much methane as would be naturally released into the atmosphere.
claimant: Dr Anthony Chaffee
claim_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cow-burp-musings-are-a-load-of-bull/
title: Cow burp musings are a load of bull
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Cow’s stomachs provide optimal conditions for methane production. Whereas, methane production outside of a cow is heavily dependent on environmental conditions.


text: A Facebook post claims a Melbourne factory is sending food, toilet paper and other items to China.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
title: False claims of goods being shipped to China damage Melbourne companies
review_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims of the content are false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-of-goods-being-shipped-to-china-damage-melbourne-companies/


text: It is more difficult and expensive to see a doctor in Australia than ever before.
claimant: Mark Butler
claim_date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labor-doctors-the-truth-on-gp-costs-and-availability/
title: Labor doctors the truth on GP costs and availability
review_date: 2022-04-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly False. Official data does not support the claim it is getting harder to see a GP. While out-of-pocket costs have risen, most patients pay nothing to see a GP.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-jet-set-pic-is-deadset-pro-putin-propaganda/
title: Fake jet set pic is deadset pro-Putin propaganda
review_date: 2022-12-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Olena Zelenska has been pictured on a private jet returning from a 40,000 euro Christmas shopping spree in Paris.

textual_rating:
False. The image has been altered, with her head added to the body of Hex cryptocurrency founder Richard Heart.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Gates wasn’t in NZ this year and those microchip claims have already been debunked
review_date: 2020-06-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims Bill Gates, the American billionaire who is supporting research into a COVID-19 vaccine, was in New Zealand at the end of May.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/bill-gates-wasnt-in-new-zealand-this-year-and-those-microchip-claims-have-already-been-debunked/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-20T00:00:00Z
title: New Zealand, Ireland COVID-19 comparison statistics are not 100 per cent accurate
review_date: 2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post has compared the coronavirus statistics of Ireland and New Zealand in a bid to measure their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/new-zealand-ireland-covid-19-comparison-statistics-are-not-100-per-cent-accurate/

textual_rating:
Partly False - The claim of the content is a mixture of accurate and inaccurate, or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: Prime Minister Scott Morrison
claim_date: 2022-02-07T00:00:00Z
title: PM’s claim Labor made it legal to expel gay students ignores important points
review_date: 2022-02-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013 allowed schools to expel children because of their sexuality.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pms-claim-labor-made-it-legal-to-expel-gay-students-ignores-important-points/

textual_rating:
Misleading. Federal laws stopping religious schools from expelling students because of their sexuality did not exist prior to Labor's 2013 amendments and the change was supported by the coalition.


text: Twenty thousand nurses left the New Zealand health system due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-20000-nz-nurses-walked-over-mandates-is-fanciful/
title: Claim 20,000 NZ nurses walked over mandates is fanciful
review_date: 2023-06-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. A total of 590 nurses had been removed, resigned or stood down at the time the vaccine mandate was lifted.


text: Vaccinated people are more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are unvaccinated.
claimant: Meryl Dorey
claim_date: 2022-10-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/anti-vaxxers-view-on-covid-deaths-lacks-proportion/
title: Anti-vaxxer’s view on COVID deaths lacks proportion
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Data from Australia, the US and the UK shows unvaccinated people are over-represented in COVID-19 death statistics.


text: Seven per cent of the world’s population is transgender.
claimant: Raelene Stokes
claim_date: 2023-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-evidence-to-support-transgender-claim/
title: No evidence to support transgender claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Research generally suggests the actual figure is in the range of 0.33 per cent and 1.6 per cent.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-06-23T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy theorist’s ‘depopulation’ text does not appear in Great Reset book
review_date: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab's book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, includes plans to depopulate the world through wars, organised epidemics and starvation.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/conspiracy-theorists-depopulation-text-does-not-appear-in-great-reset-book/


claimant: Australian personal trainer Ali Haydar
claim_date: 2021-07-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wild-claims-about-cdc-pcr-alert-dont-pass-the-test/
title: Wild claims about CDC PCR alert don’t pass the test
review_date: 2021-07-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) withdrew authorisation for PCR tests to be used to detect COVID-19 because they couldn't tell the difference between influenza and the coronavirus.


claimant: Defence Minister Richard Marles
claim_date: 2022-06-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/whos-really-to-blame-for-australias-submarine-delays/
title: Who’s really to blame for Australia’s submarine delays?
review_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
When the coalition came to power in 2013, Australia’s new submarines were due to be operational in the mid-2020s.

textual_rating:
Mixture. Defence documents from 2012 stated a mid-2020s timeline but experts say this was never a realistic proposition, partly due to the previous Labor government’s delays.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-nasal-swabs-do-not-harm-the-brain-doctors-say/
title: COVID-19 nasal swabs do not harm the brain, doctors say
review_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims within the post are inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the "Covid 19 test is a dangerous test," and that the nasal swab test can enter the brain and cause lasting damage.


text: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was pausing his country’s net zero emissions commitment.
claimant: Matt Canavan
claim_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-boris-johnson-really-pausing-the-uks-net-zero-pledge/
title: Is Boris Johnson really ‘pausing’ the UK’s net zero pledge?
review_date: 2022-05-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly False. Mr Johnson and his government have repeatedly stated support for net zero, although experts say his policies could be at odds with global efforts to limit warming.


claimant: sent1n3l
claim_date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z
title: Victoria’s police force has not been privatised – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-09-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim in this Facebook post is inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims Victoria's government has signed on to the Strong Cities Network, resulting in the privatisation of the police force amid anti-lockdown protests and arrests in the state.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/victorias-membership-of-the-strong-cities-network-doesnt-mean-its-police-force-has-been-privatised/


text: The Chinese Communist Party owns and controls some of Australia’s most popular milk brands.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/china-milk-brands-ownership-claim-skims-the-facts/
title: China milk brands ownership claim skims the facts
review_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The majority are Australian-owned, with others being subsidiaries of Japanese or Canadian firms.


claimant: One Nation leader and Senator for Queensland Pauline Hanson
claim_date: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-10-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
One Nation leader and Senator for Queensland Pauline Hanson claims dairy farmers are getting short-changed by Coles and Woolworths.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-dairy-farmers-receiving-just-1-4-cents-from-a-10-cent-per-litre-milk-levy-by-the-major-supermarkets/

title:
Are dairy farmers receiving just 1.4 cents from a 10 cent per litre milk levy by the major supermarkets?


claimant: Graham Hood
claim_date: 2022-04-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-vaccine-without-consent-claim-tries-to-sedate-the-truth/
title: COVID vaccine without consent claim tries to sedate the truth
review_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian government has given doctors permission to vaccinate people under sedation without consent.

textual_rating:
False. Vaccination under sedation is allowed in special circumstances, but consent is always required.


claim_date: 2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
title: Research does not say half of Australia’s bushfires are deliberately lit
review_date: 2020-01-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly false
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
AAP FactCheck examined a claim that about 50 per cent of bushfires in Australia are deliberately lit.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/research-does-not-say-half-of-australias-bushfires-are-deliberately-lit/


claimant: Mark Butler, Labor MP and opposition spokesman for climate change and energy
claim_date: 2020-12-15T00:00:00Z
title: Does Australia have the least efficient cars in the developed world?
review_date: 2021-01-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Labor frontbencher claims Australia has the least efficient cars and light trucks in the developed world while calling out the government for inaction on cleaning up the nation's fleet.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/does-australia-have-the-least-efficient-cars-in-the-developed-world/

textual_rating:
Somewhat True – A part or parts of the claim are accurate but there is also a significant problem or inaccuracy.


claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-stresses-wrong-reason-for-covid-court-case-failure/
title: Video stresses wrong reason for COVID court case failure
review_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Legal action against Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews failed because the judge thought it might cause him stress.

textual_rating:
Misleading. A request for more time to pursue action failed as "special circumstances" were not established. A judge also found the original application lacked merit.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-03T00:00:00Z
title: GlaxoSmithKline falsely linked to Wuhan lab, Pfizer in COVID-19 contrivance
review_date: 2020-12-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in China is owned by GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK), which owns Pfizer. Pfizer is managed by BlackRock, which also manages George Soros's foundation and has ties to Vanguard, which is then linked to Bill Gates via Microsoft.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/glaxosmithkline-falsely-linked-to-wuhan-lab-pfizer-in-covid-19-contrivance/


text: $35 billion in renewable energy projects have been rolled out in Australia in the past three years.
claimant: Josh Frydenberg
claim_date: 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/treasurer-exaggerates-scale-of-renewable-energy-boom/
title: Treasurer exaggerates scale of renewable energy boom – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. In the past three years, $24.8 billion has been invested in renewable energy projects, industry analysts say. Annual spending has been declining since 2018.


text: The voice to parliament proposal contradicts the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
title: No, the voice proposal does not contradict racial discrimination laws
review_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The voice proposal is consistent with racial discrimination laws.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-voice-proposal-does-not-contradict-racial-discrimination-laws/


text: Bill Gates said a cow emits more pollution than a car.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-bill-gates-never-said-a-cow-emits-more-pollution-than-a-car/
title: No, Bill Gates never said a cow emits more pollution than a car
review_date: 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence of the statement in any of his speeches and essays on climate change, and a spokeswoman denied he ever made the claim.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-simpsons-predict-prince-philips-death-years-ago/
title: Did The Simpsons predict Prince Philip’s death years ago?
review_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An episode of The Simpsons from the 1990s predicted the exact time and date of Prince Philip’s death.


text: Antarctic temperatures have declined over the past 40 years.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-08-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cold-hard-facts-missing-from-antarctic-cooling-post/
title: Cold, hard facts missing from Antarctic cooling post
review_date: 2022-09-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Antarctic temperatures are highly variable but there has been an overall warming trend for the past four decades.


claimant: New Zealand Labour MP Andrew Little
claim_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-cannabis-referendum-raises-questions-about-impacts-on-youth/
title: NZ cannabis referendum raises questions about impacts on youth
review_date: 2020-08-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Ambiguous – It is not possible to determine the veracity of the claim.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand Labour MP Andrew Little claims that harmful drug use declined among young people in Uruguay and Portugal after drug liberalisation.


text: Nine News has spruiked a supposed money-making mobile phone app.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/manipulated-nine-news-report-attempts-to-deceive/
title: Manipulated Nine News report attempts to deceive – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The Nine News footage has been manipulated. The original report was about the late rugby league coach Paul Green.


claimant: Stop the Rot Sack the Lot Facebook group
claim_date: 2022-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/satirical-tiktok-video-lost-on-freedom-group/
title: Satirical TikTok video lost on freedom group – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The viral video was a comedy skit
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A social media personality is calling on the army and police to help forcibly vaccinate the unvaccinated.


claimant: Andrew Forrest
claim_date: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/forrests-fossil-fuel-hydrogen-claim-on-the-money/
title: Forrest’s fossil fuel hydrogen claim on the money
review_date: 2022-05-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Hydrogen made from fossil fuels generates more emissions than simply burning the coal and gas for energy.

textual_rating:
True. Multiple studies show it requires more energy and releases more emissions than burning fossil fuels.


text: A New Zealand student has been expelled for preaching Christianity on school grounds.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claims-of-christian-students-expulsion-not-gods-honest-truth/
title: Claims of Christian student’s expulsion not God’s honest truth
review_date: 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The student has not been expelled but is under investigation for allegedly encouraging pupils to ignore teachers and truant class.


text: A treatment of "wrapped ginger" can remove mucus from the lungs overnight and stop bad coughs.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Ginger treatment for lung conditions hasn’t crystallised into evidence
review_date: 2021-07-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ginger-treatment-for-lung-conditions-hasnt-crystallised-into-evidence/


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tesla-quote-about-earth-not-on-solid-ground/
title: Tesla ‘quote’ about earth not on solid ground
review_date: 2021-05-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Nikola Tesla said: "Earth is a realm, it is not a planet. It is not an object, therefore it has no edge. Electromagnetic levitation disproves gravity because the only force you need to counter is the electromagnetic force, not gravity."


claimant: Nick Smith, NZ National Party drug reform spokesman
claim_date: 2020-09-08T00:00:00Z
title: Drink driving fatalities were halved by RBT in NZ, but it took more than three years
review_date: 2020-09-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NZ National Party drug reform spokesman Nick Smith claims random roadside alcohol testing halved drunk driving fatalities in three years.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/drink-driving-fatalities-were-halved-by-random-breath-tests-in-nz-but-it-took-more-than-three-years/

textual_rating:
Somewhat False – The claim has a problem or inaccuracy but it does contain a significant element or elements of truth.


claimant: Reignite Democracy Australia
claim_date: 2020-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/can-victoria-businesses-refuse-entry-to-maskless-customers/
title: Can Victoria businesses refuse entry to maskless customers?
review_date: 2020-11-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post, featuring an article from The Age, claims it is “disability discrimination” for businesses to refuse people entry for not wearing a mask.


claimant: Reignite Democracy Australia
claim_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hidden-covid-19-vaccine-reactions-data-is-far-from-secret/
title: ‘Hidden’ COVID-19 vaccine reactions data is far from secret
review_date: 2021-04-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian government is trying to hide adverse reactions from COVID-19 vaccines. Its data indicates that the vaccines are unsafe.


claimant: A Facebook group
claim_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/microwave-sickness-has-not-just-been-added-to-the-dictionary/
title: ‘Microwave sickness’ has not just been added to the dictionary
review_date: 2020-07-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A social media post claims the term 'microwave sickness' has recently been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/australian-bushfire-donations-post-leaves-charity-cross/
title: Australian bushfire donations post makes charity cross
review_date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post makes several claims about the Australian Red Cross' distribution of bushfire donations.


claimant: Chantelle Baker
claim_date: 2022-04-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-bank-account-control-claim-is-way-off-the-money/
title: NZ bank account control claim is way off the money
review_date: 2022-04-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand’s Digital Identity Trust Framework Bill allows government control over people’s banking.

textual_rating:
False. There is nothing in the legislation that gives the government power over people’s bank accounts.


claimant: Viral social media post
claim_date: 2021-04-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/some-of-these-12-healthy-eating-tips-are-hard-to-swallow/
title: Some of these 12 healthy eating tips are hard to swallow
review_date: 2021-05-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Eating food after 8pm is "poisonous"; skipping breakfast leads to low blood sugar levels; drinking a bottle of soft drink or beer can dramatically increase the risk of heart attack; and people shouldn't only drink water when thirsty.


claimant: Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor
claim_date: 2019-02-08T00:00:00Z
title: Are big energy companies enjoying a run of record profits as customers struggle to pay power bills?
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Somewhat False - Mostly false, but there is more than one element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor claims AGL, Origin Energy and EnergyAustralia - often referred to as the big three of electricity retailers - are experiencing record profits as their customers struggle to pay their bills. Mr Taylor wants greater protections for electricity consumers.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-big-energy-companies-enjoying-a-run-of-record-profits-as-customers-struggle-to-pay-power-bills/


claimant: National Party housing spokeswoman Jacqui Dean
claim_date: 2020-08-10T00:00:00Z
title: NZ National Party builds a flawed case against Green Party housing plan targets
review_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The checkable claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National Party housing spokeswoman Jacqui Dean claims the government should have already delivered 16,000 KiwiBuild houses, but had only delivered around 400.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-national-party-builds-a-flawed-case-against-green-party-housing-plan-targets/


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/open-the-oyster-claim-confused-on-many-levels/
title: ‘Open the oyster’ claim confused on many levels
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
If the upcoming referendum is successful, anything relating to Indigenous people or the voice to parliament can be added to the constitution.

textual_rating:
False. A ‘yes’ result would add a new section to the constitution enshrining a voice to parliament. Any other changes would require another referendum.


text: More Australians have died from COVID-19 vaccines than from the virus.
claimant: Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-08-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-covid-vaccines-are-deadlier-than-virus-is-jibber-jabber/
title: Claim COVID vaccines are deadlier than virus is jibber-jabber
review_date: 2022-08-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. More than 12,000 Australians have died with or from COVID-19, while 13 deaths have been directly linked to the vaccine.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-joe-biden-hasnt-been-tied-to-huge-corruption-in-ukraine/
title: No, Joe Biden hasn’t been tied to ‘huge corruption’ in Ukraine
review_date: 2021-01-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post makes several false or misleading claims about United States president-elect Joe Biden and corruption linked to Ukraine.


text: Heart attack victims can survive by performing a series of deep coughs.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-coughing-will-not-help-you-survive-a-heart-attack/
title: No, coughing will not help you survive a heart attack
review_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly False. Cough CPR is sometimes used in a clinical setting for some patients suffering a cardiac arrest, which is different to a heart attack.


