evidence: Factually inaccurate: The claim that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines "aren’t vaccines" was made by the plaintiffs in an appeal filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, not by the court itself. [...] In June 2024, posts circulated on Instagram claiming COVID-19 mRNA vaccines weren’t actually vaccines under "traditional medical definitions". The posts reference an article published 8 June 2024 on InfoWars, which claimed that the "9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the COVID-19 mRNA jabs do not qualify as vaccines". [...] Yet the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t rule that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines aren’t vaccines—rather, they determined the case should be sent back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, where the case was first argued, for further review. This is the function of an appellate court, as explained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: