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Instagram posts stated on June 24, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.”

By Jeff Cercone • June 27, 2024

Instagram posts stated on January 22, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“US hospitals caught injecting experimental Ebola vaccine that sheds!”

By Jeff Cercone • January 25, 2024

TikTok posts stated on May 4, 2023 in a video shared on TikTok:

U.S. Marine Corps arrested a CDC official.

By Madison Czopek • May 8, 2023

Instagram posts stated on March 15, 2020 in an image:

"COVID-19 started because we eat animals."

By Daniel Funke • March 18, 2020

NaturalNews.com stated on February 3, 2020 in an article:

Says "the coronavirus was engineered by scientists in a lab."

By Daniel Funke • February 10, 2020

Barack Obama stated on October 18, 2014 in the president's weekly national address:

"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."

By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014

Facebook posts stated on October 2, 2023 in a Facebook reel:

“A new deadly pandemic is at our doorstep.”

By Sara Swann • October 5, 2023

Instagram posts stated on January 9, 2023 in a video shared on Instagram:

“The World Health Organization has been working since 1974 on vaccines to create permanent sterility.”

By Madison Czopek • January 27, 2023

Facebook posts stated on November 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Pathogens evolve to become less, not more, virulent over time” because otherwise, “they’d destroy their hosts which they depend on to live.”

By Vivian Lam • December 8, 2021

Instagram posts stated on July 10, 2021 in an Instagram post.:

Federal agents are going “door-to-door coercing people to be injected with experimental drugs.”

By Jason Asenso • July 15, 2021

Facebook posts stated on January 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:

New York “is trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non mask wearers and people who don’t want to take the vaccine into concentration camps. Then with a court order they can force vaccinate you.”

By Samantha Putterman • January 5, 2021

Viral image stated on July 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows “Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 16, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 8, 2020 in on social media:

Only 56 coronavirus deaths a day was enough to collapse the world economy, even though thousands of people die daily from tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and other diseases.

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 6, 2020 in an image:

Gates Foundation stands to make nearly £31.5 billion on a coronavirus vaccine in U.K.

By Daniel Funke • May 14, 2020

Facebook posts stated on May 5, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says gloves shouldn’t be worn in public because “if you are wearing the same set of gloves all over town you are only spreading germs everywhere you go.”

By Eric Litke • May 13, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Bill Gates told us about the coronavirus in 2015.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 25, 2020

Facebook posts stated on February 28, 2020 in posts on social media:

“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.

By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020

Facebook posts stated on March 2, 2020 in an image:

"Sanitizer will do nothing for the coronavirus."

By Daniel Funke • March 3, 2020

Hal Turner Radio Show stated on February 1, 2020 in an article:

Says the coronavirus is “a MILITARY BIO-WEAPON Developed by China's Army.”

By Daniel Funke • February 11, 2020

Bloggers stated on January 26, 2020 in an article:

Says China "stole Coronavirus from Canada and weaponized it into a Bioweapon."

By Daniel Funke • January 28, 2020

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Health worker uses thermometer in Uganda Ebola 2026

Ebola outbreak: What are the symptoms? Is there a vaccine? Did US aid cuts affect prevention?

By Samantha Putterman • May 18, 2026

Screenshot from UFA 2023 session with Dr. Celine Gounder, 11-6-2023

United Facts of America: Looking at the profit motive driving anti-vaccine misinformation

By Madison Czopek • November 7, 2023

A reader’s guide to misinformation about the coronavirus

By Daniel Funke • January 31, 2020

2014 Lie of the Year: Exaggerations about Ebola

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Aaron Sharockman • December 15, 2014

5 falsehoods about Ebola

By Aaron Sharockman • October 16, 2014

Top 5 falsehoods about Ebola

By Aaron Sharockman • October 15, 2014

The Internet’s overreach on the Ebola outbreak

By Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders • August 13, 2014

A history of PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year, from 2009 to 2025

By Maria Briceño • December 15, 2025

A history of PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, from 2009 to 2024

By Matthew Crowley • December 17, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign of conspiracy theories: PolitiFact’s 2023 Lie of the Year

By Katie Sanders, Madison Czopek • December 21, 2023

Vladimir Putin, Council of Legislators in Moscow, 12-20-2023

Looking back at PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, 2009-2022

By PolitiFact Staff • December 21, 2023

What is Disease X? How conspiracy theorists hijacked pandemic preparedness

By Sara Swann • August 10, 2023

They were whoppers: A look back at PolitiFact’s Lies of the Year, 2009 to 2021

By PolitiFact Staff • December 13, 2022

A look back at PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year, 2009 to 2020

By PolitiFact Staff • December 15, 2021

Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for pregnant women? Here’s what we know, and don’t know

By Samantha Putterman • February 19, 2021

COVID-19 fact checks in review — Wisconsin

By Madeline Heim • December 28, 2020

Fact-checking night one of the 2020 DNC

By PolitiFact Staff • August 18, 2020

Inside the ‘unprecedented’ struggle to contain coronavirus scams

By Daniel Funke • May 31, 2020

What we know about the source of the coronavirus pandemic

By Daniel Funke • April 17, 2020

The week in fact-checking: A race for a vaccine, CPAPs and coronavirus

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 10, 2020