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Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2022-12-31): Did the military arrest former FDA "Commisioner" Stephen Hahn? No, there's no evidence to substantiate that: The claim was reported on a website that is well-known for making up stories about public figures. The site posts a disclaimer warning readers that it contains "humor, parody, and satire." The headline on the story making the claim also misspelled commissioner as "commisioner." The claim appeared in an article published by Real Raw News on December 30, 2022, titled "Military Arrests Former FDA Commisioner Stephen Hahn | Real Raw News" (archived here). [...] In the United States, under the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, the military does not have the authority to arrest civilians. The document allows exceptions only when it is "expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." However, Congress.gov shows no traces of bills involving the military's "arrest of Stephen Hahn."
Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2024-05-30): Stephen Michael Hahn (born January 22, 1960) is an American physician who served as the commissioner of food and drugs from 2019 to 2021. Before becoming commissioner, he was an oncologist serving as chief medical executive of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2021, he became chief medical officer at Flagship Pioneering, the venture capital firm that launched Moderna. [...] - ^ "Stephen M. Hahn, M.D." The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2019-10-03. [...] - ^ a b c d "Stephen Hahn: Pancoast Professor of Radiation Oncology". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. 52 (4). September 20, 2005.
Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2022-02-11): Stephen Hahn resigns as FDA commissioner, says he was ‘disgusted’ by Capitol Hill riots Radiation oncologist Stephen Hahn, MD, resigned as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, coinciding with the White House switchover in power.
Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2020-12-12): FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Saturday pushed back on reports that he was threatened with firing.
Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2023-01-20): "Military Arrests Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn," reads the article's headline. "U.S. Navy JAG investigators on Thursday arrested former Food & Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn for having committed treasonous acts against the nation and its people while he served under President Donald J. Trump throughout the Coronavirus Plandemic, JAG sources told Real Raw News," the article begins. [...] There are no credible reports about former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn being arrested by the military. Hahn is currently listed as being in leadership positions at both a cancer diagnostic firm and a venture capital firm. The claim stems from a website that routinely publishes false claims about the arrest of high-profile government figures..
Claim: Stephen Hahn was arrested by the military (Viral Post, 2023-01-30)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Continue to main contentSubmitted by Stephen Hahn, William Paterson College.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-08-07): The video shows a Sunak lookalike, not the British Prime Minister, according to articles from Bol News and Daily Mail.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-08-18): FACT CHECK: Viral Video Falsely Claims To Show Rishi Sunak Partying A viral video shared on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying. [...] The claim is false, as the video shows a Sunak lookalike, not the British Prime Minister. A reverse image search generates an October 2022 article from Bol News indicating the man in the video is a Sunak "doppelganger." Likewise, the British news outlet Daily Mail also reported the man in the video was a Sunak lookalike in January 2022. Both outlets nicknamed the lookalike "Raving Rishi," noting that the man had been partying at entrepreneur Wayne Lineker’s O Beach club on the Spanish island of Ibiza.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-07-02): On May 22, in an inauspicious start to a gaffe-filled campaign, the UK’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, stepped out onto the rain-soaked steps of No. 10 Downing Street, to announce a snap election on July 4. [...] Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak soaked in rain pauses as he delivers a speech to announce July 4 as the date of the UK's next general election at 10 Downing Street in central London on May 22 2024. [...] Boris Johnson’s compounding scandals and prolific partying during COVID-19 saw him booted from No.10 by his own party.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-22): LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set July 4 as the date for a national election that will determine who governs the U.K., as his divided and demoralized Conservative Party faces its biggest challenge to its 14-year rule.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-07-05): LONDON (AP) — Rishi Sunak's campaign to remain Britain's prime minister showed a lack of political touch. [...] Born in 1980 in Southampton on England’s south coast to parents of Indian descent, Sunak became Britain’s first leader of color and the first Hindu to become prime minister. At 42, he was Britain's youngest leader for more than 200 years. [...] Long a low-tax, small-state politician despite the high-spending nature of that package, Sunak had a record of idolizing former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Smooth, confident and at ease with the march of modern technology, Sunak was dubbed "Dishy Rishi" and quickly became one of the most trusted and popular faces within Johnson’s administration during the rigors of the pandemic.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-06-07): Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for leaving the 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day early in order to film a TV interview, a decision that prompted incredulity and further derailed his floundering general election campaign. [...] "Yesterday’s D-Day commemorations were about remembering the bravery of all those who serve our country," Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Paymaster General, said Friday. "In choosing to prioritise his own vanity TV appearances over our veterans, Rishi Sunak has shown what is most important to him." [...] Farage also leapt on Sunak’s lapse in judgment, writing on X that the Prime Minister "could not even be bothered to attend the international event above Omaha Beach." In another post, he added: "Patriotic people who love their country should not vote for him."
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-09-29): Rishi Sunak has urged the Conservative Party to unite behind whoever wins the contest to replace him as leader. [...] Party members queued for more than an hour to get into Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, which was transformed from a classical music venue to something more like a nightclub for Sunak's farewell speech. [...] Sunak’s call for party unity was met with warm applause and occasional bursts of "Rishi!
