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Wireless AirPods emit 150x more radiation than the ones with wires... you're sending high levels of radiation directly to your brain.

Screenshot of the viral post we checked, claiming: Wireless AirPods emit 150x more radiation than the ones with wires... you're sending high levels of radiation directly to your brain.
The post as it circulated. Faces of private individuals are blurred.

Our rating

False

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What We Found

We found no study behind "150 times." Wired earbuds don't transmit radio signals, so the comparison doesn't tell you anything about risk. Earlier versions of this meme claimed 10x or 50x versus phones.

Sources

  1. AFP Fact Check (opens in new tab)
  2. Reuters Fact Check (opens in new tab)
  3. PolitiFact (opens in new tab)
  4. Logically Facts (opens in new tab)
  5. IARC 2011 press release (opens in new tab)

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