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Viral image – Mine games: Photo shows extraction site for copper, not lithium

A photo shows a mine for “lithium for electric cars.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrong about a ban on NIH research about mass shootings

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

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Facebook posts – No, Kelly Clarkson isn’t promoting weight loss gummies or other diet products. Such claims are scams

Kelly Clarkson is promoting weight loss gummies or other diet products.

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Facebook posts – Video showing drone stuck in wires isn’t from Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel

Video shows Iranian drone sent to Israel stuck in a power line in Iraq.

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Fact-checking Aaron Rodgers, who repeated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims about HIV/AIDS

NFL player Aaron Rodgers recently claimed that a drug used to treat HIV was “killing people” in the 1980s. He cited independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his source. Here’s why that’s wrong.

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Facebook posts – This claim isn’t worth its salt; table condiment has neither sand nor glass

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

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