Articles filed under Oswald, Bob
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Facts Matter: Pence didn't change Twitter photo to honor Biden, Harris
Jan 16, 2021 5:43 PM - Vice President Mike Pence didn't change his Twitter photo to honor President-elect Joe Biden, NPR did not know about the Capitol riot in advance and Chuck Norris wasn't on hand at the protest in Washington, D.C., Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts Matter: No evidence rioters were just posing as Trump supporters
Jan 9, 2021 6:17 PM - Republican U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks from Alabama, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and thousands of others falsely claimed rioters who broke into the U.S. Capitol were actually "antifa" members posing as Trump backers, Bob Oswald said in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts matter: Christmas Day explosion in Nashville was not a missile strike
Jan 2, 2021 5:30 PM - Bob Oswald's Facts Matter column begins with an item disputing claims that the bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, was actually a missile strike.
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Facts Matter: Pelosi didn't fake COVID-19 vaccination
Dec 26, 2020 6:31 PM - Claims that speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi staged photos of herself receiving the COVID-19 vaccination are false, Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts Matter: Pope didn't say vaccine needed to get into heaven
Dec 19, 2020 5:43 PM - A satirical story claimed Pope Francis had declared failure to get the COVID-19 vaccine a sin, but some social media users didn't get the joke and shared the item as fact, Bob Oswald said in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts Matter: Biden's foot injury feeds conspiracy backers
Dec 12, 2020 6:06 PM - Conspiracy theorists altered photos to falsely claim President-elect Joe Biden's medical boot had switched feet, Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts Matter: How a note about medical workers' struggles was turned into a lie about a COVID-19 hoax
Dec 5, 2020 3:35 PM - In his Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald tells how a co-opted selfie by a doctor became part of a lie claiming a COVID-19 hoax, plus he clears up a questionable meme about reindeer.
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Facts Matter: How false claim of dead people voting gained steam
Nov 28, 2020 6:42 PM - Trump's campaign, Fox News and the president circulated a false claim that votes were cast in the names of dead Georgians, getting hundreds of thousands of shares before it was proved wrong, Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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Facts Matter: Planned coronavirus vaccine won't alter DNA
Nov 21, 2020 5:16 PM - Claims that the coronavirus vaccine would remove parts of a person's DNA and replace it with genetic coding are false, Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
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'Voter fraud' video is from 2018 Russian election
Nov 14, 2020 5:36 PM - This week's 'Facts Matter' column by Bob Oswald opens with the description of a 2018 video on Russian voting fraud that has been shared on social media over the past two weeks as though it showed voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. election.
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