evidence: A false claim that restaurant staff in Maine are required to wear dog cone-like face shields to protect against COVID-19 in compliance with orders from Governor Janet Mills is circulating on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. This claim can be traced back to an 18 August 2020 tweet by anti-vaccination activist Sherri Tenpenny, which was later promoted by the website Summit News. NewsGuard, which evaluates the trustworthiness of news sources, has reported that Summit News, which was launched by an editor of the conspiracy theory website Infowars, "severely violates basic journalistic standards." Nevertheless, the Summit News article has received more than 19,000 interactions on Facebook to date, according to social media analytics tool CrowdTangle. The claim is inaccurate, as the Governor’s requirements are for face shields, not dog cone-style face visors. The official COVID19 Prevention Checklist Industry Guidance on the website of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, which was updated on 14 August 2020, states: [...] Only staff who have opted to use face shields instead of face masks are required to wear them upside down. Face shields are not analogous to dog cones, therefore, the claim that a dog cone-style face visor is required for all restaurant staff in Maine is demonstrably false.