NOT REAL NEWS: False stories from this week about stimulus bill, COVID vaccines, mask mandates
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NEW YORK A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
House members were not given bonuses in $1.9T COVID bill
Claim: The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill awards a $25 million bonus to members of the House of Representatives.
The facts: The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, as the bill is titled, contains no allocation for bonuses or raises for House or Senate members. A Facebook post that circulated around the approval of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday promoted the false information, stating: Did you know? Line 17 of the $1.9 TRILLION CV #Stimulus awards a $25 MILLION BONUS to House Reps? It is not clear what Line 17 means in the post since there s a line 17 o