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Rishi Sunak opens with Sue Gray ‘fire and rehire’ jibe [...] WATCH | Sunak takes Sue Gray swipe at PM as he claims Starmer is ‘a convert to fire and rehire’
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday urged his Conservative Party to "learn the lessons" of their crushing election defeat as it gathered to begin electing a new leader. [...] The party unravelled in spectacular fashion. Several scandals, not least Downing Street staff partying during coronavirus lockdowns, forced Johnson from office.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-09-29): The party unravelled in spectacular fashion. Several scandals, not least Downing Street staff partying during coronavirus lockdowns, forced Johnson from office.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-08-08): A video accurately showed U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dancing shirtless at a party in Ibiza, Spain. [...] On Aug. 7, 2023, a viral tweet claimed to show U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dancing shirtless at a party in Ibiza, Spain. In the video, a man who looks remarkably similar in appearance to Sunak is in sunglasses and black swim trunks, and is dancing while holding an orange cup. [...] "Debunking Claims That UK PM Rishi Sunak Was Filmed Dancing in Ibiza." FRANCE 24 English. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmFY6uII9M. Accessed 8 Aug. 2023.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-31): An image shared on Facebook purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak standing in front of a sign that reads "moron." [...] The Facebook image purports to show Sunak standing in front of a sign that reads, "moron." "A good photographer takes time to set up their shots…," text above the image of Sunak claims. Sunak can be seen smiling and wearing a white dress shirt and red tie in the image. The claim is false, as the image is digitally altered. The original image of Sunak, published online via Getty Images, shows the British Prime Minister posing in front of a sign that reads, "Morrison’s." According to the image’s caption, Sunak visited a "Farm to Fork summit" on Downing Street on May 14.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2022-10-27): Hyderabad: Social media users are sharing a video with the claim that it shows United Kingdom's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dancing. In the video, a man resembling Mr. Sunak can be seen partying. [...] Times Now and News 18 also reported that a video of Sunak's doppelganger dancing in a club went gone viral after Rishi Sunak became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It is evident that the man seen in the video partying is not UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but his doppelganger. Hence, the claim is false.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-10-05): Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murthy, was the prime minister’s surprise warm-up act at the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday, delivering a personal speech dedicated to his ambition, drive - and love for Netflix shows. [...] Rishi Sunak tacks to right with comments on sex education and transgender rights "And some of it is not so true, so you’ll be relieved to hear that episodes of Emily in Paris are not informing his outlook on the EU." [...] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty greet people on stage at Britain’s Conservative Party’s annual conference
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-13): Rishi Sunak will give a speech on Monday setting out "bold ideas to change society" - as he seeks to regain momentum following the defection of one of his MPs to Labour and a hammering at the local elections.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-22): Thank you for joining us on the day Rishi Sunak took Westminster by surprise and announced the country will go to the polls on 4 July.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-13): Rishi Sunak will say the UK "stands at a crossroads" ahead of "some of the most dangerous years", in a pre-election pitch to voters on Monday.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-06-05): Talking about people arriving in small boats across the English Channel, Rishi Sunak said: "We got the numbers down last year by a third."
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-06-10): This morning the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak posted a two-and-a-half minute video on X (formerly Twitter) with a much more detailed explanation of a claim we’ve heard lots in the last few days—that under Labour, "every working household" would face a £2,094 tax rise.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-04-20): Life must seem bleak for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak these days. [...] This stuff may all sound a little in the weeds, but over time, Sunak’s authority has been heavily eroded. A former government official told CNN: "The Conservatives just feel dead overall, there is nothing to be done to save it. There is no way back and it’s coming across in every little thing. Rishi comes across as unlikeable and a bit weird and tetchy."
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-07-01): Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set July 4 as the date for the election, months ahead of when it was expected. He had until December to call an election that could have happened as late as Jan. 28, 2025. [...] Sunak, a former Treasury chief who has been prime minister since October 2022, is leading his party into the election. His primary opponent will be Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions in England and leader of the Labour Party since April 2020.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-10-17): Glen Tarman, the head of policy at Full Fact, said, "When Rishi Sunak took office, he promised to lead with honesty and integrity. Politicians shouldn’t need factcheckers to tell them that repeating a misleading claim is not leading with honesty. With an election on the horizon, it’s more important than ever that we see accountability and integrity from all political parties. But crucially we want to see our prime minister lead by example. Failing to prioritise trust in politics will only continue to damage our democracy."
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-07-03): Conservative leader: Rishi Sunak, 44 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made history as Britain’s first prime minister of color, having South Asian heritage. He is also the first Hindu leader of the United Kingdom. [...] Sunak enjoyed a spell of popularity earlier in his career, as finance minister, when he was dubbed "Dishy Rishi" by the tabloid press. But his time as prime minister has been dogged by claims that he is out of touch, and he has faced criticism over the country’s cost-of-living crisis, long waiting times in Britain’s National Health Service and a controversial policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2023-03-21): A photo from May 2020 showed the prime minister and his staff with bottles of wine and a cheeseboard in the Downing Street garden. When asked about it, Boris Johnson said "those people were at work talking about work". [...] However, a video obtained by ITV News showed the prime minister's then press secretary Allegra Stratton joking about reports of the event, saying: "This fictional party was a business meeting and it was not socially distanced." [...] One of the events was a leaving party for the PM's then director of communications James Slack, who apologised for the event and acknowledged it "should not have happened at the time that it did".
