Birdwatch Archive

Birdwatch Note

2025-05-22 11:05:10 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Bitter almonds are not banned in the US, though promoting them as cancer treatments is prohibited due to lack of effectiveness and safety concerns. Jason Vale was sentenced to prison for selling apricot seeds as a cancer cure: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/01/fake-news-apricot-seeds-did-not-cure-mans-cancer.html https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-bitter-almond-tree-doesnt-cure-cancer-isnt-banned-us https://www.webmd.com/cancer/amygdalin-cancer-treatment https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-B17-cancer/ “Vitamin B17” isn't actually a vitamin: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/b17-vitamin https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6513327/

Written by 8E0782E7F593AE43DE132F9A686B9623FE5078AF96C0655960B8BBFA4E740320
Participant Details

All Information

• ID - 1925508229255102500
• noteId - 1925508229255102500
• participantId -
• noteAuthorParticipantId - 8E0782E7F593AE43DE132F9A686B9623FE5078AF96C0655960B8BBFA4E740320 Participant Details
• createdAtMillis - 1747911910724
• tweetId - 1925475969105633722
• classification - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
• believable -
• harmful -
• validationDifficulty -
• misleadingOther - 0
• misleadingFactualError - 1
• misleadingManipulatedMedia - 0
• misleadingOutdatedInformation - 0
• misleadingMissingImportantContext - 1
• misleadingUnverifiedClaimAsFact - 1
• misleadingSatire - 0
• notMisleadingOther - 0
• notMisleadingFactuallyCorrect - 0
• notMisleadingOutdatedButNotWhenWritten - 0
• notMisleadingClearlySatire - 0
• notMisleadingPersonalOpinion - 0
• trustworthySources - 1
• summary
• Bitter almonds are not banned in the US, though promoting them as cancer treatments is prohibited due to lack of effectiveness and safety concerns. Jason Vale was sentenced to prison for selling apricot seeds as a cancer cure: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/01/fake-news-apricot-seeds-did-not-cure-mans-cancer.html https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-bitter-almond-tree-doesnt-cure-cancer-isnt-banned-us https://www.webmd.com/cancer/amygdalin-cancer-treatment https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-B17-cancer/ “Vitamin B17” isn't actually a vitamin: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/b17-vitamin https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6513327/