AAP FactCheck Articles
Nanowires crossed in claim linking patent to 5G and COVID-19
A US conspiracy theorist says a chemist patented a device to allow 5G radiation to control coronavirus particles in 2015.
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Greens senator wrong on Indigenous consultation claim
Dorinda Cox claimed 60 per cent of participants in the First Nations Regional Dialogue events were non-Indigenous.
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Germ theory denialists are spreading poxy misinformation
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to wacky pseudoscience from the 1940s being recycled to claim germs don't cause illness.
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Doctored 'communism' banner spins the truth
Top Marx for the photoshop effort but there's no revolution on the cards in New Zealand, just a digitally altered image.
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Wee problem with claim drinking urine cures diseases
Experts say the liquid bodily waste is mostly salty water and consuming it has no medicinal value.
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HAARP weather control conspiracy is off in the clouds
A social media conspiracy theory grossly overestimates the power of a US research facility.
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Claim COVID vaccines are deadlier than virus is jibber-jabber
An anti-vaccination group's legal advisor is just plain wrong on his tally of jab-related COVID-19 deaths.
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Sideways view of global temperatures is nonsense
Despite social media claims to contrary, data shows that temperatures have increased significantly over the past 25 years.
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Not a grain of truth in Ukrainian farmland claim
A series of Facebook posts have laid the blame with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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No, a baby-stealing fake nurse is not on the run
A string of widely shared Facebook posts have spread panic among local communities.
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Meme falsely trumpets unjabbed aren't dying from COVID
A pink elephant sculpture is being used in a meme claiming the coronavirus isn't killing unvaccinated people.
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No, there's no serial killer on the loose in Aussie towns
Local communities have been spooked after a string of Facebook posts warning of a dangerous criminal on the run.
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NSW COVID data details lost on former paramedic
An activist has warned that the vaccinated should be concerned following the release of NSW Health statistics. However, he's misread the data.
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Human tissue claim ignores existing NSW law
A former NSW Senate candidate's claim about the Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 is misleading and incorrect.
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New MP's climate change sums don't add up
Colin Boyce tried to explain his workings in the House of Representatives.
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Facts splinter spurious ice sheet claim
A social media user has lashed out at 'climate frauds' by arguing Greenland's ice sheet shows no sign of reducing.
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PM's omission misleads on Medicare rebate claim
Anthony Albanese failed to mention that Labor initiated a rebate freeze when naming Peter Dutton as the man responsible.
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Doctor's WHO conspiracy deserves to be exterminated
A social media video claims nations signed away governance to the UN health agency in 2006.
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No, the warmest decade was not nearly 100 years ago
A viral post seen by more than 10 million people states our warmest decade was nearly a hundred years ago.
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Jordan Peterson blows hot air over German emissions
The conservative commentator's musings on renewable energy sources are hailed by climate sceptics as proof that coal is king.
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