Take this ten-question quiz to see how well you can identify news that is not real:
Can you spot the made-up news?
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Claim: NFL star Tom Brady's company received a nearly $1 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claim: COVID-19 has not led to more deaths than normal this year. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.
Claim: If you're refused service at a store for not wearing a mask you can call the department of health and report the store. Masks are suggested, not required.
Claim: Pfizer and the FDA purposely held off on releasing positive interim results about a COVID-19 vaccine candidate until after the election.
Claim: Florida police ‘raid’ the home of fired COVID-19 scientist Rebekah Jones.
Claim: Immunity from “naturally acquired” COVID-19 was better than that from a vaccine.
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Claim: “CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.
Claim: Ireland declared Santa Claus as an essential worker, granting him exemption from self-quarantine to deliver Christmas presents.
Claim: The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”
Claim: Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate.
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SOURCES: PolitiFact; AFP Fact Check; FactCheck.org; Snopes.com
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Coronavirus fact-check quiz
Can you spot the made-up news?
Claim: Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine contains lipid nanoparticles that could be concealing “little computers”.
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Claim: NFL star Tom Brady's company received a nearly $1 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claim: COVID-19 has not led to more deaths than normal this year. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.
Claim: Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine contains lipid nanoparticles that could be concealing “little computers”.
Claim: Pfizer and the FDA purposely held off on releasing positive interim results about a COVID-19 vaccine candidate until after the election.
Claim: Florida police ‘raid’ the home of fired COVID-19 scientist Rebekah Jones.
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Claim: Immunity from “naturally acquired” COVID-19 was better than that from a vaccine.
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Claim: Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate.
Claim: Ireland declared Santa Claus as an essential worker, granting him exemption from self-quarantine to deliver Christmas presents.
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Claim: The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”
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Claim: “CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.
Claim: NFL star Tom Brady's company received a nearly $1 million loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claim: COVID-19 has not led to more deaths than normal this year. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.
Claim: Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine contains lipid nanoparticles that could be concealing “little computers”.
Claim: Pfizer and the FDA purposely held off on releasing positive interim results about a COVID-19 vaccine candidate until after the election.
Claim: Florida police ‘raid’ the home of fired COVID-19 scientist Rebekah Jones.
Claim: Immunity from “naturally acquired” COVID-19 was better than that from a vaccine.
Claim: Biden wants a nationwide lockdown to combat a virus that has a 99%+ survival rate.
Claim: Ireland declared Santa Claus as an essential worker, granting him exemption from self-quarantine to deliver Christmas presents.
Claim: The coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom and “there is absolutely no need for vaccines.”
Claim: “CDC admits old ‘science’ was wrong” on COVID-19 quarantine guidance.
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