Is the Czech government reneging on its promise to wean the country off its dependence on Russian gas because some traders have started buying gas that is likely of Russian origin in late 2023? No, that's not true: the Czech Republic has shifted nearly all natural gas purchases to producers in Norway and the Netherlands using pipelines in Germany to…

Is the average Czech monthly wage lower than 42,000 koruna, or $1,855, because statistics do not reflect the experience of some people? No, that's not true: The average gross nominal monthly wage in the third quarter of 2023 was 42,658 koruna, according to the Czech Statistical Office. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok on December 5,…

Was Russian President Vladimir Putin nominated for Time's 2023 Person of the Year Award based on his leadership skills and positive contributions? No, that's not true: According to Time magazine's website, the award is an annual recognition of the individual, group or concept that has exerted the most significant influence on the world in the preceding 12 months, irrespective of…

Is there any evidence linking the recent deaths of Slovak singer Barbara Hascakova and Czech athlete Martin Jindra to COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: There is no publicly available evidence to support a claim that their deaths were caused by COVID vaccines. The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok on December 8, 2023. The person in…

Did Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova leave the country vulnerable by dispatching all Czech weapons to Ukraine? No, that's not true: Cernochova stated, both on a Czech state television program and in parliamentary discussions, that the country had depleted only the military resources earmarked for Ukraine. Furthermore, the Czech Republic is set to receive military equipment and financial support from…

Does footage of former Hamas hostage Mia Schem, who said she was treated well, contradicts mainstream media reports that Hamas treats Israeli hostages poorly? No, that's not true: There are numerous accounts from relatives of released hostages, or the hostages themselves, describing the horrible conditions in which they were kept and the devastating effect this had on them physically and…

Does Czech Republic President Petr Pavel want to give up the nation's veto right and sovereignty in favor of bigger countries like Germany or France? No, that's not true: He said in a speech in Brussels that the European Union needs to improve its decision making to be able to speed up the procedure. The claim appeared in a video…

Is Ukraine the most corrupt country in the world? No, that's not true: Ukraine ranks among the top third most corrupt nations in the world in terms of perceptions of public sector corruption, and yet it ranks above 54 countries in one leading corruption index and above 61 countries in a second index. The story appeared in a video (archived…

Do Czech liberal political parties that are currently part of the government coalition claim that there are "100 sexes?" No, that's not true: TOP09 and STAN parties support gender equality, while the Czech Pirate Party, the most progressive junior member of the government coalition, supports LGBT+ rights, including same-sex marriages, and free determination of gender, but the parties have never…

Is the population of Ukraine down to 19 million people in November 2023 because 4 million people left the country in the last two months? No, that's not true: The population of Ukraine in November 2023 was 37 million. According to the latest available data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are over 6 million refugees outside…

Does Ukraine send pregnant women to the frontline to fight Russians? No, that's not true: Pregnant women and women on maternity leave or caring for small children or children with special needs are exempted from registering for military service. They also have the right to be released, if already serving in the military, when they get pregnant or under other…

Is the international pandemic accord that is being developed by the member states of the World Health Organisation intended to limit the sovereignty of individual countries to make decisions on health and health care issues? No, that's not true: The accord is designed to improve global preparedness and the preparedness of individual countries to better coordinate their response to any…

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…

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…

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…