claimant: Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor
claim_date: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z
title: Has there been a reduction in global carbon emissions as a result of Australia’s gas exports?
review_date: 2019-09-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Ambiguous - It is not possible to determine the veracity of the statement.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
AAP FactCheck reviewed a claim by federal Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor that there has been a reduction in carbon emissions resulting from countries using exported Australian gas.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-there-been-a-reduction-in-global-carbon-emissions-as-a-result-of-australias-gas-exports/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-a-south-sudanese-model-marry-herself-in-australia/
title: Did a South Sudanese model ‘marry herself’ in Australia?
review_date: 2020-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post circulating on social media claims a woman in Australia “married herself” because she was sick of men.

textual_rating:
Satire -The content uses irony, exaggeration, or absurdity for criticism or awareness, particularly in the context of political, religious, or social issues, but a reasonable user would not immediately understand it to be satirical.


text: There is no historical evidence of the traditional names of Indigenous groups and locations.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/colonial-documents-debunk-nonsense-about-indigenous-names/
title: Colonial documents debunk nonsense about Indigenous names – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The British recorded traditional names following interaction with Indigenous people from the early days of the colony.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-gangs-using-fake-babies-to-lure-australian-motorists/
title: Are gangs using fake babies to lure Australian motorists?
review_date: 2020-10-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim within the post is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australian police have issued a warning for people to be wary of gangs using children's car seats draped in blankets at the side of the road to lure drivers into stopping before the criminals attack and rob them.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
title: Barcodes post fails to crack the code on Chinese and Indian products
review_date: 2020-04-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post purports to show how people can "differentiate between Chinese and Indian products".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/barcodes-post-fails-to-crack-the-code-on-chinese-and-indian-products/

textual_rating:
Partly False - The claims of the content are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/love-hormone-claim-is-simply-bonkers/
title: Love hormone claim is simply bonkers – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Every time a woman has a new sexual partner her oxytocin levels diminish until they are eventually depleted.

textual_rating:
False. Women do not have a finite supply of oxytocin. The hormone is naturally produced by the body and levels are not depleted by new sexual partners.


text: COVID-19 vaccines are more deadly than the COVID virus.
claimant: Senator Ralph Babet
claim_date: 2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fatally-flawed-research-underpins-senators-vaccine-tweet/
title: Fatally flawed research underpins senator’s vaccine tweet – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The research underpinning the claim is flawed. Death rates for vaccinated people are no higher than for unvaccinated people.


text: The US Central Intelligence Agency created the term “conspiracy theorist”.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-01-20T00:00:00Z
title: Tinfoil hats not needed to repel CIA ‘conspiracy theorist’ creation claim
review_date: 2022-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tinfoil-hats-not-needed-to-repel-cia-conspiracy-theorist-creation-claim/

textual_rating:
False. There's no evidence the CIA coined the term. The phrase “conspiracy theory” has been in use for least 150 years.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-05-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/a-one-star-rating-wont-get-facebook-unfriended-by-google/
title: A one-star rating won’t get Facebook unfriended by Google
review_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Facebook's app will be automatically deleted from the Google Play Store if it has a one-star rating.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-post-about-uk-vaccine-program-for-kids-is-false/
title: Viral post about UK vaccine program for kids is false
review_date: 2022-09-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Children in the UK aged five to 11 will no longer be offered COVID-19 vaccines due to concerns about developmental side effects.

textual_rating:
False. UK children who turned five before August 31 or those in high-risk groups are still eligible to be vaccinated.


text: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has funded Thomas Mayo’s The Voice to Parliament handbook.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-book-funding-claim-is-a-work-of-fiction/
title: Voice book funding claim is a work of fiction
review_date: 2023-06-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Neither Mr Mayo nor his co-author Kerry O’Brien received any money from the prime minister or the federal government.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-photo-attempts-to-link-vic-premier-with-dead-gangsters/
title: Fake photo attempts to link Vic premier with dead gangsters
review_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A 1994 photo shows Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at a nightclub with two notorious Melbourne gangland figures.

textual_rating:
False. The image has been digitally edited from a photo at a Gold Coast nightclub in 1990. Neither Mr Andrews nor the gangsters were in the original photo.


text: Labor cut billions of dollars from the defence budget when it was last in government.
claimant: Peter Dutton
claim_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/minister-off-target-with-claim-labor-cut-billions-from-defence/
title: Minister off-target with claim Labor cut billions from defence
review_date: 2022-03-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. Labor cut defence spending in two years while in office, but overall real-term spending went up while in government.


claim_date: 2020-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: Post makes false claims about coronavirus in foods, at train stations
review_date: 2020-01-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post from January 27, 2020 claims coronavirus has contaminated a list of food products and that several Sydney train stations "have shown positive readings to the virus".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-makes-false-claims-about-coronavirus-in-foods-at-train-stations/


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-02-08T00:00:00Z
title: Claim of 10,000-year-old Tibet library find not worth paper it’s written on
review_date: 2021-02-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False - Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Sakya monastery in Tibet contains 84,000 secret manuscripts which include 10,000 years of human history. The library was discovered behind a wall.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-of-10000-year-old-tibet-library-find-not-worth-paper-its-written-on/


claimant: National leader Judith Collins
claim_date: 2020-09-02T00:00:00Z
title: Just how effective are COVID-19 tests conducted in NZ’s managed isolation?
review_date: 2020-09-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National leader Judith Collins claims that 30 per cent of COVID-19 tests returned a false negative result in the context of New Zealand's managed isolation testing.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/just-how-effective-are-covid-19-tests-conducted-in-nzs-managed-isolation/

textual_rating:
Misleading - The claim is accurate in parts but information has also been presented incorrectly, out of context or omitted.


claimant: The Viking Christian
claim_date: 2021-06-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/depopulation-projections-a-dystopian-fantasy/
title: Depopulation projections a dystopian fantasy – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A "major military industrial corporation" projects Western populations will be cut in half by 2025 "inexplicably".


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/climate-facts-post-is-a-meltdown-of-misinformation/
title: Climate ‘facts’ post is a meltdown of misinformation
review_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Experts say the rate of warming is without comparison and is set to increase.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Recent global warming is comparable with natural rates of climate change over the past 10,000 years.


text: The Amish community are completely disease-free, including from COVID-19.
claimant: Dolores Cahill
claim_date: 2021-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-amish-arent-free-from-covid-and-other-diseases/
title: No, the Amish aren’t free from COVID and other diseases
review_date: 2021-10-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There are numerous documented examples of disease outbreaks and COVID-19 cases in the Amish community.


text: There are 89 days worth of oil stock in Australia.
claimant: Angus Taylor
claim_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/energy-minister-misleads-on-oil-reserves-in-australia/
title: Energy minister misleads on oil reserves in Australia
review_date: 2022-03-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. At the time of the claim, Australia had 64 days of oil in the country. A further 25 days of stock were in transit or overseas.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fijis-energy-provider-warns-over-fake-cyclone-blackout-notice/
title: Fiji’s energy provider warns over fake cyclone ‘blackout notice’
review_date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A notice purportedly from Fiji’s national power provider, EFL, claims it will “shut down the electricity supply to the whole nation without warning a few hours before the cyclone’s effect is at the maximum”.


text: Mean sea level height was six centimetres lower in 2019 than in 1919.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/truth-washes-away-spurious-sea-levels-claim/
title: Truth washes away spurious sea levels claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The mean sea level is around 20 centimetres higher, and has consistently risen over the last century.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/former-pfizer-scientist-wrong-on-asymptomatic-covid-19-spread/
title: Former Pfizer scientist wrong on asymptomatic COVID-19 spread
review_date: 2021-05-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Michael Yeadon claims that asymptomatic cases and transmission of respiratory viruses were "invented in 2020".


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/swedens-speed-camera-lottery-hit-a-red-light-years-ago/
title: Sweden’s ‘speed camera lottery’ hit a red light years ago
review_date: 2021-09-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Sweden has a speed camera lottery in which drivers who obey the speed limit can win prizes drawn from fines issued to speeding drivers.


claimant: Julian Burnside
claim_date: 2023-07-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-deem-blanket-restriction-claim-as-patchy-at-best/
title: Experts deem blanket restriction claim as patchy at best
review_date: 2023-07-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Until the mid-1960s, it was illegal for Aboriginal people to live within one mile of a white settlement unless they had a permit.

textual_rating:
Mostly false. State laws imposed various movement restrictions on Indigenous people but there was no blanket rule about where they could live.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/2-trillion-climate-fund-claim-a-red-hot-lie/
title: $2 trillion climate fund claim a red hot lie
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has committed Australian taxpayers to $2 trillion per year in climate change payments.

textual_rating:
False. Australia has indicated support for an international climate “loss and damage” fund but has not yet committed any money.


claimant: Monique Ryan
claim_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-budget-really-include-zero-funding-for-a-federal-icac/
title: Did the budget really include zero funding for a federal ICAC?
review_date: 2022-05-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The coalition government did not allocate any money in the 2022/23 budget for a federal anti-corruption commission.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The budget set aside $67 million for a federal anti-corruption body within a ‘contingency reserve’ for spending that is subject to uncertainty.


claimant: A Facebook meme
claim_date: 2022-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/jane-hume-quote-is-much-ado-about-nothing/
title: Jane Hume quote is much ado about nothing
review_date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A meme quotes Liberal senator Jane Hume as saying the opposition does not have policies and its job is "to oppose everything and offer nothing".

textual_rating:
Mostly False. Part of the quote is genuine, but Senator Hume did not say the opposition’s job was to oppose everything and offer nothing.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-misuses-data-to-level-flawed-claims-of-vaccine-deaths/
title: Video misuses data to level flawed claims of vaccine deaths
review_date: 2021-03-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Reports from the US VAERS database show many people died as a result of receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-10-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/belief-that-ice-cant-melt-in-antarctica-is-full-of-holes/
title: Belief that ice can’t melt in Antarctica is full of holes
review_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Antarctica's average daily temperature would need to rise above 0 degrees Celsius for any ice to melt.

textual_rating:
False. The average air temperature for all of Antarctica is not a useful indicator of ice melt. Experts say water temperatures play a greater role in ice loss.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fiji-election-app-glitch-did-not-breach-electoral-act/
title: Fiji election app glitch did not breach Electoral Act
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The glitch did not breach the Electoral Act.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A glitch in the Fijian Elections Office's Results App was a breach of the Electoral Act and a recount is now required.


text: Scott Morrison met with TV presenter Piers Morgan while Brisbane was under water due to flooding.
claimant: Labor MP Stephen Jones
claim_date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, the PM didn’t meet Piers Morgan while Brisbane was ‘under water’
review_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-scott-morrison-didnt-meet-piers-morgan-while-brisbane-was-under-water/

textual_rating:
False. The prime minister met Piers Morgan on February 24, before Brisbane had suffered major flooding.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/jacinda-ardern-quote-backing-bongbong-marcos-is-fake/
title: Jacinda Ardern ‘quote’ backing ‘Bongbong’ Marcos is fake
review_date: 2022-01-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed gushing support for Philippines presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

textual_rating:
False. Ms Ardern has never voiced any public support for Marcos Jr. The only discernible source of the quote is partisan Filipino social media accounts.


claimant: Social media post
claim_date: 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z
title: Post tying NZ vaccine program to dire population warning full of falsehoods
review_date: 2021-04-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has led to an increase in deaths in Israel. Also, New Zealand has given away 5 million doses of non-Pfizer vaccines and its population will decline by two million people by 2025.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-tying-nz-vaccine-program-to-dire-population-warning-full-of-falsehoods/


claimant: Facebook group: Folklore, Customs, Legends and Mythology
claim_date: 2022-01-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/aztec-calendar-coin-claim-does-not-stack-up/
title: Aztec calendar coin claim does not stack up
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
If a person stacks the one, two, five and 10 Mexican peso coins, they form an image of the Aztec Sun Stone.

textual_rating:
False. Some Mexican peso coins contain stylised elements of the Aztec Sun Stone, but stacking them will not recreate it.


claim_date: 2020-07-02T00:00:00Z
title: Explosive COVID-19 safety tale can’t be pinned on piggybacked donkey pic
review_date: 2020-07-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post featuring a photograph of a soldier carrying a donkey on his back claims the image is from World War II and the serviceman is carrying the animal through a minefield.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/explosive-covid-19-safety-tale-cant-be-pinned-on-piggybacked-donkey-pic/


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-08-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/uk-data-skewed-to-claim-vaccines-raise-child-mortality-rates/
title: UK data skewed to claim vaccines raise child mortality rates
review_date: 2022-09-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Children in England vaccinated against COVID-19 are 13,633 per cent more likely to die with the virus and 4423 per cent more likely to die from any cause.

textual_rating:
Misleading. High-risk children were more likely to be vaccinated. The data does not account for health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.


text: A list features 21 natural attractions that only Aboriginal people can legally visit.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/off-limit-indigenous-sites-claim-is-way-off-the-mark/
title: Off-limit Indigenous sites claim is way off the mark
review_date: 2023-07-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly false. Most of the sites are off-limits for all Australians while some remain open to the public.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-un-sustainable-development-goals-surface-again/
title: Fake UN Sustainable Development Goals surface again – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-12-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A social media post claims the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals are part of the “New World Order” to depopulate the world and “enslave humanity”.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-04-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-julian-assange-say-theres-no-dirt-on-donald-trump/
title: Did Julian Assange say there’s no ‘dirt’ on Donald Trump?
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Julian Assange admitted WikiLeaks never posted "dirt" on Donald Trump because no such material existed.


claim_date: 2020-07-03T00:00:00Z
title: Misleading claim about COVID Commission ignores why the advisory body was set up
review_date: 2020-07-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False - The primary claim is misleading or incomplete.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post criticises the composition of the body advising the Australian government on economic recovery from COVID-19, saying the members of the organisation do not have medical qualifications.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misleading-claim-about-covid-commission-ignores-why-the-advisory-body-was-set-up/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nsw-covid-19-cases-rise-but-regional-centre-not-on-the-list/
title: NSW COVID-19 cases rise but regional centre not on the list
review_date: 2020-03-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
As the number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases in NSW has increased a social media post has suggested a new case may have been found in the NSW regional town of Dubbo.


text: Shane Warne's son revealed his dad had chest pains from the COVID-19 vaccine prior to his death.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2022-03-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-warnes-son-didnt-speculate-on-dads-death-in-online-video/
title: No, Warne’s son didn’t speculate on dad’s death in online video
review_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The video depicts far-right nationalist Blair Cottrell, not Jackson Warne. Cottrell’s claims around the cricketer’s death are unfounded.


text: UK data shows vaccinated people are no better protected from COVID-19 death than the unvaccinated.
claimant: Topher Field
claim_date: 2022-07-26T00:00:00Z
title: Blogger blunders on claim UK vaccinated not more protected against COVID
review_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/blogger-blunders-on-claim-uk-vaccinated-not-more-protected-against-covid/

textual_rating:
False. Age-adjusted UK figures show vaccinated people are far less likely to have died with COVID-19.


claim_date: 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: Story about an unmarked police car and calling “112” has been around the block a few times
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post claims a woman was pulled over in Queensland, Australia by a fake unmarked police car and she averted danger by driving on and dialling a 112 emergency number which works whether there is a mobile signal or not.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-story-about-an-unmarked-police-car-and-calling-112-has-been-around-the-block-a-few-times/


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-06-11T00:00:00Z
title: Vaccine spike protein link to male infertility is a failed conception
review_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 have been found to damage male reproductive organs, leaving men infertile.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccine-spike-protein-link-to-male-infertility-is-a-failed-conception/


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-07-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/u-turn-needed-on-myocarditis-is-irreversible-claim/
title: U-turn needed on myocarditis is irreversible claim
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Myocarditis is irreversible and has a 20 per cent fatality rate after two years and 50 per cent rate after five years.

textual_rating:
False. Most cases of vaccine-related myocarditis are mild and full recovery is the norm, cardiologists say.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: Claims of a drastically reduced COVID-19 toll are a real Italian job
review_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Italian health authorities recently reduced the country’s official COVID-19 death toll by 97 per cent.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claims-of-a-drastically-reduced-covid-19-toll-are-a-real-italian-job/

textual_rating:
False. The figure is based on a misinterpretation of Italian data that highlighted comorbidities among fatal COVID-19 cases. The country's death toll is unchanged.


claimant: NSW Labor candidate for Tweed Craig Elliot
claim_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: Has the number of police working in northern NSW fallen since 2012?
review_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True - Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NSW Labor candidate for Tweed and former police officer Craig Elliot cites policing as a key issue in his electorate. He claims there are less police stationed in Tweed now than in 2012.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-the-number-of-police-working-in-northern-nsw-fallen-since-2012/


text: COVID-19 vaccinations in the US have killed at least 125 children and injured 50,000.
claimant: The Expose
claim_date: 2022-06-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/data-misused-to-claim-covid-vaccines-are-killing-us-kids/
title: Data misused to claim COVID vaccines are killing US kids
review_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The data used to support the claim has been misused and is unreliable. There is no evidence the vaccine has seriously harmed or killed any children.


