user avatar
Reuters Fact Check
@ReutersFacts
The official account of the digital verification team @Reuters. Have you seen something we should fact-check? Our DMs are open.
reuters.com/fact-check
Joined February 2020
1
Following
40.6K
Followers
Posts
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Aug 26, 2021
    In breaking news situations, useful tips and insights on media verification to avoid sharing misinformation include: ☑️Is it low quality? This may indicate it is old video ☑️Reverse image search the photo or video frames ☑️Check the source - is it trustworthy?
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Jul 31, 2022
    A video of U.S. President Joe Biden walking away momentarily during a speech given by U.S. First Lady Jill Biden has been digitally edited to include music played by an ice cream truck reut.rs/3bgYhVG
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Feb 24, 2022
    While authentic footage and images shared by journalists and local residents documented Russia's invasion of Ukraine (see: reut.rs/3vk9mx3), @ReutersFacts also identified mislabeled imagery
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    May 10, 2022
    Digitally altered screenshots have circulated online claiming to show media in the Philippines reporting that presidential candidate Leni Robredo had gained a higher number of votes than she actually did reut.rs/3w3z7BK
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Aug 18, 2022
    A study of 301 teens in Thailand found mild and temporary heart rhythm changes after a second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine among one in six teenagers, not one-third as social media posts claim reut.rs/3pub6PU
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Sep 2, 2022
    Contrary to social media claims recirculating online that the U.S. government "silently approved" ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment, the medication remains unapproved for the treatment of COVID-19 by U.S. health authorities reut.rs/3vOvU7b
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Oct 1, 2021
    A pre-print study that overstated the risk of contracting myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination was retracted due to a miscalculation - but not before it featured in social media posts questioning vaccine safety reut.rs/3l0fJA3
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Feb 25, 2022
    Replying to @ReutersFacts
    A clip from the videogame Digital Combat Simulator has been miscaptioned online, with social media users claiming it shows a Ukrainian fighter jet shooting down a Russian plane reut.rs/3snw0lW
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Mar 17, 2022
    Russian President Putin appears to declare peace with Ukraine in a doctored video being shared online. The video, however, has been created using footage from last month, and a new audio track has replaced the original reut.rs/3IhtfY7
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Oct 26, 2022
    A digitally altered video clip has been circulating online in which a child appears to shout a profanity at Jill Biden during a reception to celebrate Diwali. No profanity can be heard in the original footage released by the White House and news outlets reut.rs/3FjQF1s
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Dec 23, 2021
    An image purporting to show a screenshot of an opinion piece published by the New York Times calling for teachers to “tolerate bullying towards unvaccinated children” is digitally altered. No such headline or article was published by the outlet reut.rs/3sAQt7H
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Aug 29, 2022
    A spokesperson for Beto O'Rourke told Reuters that doctors diagnosed him with a bacterial infection, not monkeypox, as some online are claiming reut.rs/3RgZn38
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Aug 18, 2021
    A photo of three women walking in chains has been described online as showing Afghanistan in 2021. However, the original image was captured in Iraq in 2003 - and it has been digitally altered to add chains. reut.rs/3D7kS0a
  • user avatar
    Reuters Fact Check
    @ReutersFacts
    Oct 18, 2021
    A false claim has resurfaced on social media saying Fauci published a study which attributed 1918 Spanish flu deaths to bacterial pneumonia caused by masks reut.rs/3odhGZk