Snopes Daily Debunker - Examining a Berry Buggy Video Trend

Examining a Berry Buggy Video Trend A popular viral video trend suggests everyone can try this at home: Take some strawberries, soak them in a homemade saltwater mixture, and — surprise! — tiny, wriggling “worms” appear to crawl right out of those berries and into your nightmares. What’s going on here? Are tiny worms hiding in all of your fruit? And can the process featured in those videos actually produce perplexing pests? Snopes reporter Madison Dapcevich investigates. Read more

 

Fact Checks Is This Cat Wearing a Mask During the ‘Spanish Flu’? This cat wasn't going to risk any of its nine lives. Unproven   Did Trump Tweet That South Dakota Should Close Its Border with California? A fake tweet fooled some. False   Did an Armed Black Militia March Through a Georgia National Park? A Confederate monument became the site of another protest on the Fourth of July 2020. True   Does Video Show an Eagle Carrying a Shark? It's a bird, it's a plane — it's an eagle carrying a shark? Miscaptioned   Did Elon Musk Tell Kanye West, ‘We May Have More Differences of Opinion Than I Anticipated?’ Endorsing someone for president without knowing the platform they'll be running on is generally a bad idea. Correct Attribution

 

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In the News Officer to Floyd: ‘It takes … a lot of oxygen to talk’ As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck dismissed his pleas, saying "it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk." Read more   Layoffs Stuck at High Level as 1.3 Million Seek Jobless Aid The figure has now topped 1 million for 16 straight weeks. Read more   Ivy League Suspends Fall Sports Due to Coronavirus Pandemic The decision means Harvard and Yale will not play football in 2020, interrupting a rivalry known as The Game for the first time since the two World Wars. Read more   After Lobbying, Catholic Church Won $1.4 Billion in Virus Aid Faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Read more

 

Staff Pick Was Freddy Krueger from ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Based on a Real Serial Murderer? The explanatory last line of a Halloween joke about a real-life Freddy Krueger was removed in subsequent shares. Read more

 

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