Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 4, 2023
Jordan Neely was pronounced dead after being held in chokehold by another rider on a New York Ci ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 4, 2023
This rumor spread amid reports that top performers were declining to perform at King Charles' co ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
May 4, 2023
The photo is a result of someone editing an image from a real footage of the Florida governor an ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 4, 2023
The robot appears to shoot a gun and engage in combat.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Feb. 9, 2021
The extremist hate group’s name has a curious origin, according to their founder Gavin McInnes.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 14, 2021
After the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, social media users highlighted a photograph of Graham w ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 19, 2022
Princess Elizabeth became queen at age 25, after the death of her father, King George VI.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 3, 2023
Despite viral videos asserting these processes are well underway, such claims lack a factual bas ...
Written by: Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
May 3, 2023
The messages read, "Look who died, in an accident I think you know him so sorry...[emoji]," with ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
May 3, 2023
Democrats cried foul when House Republicans passed a bill in 2023 mandating trillions of dollars ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
May 3, 2023
Amid alarms over rapid advances made by artificial intelligence (AI), an old warning from physic ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 3, 2023
Videos on social media purportedly showed the Kremlin being attacked and smoke emerging from beh ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 1, 2019 (Updated: May 3, 2023)
This isn't the first time that rumors have circulated about a Himalayan flower blooming once eve ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Nov. 18, 2020
Even our team at Snopes can’t prove if people have gone back in time.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 14, 2021
He didn't fall down last year or the year before, either.
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 23, 2015
Christer Strömholm's photograph of an anonymous blind girl from Hiroshima is one of his best kno ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 2, 2023
The existence of both the job and the clickbait headlines about that job are nothing new.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 2, 2023
Meanwhile, the White House won’t pay for verification through Twitter Blue.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 2, 2023
A viral image misrepresented an advertising campaign used for the launch of a new line of M&M's ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 2, 2023
The Writers Guild of America’s 11,500 unionized screenwriters stopped working at 12:01 a.m. on M ...
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