Debunking Fake News: This Week's Non-Events.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week, including false claims that root canals cause heart attacks, that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are no longer authorized in the U.S. due to safety concerns, that a video shows people "staging" Ukraine war footage, and that a new United Nations report calls for decriminalizing sexual activity between adults and minors. In reality, there is no credible scientific evidence linking root canals to heart attacks, the shift to updated COVID-19 vaccines is not due to safety concerns but rather to simplify the vaccination schedule, the video shows behind-the-scenes footage of a feature film about the Ukraine war, and the UN report actually calls for enforcing minimum age of consent laws in a non-discriminatory manner, not decriminalizing all sexual activity between minors and adults.