text: A study has found Australian garlic can cure COVID-19.
claimant: Social media users
claim_date: 2023-06-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/garlic-covid-cure-claim-crushed-by-experts/
title: Garlic COVID cure claim crushed by experts – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The study found a type of garlic can reduce the infectiousness of viruses in test tubes. The research was not conducted on humans.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-03-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/rothschilds-mass-ownership-claim-a-bankrupt-myth/
title: Rothschild mass ownership claim a bankrupt myth – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The listed banks are not owned by the Rothchilds and are instead generally publicly owned.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Rothschild family owns many of the world’s central banks including the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve.


claimant: Rod Culleton
claim_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/election-writs-claim-fails-to-gain-seal-of-approval/
title: Election writs claim fails to gain seal of approval
review_date: 2022-06-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is no requirement for the Great Seal to be included in election writs.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The federal election writs were unlawful as they were issued without the Great Seal of the Commonwealth.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/there-are-no-5g-covid-19-secrets-in-new-20-banknote/
title: There are no 5G, COVID-19 ‘secrets’ in new £20 banknote
review_date: 2020-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims a link between Britain’s £20 banknote, 5G telecommunications and the COVID-19 pandemic.


text: A video claims the inventor of the PCR test said the tests do not work in detecting COVID-19.
claim_date: 2020-07-17T00:00:00Z
title: PCR inventor – who died in 2019 – did not say his test won’t work for COVID-19 infections
review_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pcr-inventor-who-died-in-2019-did-not-say-his-test-wont-work-for-covid-19-infections/


claimant: Blog and social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/reports-spread-misinformation-on-pfizer-vaccine-trial-deaths/
title: Reports spread misinformation on Pfizer vaccine trial deaths
review_date: 2020-12-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Two people died as a result of "serious adverse events" from taking Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine during its trial.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-us-isnt-headed-for-fewer-deaths-in-2020-with-covid-19/
title: The US isn’t headed for fewer deaths in 2020 with COVID-19
review_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An Instagram post suggests the United States is on track for a lower death rate in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic.


text: The measles mortality rate among children is one in 500,000.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/us-physician-mangles-measles-mortality/
title: US physician mangles measles mortality – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Both the mortality rate and case fatality rate for measles are considerably higher than one in 500,000.


claimant: Kevin Annett
claim_date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/anglican-catholic-merger-deal-is-an-unholy-rude-notion/
title: Anglican-Catholic merger deal is an unholy rude notion
review_date: 2022-10-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The agreement is a fabrication of a conspiracy theorist. The churches remain separate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Queen Elizabeth II and the Pope rejoined the Anglican and Catholic churches by signing the 2010 "Holyrood Agreement".


claimant: Leighton Drury, Fire Brigade Employees' Union State Secretary
claim_date: 2019-11-12T00:00:00Z
title: Did the NSW government cut $12.9 million from Fire and Rescue NSW’s funding in the 2019-20 budget?
review_date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Fire Brigade Employees’ Union (FBEU) claims Fire and Rescue NSW's funding was cut by $12.9 million in the 2019-20 state budget.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-nsw-government-cut-12-9-million-from-fire-and-rescue-nsws-funding-in-the-2019-20-budget/

textual_rating:
Ambiguous - It is not possible to determine the veracity of the statement, or it has an equal weighting of true and false elements.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-03-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-five-year-olds-are-not-made-to-question-their-gender/
title: No, five-year-olds are not made to question their gender
review_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Five-year-olds are made to question their gender as part of New Zealand Ministry of Education guidelines.

textual_rating:
False: The claim is not featured in the guidelines or policy documents. Neither are several other claims made in the post.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-knife-was-not-held-to-posie-parkers-throat-during-nz-protest/
title: No, knife was not held to Posie Parker’s throat during NZ protest
review_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The object was a mobile phone.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Protesters held a knife to the throat of anti-trans activist Posie Parker during a rally in Auckland.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-crow-joke-murders-the-truth-with-featherbrained-claim/
title: Viral crow joke murders the truth with featherbrained claim
review_date: 2021-12-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Ravens and crows have the same number of pinion feathers, 10.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Ravens have 17 main wing or "pinion" feathers while crows have 16, and that is the difference between the birds.


claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-08-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/murky-anti-voice-letter-falsely-linked-to-no-campaign-senator/
title: Murky anti-voice letter falsely linked to ‘no’ campaign senator
review_date: 2023-08-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Senator Price was not involved in the creation of the letter.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price wrote a letter about the proposed Indigenous voice that pushed sovereign citizen theories.


claim_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-about-viruses-and-covid-19-in-facebook-video/
title: False claims about viruses and COVID-19 in Facebook video
review_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually incorrect.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video makes a number of false and misleading claims, including that viruses cannot be caught and that a virus is a solvent.


text: A former federal court judge has raised concerns about an alleged voice to parliament action plan.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-vote-propaganda-falsely-uses-judge-to-discredit-voice/
title: ‘No’ vote propaganda falsely uses judge to discredit voice
review_date: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The concerns have been falsely attributed. They are actually from a speech given by Senator Pauline Hanson.


text: Interest rates are always higher under a Labor government.
claimant: Federal coalition MP Karen Andrews
claim_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-interest-rates-are-not-always-higher-under-labor/
title: No, interest rates are not always higher under Labor
review_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Rates have been higher under coalition governments and experts say there is no clear correlation between levels and the political party in power.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-disease-comparison-masks-vital-differences/
title: COVID-19 disease comparison masks vital differences – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-10-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims within the post are inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
People shouldn't wear face-masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as masks aren't worn for illnesses such as the common cold, influenza, diphtheria, whooping cough, pneumonia, tuberculosis and bronchitis.


text: The rise in global temperatures has in part been influenced by the loss of tree coverage.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tree-coverage-claim-leaves-out-the-facts/
title: Tree coverage claim leaves out the facts – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The data behind the recognised global temperature increase comes from standardised weather stations located away from trees.


claimant: Hollie Hughes
claim_date: 2022-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/coalition-senator-drills-in-wrong-direction-on-labor-gas-policy/
title: Coalition senator drills in wrong direction on Labor gas policy
review_date: 2022-06-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor and the Greens have opposed any future investment and development in gas over the last decade.

textual_rating:
Mostly False. While the Greens are opposed, Labor has backed multiple new gas developments in opposition, and has vowed to continue doing so in government.


claimant: Facebook User
claim_date: 2023-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-private-company-claim-is-silly-business/
title: Voice private company claim is silly business – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The cited business has nothing to do with the proposed Indigenous advisory body.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to parliament has been registered as a private company.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/little-chance-of-nz-health-ministers-arrest-for-culpable-murder/
title: Little chance of NZ health minister’s arrest for ‘culpable murder’
review_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealanders can make a citizen’s arrest of Health Minister Andrew Little for ‘culpable murder’ under the Crimes Act.

textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a misreading of the Crimes Act and a misunderstanding of ‘culpable murder’.


text: Root canal treatment kills the tooth.
claimant: Barbara O'Neill
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/root-canal-claim-in-need-of-a-check-up/
title: Root canal claim in need of a check-up
review_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Root canal treatments do not kill teeth and have a high success rate at resolving infections.


text: Additional Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses secured by Australia from Poland may contain counterfeits.
claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2021-08-15T00:00:00Z
title: Counterfeit Pfizer vaccine case and new supply deal are Poles apart
review_date: 2021-08-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/counterfeit-pfizer-vaccine-case-and-new-supply-deal-are-poles-apart/


text: Indigenous people have been recognised in the Australian Constitution since 1967.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-04-30T00:00:00Z
title: Referendum in 1967 did two things but Indigenous recognition wasn’t one of them
review_date: 2023-07-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Indigenous people are not mentioned in the constitution at all.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/referendum-in-1967-did-two-things-but-indigenous-recognition-wasnt-one-of-them/


claim_date: 2020-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pm-morrison-did-not-issue-a-tweet-about-no-racism-in-australia/
title: PM Morrison did not issue tweet about not having any racism in Australia
review_date: 2020-06-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post purports to show a tweet from the Prime Minister of Australia stating, as riots take place in the US following the death of George Floyd, that he is glad there is no racism in Australia.


claimant: NZ Transport Minister Phil Twyford
claim_date: 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
title: Has the NZ government tripled its investment in public transport?
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Transport Minister Phil Twyford claims the Labour coalition government has tripled annual spending on public transport in Auckland and across New Zealand.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-the-new-zealand-government-tripled-its-investment-in-public-transport/

textual_rating:
Misleading - The claim is accurate in parts but information has also been presented incorrectly, out of context or omitted.


claimant: Riccardo Bosi
claim_date: 2022-05-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/invalid-federal-election-writ-claim-a-total-write-off/
title: Invalid federal election writ claim a total write-off
review_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The writs comply with the required formatting as set out in Australian law.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The 2022 Australian federal election writs are bogus as the governor-general did not correctly issue them.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/water-vapour-global-warming-claim-is-all-steam/
title: Water vapour global warming claim is all steam
review_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An increase in water vapour is solely responsible for the rise in global temperatures since the end of the 19th century.

textual_rating:
False. CO2 and other greenhouse gases drive global warming. Water vapour amplifies warming initiated by these gases through a positive feedback loop.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/crafty-crop-of-parody-post-fools-facebook-folk/
title: Crafty crop of parody post fools Facebook folk
review_date: 2023-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The tweet is from a parody account.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted calling for pedophiles to be referred to as ‘minor-attracted persons’.


claimant: Josh Wilson
claim_date: 2022-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labor-claim-lays-bare-government-failure-on-tree-target/
title: Labor claim lays bare government failure on tree target
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
No trees have been planted toward the coalition government’s 2018 target of one billion new trees by 2030.

textual_rating:
Mostly True. Around 4300 hectares of  trees have been planted since 2018, equivalent to only around one per cent of the 2030 goal.


claim_date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z
title: A viral post from someone called Serena Williams was not from the tennis champion
review_date: 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A viral post by a Facebook user called Serena Williams, about politics, race and religion in the United States, has been interpreted by some as coming from the tennis champ of the same name.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/a-viral-post-from-serena-williams-was-not-from-the-tennis-champion/

textual_rating:
Partly false - The claim of the content is a mixture of accurate and inaccurate, or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: Advocate Me
claim_date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-nsw-health-order-claim-needs-a-legal-lesson/
title: ‘False’ NSW health order claim needs a legal lesson
review_date: 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 public health orders in New South Wales are invalid as they have been issued under the guise of a state of emergency that has never been declared.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/oops-voice-link-to-britney-spears-is-toxic/
title: Oops!…Voice link to Britney Spears is Toxic
review_date: 2023-06-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The voice to parliament will put Australia’s land and resources into conservatorship, just like those imposed on US singer Britney Spears.

textual_rating:
False. The proposed voice will be an advisory body with no ownership or control of land and resources.


text: The Simpsons aired an episode about weather manipulation.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/doh-simpsons-claim-is-a-case-of-mistaken-identity/
title: D’oh! Simpsons’ claim is a case of mistaken identity
review_date: 2023-02-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on three clips from separate episodes. The weather manipulation footage is from an episode of fellow US animation American Dad!


text: Coffee is proven to cause certain types of cancer.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/scientists-give-cancer-coffee-claim-a-roasting/
title: Scientists give cancer coffee claim a roasting – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There is no conclusive evidence that coffee causes cancer and some studies suggest it might even protect against some cancers.


claimant: A social media post
claim_date: 2021-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-australian-army-isnt-forcibly-vaccinating-nsw-residents/
title: The Australian army isn’t forcibly vaccinating NSW residents
review_date: 2021-08-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian army and NSW Health officials are forcing their way into people's homes to vaccinate them.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wind-turbine-energy-claim-is-all-spin-and-no-power/
title: Wind turbine energy claim is all spin and no power
review_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. It typically takes about six months for turbines to recoup the energy costs of making them.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Wind turbines must spin continuously for four years to replace the energy it took to manufacture them.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-strange-figurine-in-those-viral-posts-isnt-a-baby-platypus/
title: No, the strange figurine in those viral posts isn’t a baby platypus
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A viral image of a purported baby platypus being cradled in the palm of a human hand has been shared by a Facebook user in Christchurch, New Zealand.


claimant: Rumble via Facebook pages
claim_date: 2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/who-hasnt-declared-the-marburg-virus-the-next-pandemic/
title: WHO hasn’t declared the Marburg virus the next pandemic
review_date: 2021-09-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The World Health Organisation boss has announced the approach of another pandemic - the Marburg virus.


text: On any given night in Australia, more than 100,000 people do not have a roof over their head.
claimant: The Australian Greens
claim_date: 2022-04-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/greens-jumble-numbers-with-claim-about-homelessness/
title: Greens jumble numbers with homelessness claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-05-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. According to the most recent census data in 2016, more than 116,000 people were technically homeless but only around 8000 people were sleeping rough.


claimant: Graham Hood
claim_date: 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pilot-wildly-off-course-with-nsw-airspace-mask-claim/
title: Pilot wildly off course with NSW airspace mask claim
review_date: 2022-06-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Masks are mandatory on domestic flights in all Australian states and territories.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Airline passengers from Queensland have to put on their face masks once they cross into NSW airspace.


text: Welfare recipients on cashless debit cards pay a transaction fee with every purchase.
claimant: The Older Women's Network NSW
claim_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, cashless debit card users don’t get slugged with fees each purchase
review_date: 2022-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-cashless-debit-card-users-dont-get-slugged-with-fees-each-purchase/

textual_rating:
Mostly False. The cards use the Visa Debit system for which transaction fees apply, but only a small proportion of these are typically passed on to users.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-of-non-existent-sids-makes-a-vile-jab-at-truth/
title: Claim of ‘non-existent’ SIDS makes a vile jab at truth
review_date: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. SIDS case numbers increased in the US in 2020 and decreased slightly in Australia.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was “non-existent” as children missed vaccines during lockdowns in 2020.


claimant: NZ Observer
claim_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-500000-people-waiting-for-hospital-care-in-new-zealand/
title: Are 500,000 people waiting for hospital care in New Zealand?
review_date: 2020-11-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims 500,000 New Zealanders are waiting for hospital treatment at the same time as no new facilities are being built and the health budget is $400 million in deficit.


text: There is no evidence carbon dioxide directly causes any change in the climate.
claimant: Senator Malcolm Roberts
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senator-blowing-hot-air-with-climate-science-denial/
title: Senator blowing hot air with climate science denial
review_date: 2022-02-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Numerous scientific bodies and studies have found an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere has changed the climate.


text: Changing New Zealand’s name to Aotearoa would nullify the Treaty of Waitangi.
claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/treaty-remains-the-same-regardless-of-new-zealands-name/
title: Treaty remains the same regardless of New Zealand’s name
review_date: 2022-09-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. A country changing its name doesn’t automatically end its treaties and obligations, experts say.


claimant: Facebook video
claim_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/election-fraud-claim-casual-with-the-truth-on-informal-voting/
title: Election fraud claim casual with the truth on informal voting
review_date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
High rates of informal ballots cast at some NSW voting centres is evidence of foul play in the 2023 state election.

textual_rating:
False. Analysis shows informal voting rates in 2023 were consistent with the rates at previous elections.


claimant: West Australian Premier Mark McGowan
claim_date: 2019-01-16T00:00:00Z
title: Will WA rock lobster be cheaper if the state government increases domestic supply?
review_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan claims virtually all WA rock lobster is exported to China, which has led to local lobster prices of around $100/kg.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-wa-rock-lobster-be-cheaper-if-the-state-government-increases-domestic-supply/


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-04-13T00:00:00Z
title: Barely a kernel of truth in Pakistan’s Hunza beating cancer with apricot seeds
review_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Pakistan's Hunza Valley people have no cancer because they consume apricot seeds. These contain vitamin B, which kills cancer cells.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/barely-a-kernel-of-truth-in-pakistans-hunza-beating-cancer-with-apricot-seeds/


text: Solar cycles are driving climate change, not the greenhouse effect.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/snowballs-chance-in-hell-the-sun-is-causing-climate-change/
title: Snowball’s chance in hell the sun is causing climate change
review_date: 2023-01-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Fluctuations in solar activity are far too small to be responsible for recent climate change. Data shows man-made emissions and the greenhouse effect are responsible.


text: A smart city proposal includes plans to restrict the movement of Victorians.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/smart-city-ideas-generate-dumb-dystopian-fears/
title: Smart city ideas generate dumb dystopian fears – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The urban planning concept for Melbourne has nothing to do with restricting the movement of citizens.


text: Mobile phones are banned from NSW classrooms.
claimant: NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/perrottets-phone-ban-claim-doesnt-quite-ring-true/
title: Perrottet’s phone ban claim doesn’t quite ring true
review_date: 2023-03-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The NSW government has banned mobile phones in primary schools but not high schools. Some high schools have imposed their own restrictions.


