{"id":1582935,"date":"2022-08-01T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582935"},"modified":"2022-08-01T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:26:10","slug":"fact-check-did-justin-trudeau-tweet-about-limiting-sexual-partners-due-to-monkeypox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-justin-trudeau-tweet-about-limiting-sexual-partners-due-to-monkeypox\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Justin Trudeau Tweet About Limiting Sexual Partners Due To Monkeypox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-justin-trudeau-tweet-about-limiting-sexual-partners-due-to-monkeypox%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1582935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-07-27T222421Z_1186086402_RC2MKV9PVRRO_RTRMADP_3_POPE-CANADA-scaled-e1659123527116.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kristie.aloisiorubik\/posts\/pfbid0FMc6zx4iWPQyChY1VbcMMUiokJxFoPjJacdyh1QUHto7asXGc5cDLF6wxsx6AcWCl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a tweet from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which he states he will be limiting his \u201cnumber of sexual partners to avoid spreading monkeypox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. There is no evidence Trudeau made such a remark.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monkeypox was designated a \u201cglobal health emergency\u201d by the World Health Organization (WHO) July 23 following a spike in cases, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/monkeypox-outbreak-constitutes-global-health-emergency-who-2022-07-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. There have been more than 16,000 reports of infections stemming from more than 75 countries, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image, first shared on July 28, appears to show a tweet from Trudeau\u2019s verified Twitter account in which he claims he would be receiving a vaccination for monkeypox and limiting his number of sexual partners to avoid spreading the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per the WHO\u2019s advice, I will be getting vaccinated and limiting my number of sexual partners to avoid spreading monkeypox,\u201d reads the alleged tweet. \u201cI invite my fellow LGBTQA2 community members to do the same.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/30\/fact-check-fda-prifzer-monkeypox-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: FACT CHECK: Did The FDA Approve A Pfizer Monkeypox Vaccine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tweet is digitally fabricated. It could not be found on the prime minister\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=vaccinated%20monkeypox%20(from%3AJustinTrudeau)%20lang%3Aen&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> account or on any of his other verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/justinpjtrudeau\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100044171992369\/search\/?q=mokeypox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> accounts. It also does not appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/polititweet.org\/tweets?account=14260960&#038;deleted=Any&#038;search=vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PolitiTweet\u2019s archive<\/a> of his deleted tweets.\u00a0There are likewise no credible news reports suggesting Trudeau has publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Trudeau+monkeypox&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Trudeau+monkeypox&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61.3026j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> he will be vaccinated against the virus or take any other preventative measures to limit its spread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/considerations-for-monkeypox-vaccination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)<\/a> advise that individuals receive the monkeypox vaccine within four days of being exposed to the virus. While the virus can spread through intercourse, it can also spread through direct contact with a rash, scab or the body fluids of an infected person, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/transmission.html#:~:text=Monkeypox%20can%20spread%20to%20anyone,used%20by%20someone%20with%20monkeypox.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">center<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact has reached out to both Trudeau\u2019s office and Health Canada for comment and will update this piece accordingly if one is received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which he states he will be limiting his \u201cnumber of sexual partners to avoid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}