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The 1969 moon landing was a staged hoax filmed in a studio.
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Public event · The Moon Landing in 1969
Attribution
Conspiracy Theory — The submission alleges that NASA and others secretly staged the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing in a studio; it supplied no specific speaker or institutional source.
Assessment
The normalized core proposition is that Apollo 11 did not land on the Moon and its landing record was produced in a studio. That proposition is false. Later Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images show the Eagle descent stage at Tranquility Base. The University of Manchester records that Jodrell Bank independently tracked Eagle during its lunar descent while also tracking the Soviet Luna 15 mission. Apollo 11 returned 21.6 kilograms of catalogued lunar rock and soil, and the laser retroreflector deployed at the site has supported continuing ranging observations from Earth. These independent observations and physical records directly contradict a staged-studio hoax. The Conspiracy Theory label describes the allegation type, not the verdict.
Childhood vaccinations cause autism later in life.
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Public figure · Robert Kennedy Jr.
Attribution
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — The submission targets Kennedy’s long-running public advocacy linking childhood vaccination and autism. At the August 10, 2026 White House vaccine-order event, the Associated Press reported that Kennedy and President Donald Trump suggested childhood vaccines may cause autism. This draft assesses the underlying causal allegation, not merely whether Kennedy voiced it.
Assessment
The normalized core proposition is that routine childhood vaccinations cause autism after vaccination. It is false. The World Health Organization’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety reviewed 31 primary studies published from 2010 through August 2025 and found no causal link between vaccines and autism spectrum disorder. A nationwide Danish cohort of 657,461 children found that MMR vaccination did not increase autism risk, including in susceptible subgroups or during periods after vaccination. WHO’s broader evidence review also considered childhood vaccines, thimerosal and aluminum adjuvants. The Associated Press independently checked the claim in the August 2026 public context and reported that decades of studies consistently find no link. Autism may be diagnosed after vaccines are given, but temporal sequence is not evidence of causation. Some vaccine-specific questions have less complete evidence than MMR or thimerosal; that limitation does not establish the broad causal claim and does not outweigh the comprehensive evidence directly against it.
The claim says QAnon alleges that Donald Trump is opposing a shadowy group of Democratic pedophiles based in a pizzeria basement in Washington.
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Public figure · Donald Trump
Attribution
Conspiracy Theory — unattributed visitor claim concerning the QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy narrative.
Assessment
The submission accurately describes a conspiracy claim associated with QAnon: that Donald Trump is fighting a Democratic child-sex-trafficking cabal headquartered in a Washington pizzeria basement. That descriptive point is context, not the proposition receiving the verdict. The fact-check applies to the underlying allegation itself, which is false. No such trafficking operation existed at the pizzeria. The basement allegation originated with the earlier Pizzagate conspiracy theory and was later absorbed or amplified by QAnon. The U.S. Justice Department described the rumors that motivated the armed 2016 incident as unfounded, and established fact-checkers found no evidence for the alleged ring.
The claim says Elvis Presley did not die in 1977 and is alive, working at a McDonald’s in Tucson.
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Public figure · Elvis Aaron Presley
Attribution
Urban Myth — unattributed visitor claim
Assessment
This Urban Myth says Elvis Presley did not die in 1977 and now works at a McDonald’s in Tucson. Contemporaneous and institutional records state that Presley died at Graceland in Memphis on August 16, 1977, including a presidential statement issued the following day, Graceland’s record and AP’s historical reporting. No reliable evidence supports the Tucson allegation. Those records make the claim overwhelmingly unlikely, while the inherently secret-survival premise cannot be disproved in every imaginable detail.
The Roswell incident involved an alleged alien landing in 1947 and a U.S. government cover-up.
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Public event · The Roswell Incident
Attribution
Conspiracy Theory — unattributed visitor claim concerning the Roswell alien-recovery and government-cover-up narrative.
Assessment
This Urban Myth says aliens landed at Roswell in 1947 and the U.S. government covered it up. The available official record strongly weighs against that account: the National Archives describes extraterrestrial recovery as an allegation by pro-UFO researchers, while the government record describes balloon-related debris rather than an alien craft. Because some relevant records are missing or were destroyed, the surviving record cannot conclusively eliminate every claimed cover-up scenario; that prevents a definitive False verdict.
The claim states that global warming is a hoax and that there is no evidence human actions have made today's climate hotter or warmer.
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Public event · Global Warming
Attribution
Conspiracy Theory — unattributed visitor claim alleging that human-caused global warming is a coordinated hoax.
Assessment
This Urban Myth claims there is no evidence that human actions have made today’s climate warmer. Multiple independent lines of observational, paleoclimate, physical and attribution evidence directly contradict that claim. The IPCC reports that human activities, principally greenhouse-gas emissions, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature in 2011–2020 about 1.1°C above 1850–1900. NOAA likewise documents the evidence linking recent warming to human activity.
