Marissa Birnie

1 month ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Marissa Birnie

In May, several accounts on the X platform, formerly Twitter, and Facebook claimed China cancelled all beef imports from the United States in favour of buying from Canada and Brazil. These claims are false. The Canadian Press found no evidence of a blanket cancellation on U.S. beef imports, and Canadian beef has been banned from entering China since late 2021. "China just cancelled all USA beef contracts and will buy from Canada and Brazil," reads an X post from March 12 with 93,000 likes.

1 month ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Marissa Birnie

United States health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made multiple claims about measles during an interview on Fox News that aired March 11. His claims - made amid a rise in measles cases across Canada and the United States - are misleading. According to a pediatric infectious disease physician and the available science-based evidence on measles, Kennedy's claims lack context and downplay the effectiveness of the measles vaccine as the best available prevention for the virus.

1 month ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Marissa Birnie

On March 4, U.S. President Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariffs against Canada went into effect, launching the historically close allies into a trade war. Trump reversed course Thursday, delaying tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico that fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement until April 2, according to a report from CBC News.

1 month ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Marissa Birnie

Claims Niagara Falls lit up in orange in memory of a slain Israeli family on Feb. 26 appeared on social media Feb. 27. These claims are partly true but contain misleading information. The binational Niagara Falls Illumination Board, which operates the light shows at the falls, said the lighting took place five days earlier than claimed.

1 month ago | thecanadianpressnews.ca | Marissa Birnie

On Feb. 14, Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome and diagnosed with pneumonia. Since then, some social media users made false claims about the Pope's death and images seemingly showing his hospital stay spread on social media. These posts contain false information or show signs of being created with artificial intelligence (AI). At the time of publication, there was no announcement from the Vatican about the Pope's death.