Snopes.com - Chinese restaurant sign in Florida, hearing prayers through masks, a CNN host's deleted "Handmaid's Tale" tweet, and Biden's alleged visit to the Tree of Life Synagogue

​ FRIDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker 3 September 2021 Tonight: Chinese restaurant sign in Florida, hearing prayers through masks, a CNN host's deleted "Handmaid's Tale" tweet, and Biden's alleged visit to the Tree of Life Synagogue ​ Did a Florida Chinese Restaurant’s Sign Read ‘F*** DeSantis’? In September 2021, social media users enthusiastically shared a photograph of what appeared to be a sign outside a Chinese restaurant that offered a 95% discount to customers vaccinated against COVID-19, and attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a prominent Republican opponent of vaccine mandates, stating “F*** DeSantis.” Dan MacGuill reports. Read More URGENT: Save Our Snopes Dear Debunker readers, Four years ago, we launched a GoFundMe campaign to fight off legal threats, SLAPP lawsuits, and a takeover attempt by hostile shareholders. Many of you stood up and helped, and we cannot tell you how much we appreciate it. We thought we’d have good news to share with you by now, but that is unfortunately not the case. Although every major court ruling has been in our favor so far, the point of these lawsuits has been — always — to bleed Snopes dry. Now, on the verge of trial, the years of constant legal battles have your favorite fact-checkers in need of rescue. That’s why we’re launching one more campaign to Save Our Snopes. Will you help us? Contribute Fact Checks and Original Reporting No, Jim Bakker Didn’t Claim That God Can’t Hear Prayers Through a Mask The televangelist has made outrageous claims before, but this one would have taken the cake. Read Story. ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Tweet Deleted from CNN Host Brian Stelter’s Twitter Account The 2018 tweet was deleted within hours of when a 2021 Texas law went into effect that banned most abortions in the state. Read Story. Did Biden Visit Tree of Life Synagogue? Eleven people were murdered by a white supremacist at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018. Read Story. View Latest Fact Checks Entertainment Rumors, legends, and lore about Hollywood, the entertainment industry, and its many stars. Read More News Death Toll Tops 40 After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing calls for rescue after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. Read More New Texas Abortion Law Pushes Women to Out-Of-State Clinics Even before a strict abortion ban took effect in Texas, clinics in neighboring states were fielding growing numbers of calls from women desperate for options. Read More Effort Underway to Rescue Girls Soccer Team from Afghanistan Former congressional chief of staff: "We need to do everything that we can to protect them, to get them to a safe situation." Read More

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