claimant: Stop the Rot Sack the Lot Facebook page
claim_date: 2022-10-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/uk-health-authority-gives-vaccine-damage-claim-the-jab-of-truth/
title: UK health authority gives vaccine damage claim the jab of truth
review_date: 2022-10-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The UK government has admitted that those who are double vaccinated will get sick with new viruses because of immune system damage done by the COVID jab.

textual_rating:
False. The UK Health Security Agency said no such admission has been made and the claim has no basis in fact.


claimant: Cafe Locked Out
claim_date: 2022-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Fake Indigenous exemption document has disturbing elements of truth
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An Australian government exemption certificate from 1951 reveals strict conditions placed on an Indigenous man in order to leave a reservation.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-indigenous-exemption-document-has-disturbing-elements-of-truth/

textual_rating:
Mixture. While the certificate is an advertising mock-up, experts say its contents fairly represent restrictions placed on Indigenous people at the time.


claimant: Alex Jones
claim_date: 2021-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/infowars-video-on-australias-covid-vaccine-program-misfires/
title: Infowars video on Australia’s COVID vaccine program misfires
review_date: 2021-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia suspended its entire COVID-19 vaccination program because it made people seriously ill, caused deaths and made recipients HIV-positive.


text: A fifth of children in Victoria aged five to 11 years old have experienced suicidal ideation.
claimant: Meryl Dorey
claim_date: 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/anti-vaccine-activists-exaggerate-child-suicide-statistics/
title: Anti-vaccine activists exaggerate child suicide statistics – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-01-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False.  The figure is from a study among teens aged 14-17. The limited research among younger children suggests they have lower rates of suicidal thoughts.


text: Unvaccinated children do not have autism, but vaccinated children do.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/studies-blunt-repeated-shots-at-blaming-vaccines-for-autism/
title: Studies blunt repeated shots at blaming vaccines for autism
review_date: 2023-08-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Studies show there is no notable difference in autism rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.


claimant: Gerard Rennick
claim_date: 2022-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-rubbish-senators-deadly-vaccine-claim/
title: Experts rubbish senator’s deadly vaccine claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-05-11T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia’s 2021 official death statistics provide evidence COVID-19 vaccines have caused thousands of excess deaths.

textual_rating:
False. Experts say the excess deaths are around a one per cent increase and can be explained by various factors including delayed health treatments during the pandemic, an ageing population and low death rates in 2020.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2023-01-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/faulty-data-at-the-heart-of-myocarditis-claim/
title: Faulty data at the heart of myocarditis claim
review_date: 2023-01-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Eight per cent of people in the English town of Swindon attended hospital in 2021 for heart-related issues.

textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on faulty hospital data that inflated the number of heart-related attendances. The data has been retracted and corrected.


claimant: Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite
claim_date: 2021-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-cutting-emissions-create-250000-jobs-in-a-decade/
title: Will cutting emissions create 250,000 jobs in a decade?
review_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False – The claim is mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite claims a recent report found adopting a target of net zero emissions by 2050 will create 250,000 jobs in Australia over the next decade.


text: A voice to parliament would mean Indigenous Australians lose their basic legal rights.
claimant: Clive Palmer
claim_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/palmer-simply-wrong-on-indigenous-rights-claim/
title: Palmer simply wrong on Indigenous rights claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-09T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
The voice to parliament will not take away any rights of any Australians, including Indigenous Australians.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/spanish-flu-pandemic-claim-masks-the-truth-about-deaths/
title: Spanish flu pandemic claim masks the truth about deaths
review_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The vast majority of deaths during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-19 were due to bacterial infections caused by people wearing masks.

textual_rating:
False. Many people succumbed to bacterial pneumonia due to lung and immune system damage following influenza virus infection. There is no evidence mask use was the cause.


text: A Facebook post claims a South Korean drama series predicted the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2018.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: South Korean TV series high on drama but not foresight of COVID-19 crisis
review_date: 2020-04-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The implications of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/south-korean-tv-series-high-on-drama-but-not-foresight-of-covid-19-crisis/


claim_date: 2020-07-02T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that “COVID-19 test has the virus” misleads on an early US kit fault that was found and fixed
review_date: 2020-07-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An Instagram post is claiming Covid-19 tests tainted with coronavirus have been in circulation for "many months".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-that-covid-19-test-has-the-virus-misleads-on-an-early-us-kit-fault-that-was-found-and-fixed/


claim_date: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hand-sanitiser-pets-and-patting-post-gets-ingredients-mixed-up/
title: Hand sanitiser, pets and patting post gets ingredients mixed up
review_date: 2020-04-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post claims that hand sanitiser contains "ethanol glycol" and poses a toxic risk to pets if they are patted after a person has used it.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/sovereign-citizens-enter-voice-debate-with-gibberish-queen-claim/
title: Sovereign citizens enter voice debate with gibberish Queen claim
review_date: 2023-07-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The claim is based on a spurious sovereign citizen theory that has long since been debunked.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The proposed Indigenous voice would be null and void as it would be enshrined in a fictional constitution.


claimant: Facebook meme
claim_date: 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/science-shines-light-on-claims-meditation-makes-body-brighter/
title: Science shines light on claims meditation makes body brighter
review_date: 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A scientifically controlled university study reveals humans can emit 100,000 photons of light per second by meditating.

textual_rating:
False. The university cited has distanced itself from the ‘study’ and experts say it is impossible to emit 100,000 photons per second.


claimant: Brian Tamaki
claim_date: 2021-09-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-covid-19-vaccines-dont-need-to-be-updated-for-each-new-variant/
title: No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t need to be updated for each new variant
review_date: 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There are 100,000 variants of virus that causes COVID-19, and vaccines will need to be changed for each variant that is exposed.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-50-per-cent-tax-claim-is-100-per-cent-rubbish/
title: Fifty per cent tax claim is 100 per cent rubbish – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There is no such proposal in any FoI response related to the voice.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed the voice will propose Indigenous people only pay 50 per cent the rate of income tax.


text: Early treatment with hydroxychloroquine would have prevented many COVID deaths.
claimant: Clive Palmer
claim_date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/palmers-covid-drug-claim-flies-in-the-face-of-science/
title: Palmer’s COVID drug claim flies in the face of science
review_date: 2023-03-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Multiple high-quality human trials and studies have found the drug is not effective against the COVID virus.


claimant: Take Back Australia
claim_date: 2020-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/australian-rose-farms-have-not-been-damaged-by-bushfires/
title: Aussie-grown roses are rare on Valentine’s Day but it’s not because of the bushfires
review_date: 2020-02-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that Australian rose farms have been damaged by bushfires and so most of the nation’s red roses for Valentine's Day will be imported.

textual_rating:
Partly False - The claim of the content is a mixture of accurate and inaccurate, or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/metadata-does-not-prove-victorian-premier-pic-was-taken-in-2017/
title: Metadata does not prove Victorian premier pic was taken in 2017
review_date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video post claims an image of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in hospital posted to his social media accounts this month was actually taken in 2017.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/bonkers-bible-claim-twists-authors-words/
title: Bonkers Bible claim twists author’s words – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-07-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A senior World Economic Forum (WEF) official has called for the Bible to be rewritten using artificial intelligence (AI).

textual_rating:
False. The comments in question were made by an author, not a WEF adviser, and he did not say the Bible should be rewritten.


claimant: Billy Te Kahika
claim_date: 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-activists-covid-claims-fall-apart-under-scrutiny/
title: NZ activist’s COVID claims fall apart under scrutiny
review_date: 2021-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 has a 99.7% "survival rate". Also, the Pfizer vaccine is not a vaccine according to the definition of the term, and New Zealand purchased its vaccines from companies owned by Bill Gates.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/crudely-created-claims-sickly-twist-sex-education-for-children/
title: Crudely created claims sickly twist sex education for children
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
United Nations and World Health Organization sexual education guides say all children must have sexual partners.

textual_rating:
False. Parts of the guides have been misrepresented, selectively edited or fabricated to support the claim.


claimant: Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott
claim_date: 2019-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Has the level of casual employment in the Australian workforce not changed for two decades?
review_date: 2019-11-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Business Council of Australia chief executive Jennifer Westacott claims there has been no change in the level of casual work in Australia for approximately two decades.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-the-level-of-casual-employment-in-the-australian-workforce-not-changed-for-two-decades/


text: Every ingredient in the Cancer Council's sunscreens is cancer-causing.
claimant: Ross Walter
claim_date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/slipshod-cancer-link-to-sunscreen-slapped-down/
title: Slipshod cancer link to sunscreen slapped down – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The concentration levels of chemicals in the products are so small that they could not cause cancer.


claimant: Reiner Fuellmich
claim_date: 2021-09-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/alternative-methods-to-treat-covid-19-lack-clear-evidence/
title: ‘Alternative methods’ to treat COVID-19 lack clear evidence
review_date: 2021-10-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing context
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc and ivermectin are good alternative methods to treat or prevent COVID-19.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: False claims about COVID-19, 5G and a vaccine that doesn’t exist yet
review_date: 2020-05-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Claim that COVID-19 is "fake" and that the pandemic is cover for the installation of 5G telecommunications towers.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-about-covid-19-5g-and-a-vaccine-that-doesnt-exist-yet/

textual_rating:
False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.  AAP FactCheck found the claims of the post to be false. COVID-19 is not "fake" but is a highly infectious viral disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Claims of a link between COVID-19 and 5G telecommunications ignore expert medical research and advice, and the fact that COVID-19 is present in many nations without 5G networks. The claim that the vaccine for COVID-19 contains an RFID chip is a fabrication as a vaccine does not exist.


claimant: A Facebook group
claim_date: 2022-03-25T00:00:00Z
title: NZ government didn’t ignore 58 Medsafe vaccine warnings – there were none
review_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False: Regulator Medsafe did not flag any serious issues with the vaccine.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The New Zealand government ignored warnings from Medsafe that there were 58 serious issues with the COVID Pfizer vaccine

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-government-didnt-ignore-58-medsafe-vaccine-warnings-there-were-none/


text: The United Nations aims to reduce red meat intake to 14 grams a day per person.
claimant: Malcolm Roberts
claim_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-un-hasnt-said-meat-intake-should-only-be-a-mouthful-a-day/
title: No, the UN hasn’t said meat intake should only be a mouthful a day
review_date: 2022-04-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The 14-gram recommendation is from an independent report by an advocacy group. It has not been endorsed by the UN.


claimant: Amanda Stoker
claim_date: 2023-04-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/stokers-voice-claim-misleads-on-executive-law/
title: Stoker’s voice claim misleads on executive law – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The executive government must take into account relevant representations from the voice to parliament or else be at risk of judicial review under administrative law.

textual_rating:
Misleading. A relevant representation would only have to be considered as per administrative law if parliament legislated it as a requirement.


text: Germany tried switching to wind and solar power and ended up producing more carbon dioxide.
claimant: Jordan Peterson
claim_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/jordan-peterson-blows-hot-air-over-german-emissions/
title: Jordan Peterson blows hot air over German emissions
review_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Germany’s energy sector emissions have trended downwards since its first reduction target in 1990.


text: A newly released Pfizer document reveals graphene oxide is an ingredient of its COVID vaccine.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/smoking-gun-pfizer-document-shoots-blanks/
title: ‘Smoking gun’ Pfizer document shoots blanks – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The document references graphene oxide as it was used to assist with imaging of the vaccine under a microscope. It is not an ingredient.


claimant: Facebook page, I can’t adult today
claim_date: 2020-02-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dettol-effective-against-known-strains-not-2019-novel-coronavirus/
title: Dettol effective against known strains, not 2019 Novel Coronavirus
review_date: 2020-02-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post asks how did cleaning products company Dettol know about the current coronavirus outbreak in 2019, showing a label which lists a product as able to kill “Human Coronavirus".


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/quantum-physicists-arent-crazy-in-love-with-dirac-meme/
title: Quantum physicists aren’t crazy in love with Dirac meme
review_date: 2020-12-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False — The primary claims of the post are not based in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post links “the most beautiful equation in physics”, the Dirac equation, with quantum entanglement and human love.


claimant: Tony Abbott
claim_date: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/abbott-deducts-context-on-no-votes-tax-status/
title: Abbott deducts context on ‘no’ vote’s tax status
review_date: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The federal government has given tax deductibility for donations to the voice's ‘yes’ campaign but not the ‘no’ campaign.

textual_rating:
Misleading. A ‘no’ campaign group was granted tax deductibility status but withdrew its application.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-10-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/face-mask-oxygen-deprivation-claims-are-a-lot-of-hot-air/
title: Face mask oxygen-deprivation claims are a lot of hot air
review_date: 2020-10-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim in the Facebook post is inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that wearing face masks causes oxygen deprivation, carbon dioxide intoxication and leads to permanent neurological damage, especially in children.


claim_date: 2020-10-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-australian-government-isnt-a-privately-owned-us-company/
title: No, the Australian government isn’t a privately owned US company
review_date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A number of social media posts claim the Australian government is keeping a secret that it's "privately owned American company".


claimant: Jacinda Ardern, Labour Party leader and NZ Prime Minister
claim_date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-australia-outplaying-nz-on-debt-and-unemployment/
title: Is Australia ‘outplaying’ NZ on debt and unemployment?
review_date: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True - The claim is mostly accurate but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labour Party leader and NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claims New Zealand's unemployment rate and government debt is lower than Australia's.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2018-05-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-drinking-beer-ferment-major-health-benefits/
title: Will drinking beer ferment major health benefits? – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-12-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Drinking beer will improve bone density and digestion; prevent cancer, diabetes, gallstones and dementia; and delay ageing, among other health benefits.


text: Victoria’s Labor government stopped state MPs from setting their own pay.
claimant: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews
claim_date: 2023-06-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/andrews-cant-take-full-credit-for-victorian-mp-pay-reforms/
title: Andrews can’t take full credit for Victorian MP pay reforms
review_date: 2023-06-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mixture. The Labor government did change the system, but MPs hadn't been able to set their own pay since 2013.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/australias-vaccine-rollout-doesnt-hinge-on-a-state-of-emergency/
title: Australia’s vaccine rollout doesn’t hinge on a state of emergency
review_date: 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 vaccines are only provisionally approved in Australia while there is a state of emergency. They cannot be administered when the emergency ends.


text: A video shows an electric vehicle exploding.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-03-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/exploding-car-video-fuels-ev-conspiracies/
title: Exploding car video fuels EV conspiracies – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The car was fuelled by compressed natural gas and the blast appears to have been caused by an exploding gas canister.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
title: Claims COVID tests invented before virus emerged are patently wrong
review_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 diagnostic tests were patented in 2015, years before the disease was officially discovered.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claims-covid-tests-invented-before-virus-emerged-are-patently-wrong/

textual_rating:
False. The patent was filed in May 2020 but referred to "related" applications from earlier years which do not mention COVID-19.


text: There is no evidence that floods and droughts are getting worse.
claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2022-10-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/evidence-swamps-droughts-and-floods-claim/
title: Evidence swamps droughts and floods claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-10-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There is evidence to show floods and droughts are getting worse in Australia and elsewhere around the world.


claimant: Senator Bridget McKenzie
claim_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/minister-needs-history-lesson-on-adfs-disaster-recovery-efforts/
title: Minister needs history lesson on ADF’s disaster recovery efforts
review_date: 2022-03-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
It was 'unheard of' to call in Australian Defence Force personnel following a domestic natural disaster 20 years ago.

textual_rating:
False. The ADF has assisted following natural disasters in Australia throughout the period since its formation in the 1970s.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misinformation-drives-viral-posts-on-oxford-traffic-plan/
title: Misinformation drives viral posts on Oxford traffic plan
review_date: 2022-12-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A UK council will place electronic gates on key roads in a city, confining residents to their neighbourhoods as part of a climate lockdown.

textual_rating:
False. The traffic mitigation plan will use number plate recognition cameras on certain congested streets to promote alternative forms of transport. There will be no physical barriers and nobody will be stopped from leaving their neighbourhood.


claimant: NSW health spokesman Walt Secord
claim_date: 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z
title: Are nurse walk-in centres a proven way to ease hospital emergency pile-ups?
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly false - Mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NSW health spokesman Walt Secord claims nurse-led medical centres are a proven cure for overcrowded emergency departments.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-nurse-walk-in-centres-a-proven-way-to-ease-hospital-emergency-pile-ups/


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-06-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-north-pole-sunset-image-is-just-a-bad-moon-rising/
title: Fake ‘North Pole sunset’ image is just a bad moon rising
review_date: 2021-06-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An image widely shared on social media is a photo of "sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point last week".


text: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bought Dominion Voting machines for use in elections.
claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2021-02-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-voting-machine-claim-pushes-the-wrong-buttons/
title: NZ voting machine claim pushes the wrong buttons
review_date: 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The prime minister has not purchased the machines and they've never been used in NZ elections.


claimant: Agenda 21 AustraliaCOP 2030/Politics
claim_date: 2020-05-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/drilling-into-the-facts-about-us-toolmaker-black-decker-and-china/
title: Drilling into the facts about US toolmaker Black & Decker and China
review_date: 2020-05-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims US toolmaker Black & Decker is leaving China and building a $90 million plant in Texas.

