Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 13, 2020
As of early March 2020, Italy had seen the worst COVID-19 outbreak outside Asia.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 2, 2020 (Updated: March 13, 2020)
Amid an outbreak of coronavirus in 2020, an email from pathologist James Robb was heavily memed ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 11, 2020 (Updated: March 12, 2020)
Take a deep breath and consult the CDC or WHO's latest guidance before following any coronavirus ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 11, 2020
Physician: "The situation is now nothing short of dramatic. No other words come to mind."
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 8, 2019 (Updated: March 10, 2020)
Right-leaning websites seized upon unconfirmed details supposedly taken from the script of "The ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 5, 2020 (Updated: March 6, 2020)
A social media thread pointed out something many of the 2020 presidential candidates have in com ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 4, 2020
Lobbing vague claims about likely events does not a prediction make.
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 3, 2020
For perspective, the United States has roughly 330 million residents.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 26, 2020 (Updated: March 3, 2020)
The former vice president has repeatedly claimed to have been arrested while attempting to visit ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 27, 2020 (Updated: March 13, 2020)
As the new coronavirus spread in February 2020, so did concerns about the United States' readine ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 26, 2020 (Updated: March 13, 2020)
As a new coronavirus spread in 2020, so did concerns about the United States' preparedness for a ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 21, 2020 (Updated: Feb. 25, 2020)
The billionaire businessman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate faced renewed criticism f ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 21, 2020 (Updated: Feb. 23, 2020)
A day after the announcement, the president tweeted, "BEST USA ECONOMY IN HISTORY!"
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 21, 2020 (Updated: Feb. 23, 2020)
A popular meme appears to have conflated two different tax proposals from the 2020 Democratic pr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 21, 2020
After receiving financial support from a wide range of celebrities, a bullied boy with dwarfism ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 19, 2015 (Updated: Feb. 19, 2020)
Reports that the SS Cotopaxi was discovered by the Cuban Coast Guard decades after it vanished i ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 29, 2008 (Updated: Feb. 19, 2020)
One common form of satire is to lampoon a particular position on a modern political or social is ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2019 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2020)
An interview response by National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien left people confused about Vin ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 4, 1999 (Updated: Feb. 13, 2020)
Did an old lady pull a gun on men she found sitting in her car?
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 12, 2020
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called an immigration reform bill "the most radical single piece of ...
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