Reality Check Podcast: Food Stamps & Immigrants, Celebrating Propaganda RT’s Anniversary, and an Ethnic COVID Hoax
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Reality Check Podcast: Food Stamps & Immigrants, Celebrating RT’s Propaganda Anniversary, and an Ethnic COVID Hoax
This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s False Claim of the Week — the falsehood that 59 percent of undocumented immigrants collect SNAP food-stamp benefits. We also expose how Russia’s propaganda outlet RT celebrated its 20th anniversary with a life-sized megaphone beside the Kremlin and celebrity guests in attendance. We end by debunking a viral false health claim, spread by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and podcaster Tucker Carlson, that Jews and the Chinese are immune to COVID-19.
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