textual_rating:
Partly False – The claim of the content is a mixture of accurate and inaccurate, or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claim_date: 2020-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: COVID-19 virus doesn’t share “spikes” with HIV and Fauci didn’t patent them
review_date: 2020-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus shares a spike glycoprotein with HIV, and that the glycoprotein is patented by US health official Dr Anthony Fauci.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-virus-doesnt-share-spikes-with-hiv-and-fauci-didnt-patent-them/


claimant: Meanwhile in Australia
claim_date: 2017-02-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/easter-removed-from-cadbury-eggs-claim-melts-under-scrutiny/
title: ‘Easter’ removed from Cadbury eggs claim melts under scrutiny
review_date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the word 'Easter' has been removed by confectionery company Cadbury across its entire range of Easter eggs.


claimant: Adam Bandt
claim_date: 2022-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: Bandt misleads with claim minimum wage earners will pay the same tax rate as CEOs
review_date: 2022-05-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A person earning the minimum wage will pay the same rate of tax as a CEO under changes supported by the coalition and Labor.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/bandt-misleads-with-claim-minimum-wage-earners-will-pay-the-same-tax-rate-as-ceos/

textual_rating:
Misleading. People earning from $45,001 to $200,000 will pay the same marginal tax rate, but those at the bottom of the bracket will have a much lower overall tax rate on their entire income.


text: An official report found the cashless debit card program was meeting most of its criteria.
claimant: Coalition MP Keith Pitt
claim_date: 2022-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/keith-pitt-misleads-with-cashless-card-claim/
title: Keith Pitt misleads with cashless card claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The report assessed the suitability of the scheme’s administration and performance targets, not its overall success.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-28T00:00:00Z
title: Claims Jacinda Ardern stole speech from a movie are un-bee-lievable
review_date: 2022-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used a passage from animated children’s film Bee Movie in her speech to Harvard graduates.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claims-jacinda-ardern-stole-speech-from-a-movie-are-un-bee-lievable/

textual_rating:
False. The passage was not spoken by Ms Ardern, nor does it appear in Bee Movie. It’s actually from US President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech in 2017.


claim_date: 2015-05-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/onion-fears-and-fables-overcooked-but-still-beware-for-the-dog/
title: Onion fears and fables overcooked but still beware for the dog
review_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims onions have disease-fighting qualities that enable them to absorb bacteria and viruses from the air, that a cut onion becomes "highly poisonous" if left overnight and that dogs should never be fed onions

textual_rating:
Partly False - The claims of the content are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: Adam Bandt
claim_date: 2022-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: New fossil fuel projects do have massive emissions potential if built
review_date: 2022-02-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There are 114 new coal and gas projects in Australia’s investment pipeline that contain more than double the amount of our annual domestic carbon emissions.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/new-fossil-fuel-projects-do-have-massive-emissions-potential-if-built/

textual_rating:
Mostly True. There are 114 coal and gas projects in Australia which, if completed, would produce emissions estimated to be more than double the current domestic carbon emissions of Australia. However there is uncertainty in the calculation of the potential emissions and emissions from exported fossil fuels.


claimant: Facebook videos
claim_date: 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: Claim doctors can be sued over COVID vaccines lacks legal standing
review_date: 2022-07-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
You can sue doctors if they can't prove a 'side effect' following the COVID-19 vaccine was not caused by the jab.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-doctors-can-be-sued-over-covid-vaccines-lacks-legal-standing/

textual_rating:
False. The medical profession bears no burden of proof against claims of negligence under Australian laws.


claimant: Viral videos
claim_date: 2021-04-19T00:00:00Z
title: Deceptive video on using mobile phone while charging gets plug pulled
review_date: 2021-05-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context - Content that may mislead without additional context.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video showing an electric field near a charging mobile phone demonstrates why people shouldn't use the devices while plugged in.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/deceptive-video-on-using-mobile-phone-while-charging-gets-plug-pulled/


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-04-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dubai-sheikhs-words-lost-in-translation-with-viral-quote/
title: Dubai sheikh’s words lost in translation with viral quote
review_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly false
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The late ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum said: "My grandfather rode a camel ... I ride a Mercedes ... but by great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again." He also said, "Hard times create strong men", and related lines.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/can-australians-be-locked-up-for-refusing-a-covid-19-vaccine/
title: Can Australians be locked up for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine?
review_date: 2020-11-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False - The content has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A comment on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website claiming people who refuse a future COVID-19 vaccine could face prison terms and hefty fines has been widely shared online.


text: Cloud seeding caused record-breaking floods in Queensland and NSW.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/conspiracy-claims-about-nsw-and-queensland-floods-fall-flat/
title: Conspiracy claims about NSW and Queensland floods fall flat
review_date: 2022-03-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Cloud seeding is impossible on the scale of the NSW and Queensland floods. A La Nina weather system is the cause.


text: Australia is isolated as just one of only six countries that allow “late term abortions”.
claimant: Senator Matt Canavan
claim_date: 2022-06-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nationals-senator-wrong-on-abortion-laws/
title: Nationals senator wrong on abortion laws – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. At least 11 countries permit abortions on request at 20 weeks and several more allow the procedure later in pregnancy for various social, economic or health reasons.


claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wrong-signals-sent-out-linking-radar-to-nz-cyclone/
title: Wrong signals sent out linking radar to NZ cyclone
review_date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Pulses from the TIGER-Unwin scientific radar on New Zealand's South Island caused or contributed to Cyclone Gabrielle.

textual_rating:
False. The radar is currently switched off. Even if it was working, the radar doesn’t have the capability to affect the weather.


claim_date: 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that cow-caused methane doesn’t raise emissions is just hot air
review_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually incorrect.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post claims that methane emitted by cattle is absorbed by plants in a natural cycle that does not increase greenhouse gas emissions.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-that-cow-caused-methane-doesnt-raise-emissions-is-just-hot-air/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-05-25T00:00:00Z
title: Italy did not find a treatment to defeat COVID-19 and did not say the disease is caused by bacteria
review_date: 2020-06-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A widely circulated Facebook post makes a series of claims about Italy “defeating” COVID-19 including that Italian authorities “discovered that it is not a virus, but a bacteria”.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/italy-did-not-find-a-treatment-to-defeat-covid-19-and-did-not-say-the-disease-is-caused-by-bacteria/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: COVID-19 conspiracy about Hollywood arrests, CEO exits gets an F for “Fiction”
review_date: 2020-03-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Two Facebook posts implicating Hollywood identities Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Harvey Weinstein in a conspiracy regarding COVID-19.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-conspiracy-about-hollywood-arrests-ceo-exits-gets-an-f-for-fiction/


text: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said face masks don't help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
claimant: A social media post
claim_date: 2021-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: Misleading edit of Gladys Berejiklian clip shrouds her stance on masks
review_date: 2021-07-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misleading-edit-of-gladys-berejiklian-clip-shrouds-her-stance-on-masks/


claimant: Simeon Brown
claim_date: 2020-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/national-misleads-with-nz-renewable-energy-figures/
title: National misleads with NZ renewable energy claims – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The National Party claims the proportion of electricity coming from renewable sources increased more when it was in power than under the Labour-led government, while also taking credit for that rise.

textual_rating:
Misleading –  The claim is accurate in parts but information has also been presented incorrectly, out of context or omitted.


text: The spread of COVID-19 in New Zealand was due to people getting vaccinated.
claimant: Know Your Rights Group
claim_date: 2022-09-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/groups-kiwi-covid-claim-absolute-nonsense/
title: Group’s Kiwi COVID claim ‘ absolute nonsense’ – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-10-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. NZ’s case numbers rose because of the spread of Omicron in early 2022, not because of the vaccination rollout.


claimant: National Party leader Judith Collins
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-support-for-national-leaders-child-poverty-claims/
title: No support for NZ National leader’s child poverty claim
review_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - Mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National Party leader Judith Collins claims child poverty in New Zealand has increased under the Labour coalition government.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-09-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-un-document-used-to-spread-false-new-world-order-goals/
title: Fake UN document used to spread false ‘new world order’ goals
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim(s) of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post circulating on New Zealand social media accounts repeats refuted rumours of a secret United Nations agenda to create a “new world order”.


claimant: Tasmanian Liberals
claim_date: 2022-04-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/liberals-barking-up-wrong-tree-with-tassie-timber-job-losses/
title: Liberals barking up wrong tree with Tassie timber job losses
review_date: 2022-04-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Labor/Greens 2011 forestry agreement caused the loss of more than 4000 jobs in Tasmania's timber industry.

textual_rating:
False. The majority of the 4000 jobs were lost prior to the 2011 agreement with the 2008 global financial crisis a major reason.


text: People with "natural immunity" from COVID-19 due to prior infection cannot catch the virus again.
claimant: An Instagram video
claim_date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-in-the-wild-immunity-claim-needs-to-be-tamed/
title: COVID ‘in the wild’ immunity claim needs to be tamed
review_date: 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Multiple studies using real-world data show those with prior infection can become reinfected with the virus.


claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2022-07-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wind-turbines-claim-is-a-load-of-hot-air/
title: Wind turbines claim is a load of hot air
review_date: 2022-07-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The study found turbines create localised warming but have no impact on global warming.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Harvard study found wind turbines create more global warming than the fossil fuel power they replace.


text: Ivermectin is effective at treating COVID-19.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-05-04T00:00:00Z
title: Ivermectin’s race is run as studies all point to the same conclusion
review_date: 2023-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. Multiple high-quality studies conclude it is ineffective as a COVID treatment.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ivermectins-race-is-run-as-studies-all-point-to-the-same-conclusion/


text: An image shows the pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo in Egypt, covered in snow.
claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-02-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fake-pyramids-photo-is-the-ultimate-snow-job/
title: Fake pyramids photo is the ultimate snow job
review_date: 2021-03-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Altered Image - The image, video, or audio content has been edited or synthesised beyond adjustments for clarity or quality, in ways that could mislead people.


claimant: A social media post
claim_date: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/radio-ga-ga-there-is-no-nz-government-gag-on-rnz-comments/
title: Radio ga ga: There is no NZ government gag on RNZ comments
review_date: 2021-04-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The New Zealand Labour government told RadioNZ (RNZ) to remove comments from social media that criticise government policy.


text: The Morrison government plans to force all age pensioners onto cashless welfare cards.
claimant: Emma McBride
claim_date: 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: Claim aged pensioners will be put on cashless debit cards is due for retirement
review_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-aged-pensioners-will-be-put-on-cashless-debit-cards-is-due-for-retirement/

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence the government intends to put all age pensioners on cashless welfare cards, a measure not permitted under existing legislation.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-jab-compensation-leaflet-is-pure-imagination/
title: COVID jab compensation leaflet is pure imagination – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The UK government leaflet supposedly promoting the 'scheme' is fake.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The UK government will pay compensation to those with declining health since the COVID-19 vaccine if they weren't made fully aware of the risks.


claimant: David Martin
claim_date: 2023-05-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/years-of-vaccine-research-data-ignored-in-coronavirus-rant/
title: Years of vaccine research data ignored in coronavirus rant
review_date: 2023-06-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Every scientific publication on coronaviruses from 1990 to 2018 found vaccines do not work against the virus type.

textual_rating:
False. Various research showed vaccines could work against coronaviruses before the COVID-19 vaccines proved their effectiveness.


text: Unvaccinated people are not dying from COVID-19.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/meme-falsely-trumpets-unjabbed-arent-dying-from-covid/
title: Meme falsely trumpets unjabbed aren’t dying from COVID
review_date: 2022-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Health data show unvaccinated people are more likely to die from the virus than the vaccinated.


text: Ticks in the 'no' box may be counted as a ‘yes’ vote in the voice referendum.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/posts-tick-all-the-boxes-for-voice-voting-misinformation/
title: Posts tick all the boxes for voice voting misinformation
review_date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. There will only be one box on the ballot paper, with voters instructed to write either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.


claim_date: 2015-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-last-post-originate-on-an-american-civil-war-battlefield/
title: Did the Last Post originate on an American Civil War battlefield?
review_date: 2020-04-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually incorrect.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The bugle call Last Post is claimed to have originated from music found in a dead soldier's pocket on a battlefield in the American Civil War.


claimant: George Christensen
claim_date: 2023-03-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/truth-gored-in-post-about-horned-shamans-release/
title: Truth gored in post about horned shaman’s release
review_date: 2023-04-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The "QAnon Shaman" was released from jail early after footage proved he committed no crime during the January 6 riots.

textual_rating:
False. His release to a halfway house was the result of a plea agreement, sentencing order and his behaviour while in custody.


text: Most of Australia’s coal exports are to China.
claimant: Penny Wong
claim_date: 2022-05-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/penny-wong-misses-the-mark-with-china-coal-claim/
title: Penny Wong misses the mark with China coal claim
review_date: 2022-06-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Australia has not exported any coal to China since February 2021, due to an informal trade ban imposed by Beijing.


claimant: Facebook posts.
claim_date: 2023-08-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-referendum-trick-question-claim-is-complete-nonsense/
title: Voice referendum ‘trick’ question claim is complete nonsense
review_date: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. There will be one question.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The referendum will have two questions - one for the voice and one for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people.


text: A Facebook post claims New Zealand's national debt has risen to more than $NZ120 billion.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: NZ national debt figure of $120 billion is out of date – it’s now higher
review_date: 2020-07-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False - The claims of the content are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-national-debt-figure-of-120-billion-is-out-of-date-its-now-higher/


text: The number of first-home buyers in 2021 was nearly 70,000 higher than when Labor was in government.
claimant: Scott Morrison
claim_date: 2022-05-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pm-cherry-picks-figures-in-first-home-buyers-pitch/
title: PM cherry-picks figures in first-home buyers pitch
review_date: 2022-05-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. While the claim is true when comparing 2021 against Labor’s final year of office, first home loan numbers were higher under Labor when averaged across the course of governments.


text: Official data has confirmed 800 COVID-19 'vaccine deaths' in Australia.
claimant: Graham Hood
claim_date: 2022-03-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-covid-vaccines-have-not-killed-800-in-australia/
title: No, COVID vaccines have not killed 800 in Australia
review_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a misrepresentation of vaccine safety data. Only 11 deaths have been causally linked to COVID vaccines in Australia.


text: Labor has used $360m of taxpayer money to fund the ‘yes’ vote.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/budget-papers-burst-voice-funding-claim/
title: Budget papers burst voice funding claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-06-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The money has been set aside for running the referendum and providing a neutral education campaign.


text: Denmark abandoned its epidemic law after nine days of protests.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-07-31T00:00:00Z
title: Denmark did not scrap its epidemic laws due to ‘pots and pans’ protests
review_date: 2021-08-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing context
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/denmark-did-not-scrap-its-epidemic-laws-due-to-pots-and-pans-protests/


claimant: A blog on Facebook
claim_date: 2020-10-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/new-zealands-new-food-bill-doesnt-ban-gardening/
title: New Zealand’s ‘new’ Food Bill doesn’t ban gardening
review_date: 2020-11-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A post widely shared on Facebook claims a new food bill in New Zealand "takes away (the) human right to grow food”.


text: An electronic vote counting system was used in the last two Fijian general elections.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fiji-vote-counting-claim-fails-to-account-for-facts/
title: Fiji vote counting claim fails to account for facts
review_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Ballots were counted by hand in 2014 and 2018. This will continue with Fiji's election on December 14.


claimant: One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts
claim_date: 2019-08-14T00:00:00Z
title: Does New Zealand have 60 million sheep, each producing 30 litres of methane daily?
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts claims New Zealand has 60 million sheep, each producing 30 litres of methane each day.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/does-new-zealand-have-60-million-sheep-each-producing-30-litres-of-methane-daily/

textual_rating:
Ambiguous - It is not possible to determine the veracity of the statement, or it has an equal weighting of true and false elements.


claimant: Senator Matt Canavan
claim_date: 2022-05-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senator-misleads-with-power-plant-closure-blame-game/
title: Senator misleads with power plant closure blame game
review_date: 2022-06-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading. The wholesale price increase is largely due to the high cost of coal and gas.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Energy prices have gone up five times above average following the part closure of a NSW coal power station.