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-07-09): LONDON — The night before Rishi Sunak called the general election that would devastate the U.K. Conservative Party, he summoned David Cameron to Downing Street.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-24): When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that the United Kingdom would hold a general election on July 4, many observers wondered: why now?
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-04-22): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted the legislation will deter people from making the perilous journey across the English Channel, a central part of his "stop the boats" campaign for reelection. [...] Prime Minister Sunak said in a statement Tuesday morning, the new legislation is "a fundamental change in the global equation on migration," and insisted that nothing would stand in the way of getting flights to Rwanda off the ground.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-06-04): Rishi Sunak has been in office for over a year and a half, and his party has been in power for 14 years.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2022-10-28): The claim: A video claims to show Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dancing at a party. [...] A video of a man dancing was shared Oct. 26, 2022, on Twitter, with the caption "Britain’s new Prime Minister." It claims that the man dancing in the video is Rishi Sunak, U.K.’s new Prime Minister. [...] - France 24, "Debunking claims that UK PM Rishi Sunak was filmed dancing in Ibiza," Oct. 28, 2022.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-04-01): If you live in an old country, it can be easy to succumb to a narrative of decline. The state withers. The charlatans take over. You give up on progress, to some extent, and simply pray that this particular chapter of British nonsense will come to an end. It will. Rishi Sunak, the fifth, and presumably final, Conservative Prime Minister of the era, faces an election later this year, which he will almost certainly lose. But Britain cannot move on from the Tories without properly facing up to the harm that they have caused. [...] Increasingly, Sunak has been pulled between the Party’s diverging instincts: to retreat to the dry, liberal competence of the Cameron-Osborne regime or to head off in a more explicitly protectionist, anti-immigrant, anti-woke direction. In Manchester, the energy was unmistakably on the Party’s right. Suella Braverman, then the Home Secretary, magnetized delegates with a speech warning of a "hurricane" of mass migration. Truss staged a growth rally, and Nigel Farage cruised the conference hall, posing for selfies. (There is talk of Farage standing as a Conservative M.P.) Back in London, I had lunch with David Frost, an influential Conservative peer. "Rishi, I feel for him, in a way," Frost said. "He’s just trying to keep the show on the road and not upset all these different wings of the Party. But the consequence of that is you end up with a sort of agenda which is not politically meaningful at all."
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-07): Yet, Rishi Sunak has claimed the results suggest a hung parliament is the most likely outcome at the next general – a surprising assertion given that every opinion poll suggests era-defining defeat for his party. In making this calculation, he has perhaps leaned on estimates of the national vote shares taken by each party in the local elections.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-05-29): She descrbied her time in office as a "salutary" experience – unpleasant but providing long-term benefits. Labour would no doubt agree, given that her premiership is being used to slate Rishi Sunak and his current Conservative election campaign.
Claim: purports to show British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak partying (Video, 2023-08-07)
Evidence (2024-04-22): Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s efforts had been stuck between opposition in the Houses of Parliament and challenges in the British courts, as lawmakers and activists have sought to scupper the legislation on human rights grounds. Sunak celebrated his success on Tuesday morning, saying: "We introduced the Rwanda Bill to deter vulnerable migrants from making perilous crossings and break the business model of the criminal gangs who exploit them. The passing of this legislation will allow us to do that and make it very clear that if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay."
Claim: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that "only" 0.02 percent of children returning to school would likely die from COVID-19. (Viral post, 2020-07-09)
Evidence (2020-07-09): There is no evidence that DeVos made the statement. A spokesperson for DeVos refuted the claim.
Claim: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that "only" 0.02 percent of children returning to school would likely die from COVID-19. (Viral post, 2020-07-09)
Evidence (2023-11-09): On July 11 2020, the following tweet claimed that the United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos — in the course of arguing in favor of reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic — asserted that "only 0.02 percent" of American schoolchildren would die, a percentage that represented the deaths of approximately 14,740 children: [...] Birx didn’t say that "only .02 percent" of schoolchildren were expected to die of COVID-19 during the 2020-2021 school year. It seemed likely Birx was referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s July 8 2020 "Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics," which we have archived here. A chart showed deaths by age group, with the first and lowest as Americans under the age of 25: [...] - So, Betsy Devos today said "only" .02% of kids are likely to die when they go back to school. That's 14,740 children. Welcome back!
Claim: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that "only" 0.02 percent of children returning to school would likely die from COVID-19. (Viral post, 2020-07-09)
Evidence (2020-07-15): Several times in the past few days I’ve come across this claim in my social media feed. I didn’t share it or try to fact-check it; I just kept scrolling. Here’s the verdict, from USA Today: "Based on our research, this claim is FALSE. While the education secretary has advocated for schools reopening in the fall, DeVos never said that ‘only’ 0.02% of children are likely to die of COVID-10 if schools reopen, and the statistic itself is unfounded."