Before we ring in 2023, we look back at the most popular articles that we posted to our website in 2022.
For the third consecutive year, COVID-19 tops our list. Nine of the 10 most popular articles were about the pandemic. And most of those were false claims about the vaccines.
Here’s the list, in order:
Pop star Justin Bieber announced he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a form of facial paralysis caused by a reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox. Social media posts have claimed his condition was caused by COVID-19 vaccination, but there is no established link between vaccination and the syndrome. Some posts have also baselessly claimed vaccination was behind a mini-stroke suffered by Bieber’s wife, Hailey.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol resulted in “almost 10 dead.” Four people died that day, and five others — all law enforcement officers — died days, weeks and even months later. We laid out what is publicly known about the circumstances surrounding those deaths. This story was published in November 2021. It was updated in March after the District of Columbia’s Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board declared that the suicide of a Metropolitan Police Department officer nine days after the Jan. 6 riot was in the line of duty.
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