claimant: NSW Labor transport spokeswoman Jodi McKay
claim_date: 2019-02-23T00:00:00Z
title: Will we be healthier and suffer less from pollution if more cycleways and footpaths are built?
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NSW Labor's transport spokeswoman Jodi McKay claims building more cycleways and footpaths will lead to fewer cars on the road, less pollution, lower emissions and a boost to public health and wellbeing.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-we-be-healthier-and-suffer-less-from-pollution-if-more-cycleways-and-footpaths-are-built/


claim_date: 2020-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: What it really means when “COVID-19 exposure notifications” is in your phone settings
review_date: 2020-06-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the presence of some software on Android phones means a COVID-19 tracing app has been downloaded without the phone owner's knowledge.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/what-it-really-means-when-covid-19-exposure-notifications-is-in-your-phone-settings/


claimant: Friends of Truth
claim_date: 2020-08-05T00:00:00Z
title: False COVID-19 test and survival rate claims resurface
review_date: 2020-08-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims in the post are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims COVID-19 tests cannot distinguish between COVID-19, the flu and common cold. It also claims a 99.5 per cent "survival rate" for the coronavirus.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-resurface-about-tests-for-covid-19-and-its-survival-rate/


text: More than 94 per cent of Victorians who received two vaccine doses now have COVID-19.
claimant: Reignite Democracy Australia
claim_date: 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/victorian-covid-update-a-data-dilemma-for-instagram-group/
title: Victorian COVID update a data dilemma for Instagram group
review_date: 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The 94.7 per cent figure refers to eligible Victorians who have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.


text: Labor MP Pat Conroy claims the majority of Australia’s coal exports are metallurgical coal.
claimant: Labor MP Pat Conroy
claim_date: 2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
title: Does metallurgical coal comprise 65 per cent of Australia’s coal exports?
review_date: 2019-08-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading - The claim is mostly true but somewhat misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/does-metallurgical-coal-comprise-65-per-cent-of-australias-coal-exports/


claimant: Facebook page Football Team Offer
claim_date: 2020-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: Cristiano Ronaldo is not converting his hotels into hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients
review_date: 2020-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post on March 15 by the page Football Team Offer claimed Ronaldo responded to COVID-19 by turning his chain of hotels in Portugal into hospitals.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cristiano-ronaldo-is-not-converting-his-portuguese-hotels-into-covid-19-hospitals/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/section-122-claim-confuses-voices-proposed-place-in-constitution/
title: Section 122 claim confuses voice’s proposed place in constitution
review_date: 2023-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Placing the proposed Indigenous voice in Section 122 of the constitution will give it the power to create new states.

textual_rating:
False. The proposed advisory body would not be added to Section 122 but an entirely new part called Section 129.


claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/child-hunger-and-covid-19-deaths-a-flawed-comparison/
title: Child hunger and COVID-19 deaths a flawed comparison
review_date: 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A comparison of the number of people who purportedly died from COVID-19 over two months with the number of children who died from starvation.


claimant: Viral image on social media posts
claim_date: 2022-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/viral-image-spins-truth-about-shane-warnes-autobiography/
title: Viral image spins truth about Shane Warne’s autobiography
review_date: 2022-03-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The page is a parody that a sports betting firm posted on social media in 2018.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An image shows the first page of Shane Warne’s autobiography, describing the moment the cricketer realised he had "made it".


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/crossed-wires-over-nz-coronavirus-lockdown-and-5g-rollout-link/
title: There is no link between NZ’s coronavirus lockdown and 5G rollout
review_date: 2020-04-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The claims made in the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims there is a link between New Zealand’s four-week coronavirus lockdown and the installation of 5G towers.


claimant: Malcolm Roberts
claim_date: 2021-12-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/coal-fired-power-stations-meme-fuels-a-stack-of-misinformation/
title: Coal-fired power stations meme fuels a stack of misinformation
review_date: 2021-12-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
More than a thousand new coal plants are being built around the world while Australia plans to shut down its remaining facilities.

textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a misinterpretation of out-of-date data, greatly exaggerating the total number of coal plants in operation and under construction.


text: Under the coalition government, half of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover has died
claimant: Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi
claim_date: 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senators-reef-damage-claim-ignores-significant-recovery/
title: Senator’s reef damage claim ignores significant recovery – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. Half the reef’s cover died across 2016/17 but there has been significant recovery in the years since.


text: A recent study has found that garlic can kill COVID-19.
claimant: Australian politicians
claim_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senators-garlic-cure-claim-smells-a-little-strange/
title: Senator’s garlic cure claim smells a little strange
review_date: 2023-06-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The study was not conducted on humans and the findings show no medical treatment application.


text: Only 13 per cent of young adults in regional Australia have a university degree.
claimant: Federal Labor politicians
claim_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/labors-university-figures-dont-check-out/
title: Labor’s university figures don’t check out – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-08-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. About 27 per cent of young adults living in regional and remote areas have a university degree or above.


claimant: The Great Australian Party
claim_date: 2021-10-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-australia-wont-use-dominion-voting-machines-next-election/
title: No, Australia won’t use Dominion voting machines next election
review_date: 2021-10-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) plans to use Dominion Voting Systems machines to count votes at the next federal election.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-01-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/hitler-was-once-named-time-man-of-the-year-but-thats-no-honour/
title: Hitler was once named TIME ‘Man of the Year’ – but that’s no honour
review_date: 2021-01-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context - Content that may mislead without additional context.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938, and this demonstrates that mainstream media can't be trusted.


claimant: Labor Assistant Minister for Treasury spokesman Andrew Leigh.
claim_date: 2019-09-30T00:00:00Z
title: Do Australians spend twice as much on superannuation fees as they do on electricity?
review_date: 2019-10-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True - The checkable claims are all true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor shadow assistant minister for Treasury Andrew Leigh claims that Australians spend twice as much on superannuation fees as electricity.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/do-australians-spend-twice-as-much-on-superannuation-fees-as-they-do-on-electricity/


text: Unvaccinated people pose no greater COVID-19 risk than those who are vaccinated.
claimant: Pauline Hanson
claim_date: 2021-11-22T00:00:00Z
title: Claim the unvaccinated pose no greater COVID-19 risk needs a check-up
review_date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-the-unvaccinated-pose-no-greater-covid-19-risk-needs-a-check-up/

textual_rating:
False. A person who is unvaccinated is more likely to be infected with the coronavirus and more likely to transmit it to others.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2020-10-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/australia-essay-attributed-to-douglas-adams-isnt-true-blue/
title: Australia essay attributed to Douglas Adams isn’t true-blue
review_date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A viral piece of writing about Australia being a “very confusing place” was written by author Douglas Adams.

textual_rating:
False. The essay was written by a fan called Jeremy Lee, not Adams, who admitted he wasn’t the author.


claim_date: 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z
title: Myth of Adelaide ice rink becoming a morgue resurrected amid COVID-19 crisis
review_date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The claims of the content are factually inaccurate
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post has reignited a rumour that an Adelaide ice skating rink is set to be used as a makeshift morgue.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/myth-of-adelaide-ice-rink-becoming-a-morgue-resurrected-amid-covid-19-crisis/


text: 7000 Ukrainian troops invaded Iraq in 2003.
claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-misleads-on-ukraines-role-in-iraq-war/
title: Post misleads on Ukraine’s role in Iraq War
review_date: 2022-04-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The Ukraine was not part of the invading force in March 2003. In addition, the most troops the Ukraine had in Iraq at any one time was 1700.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/military-force-vaccinating-nt-indigenous-is-a-load-of-croc/
title: Military ‘force vaccinating’ NT Indigenous is a load of croc
review_date: 2021-12-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian military is forcibly vaccinating Indigenous people in the Northern Territory against COVID-19.

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence Aboriginal people in the NT have been forcibly vaccinated by the military or any other group or agency.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
title: Did Charlie Chaplin say the ‘world’s best doctors’ include sun, rest and exercise?
review_date: 2021-01-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Charlie Chaplin said the "six best doctors in the world" include sun, rest and exercise. Several other quotes are also attributed to the actor-director in the same viral posts.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-charlie-chaplin-say-the-worlds-best-doctors-include-sun-rest-and-exercise/


text: Maori are not the indigenous people of New Zealand.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nzs-first-settler-theory-is-absolutely-wrong/
title: NZ’s first settler theory is ‘absolutely wrong’ – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Scientific, archaeological and social evidence all points to Maori being the first people to arrive in NZ around 1300.


text: A video shows Australian TV presenter Tracy Grimshaw promoting keto weight loss pills.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dont-fall-for-fake-tracy-grimshaw-weight-loss-adverts/
title: Don’t fall for fake ‘Tracy Grimshaw’ weight-loss adverts
review_date: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The video is an AI-generated scam. Tracy Grimshaw has warned people not to be taken in by scam adverts using her image.


text: Australia's COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) is around one per cent or less for every age group.
claimant: Reignite Democracy Australia
claim_date: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-case-meme-misleads-on-australian-fatality-rates/
title: COVID case meme misleads on Australian fatality rates
review_date: 2021-11-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. While the CFR is around one per cent for all COVID-19 cases in Australia, for older age groups it is as high as 32 per cent.


claimant: A social media post
claim_date: 2021-05-26T00:00:00Z
title: No proof ivermectin and hydroxy ‘regime’ led to COVID decline in India
review_date: 2021-06-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A new regime of the drugs ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine led to a reduction in COVID-19 cases in India.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-proof-ivermectin-and-hydroxy-regime-led-to-covid-decline-in-india/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-07-18T00:00:00Z
title: COVID-19 video post misleading and a distortion, says Aussie scientist
review_date: 2020-08-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook video post claims Australian scientists found COVID-19 was "human made" and that they blew the whistle on "this US government-funded bioweapon".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-video-post-misleading-and-a-distortion-says-aussie-scientist/


claimant: Jacinda Ardern, Labour Party leader and NZ Prime Minister.
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/can-nz-pm-jacinda-ardern-claim-success-on-child-poverty-trends/
title: Can NZ PM Jacinda Ardern claim success on child poverty trends?
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
AAP FactCheck examined NZ PM Jacinda Ardern's statement that seven child poverty measures were getting worse before the Labour coalition government came to power, and that seven measures had improved since.

textual_rating:
Misleading - The claim is accurate in parts but information has also been presented incorrectly, out of context or omitted.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-pandemic-not-a-case-of-history-repeating-itself/
title: COVID-19 pandemic not a case of history repeating itself
review_date: 2020-04-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The implications of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the COVID-19 crisis is the latest in a once-every-100-years historical pattern of pandemics.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-11-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/psst-vaccine-ingredients-are-not-a-secret-and-are-required-by-law/
title: Psst! Vaccine ingredients are not a secret and are required by law
review_date: 2022-11-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The vaccine ingredients are publicly available, as required by Australian law.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Pfizer signed a confidential agreement with the Australian government which means the ingredients of the COVID-19 vaccine are kept a secret.


claimant: Clive Palmer
claim_date: 2022-01-27T00:00:00Z
title: Clive Palmer’s claim 200 doctors have been ‘struck off’ fails basic check-up
review_date: 2022-02-10T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
More than 200 Australian doctors have been struck off the medical register during the COVID-19 pandemic.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/clive-palmers-claim-200-doctors-have-been-struck-off-fails-basic-check-up/

textual_rating:
False. Since July 2019 - before the pandemic began - 61 medical practitioners in Australia have been struck off the register for any reason.


text: Images show rhinos and elephants with their horns and tusks dyed bright pink to deter poachers.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z
title: Taken to tusk: Elephant and rhino ‘pink dye’ pics are wildly misleading
review_date: 2021-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Altered Photo/Video
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/taken-to-tusk-elephant-and-rhino-pink-dye-pics-are-wildly-misleading/


text: A video depicts a mass protest held in Brazil on November 15.
claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-11-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/brazilian-protest-video-flagged-as-misinformation/
title: Brazilian ‘protest’ video flagged as misinformation – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The footage is of the 200th anniversary of Brazil's independence in the capital Brasilia on September 7.


claimant: Advance NZ co-leader Billy Te Kahika Jr
claim_date: 2020-08-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-military-powers-under-covid-19-are-not-equivalent-to-police/
title: NZ military powers under COVID-19 are not equivalent to police
review_date: 2020-09-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The checkable claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Advance NZ co-leader Billy Te Kahika Jr claims military staff have been granted powers similar to a police constable.


text: Greenhouse gases don’t heat up the earth.
claimant: Senator Gerard Rennick
claim_date: 2022-09-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/senator-wrong-on-greenhouse-gas-claim-say-experts/
title: Senator wrong on greenhouse gas claim, say experts
review_date: 2022-09-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Gases such as carbon dioxide warm the atmosphere by absorbing solar radiation reflected by the earth.


text: No child under the age of two is vaccinated in Japan.
claimant: Social media meme
claim_date: 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/facts-the-best-medicine-for-error-strewn-japanese-vaccine-meme/
title: Facts the best medicine for error-strewn Japanese vaccine meme
review_date: 2022-04-14T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Japanese children are vaccinated from two months and the country has consistently high inoculation rates.


claimant: National Party MP Nick Smith
claim_date: 2020-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-legalising-cannabis-lead-to-more-drug-driving/
title: Will legalising cannabis lead to more drug-driving?
review_date: 2020-08-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Ambiguous - It is not possible to determine the veracity of the claim.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National Party MP Nick Smith claims driving under the influence of cannabis increased in Canada and the US state of Colorado after recreational cannabis use was legalised.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-02-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/miscarriage-data-doesnt-prove-link-to-covid-19-vaccine/
title: Miscarriage data doesn’t prove link to COVID-19 vaccines
review_date: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context - Content that may mislead without additional context.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post uses data about miscarriages to cast doubt on the safety of COVID-19 vaccinations, despite there presently being no evidence of a causal relationship.


claimant: Fair Australia and Advance
claim_date: 2023-07-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/videos-concoct-pms-silence-on-key-voice-question/
title: Videos concoct PM’s silence on key voice question
review_date: 2023-08-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading. The interview with the prime minister was edited to cut out his response.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Anthony Albanese was lost for words when asked whether the voice to parliament will have primacy over the government.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2020-10-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/growth-riddled-deer-has-no-link-to-nz-roundup-use/
title: Growth-riddled deer has no link to NZ Roundup use
review_date: 2020-10-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A deer became riddled with tumours as a result of eating plants sprayed with Monsanto's Roundup, which is widely used by New Zealand councils.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-08-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-pm-temple-visit-post-misleads-on-covid-19-claim/
title: NZ PM temple visit post misleads on COVID-19 claim
review_date: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claim of the content is factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared New Zealand COVID-19 free during a visit to a Hindu temple in Auckland on August 6.


claimant: Ross Walter Nutritionist & Naturopath
claim_date: 2021-03-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-false-positives-claim-is-positively-false/
title: COVID-19 false positives claim is positively false – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2021-05-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
80% of positive PCR tests for COVID-19 are false positives. These false positives are being used to bring about restrictions and lockdowns.


text: French President Emmanuel Macron plans to build 20 new nuclear power stations.
claimant: Jason Falinski
claim_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/liberals-french-nuclear-power-claim-melts-down-under-scrutiny/
title: Liberal’s French nuclear power claim melts down under scrutiny
review_date: 2022-03-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Mostly false. Mr Macron has proposed building six new reactors and a prototype small modular reactor, with a further eight reactors under consideration.


claimant: Judith Collins, NZ National Party leader.
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
title: Has NZ’s state housing waiting list risen under the Labour coalition?
review_date: 2020-09-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
National leader Judith Collins says the number of people on New Zealand’s state housing waiting list has ballooned under the Labour-led government.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-nzs-state-housing-waiting-list-risen-under-the-labour-coalition/

textual_rating:
Somewhat True - A part or parts of the claim are accurate but there is also a problem or inaccuracy.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-02-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/doctors-vaccine-claim-a-classic-case-of-confounding/
title: Doctor’s vaccine claim a classic case of confounding
review_date: 2023-03-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The claim is a case of ‘epidemiological confounding’ with research indicating the opposite.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19 increases with every vaccine dose you’ve received.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2021-06-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/jurassic-era-co2-claim-belongs-with-the-dinosaurs/
title: Jurassic era CO2 claim belongs with the dinosaurs
review_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were 30 times higher during the Jurassic Period than they are now. Current CO2 levels are at an all-time low.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2022-11-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-misinterprets-stillbirths-data-to-push-wild-claim/
title: Post misinterprets stillbirths data to push wild claim
review_date: 2022-11-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There was a 1500 per cent increase in 2021 on the previous record year for miscarriages/stillbirths in the US.

textual_rating:
False. The figures relate to self-reported occurrences of miscarriages/stillbirths following vaccination. They do not show the total number of incidents.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-05-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/digital-land-titles-claim-is-certified-nonsense/
title: Digital land titles claim is certified nonsense – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The constitution states that a property owner must be provided with their certificate of title in paper form.

textual_rating:
False. There is nothing in the constitution relating to requirements of hard copies of land documents.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/jet-fuel-hoax-fails-to-get-off-the-ground/
title: Jet fuel ‘hoax’ fails to get off the ground
review_date: 2021-01-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Commercial airlines powered mainly by compressed air (90 per cent), and 50 per cent of the price of plane tickets is said to pay for the fuel needed to fly.


claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-islam-quote-attached-to-acquitted-terror-suspect-resurfaces/
title: False Islam quote attached to acquitted terror suspect resurfaces
review_date: 2020-11-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook meme includes a purported quote from "Abdullah Zuber" in which he advocates for non-Muslims to be killed, adding that the Koran did not allow for their survival.


claimant: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
claim_date: 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
title: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says police numbers declined under National’s leader
review_date: 2020-08-19T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claims National leader Judith Collins oversaw a drop in police numbers.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-police-numbers-declined-under-nationals-leader/

textual_rating:
Somewhat False – The claim has a problem or inaccuracy but it does contain a significant element or elements of truth.


text: Global warming is caused by oxygen absorbing UV radiation, not the greenhouse effect.
claimant: Rogelio Perez Casadiego
claim_date: 2022-12-03T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/global-warming-theory-crumbles-under-scientific-scrutiny/
title: Global warming theory crumbles under scientific scrutiny – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-21T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Global warming is the result of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere increasing the greenhouse effect.


text: New Zealand has the planet’s lowest carbon footprint.
claimant: Groundswell NZ co-founder Bryce McKenzie
claim_date: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-carbon-footprint-claim-sidesteps-reality/
title: NZ carbon footprint claim sidesteps reality – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. NZ is the sixth-highest emitter of greenhouse gases per capita among similar industrialised nations.


claimant: Judith Collins, NZ National Party leader,
claim_date: 2020-09-16T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-nsw-weathered-the-impacts-of-covid-19-better-than-nz/
title: Has NSW weathered the impacts of COVID-19 better than NZ?
review_date: 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - The claim is mostly false with a minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Judith Collins, NZ National Party leader, claims that NSW has had fewer COVID-19 deaths than New Zealand as well as a booming economy and fans are to attend rugby matches.


claimant: Liberal MP Craig Kelly
claim_date: 2020-12-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/craig-kelly-year-of-global-cooling-claim-a-load-of-hot-air/
title: Craig Kelly ‘year of global cooling’ claim a load of hot air
review_date: 2020-12-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Average global temperatures have fallen over the past 12 months (from 20 Dec 2019 to 20 Dec 2020) despite C02 levels rising.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-07T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nikola-teslas-death-and-light-quote-dims-under-closer-scrutiny/
title: Nikola Tesla’s ‘death and light’ quote dims under closer scrutiny
review_date: 2020-12-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Nikola Tesla said: "Death does not exist, and with that very knowledge, the fear of it disappears. And remember: no man who existed died. They turned into light and as such still exist."


