Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Jack Izzo
Sept. 23, 2024
The claim first appeared less than a week after the pop star announced she would vote for the vi ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 23, 2024
A screenshot of the purported post continued, "I know I said this in 2016, but this time I reall ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Sept. 23, 2024
"Life never gave us lemons, we created them ourselves," numerous social media users claimed.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 23, 2024
“You could hear two idiots up in the balcony cackling through the whole thing,” Brad Pitt said o ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 22, 2024
Photos of women in revealing clothes resurfaced online in September alongside claims they showed ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Sept. 22, 2024
A purported mugshot used in social media posts about the story has circulated online for years.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Sept. 22, 2024
A man in Florida was said to have been bitten by the lethally venomous taipan snake.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Sept. 22, 2024
The rumor first appeared on a known antisemitic, pro-Nazi, and Holocaust-denying website.
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Sept. 21, 2024 (Updated: Jan. 30, 2026)
One Reddit user quipped: "Well, what are the rules for capture the flag?"
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Sept. 21, 2024
The photo shows the pair wearing green outfits and smiling.
Written by: Joey Esposito
Sept. 21, 2024
Airbrushed photographs are allegedly the origin of the Disney "two-finger point."
Written by: Nikki Dobrin
Sept. 21, 2024
At last report, the New Jersey Legislature was reviewing Bill A4524, which seeks to create a cri ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 20, 2024
An article said Disneyland responded with a brief statement, reading in part, "We are investigat ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 20, 2024
A September 2024 post on X misleadingly claimed of the May 2022 video, "Pennsylvania election of ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 20, 2024
Claims that Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau had an affair that produced the current Canadian p ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 20, 2024
An online rumor about exploding goats followed a fresh wave of violence in the Middle East in Se ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Sept. 20, 2024
Following the rapper's arrest on charges of sex trafficking, users on social media investigated ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 20, 2024
"There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also th ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 20, 2024
The alleged quote by the former president circulated after Sean 'Diddy' Combs was arrested and c ...
Written by: Nikki Dobrin
Sept. 20, 2024
Rumors of the purported song's existence resurfaced in September 2024, following the music mogul ...
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