The Whoppers of 2022
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Photo caption: Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020. Photo credit: DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando via Flickr. (CC BY 2.0). Article by D’Angelo Gore, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer, Eugene Kiely and Alan Jaffe. FactCheck.org –
Summary
The midterm elections are finally over, but it won’t be long before the 2024 campaign cycle — which will really start in 2023 — gets going. Before that happens, we’ve put together this list of the year’s biggest whoppers that politicians and others made over the past 12 months. […]
COVID-19 misinformation continued to be a huge problem online as well. One viral video advanced a conspiracy theory that the disease was caused by snake venom being injected into the public water supply, and another popular video promoted the equally bizarre claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are being used to depopulate the planet. […]