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/theres-nothing-magical-about-fake-monster-mushroom-pic/
title: There’s nothing magical about fake monster mushroom pic
review_date: 2020-12-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False – Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A widely-shared Facebook post claims that a tree-sized mushroom in the United States is the world’s "largest living organism".


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/inspirational-quote-on-starting-over-isnt-from-c-s-lewis/
title: Inspirational quote on starting over isn’t from C S Lewis
review_date: 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
C S Lewis said: "You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."


claimant: Ross Walter Nutritionist & Naturopath
claim_date: 2020-07-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, Bill Gates isn’t partnering with ID companies to implant microchips in humans
review_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that in a bid for “worldwide control”, US billionaire Bill Gates has teamed up with digital identity companies to implant microchips in humans.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-bill-gates-isnt-partnering-with-id-companies-to-implant-microchips-in-humans/


claimant: World Council for Health
claim_date: 2021-10-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-covid-19-injection-syndrome-is-only-garbled-misinformation/
title: Post COVID-19 injection syndrome is only ‘garbled misinformation’
review_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
COVID-19 vaccines are causing a new multi-system inflammatory condition called Post COVID-19 Injection Syndrome, or pCoIS.

textual_rating:
False. There is no credible evidence such a syndrome exists, and COVID-19 vaccines have not been linked to many of its supposed conditions.


text: Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is a new disease.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/theres-nothing-new-about-sudden-adult-death-syndrome/
title: There’s nothing new about sudden adult death syndrome
review_date: 2022-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Sudden cardiac death has been a recognised medical issue for decades. SADS was mentioned in hundreds of medical journal articles prior to COVID-19.


claimant: Independent candidate for Tamworth and local councillor Mark Rodda
claim_date: 2019-03-14T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True - The checkable claims are all true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Independent Tamworth candidate and councillor Mark Rodda accuses NSW ministers of gifting funds to government-held seats for “unworthy” arts projects.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-the-nsw-government-guilty-of-pork-barrelling-for-granting-arts-funding-to-help-secure-coalition-seats/

title:
Is the NSW government guilty of pork-barrelling for granting arts funding to help secure coalition seats?


claim_date: 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
title: Misinformation and fake “predicament” in claims about COVID-19 and a vaccine that isn’t available
review_date: 2020-07-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims the recovery rate from COVID-19 is "99.9 per cent", and claims there is a choice between getting the disease and getting "the vaccine with an 80 per cent adverse reaction rate". It also claims the vaccine "killed five people" during human trials.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/misinformation-and-fake-predicament-in-claims-about-covid-19-and-a-vaccine-that-isnt-available/


claim_date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: NZ’s three-month wage subsidy does not mean there will be a three-month lockdown
review_date: 2020-04-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown will last for three months rather than the initial four weeks announced.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nzs-three-month-wage-subsidy-does-not-mean-there-will-be-a-three-month-lockdown/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-04T00:00:00Z
title: Phone tower “put up overnight” in COVID-19 conspiracy claim has been there at least seven months
review_date: 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The implications of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims a 5G tower "was put up OVERNIGHT in Beaconsfield Victoria Australia under the cover of darkness".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/phone-tower-put-up-overnight-in-covid-19-conspiracy-claim-has-been-there-at-least-seven-months/


claimant: New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson
claim_date: 2020-09-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/tourism-lockdown-linked-to-deep-new-zealand-recession/
title: Tourism, lockdown key to deep New Zealand recession
review_date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – The claim is mostly accurate but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Finance Minister Grant Robertson claims New Zealand's stricter lockdown and greater reliance on tourism than Australia led to the country experiencing a bigger economic shock in the June quarter.


claimant: A New Zealand Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-10-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-most-vaccinated-pregnant-women-in-nz-havent-miscarried/
title: No, most vaccinated pregnant women in NZ haven’t miscarried
review_date: 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Eighty per cent of pregnant women in NZ who have been vaccinated for COVID-19 experience miscarriages.

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence of increased rates of miscarriage among vaccinated pregnant women in NZ or elsewhere.


claimant: Stew Peters
claim_date: 2022-11-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/doctor-death-claim-an-unproven-conspiracy/
title: Doctor deaths claim an unproven conspiracy – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
More than 80 Canadian doctors have dropped dead after receiving their fourth mandated COVID-19 vaccine.

textual_rating:
False. Many died of causes unrelated to the vaccine. There is no evidence to suggest the others died as a result of immunisation.


claimant: Butterfly Foundation chief executive Christine Morgan
claim_date: 2018-12-09T00:00:00Z
title: Do eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness?
review_date: 2019-01-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly True – Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Butterfly Foundation chief executive Christine Morgan says eating disorders claim more lives than any other psychiatric illness.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/do-eating-disorders-have-the-highest-mortality-rate-of-any-mental-illness/


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/yes-viruses-can-evolve-to-become-more-deadly/
title: Yes, viruses can evolve to become more deadly
review_date: 2021-07-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There has never been a viral mutation that resulted in a more lethal virus. Mutating viruses become more contagious and less lethal.


claimant: Sky News host Rowan Dean
claim_date: 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/has-there-really-been-no-warming-of-the-planet-in-22-years/
title: Has there really been no warming of the planet in 22 years?
review_date: 2021-01-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The checkable claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Sky News host Rowan Dean claims that a graph shows temperatures haven't risen in more than two decades.


claimant: Aidan McLindon
claim_date: 2022-10-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vic-premier-pay-rise-claim-short-changes-the-truth/
title: Vic premier pay rise claim short changes the truth
review_date: 2022-11-07T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews gave himself a $50,000 pay rise during Melbourne's COVID lockdowns.

textual_rating:
False. His salary increased by $29,913 and was determined by the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal.


claim_date: 2020-02-18T00:00:00Z
title: “Cabbage-walking vegans” story wanders away from its artistic origins
review_date: 2020-03-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
An article being shared on Australian and overseas social media groups claims "vegans" are walking cabbages instead of dogs in a purported trend among young people that helps to cure depression.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cabbage-walking-vegans-story-wanders-away-from-its-artistic-origins/


claimant: Mike Palmer
claim_date: 2022-12-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccine-side-effect-data-is-a-tale-of-two-systems/
title: Vaccine side-effect data is a tale of two systems
review_date: 2022-12-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A vaccine safety body has recorded 20 times more COVID jab adverse reactions than the government’s Therapeutic Goods Administration.

textual_rating:
Misleading. The two reporting systems use different measures to gather different types of adverse reaction data. They are not comparable.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-09-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/post-misleads-on-australian-covid-19-death-data/
title: Post misleads on Australian COVID-19 death data
review_date: 2020-10-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The primary claims within the post are inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Comorbidity data from an Australian Department of Health report shows there are far fewer coronavirus-related deaths than those reported in official figures.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-02-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/church-gender-claim-is-far-from-the-gospel-truth/
title: Church gender claim is far from the gospel truth
review_date: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The C of E said there is 'emphatically' no plan to change liturgy or authorised forms.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Church of England (C of E) has said it will stop referring to God in prayers and remove the use of ‘our father’.


text: Tanzanian president John Magufuli was murdered due to his views on COVID-19.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence to support claim Tanzania’s virus-sceptic president was murdered
review_date: 2021-06-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-evidence-to-support-claim-tanzanias-virus-sceptic-president-was-murdered/


claimant: Great Game India
claim_date: 2021-04-26T00:00:00Z
title: The UK isn’t expecting most COVID-19 vaccine recipients to die in a third wave
review_date: 2021-05-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
UK government modelling shows up to 70 per cent of COVID-19 vaccine recipients are expected to die in a third wave of the virus.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/the-uk-isnt-expecting-most-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-to-die-in-a-third-wave/


claimant: Kevin Rudd
claim_date: 2022-03-09T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/rudd-overshoots-on-scale-of-coalition-debt-and-deficit/
title: Rudd overshoots on scale of coalition debt and deficit
review_date: 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The budget deficit and government debt are both five times higher under the coalition than they were under the previous Labor government.

textual_rating:
Mostly false. Net government debt in 2021/22 is expected to be around four times higher than when Labor left office, and the deficit about twice the size of Labor's biggest deficit.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
title: Italy’s COVID-19 situation is dire but a photo of coffins is not from the coronavirus pandemic
review_date: 2020-03-25T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Italy is highlighted in a social media post to emphasise the importance of staying home during coronavirus by using a photo of multiple coffins to reinforce the message.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/italys-covid-19-situation-is-dire-but-a-photo-of-coffins-is-not-from-the-coronavirus-pandemic/

textual_rating:
Partly False - The claims of the content are a mixture of accurate and inaccurate or the primary claim is misleading or incomplete.


claimant: The Daily Exposé
claim_date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/truth-a-casualty-in-australian-covid-vaccination-deaths-claim/
title: Truth a casualty in Australian COVID vaccination deaths claim
review_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australian government data shows fully vaccinated people account for nine out of every 10 COVID-19 deaths in the country.

textual_rating:
False. Australia's government does not publish COVID death figures by vaccination status. The claim misrepresents NSW data, which shows the unvaccinated are over-represented in COVID deaths.


claimant: Jason Miles, a candidate for minor political party the Great Australian Party
claim_date: 2021-07-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/constitutional-clause-doesnt-ban-vaccine-mandates-in-australia/
title: Does a constitutional clause ban vaccine mandates in Australia?
review_date: 2021-07-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian Constitution’s ban on “civil conscription” means that mandated or coerced vaccinations are illegal.


claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2023-07-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/native-fauna-trademark-fight-fails-to-land-any-intellectual-blows/
title: Native fauna trademark fight fails to land any intellectual blows
review_date: 2023-08-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. You can’t trademark the Australian coat of arms or native flora and fauna.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The Australian government is fraudulently using its coat of arms because all flora and fauna are registered internationally as intellectual property.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-07-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/species-extinction-tally-argument-is-dead-and-buried/
title: Species extinction tally argument is dead and buried
review_date: 2022-07-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The State of the Environment report says just 27 species have become extinct in Australia between 1790 and 2010.

textual_rating:
False. The report states more than 100 species have become extinct, although the true number is thought to be much higher.


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/edited-graph-obscures-truth-about-global-warming/
title: Edited graph obscures truth about global warming – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-07-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A graph proves that the earth is cooler today than it has been for the majority of the last 9500 years.

textual_rating:
False. The graph shows temperatures from a Greenland ice core and only goes up to 1885. Today’s global mean surface temperature is higher than almost all of the last 9500 years.


text: The government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic saved 40,000 Australian lives.
claimant: Scott Morrison
claim_date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00Z
title: Did the government’s COVID-19 policies really save 40,000 Australian lives?
review_date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-governments-covid-19-policies-really-save-40000-australian-lives/

textual_rating:
Misleading. Experts say Australia’s low death rate is due to a mixture of state and federal government policy and non-government factors.


claimant: White Ribbon Foundation in Australia co-founder Libby Lloyd
claim_date: 2018-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/do-a-quarter-of-all-australian-children-live-with-violence/
title: Do a quarter of all Australian children live with violence?
review_date: 2018-12-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
In lobbying the federal government to fund programs reducing domestic violence, White Ribbon Foundation in Australia co-founder Libby Lloyd says one in four Australian children are enduring violence.

textual_rating:
Ambiguous – It is not possible to determine the veracity of the statement, or it has an equal weighting of true and false elements.


claimant: Judith Collins, National Party leader & Jacinda Ardern, Labour Party leader and NZ Prime Minister
claim_date: 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/will-pumped-hydro-result-in-significant-energy-price-hikes-for-nz/
title: Will pumped hydro result in significant energy price hikes for NZ?
review_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False – The claim is mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
AAP FactCheck examined whether New Zealand government experts predicted that transitioning to 100 per cent renewable electricity generation by 2030 would lead to a hike in electricity prices, or whether the move would bring prices down.


text: Scott Morrison reduced Australia’s refugee intake by 5000.
claimant: Adam Bandt
claim_date: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z
title: Greens leader on safe ground with claim PM cut Australia’s refugee intake
review_date: 2022-03-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/greens-leader-on-safe-ground-with-claim-pm-cut-australias-refugee-intake/

textual_rating:
Mostly True. In 2020, Australia’s refugee and humanitarian visa allocation was cut from 18,750 to 13,750. The actual intake fell by more than 5000.


claimant: Jonathan Young, New Zealand National MP
claim_date: 2020-09-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/new-zealands-oil-and-gas-ban-hasnt-led-to-energy-price-spike/
title: New Zealand’s oil and gas ban hasn’t led to energy price spike
review_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - The claim is mostly false with one minor element of truth
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The New Zealand government's ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration resulted in an increase in energy prices and a rise in the consumption of imported coal


claimant: National Party leader Judith Collins
claim_date: 2020-09-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nz-national-overstates-impact-of-oil-and-gas-exploration-ban/
title: NZ National overstates impact of oil and gas exploration ban
review_date: 2020-10-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - The claim is mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NZ National leader Judith Collins claims coal use had gone up and more coal is being used to generate electricity instead of gas, as a result of the Labour government’s offshore oil and gas exploration ban.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/social-media-posts-about-mps-travel-expenses-come-up-short/
title: Social media posts about MP’s travel expenses come up short
review_date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Nationals MP David Littleproud claimed $22,000 in expenses for an 84km trip between Warwick and Toowoomba in Queensland.

textual_rating:
False. The expenses claim covered six separate trips across regional Queensland and NSW and a total travel distance of around 4000km.


claimant: A Facebook video
claim_date: 2022-04-12T00:00:00Z
title: There’s no evidence mind control led Iraqi troops to surrender in the Gulf War
review_date: 2022-04-29T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A "physics professor" says a mind-control weapon was used successfully in the Gulf War to force Iraqi troops to surrender.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/theres-no-evidence-mind-control-led-iraqi-troops-to-surrender-in-the-gulf-war/

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence such technology was used, or that it exists. In addition, the video's caption incorrectly identifies the speaker as a leading physics professor.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-01-31T00:00:00Z
title: False claims of Gates vaccine paralysing girls in India resurrected
review_date: 2021-02-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Between 2000 and 2017, 490,000 girls in India became paralysed from vaccines delivered by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-of-gates-vaccine-paralysing-girls-in-india-resurrected/


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2021-03-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/open-letter-to-png-pm-on-vaccine-rollout-recycles-misinformation/
title: ‘Open letter’ to PNG PM on vaccine rollout recycles misinformation
review_date: 2021-04-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Australia has joined countries in Europe to reject COVID-19 vaccines; the coronavirus can be treated like the common flu and China and India successfully controlled the virus through steam therapy.


