Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 18, 2026 (Updated: March 19, 2026)
Users shared the rumor weeks after the Trump administration and Israel started a war with Iran, ...
Written by: Rae Deng
March 18, 2026
In 2025, the Daily Mail published a report speculating on which U.S. cities would be first targe ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
March 18, 2026
Russell's supposed comments that kids shouldn't watch cartoons with LGBTQ themes and should be r ...
Written by: Emery Winter
March 18, 2026
Although Iran carried out military strikes at and around the Dubai airport in March 2026, the vi ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
March 18, 2026
Social media posts and blog pages falsely claimed Thunberg had an aggressive form of glioblastom ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
March 18, 2026
The pontiff's alleged quote about U.S. President Donald Trump was said to have "set the Internet ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 17, 2026 (Updated: March 20, 2026)
A medical examiner ruled the sex offender died from hanging himself in his New York jail cell on ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 17, 2026
It's unclear whether the former House speaker knew the proposal stemmed from a satirical article.
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
March 17, 2026
The three former presidents spoke at a celebration of life ceremony for Jackson the day before h ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
March 17, 2026
We traced the false rumor back to a familiar satire creator.
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 17, 2026
The British novelist, best known for "1984" and "Animal Farm," published the thought in his 1938 ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
March 17, 2026
A 1951 CIA report on parasites and tumors spread online in March 2026 — but it was declassified ...
Written by: Emery Winter
March 16, 2026
The claim about the presidential-papal confrontation was just another in a long line of AI-gener ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
March 16, 2026
Social media users alleged a phone recording featured Charlie Kirk's widow scheduling teenage gi ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 16, 2026 (Updated: March 17, 2026)
The Israeli prime minister posted a video of himself in a café in response to the claims.
Written by: Joey Esposito
March 16, 2026
Bush made the comment in 2008, during his first-ever live interview on the internet.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
March 16, 2026
When the X user shared the post in June 2013, there was a fresh outbreak of MERS-coronavirus in ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
March 16, 2026
The statistic circulating online in March 2026 came from a 2020 survey.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 16, 2026
For several years, the former first lady has been the subject of conspiracy theories about her g ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
March 15, 2026
He was speaking out against legislation to ban transgender children from joining youth sports te ...
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