Did Roman Prymula, an epidemiologist who advised the Czech government during the COVID-19 pandemic and briefly served as health minister in 2020, warn against COVID vaccines? No, that's not true: In a November 2023 interview, Prymula referred to recent studies indicating that combining COVID vaccines with flu shots could increase the risk of a stroke in elderly people but did…

Do companies use children for the purpose of obtaining adrenochrome? No, that's not true: The chemical is produced synthetically in labs, not via "apprehensive children." Furthermore, the concentration of adrenochrome in the bloodstream, analogous to adrenaline, is negligible, according to biochemists. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) by @kontrola.tienov on November 9, 2023, under the title (translated from…

Is TOP09, a Czech political party and a junior government coalition member, trying to introduce absentee voting in the Czech Republic to win the next general election and remain in power? No, that's not true: TOP09 first proposed this in 2015 when the party was not part of the government. Even if the system is introduced, its impact on the…

Are Czechs filling up with costly diesel imported from the U.S. that's produced from cheap Russian crude oil? No, that's not true: The diesel imported into the Czech Republic by the Czech state-controlled fuel distributor CEPRO, which is also in charge of the state emergency reserves, is produced in Louisiana. U.S. sanctions currently forbid U.S. refineries and importers from importing…

Is the European Union seeking to prohibit people from keeping pets? No, that's not true: Brussels is introducing an initiative to ban the breeding of wild and exotic animals in captivity as pets across all 27 EU states. Once a list of animals suitable for breeding is established, those not on the list will be permitted to be bred only…

Was the Istanbul Convention created by the globalists to take away parental rights and diminish their authority over their children by banning corporal punishment? No, that's not true: The Convention is an international treaty of the international humanitarian organization the Council of Europe, ratified by dozens of countries, aimed at combating violence against women and domestic violence, which can involve…

Did Czech President Petr Pavel say that sooner or later Ukraine will lose the war and Russia will win? No, that's not true: It's not Pavel's real voice in the TikTok video, and the video description admits it. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) by @pepekarna on TikTok on October 4, 2023. It shows Pavel saying (translated to…

Do vaccines containing aluminum salt ingredients cause autism or ADHD, and are such vaccine ingredients harmful to people? No, that's not true: Aluminum has been used in vaccines since the 1930s and previous studies have determined it is safe. It's used in vaccines as an adjuvant -- a vaccine component that boosts the immune response to the vaccine. The claim…

Is the quantity of human-induced CO₂ emissions insignificant and incapable of causing global warming? No, that's not true: Scientists contend that human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels, have elevated atmospheric CO₂ levels by nearly 50 percent since the onset of the industrial age. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) where it was published on TikTok on…

Did Czech President Petr Pavel sign the anti-communist declaration of the citizens' initiative called Charter 77 retrospectively to correct his former membership in the Communist Party? No, that's not true: The Charter 77 movement came to an end in 1992, 31 years before Pavel became president on March 9, 2023. The claim appeared in a TikTok video (archived here) on…

Has the Czech government announced that it will send 100 million korunas -- over 4 million euros -- to Israel? No, that's not true: There is no trace of such an announcement on the government's website, and there are no media reports citing the cabinet approving such a sum as financial aid to Israel. The claim appeared in a video…

Did Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, sing the Russian national anthem as seen in a TikTok video? No, that's not true: The video has been edited. In the original footage from November 2022, Zelenskyy can be seen and heard singing the Ukrainian national anthem in newly liberated Kherson. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok where it…

Are Israeli settlers trying to leave the country by the thousands after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing hundreds of settlers along the Gaza Strip border? No, that's not true: There have been no news reports of Israelis crowding Tel Aviv´s Ben Gurion international airport and trying to leave the country en masse. The claim appeared in a…

Is Switzerland planning to deport tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees? No, that's not true: The government has taken note of a provisional strategy elaborated by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in collaboration with cantonal (provincial) authorities, that outlines how Switzerland will deal with refugees once it is safe for them to return home and the procedure of lifting…

Is the Progressive Slovakia party, led by Michal Simecka, vice president of the European Parliament, a "fascist" party? No, that's not true: It is a center-right liberal party, according to political analysts. It was labeled by some conservative voters and political opponents as "extremist" during the 2023 pre-election campaign in Slovakia, because of its support of sexual minorities' rights. The…

Is Petr Fiala, the Czech Republic´s prime minister, less popular at home than the leaders of countries like Chad, North Korea or Turkmenistan? No, that's not true: Undemocratic regimes such as those countries mentioned on social media are not included in the ranking of world leaders' popularity by a data research company. Fiala did have the lowest approval rating of…

Did the Czech government spend 100 billion Czech koruna to care for Ukrainian refugees? No, that's not true: The government claims it spent a third of that amount to care for Ukrainian migrants following the 2022 Russian invasion of their territory, and it points out that a third of the migrants currently work, paying taxes and adding to the overall…

Does Austria or any other European Union nation want to ban people from using cars for one day a week? No, that's not true: A search on Google News for the phrases "car ban for one day a week" and "Austria car ban" in English, and "evropská unie zákaz aut jeden den v týdnu" and "rakousko zákaz aut" in Czech…

Is the Czech government preparing measures to allow it to seize money from indviduals' accounts, if they cannot prove its origin? No, that's not true: the Czech government is not planing to seize money from individuals' accounts, but it is in the process of devising measures to combat illicit financial flows. The government has tasked the justice minister with drafting…

Did former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson perform a Nazi salute during an event at Ukraine's Lviv University? No, that's not true: A photo showing Johnson with an arm raised in a Nazi salute is digitally altered and was intended as satire. It has been propagated across social media by anti-Ukraine proponents who claim it is real. The original photo…