text: Billboards in Melbourne displayed Barbeques Galore adverts with an anti-Liberal Party message.
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-11-21T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/facebook-users-burned-by-prank-bbq-billboards/
title: Facebook users burned by prank BBQ billboards – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-11-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The billboard photos were created using digital editing software. The person who initially published the images has since admitted they were fake.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-12-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/depopulation-conspiracy-fuelled-by-misquoted-speech/
title: Depopulation conspiracy fuelled by misquoted speech – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-30T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A World Economic Forum (WEF) speaker has suggested reducing the global population in a bid to solve "all the world's problems".

textual_rating:
False. Jane Goodall has been misquoted. She did not suggest reducing the world's population in her WEF speech.


text: The planet has been in a period of global cooling since 2015.
claimant: Social media posts.
claim_date: 2023-01-13T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/scientists-roast-climate-denier-on-cooling-claim/
title: Scientists roast climate denier on cooling claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-01-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Misleading. The claim relies on cherry-picked data, selecting a particularly hot year as the base. Longer-term data shows a clear trend of rising global temperatures.


claim_date: 2020-03-22T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lung-disease-rescue-packs-claim-blows-into-australia-from-the-uk/
title: Lung disease “rescue packs” claim blows into Australia from the UK
review_date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post is leading people to believe that sufferers of pre-existing respiratory conditions are entitled to a respiratory 'rescue pack' that includes steroids and antibiotics.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-10-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cashless-welfare-card-cost-is-way-off-the-money/
title: Cashless welfare card cost is way off the money
review_date: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Indue, the federal government’s cashless debit card contractor, is paid $10,000 of public money per year for each card it administers.

textual_rating:
False. The true amount paid to Indue per card over the life of the scheme to date is estimated to be around $1200 annually.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-04-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/disguised-cell-towers-are-not-being-used-to-spy-on-communities/
title: Cell towers disguised as trees are not being used to spy on communities
review_date: 2020-04-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate or misleading.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that telcecommunication companies are setting up “camouflaged” cell towers to spy on local communities.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2021-09-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/barely-a-nugget-of-truth-in-colonel-sanders-rags-to-riches-tale/
title: Barely a nugget of truth in Colonel Sanders rags-to-riches tale
review_date: 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders went from being a penniless 65-year-old retiree to a billionaire at age 88 after using his first government cheque to start the business.


claimant: Matt Lawson
claim_date: 2021-08-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/videos-vaccine-side-effect-advice-should-not-be-taken-to-heart/
title: Video’s vaccine side effect advice should not be taken to heart
review_date: 2021-08-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly false
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has not been tested on children. It can cause myocarditis, which can only be treated through drugs and surgery and leads to lifelong problems.


claimant: Rebel News Australia
claim_date: 2020-11-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/were-dead-people-in-michigan-able-to-vote-in-the-us-election/
title: Were dead people in Michigan able to ‘vote’ in the US election?
review_date: 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Social media posts have shared claims that votes from people who died years before the 2020 US presidential election were counted in the closely contested poll.


claimant: The Exposé
claim_date: 2023-01-02T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/usual-suspect-cooks-up-covid-vaccine-scare-story/
title: Usual suspect cooks up COVID vaccine scare story
review_date: 2023-01-31T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Government, Pfizer documents confirm COVID-19 vaccines have led to millions of deaths as a result of recipients developing vaccine-associated enhanced disease (VAED).

textual_rating:
False. UK government and Pfizer documents make no such claim and there have been no recorded cases of COVID vaccines leading to VAED.


claimant: An Instagram post
claim_date: 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-doesnt-tell-the-whole-story-on-female-hormone-health/
title: Video doesn’t tell the whole story on female hormone health
review_date: 2021-07-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing context
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A woman's health and hormone levels are indicated by characteristics of their periods such as blood colour and consistency.


claim_date: 2020-04-05T00:00:00Z
title: Dates don’t line up when comparing disease epidemics and new mobile technology rollouts
review_date: 2020-04-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post seeks to correlate "the introduction of radio waves" and wireless cellular technologies with various outbreaks of disease.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dates-dont-line-up-when-comparing-disease-epidemics-and-new-mobile-technology-rollouts/


claimant: Make It 16 representative Sophie Crozier
claim_date: 2020-08-24T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/lower-voting-age-higher-participation-rate-claims-make-it-16/
title: Lower voting age, higher participation rate, claims Make It 16
review_date: 2020-08-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Make It 16 representative Sophie Crozier says New Zealand's voting age should be lowered to 16, claiming countries such as Scotland and Wales and Austria have a greater turnout of 16-year-olds voting, instead of, more than 18- and 20-year-olds.

textual_rating:
Somewhat True - A part or parts of the claim are accurate but there is also a significant problem or inaccuracy.


claimant: A Facebook page
claim_date: 2021-06-27T00:00:00Z
title: Conspiracy over who edited King James Bible a case of too much Bacon
review_date: 2021-09-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Sir Francis Bacon was the editor of the King James version of the Bible and that he was a Freemason who left masonic marks on the first edition.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/conspiracy-over-who-edited-king-james-bible-a-case-of-too-much-bacon/


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-01-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/gas-stove-study-tweet-cooked-up-as-heart-health-scare/
title: Gas stove study tweet cooked up as heart health scare
review_date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A study has found occupants of homes with gas stoves have a 47.3 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular events.

textual_rating:
False. The claim is based on a doctored tweet from a US news outlet. There is no evidence of any such study.


claimant: Paul Goldsmith, National Party finance spokesperson
claim_date: 2020-09-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/national-overstates-benefit-of-nz-tax-cut-plan/
title: National overstates benefit of NZ tax cut plan
review_date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - The claim is mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Paul Goldsmith, National Party finance spokesperson, claims that New Zealanders earning between $50,000 and $70,000 would be $3000 better off under National’s proposed tax cuts.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/cold-hard-nonsense-floated-about-polar-ice/
title: Cold, hard nonsense floated about polar ice – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-01-03T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The melting of South Pole ice will allow the continent to float up, therefore resulting in minimal sea level change.

textual_rating:
False. The process (isostatic rebound) does not increase the volume of the ocean basin. Meanwhile, melting land ice directly adds water to the oceans.


text: New Zealand's minimum wage for immigrants is $29.66 but only $22.70 for NZ residents.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-03-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/immigrant-versus-kiwi-minimum-wage-claim-doesnt-fly/
title: Immigrant versus Kiwi minimum wage claim doesn’t fly
review_date: 2023-04-17T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The $29.66 figure applies to only one type of working visa. Regardless, it is unlawful to vary pay based on national origin.


claimant: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton
claim_date: 2023-04-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dutton-muddles-comparison-with-sa-voice/
title: Dutton muddles comparison with SA voice – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-05-08T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The South Australian government put its voice to parliament in legislation but did not change the state's constitution.

textual_rating:
False. The state's First Nations Voice Bill 2023 includes an amendment to South Australia’s Constitution Act.


claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-12-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/claim-of-grinch-like-christmas-plot-is-a-real-turkey/
title: Claim of Grinch-like Christmas plot is a real turkey
review_date: 2023-01-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched an initiative to cancel Christmas traditions in a bid to save the environment.

textual_rating:
False. There is no evidence that the WEF has launched any such initiative, and has in fact produced content in keeping with the Christmas spirit.


text: Real wages did not grow under the previous Labor government.
claimant: Simon Birmingham
claim_date: 2021-12-17T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/finance-ministers-claim-about-wages-under-labor-not-on-the-money/
title: Finance minister’s claim about wages under Labor not on the money
review_date: 2022-01-12T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. While real wages dipped in the period surrounding the 2013 election, the longer-term trend was upward during the 2007-2013 Labor government.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2020-09-28T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/covid-19-false-positives-dont-make-case-figures-meaningless/
title: COVID-19 ‘false positives’ don’t make case figures meaningless
review_date: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Partly False - Content that has some factual inaccuracies.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A social media post claims the high number of false-positive results from COVID-19 tests is rendering reported case numbers meaningless and the testing of asymptomatic patients useless.


claimant: NSW Council of Social Service chief executive Joanna Quilty
claim_date: 2019-06-20T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True - The checkable claims are all true.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
NSW Council of Social Service chief executive Joanna Quilty claims NSW has a growing homeless population and a social housing waiting list of 60,000 people waiting up to 10 years.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/is-homelessness-growing-in-nsw-and-are-there-60000-people-waiting-for-social-housing-sometimes-for-up-to-10-years/

title:
Is homelessness growing in NSW and are there 60,000 people waiting for social housing, sometimes for up to 10 years?


text: Myocarditis cases were four per million before the pandemic but are now 25,000 cases per million.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2022-12-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fudged-figures-at-the-heart-of-myocarditis-claim/
title: Fudged figures at the heart of myocarditis claim
review_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The figures are based on a variety of studies which have been misrepresented to make the claim.


claimant: A Facebook page
title: ABC chief Ita Buttrose hasn’t endorsed Donald Trump in the US election
review_date: 2020-11-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post claims that ABC chair Ita Buttrose backed President Donald Trump to win the 2020 US presidential election.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/abc-chief-ita-buttrose-hasnt-endorsed-donald-trump-in-the-us-election/


text: A new study recommends immunocompromised people should avoid wearing face masks.
claimant: Facebook and Twitter posts
claim_date: 2022-07-19T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/face-mask-hygiene-study-hijacked-by-dirty-claim/
title: Face mask hygiene study hijacked by dirty claim
review_date: 2022-08-04T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The Japanese study only concludes wearing the same mask for days on end is unhygienic. It makes no claims about immunocompromised people.


claimant: Labor leader Anthony Albanese
claim_date: 2019-12-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/claims/has-the-coalition-government-cut-14-billion-from-public-education
title: Sign in - Google Accounts
review_date: 2019-12-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly False - Mostly false with one minor element of truth.
language_code: en
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Labor leader Anthony Albanese claims the coalition government has cut $14 billion from public education during its six years in office.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2020-11-27T00:00:00Z
title: False Bill Gates ‘depopulate with vaccines’ news a conspiracy theory classic
review_date: 2020-12-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – Content that has no basis in fact.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post suggests that a 2011 newspaper article highlighting Bill Gates's plan to depopulate the Earth through forced vaccination has been effectively scrubbed from the public record.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-bill-gates-depopulate-with-vaccines-news-a-conspiracy-theory-classic/


text: The European Parliament has declared that COVID-19 is a fraud at a recent conference.
claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2023-06-11T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-the-european-parliament-has-not-declared-covid-19-a-fraud/
title: No, the European Parliament has not declared COVID-19 a fraud
review_date: 2023-06-23T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. The conference, which was held within the European Parliament building, was not an official event. The legislative body has distanced itself from comments made at the event.


claimant: John Larter
claim_date: 2022-08-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nsw-covid-data-details-lost-on-former-paramedic/
title: NSW COVID data details lost on former paramedic
review_date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. At least 13 unvaccinated individuals died from COVID-19 across the seven days.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
There were no unvaccinated people among the 164 who died of COVID-19 in NSW in the last week of July.


claimant: Queensland senator Gerard Rennick
claim_date: 2021-02-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/does-europes-renewable-energy-mostly-come-from-burning-wood/
title: Does Europe’s renewable energy mostly come from burning wood?
review_date: 2021-03-02T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Queensland senator Gerard Rennick has questioned Europe’s green credentials, claiming the majority of the region’s renewable power comes from burning wood.

textual_rating:
Somewhat False – The claim has a problem or inaccuracy but it does contain a significant element or elements of truth.


text: Ukraine is not a sovereign state and is part of Russia.
claimant: Riccardo Bosi
claim_date: 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ukraine-sovereignty-claim-ignores-30-years-of-independence/
title: Ukraine sovereignty claim ignores 30 years of independence – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Ukraine declared independence in 1991 and fulfils the criteria for statehood under international law.


claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-07-05T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/video-backfires-with-claimed-german-electric-car-fire/
title: Video backfires with claimed German electric car fire
review_date: 2021-07-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A video shows an electric vehicle (EV) fire in Germany, which has banned EVs from being parked underground.


text: The coalition government increased development aid for the Pacific region by 50 per cent.
claimant: Scott Morrison
claim_date: 2022-03-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-morrison-government-increase-pacific-aid-50-per-cent/
title: Did the Morrison government increase Pacific aid 50 per cent?
review_date: 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
True. Including COVID-19 relief funding, aid to the Pacific was 56 per cent higher in 2021 than in 2013 under Labor.


claimant: A Facebook user posting to the public group
claim_date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/false-claims-about-covid-tests-and-famous-new-zealand-visitors/
title: False claims about COVID tests and famous New Zealand visitors
review_date: 2020-08-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the video’s content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A YouTube video posted on Facebook claims the real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test used to detect COVID-19 is not an appropriate testing method.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-mcg-closure-claim-is-kicked-out-of-bounds/
title: Voice MCG closure claim is kicked out of bounds
review_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False. The voice would be an advisory body with no power to make decisions or veto laws.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Access will be denied to sporting venues such as the MCG, SCG and Allianz Stadium if the Indigenous voice is enshrined in the constitution.


text: A 2008 article proves the UN wants to starve people as a form of control
claimant: Facebook posts
claim_date: 2022-07-12T00:00:00Z
title: World hunger article fuels misinformation 14 years after publication
review_date: 2022-07-15T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/world-hunger-article-fuels-misinformation-14-years-after-publication/

textual_rating:
False. The article was intended to highlight fears that some in society benefit from continued world hunger.


claimant: Facebook user.
claim_date: 2023-04-06T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/voice-pamphlet-claim-folds-under-closer-inspection/
title: Voice pamphlet claim folds under closer inspection – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
The government has chosen not to provide brochures outlining the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ cases ahead of the voice to parliament referendum.

textual_rating:
False. A pamphlet will be sent to every household where a voter is enrolled at least two weeks before the referendum.


claimant: Viral social media posts
claim_date: 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/are-plant-based-meats-just-another-persons-poison/
title: Are plant-based ‘meats’ just another person’s poison?
review_date: 2020-12-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Missing Context - The post may mislead without additional context.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Plant-based meats contain chemicals including titanium dioxide, methylcellulose, propylene glycol, ferric phosphate and magnesium carbonate, which are used in various toxic products.


claimant: A Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-03-18T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/sudanese-crime-statistics-dont-tell-real-story/
title: Sudanese crime “statistics” don’t tell real story
review_date: 2020-03-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False - The primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A Facebook post lists a series of statements claiming to be statistics about crimes associated with people of Sudanese origin in Victoria.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2023-06-26T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/wires-crossed-in-titan-sub-moon-landing-conspiracy-claim/
title: Wires crossed in Titan sub-Moon landing conspiracy claim
review_date: 2023-07-27T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Apparently humans called the Moon from a landline phone in 1969, yet we can’t even contact a submarine in 2023.

textual_rating:
Misleading. US President Richard Nixon’s 1969 phone call to the Moon wasn’t direct via a landline. Experts say it’s more difficult to communicate underwater than in space.


text: Mass casualties at three major events are linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
claimant: Facebook users
claim_date: 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ridiculous-claim-links-fatal-crowd-crushes-to-covid-vaccines/
title: Ridiculous claim links fatal crowd crushes to COVID vaccines
review_date: 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
False. Investigations found the injuries and deaths at the three events were caused by crowd crushes or extreme heat.


claimant: An Instagram user
claim_date: 2021-07-10T00:00:00Z
title: Vaccine ‘transhuman’ claims patently wrong on US Supreme Court ruling
review_date: 2021-07-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
A US Supreme Court ruling means that people who have received mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are now patented and legally "no longer human".

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/vaccine-transhuman-claims-patently-wrong-on-us-supreme-court-ruling/


text: Sydney has more construction cranes in its skies than anywhere else in the world.
claimant: NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet
claim_date: 2022-11-25T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/nsw-premier-hoists-unproven-crane-claim/
title: NSW premier hoists unproven crane claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
textual_rating:
Unproven. Comparative global data is not available for the latest quarter. The most recent global count has Singapore ahead of Sydney. The latest figures for Dubai and Doha are also higher.


claimant: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
claim_date: 2020-12-15T00:00:00Z
title: PM’s claim Australian coal produces much lower emissions is ‘nonsense’
review_date: 2021-02-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False – The checkable claim is false.
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has claimed that coal from rival exporters produces 50 per cent more emissions than Australia's product.

url:
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/pms-claim-australian-coal-produces-much-lower-emissions-is-nonsense/


claimant: Greens senator Dorinda Cox
claim_date: 2022-08-23T00:00:00Z
url: https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/greens-senator-wrong-on-indigenous-consultation-claim/
title: Greens senator wrong on Indigenous consultation claim – Australian Associated Press
review_date: 2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
language_code: en
publisher_name: Australian Associated Press
publisher_site: aap.com.au
text:
Sixty per cent of people participating in the First Nations Regional Dialogue events were non-Indigenous.

textual_rating:
False. The meetings were led by and attended by Indigenous people. The co-chair of the consultation said all participants were Indigenous.


