Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 21, 2023
No matter how you slice it, this obsolete form of "psychiatric treatment" was a horror.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 20, 2023
The tax is part of a plan to "eliminate the need for the Internal Revenue Service."
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 20, 2023
The Public Interest Legal Group has been pushing the same misleading claims for years.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 20, 2023
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... giant ass?
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2019
According to local folklore, "Popeye the Sailor Man" was based on a real-life person from Cheste ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 20, 2023
The headline was pilloried by many, who called it sexist.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2021
The T-shirts read: "Guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people."
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 19, 2023
The fact that a pharmaceutical company was working on a vaccine for a pandemic disease that had ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 19, 2023
Coronavirus relief added significantly to the national debt.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2021
Fake newspaper clippings were circulated after a tragic accident on the set of Alec Baldwin's la ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 19, 2023 (Updated: March 27, 2023)
This eerie image had some comparing the feline to otherworldly beings.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 14, 2023 (Updated: Jan. 19, 2023)
Here's what we found from past episodes of "The View."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 13, 2000
An April Fool's lesson on the perils of vetting material you haven't read thoroughly.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 19, 2023
Animal welfare charities were the most popular with Amazon customers participating in the program.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Jan. 18, 2023 (Updated: Jan. 19, 2023)
In the end, we were able to confirm that this tweet never appeared on Pressley's Twitter feed.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 18, 2023
The athlete has talked about having ayahuasca (a plant-based psychedelic) before.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 18, 2023
The flower-crowned Big Cat Rescue owner has long been the target of macabre but unfounded rumors ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 18, 2023
Kent cigarettes, the company claimed in the 1950s, were "the one cigarette that can show you pro ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 17, 2023
Racial inequality and injustice have long been a part of the city’s history.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 17, 2023
"It is not about racist attitudes today," says the historian behind this project, "but rather th ...
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