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Foreign-born parents not an obstacle to Kamala Harris becoming president

Updated on 12/08/2020 at 10:06

Social media posts shared thousands of times claim that Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's running mate, could not become president because her parents hailed from abroad. This is false; she was born in the United States, making her constitutionally eligible to be both vice president and president.

This photo of pyramids in Egypt has been doctored to include the Lebanese flag

Published on 11/08/2020 at 10:10

Beirut blast was not a nuclear explosion

Updated on 07/08/2020 at 18:09

CORONAVIRUS

Hoax circulates online that vaccines have caused deaths in the Philippines

Published on 11/08/2020 at 11:20

Multiple Facebook and Twitter posts shared thousands of times in August 2020 claim that five people in the Philippine city of Tarlac died after receiving vaccine shots. The claim is false; the Tarlac City government and the Philippine Department of Health said the claim was “fake”; the World Health Organization (WHO) said the polio vaccine that was administered across the Philippines in August 2020 was safe.

False claim circulates online in the Philippines that Canada is ‘free’ of the novel coronavirus

Updated on 10/08/2020 at 06:24

No evidence flu vaccines make children more vulnerable to coronavirus infections

Published on 07/08/2020 at 21:27

POLITICS

Image of WWII-era newspaper circulates alongside false claims of Trump plan to bomb Scarborough Shoal

Published on 12/08/2020 at 09:30

An image has been shared in multiple Twitter and Weibo posts that claim that it shows Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reporting in late July 2020 that US President Donald Trump planned to bomb an island in the South China Sea. The claim is false; the image actually shows a Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper from December 1941, published during World War II.

Foreign-born parents not an obstacle to Kamala Harris becoming president

Updated on 12/08/2020 at 10:06

Trudeau corruption hoax originated on satire site

Published on 11/08/2020 at 19:44

Foreign-born parents not an obstacle to Kamala Harris becoming president