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Suicide Rates Don't Increase at Christmastime
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23rd December 2020
Suicide Rates Don't Increase at Christmastime
The Claim : Suicide rates rise throughout the winter holiday season.
Fake
NASA Didn't Say Earth Will Go Dark for 6 Days
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18th December 2020
NASA Didn't Say Earth Will Go Dark for 6 Days
The Claim : The Earth will go completely dark for six days in December.
Fake
Significant Snowstorm Will Hit Northeast
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16th December 2020
Significant Snowstorm Will Hit Northeast
The Claim : On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, a huge snowstorm will hit the Northeast.
True
Photo Shows Jupiter and Four Moons
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29th November 2020
Photo Shows Jupiter and Four Moons
The Claim : The photo below depicts the planet Jupiter surrounded by four of its moons. 
True
U.S. Doesn't Have the Cleanest Water
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26th October 2020
U.S. Doesn't Have the Cleanest Water
The Claim : The United States has the cleanest water in the world.
Fake
Misleading: Green New Deal and Tiny Windows
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24th October 2020
Misleading: Green New Deal and Tiny Windows
The Claim : The Green New Deal, which would change building codes all over the US, will cause all buildings to have tiny windows.
Misleading
CRT Unlikely to Make People More Racist
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24th October 2020
CRT Unlikely to Make People More Racist
The Claim : Critical race theory (CRT), which analyzes the effects that cultural racism has on society and government, makes people more racist.
Misleading
Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals
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16th October 2020
Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals
The Claim : The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its corals.
True
Fake: Video of Woolly Mammoth in 1943
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22nd September 2020
Fake: Video of Woolly Mammoth in 1943
The Claim : The video below depicts a woolly mammoth sighting in 1943.
Fake
Video Doesn't Show Drone Starting California Wildfires
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18th September 2020
Video Doesn't Show Drone Starting California Wildfires
The Claim : The video below shows a drone starting the recent California wildfires. 
Fake
North American Wildfires Do Not Stop at Canada
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16th September 2020
North American Wildfires Do Not Stop at Canada
The Claim : While the Western US was plagued by wildfires in September 2020, maps showed Western Canada was experiencing no such fires, despite having essentially the same climate, biome, and ecosystem.
Fake
California Isn’t Cooling
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15th September 2020
California Isn’t Cooling
The Claim : The U.S. state of California will start getting cooler.
Fake
The National Park Service is Not Feeding Watermelon to Bee Colonies
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13th September 2020
The National Park Service is Not Feeding Watermelon to Bee Colonies
The Claim : The US National Parks Service is planning on feeding watermelon to local bee colonies to give them a burst of glucose energy before winter strikes.
Fake
NASA Didn’t Use Fake Mars Photo
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4th September 2020
NASA Didn’t Use Fake Mars Photo
The Claim : NASA published a fake photo of Mars that is actually a digitally manipulated photo of Bulgaria. 
Fake
California Wildfires Weren’t Caused by Lasers
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2nd September 2020
California Wildfires Weren’t Caused by Lasers
The Claim : The recent wildfires devastating California were caused by “powerful lasers.” 
Fake
This is not a Photo of Alaska’s ‘Sleeping Lady’ Mountain
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13th August 2020
This is not a Photo of Alaska’s ‘Sleeping Lady’ Mountain
The Claim : A photograph taken from a drone shows the ‘Sleeping Lady’ mountain in Alaska
Fake
Mars will Not be Closer to Earth this August
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9th August 2020
Mars will Not be Closer to Earth this August
The Claim : The planet Mars will be much closer than usual to Earth this August, and may even be seen as large as the moon.
Fake
These Photos Do Not Show Baby Great White Sharks
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31st July 2020
These Photos Do Not Show Baby Great White Sharks
The Claim : Multiple photos posted on social media recently depict "baby great white sharks" that have washed up on seashores around the US.
Fake
Scientists Did Not Engineer a T-Rex Embryo From Chicken DNA
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22nd July 2020
Scientists Did Not Engineer a T-Rex Embryo From Chicken DNA
The Claim : Scientists used their knowledge of dinosaur genetics to reverse-engineer a t-rex embryo from chicken DNA-- a descendent of the dinosaur.
Fake
Zodiac Signs Didn't Change
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17th July 2020
Zodiac Signs Didn't Change
The Claim :  NASA has all of a sudden changed everyone's zodiac signs.
Fake