Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
May 7, 2025
Videos about the claim included disclaimers that the story was fictional and the visuals were th ...
Written by: Nick Hardinges
May 7, 2025
Social media users claimed the U.S. president calls China multiple times a day but hangs up due ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 7, 2025
A popular YouTube video told the purported story of a "tense exchange" between Maher and the Tex ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 7, 2025
A story users shared online told of a 9-year-old boy named Dylan who said of Manning, "Peyton sa ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
May 7, 2025
McMahon's letter announced that the U.S. government would no longer provide federal funding to H ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
May 7, 2025
According to the premier register of thoroughbred horses in the U.S., all of the horses are betw ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 7, 2025
The story about billionaires Mark Cuban, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett originated on a Facebook ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
May 7, 2025
A viral Facebook post claimed the Hall of Fame quarterback bought a car for a woman who walked h ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 6, 2025
YouTuber Cash Jordan's May 2025 video featured a false title, as well as a fake, AI-generated th ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
May 6, 2025
Sex trafficking of minors is already a state felony. Some Democrats rejected part of a bill maki ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 6, 2025
An online rumor claimed the Oscar-winning actor taught the high court "a powerful lesson about p ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
May 6, 2025
This fueled speculation of insider trading because Greene is on the House Committee on Homeland ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
May 6, 2025
CEO Luis von Ahn said in a companywide email that Duolingo would "gradually stop using contracto ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 5, 2025
A false rumor shared in early 2025 claimed a purported "crushing verdict" for Schnabel included ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
May 5, 2025
The Department of Defense shut down online rumors it would delete the decorated U.S. veteran's h ...
Written by: Rae Deng
May 5, 2025
The new academic standards promote U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies' groundless 2020 e ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
May 5, 2025
The facility on Alcatraz Island has been a tourist attraction under the National Parks Service f ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
May 5, 2025
Later, the White House X account shared the image.
Written by: Jack Izzo
May 5, 2025
According to the fake Fox News chyron, Bondi announced that the administration would send anyone ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 4, 2025
Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his "Four Freedoms" speech ...
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