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We don’t plan on criticizing every fact check that comes along. That would take up too much time and additionally, most of these fact checks are too meaningless to deal with. Our intention is to promote critical thinking by picking a select few fact checks to show how liberals twist the facts to fit their narrative.
This fact check, from FactCheck.org, can be put into the stupid-or-liar category:
The claim: Tucker Carlson misrepresents vaccine safety reporting data.1
The analysis: Carlson incorrectly suggested2 that more than 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 vaccines.
The rating: True.
Firstly, a look at the title of the Fox News article shows it says “How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?”. It does not say ‘How many people have died from taking the COVID vaccine?’.
Secondly, a simple cursory review of the Fox News article reveals that Carlson did not misrepresent safety reporting. In fact, he says that over 3,000 people have died, so far, after receiving the COVID vaccine, that this is more than the number of people reported to have died after receiving all other vaccines, over 10 years, combined.
He then goes on to state that we don’t know how many of those 3,000 people have died as a result of the vaccine and that that is something we should know –
There’s a lot of criticism of the reporting system. Some people say “well, it’s just a coincidence that someone gets the shot and then dies, possibly from other causes.” No one really knows, is the truth. …you’d think someone in authority might want to know what’s going on.
So, you can see that Tucker Carlson neither misrepresented vaccine safety reporting nor suggested that 3,000 people died from the COVID vaccine.
It makes one wonder what article the author read, if their comprehension is subpar, or they just ignored the source article in order to create a false story.
Keep this in mind when considering Facebook’s ‘fact checking’:
We [FactCheck.org] do not accept funds from corporations with the exception of Facebook, which provides funding as part of Facebook’s initiative to debunk viral deceptions.3
1 Video: Tucker Carlson Misrepresents Vaccine Safety Reporting Data
2 How many Americans have died after taking the COVID vaccine?