4+ hour, 11+ min ago  (945+ words) In May 2026, social media users again encountered ads and videos claiming Dr. Oz, Oprah Winfrey and other public figures endorsed a "pink gelatin" trick for weight loss. The posts promoted the supposed method as a breakthrough and sometimes led users…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1316+ words) In April and May 2026, social media users claimed the U. S. Forest Service and timber companies are spraying thousands of acres of forests with the herbicide glyphosate, better known by its brand name, Roundup. For example, one Facebook post (archived) read, "so,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (156+ words) Almost immediately after news broke of a hantavirus outbreak on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius in spring 2026, rumors about the family of viruses and the rare but dangerous diseases they can cause in humans began proliferating online." Here are…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1012+ words) The name "hantavirus" comes from the Hantaan River in Korea, where the prototype virus was identified, not from Hebrew. The Hebrew word "," commonly transliterated as hanta, does not mean "scam," "fraud," "lie" or "fake." Dictionary entries define it as a…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (968+ words) In early May 2026, a video spread online purportedly showing a woman taking abortion pills at her baby's gender reveal party after the father failed to show up. Facebook user Dee Drac, whose profile says she is based in Memphis, Tennessee,…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (545+ words) A video circulating online in early 2026 allegedly showed a vintage cartoon TV commercial depicting a toothpaste tube character removing its cap from its lower regions and then squirting toothpaste into the mouth of a toothbrush character. In the clip, the…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (891+ words) Queensland officials announced in December 2024 that up to 323 vials of infectious virus samples, including hantavirus, appeared to have gone missing at the state's Public Health Virology Laboratory. However, a later investigation found that the samples were likely listed as missing…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (706+ words) In May 2026, as the World Health Organization monitored an outbreak of hantavirus that started on board the MV Hondius cruise ship, some social media users shared an alleged fact sheet (archived) about the virus that included the sentence, "The virus…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (465+ words) In May 2026, posts on social media sites including Instagram, Reddit and X claimed that in 2025, under U. S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired all its cruise ship inspectors, part of the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1066+ words) The EPA put birth control and abortion pills on a "2026 Human Health Benchmarks for Pharmaceuticals" list, which is meant to provide states, tribes and local governments with guidance for how much medication residue can be found in water systems before…...