Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 14, 2019 (Updated: June 16, 2019)
A meme uses a series of miscaptioned and out-of-context images to make its supposed point about ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 6, 2019 (Updated: June 10, 2019)
A viral video took off on Facebook in June 2019, but its claims about food safety were far from ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Oct. 30, 2010 (Updated: June 4, 2019)
Hoax claims Dell Hospital will donate 15 cents towards the care of Maria, a raped child, every ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 13, 2019 (Updated: June 3, 2019)
A cultural center was indeed destroyed in Gaza in August 2018, but a viral meme contains some in ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 22, 2019 (Updated: June 3, 2019)
A photograph of an improperly displayed American flag outside of a Quality Inn hotel in Iowa con ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 17, 2019 (Updated: May 21, 2019)
House Bill 481, signed into law in May 2019, prompted a wave of assertions about its possible ef ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 3, 2019
Medical professionals are reacting to an incendiary remark made by U.S. President Donald Trump i ...
Written by: Snopes Staff Kim LaCapria
Aug. 24, 2016 (Updated: Sept. 18, 2019)
Images contrasting the sentencings of white swimmers with that of homeless mother Tanya McDowell ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
April 22, 2019 (Updated: April 23, 2019)
The Republican state senator attracted nationwide coverage and widespread criticism in April 201 ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 27, 2019 (Updated: March 28, 2019)
With so many well-done fake videos of the pope, it can be difficult to tell which ones are real.
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 27, 2019
Omar's presence at charity and political events were not "terror" related.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2016 (Updated: March 22, 2019)
"North Korea officers .... could easily be defeated with a magnet."
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 11, 2019 (Updated: March 21, 2019)
Right-leaning and pro-life websites extrapolated loosely from a single November 2018 interview t ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 18, 2017 (Updated: March 11, 2019)
A photograph of Morgenstern's Black Ash Coconut was used to illustrate a falsehood about the "or ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 28, 2019 (Updated: Sept. 14, 2020)
A bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom leaves the decision whether individuals convicted of ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 24, 2018 (Updated: March 4, 2019)
Firefighters in Santa Clara, California, revealed that they were forced to buy a more expensive ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 4, 2019 (Updated: March 4, 2019)
The president retaliated when Minnie Cox was pushed out of her position by white residents of In ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 20, 2019
The newly elected congresswoman from New York was a vocal opponent of Amazon's plans, as were ma ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 8, 2007 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2019)
A subset of dogs appears to be susceptible to kidney damage following the ingestion of grapes, b ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 16, 2015 (Updated: Feb. 5, 2019)
Thomas Homer-Dixon did not argue that windmills never recoup the energy it takes to build them.
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