# The Whoppers of 2022

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-whoppers-of-2022/
- Published: 2022-12-28T09:00:24-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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 – December 15, 2022. 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. […] Click here to view original web page at www.factcheck.org Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio