Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 19, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 21, 2018)
A team from the devastated community of Paradise found support as well as competition in a memor ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 18, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 21, 2018)
Conspiracy theorists pointed to a medical examiner's report saying Best died of 'multiple blunt ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 14, 2018
French officials participated in Veterans Day services at Arlington National Cemetery on the cen ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 3, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 13, 2018)
A felon can regain the right to vote via a pardon, but most felons regain that right upon comple ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 12, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 13, 2018)
Officials launched an investigation into the photograph of Baraboo High School students after it ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 8, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 12, 2018)
It probably took less time to debunk this meme than it did to create it.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 2, 2015 (Updated: Nov. 12, 2018)
A "Secret Sister" gift exchange scheme spread via social media promises windfalls it can't deliver.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 9, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 12, 2018)
This figure may be accurate if limited to people Trump has supported via his Twitter account, bu ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 8, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 9, 2018)
As a community reeled in the aftermath of a mass shooting that left 13 people dead, a baseless, ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 24, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 8, 2018)
A social media rumor held that the vaunted airborne division was being sent to the Mexican borde ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 5, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 7, 2018)
Some Christians expressed concern that a billboard near St. Louis seemingly equated the 45th pre ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 27, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 23, 2018)
The claim that Theophilus Van Kannel was motivated by a hatred for chivalry stems from no more t ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 19, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 22, 2018)
Activists have accused Jefferson County officials of racially-motivated voter suppression, but o ...
Written by: David Emery
July 14, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 18, 2018)
In a party line vote, the Republican majority in the House Appropriations Committee approved an ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 5, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 14, 2018)
A Michigan state senate candidate said his Facebook account was hacked and a series of troublin ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 1, 2018
Conspiracy theorists claim they've found 'three degrees of separation' between fired FBI agent P ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 21, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 24, 2018)
Despite widespread condemnation of the practice, performing pelvic exams on unconscious women fo ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 20, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 21, 2018)
An old conspiracy theory about the 1993 suicide of Clinton associate Vincent Foster, whose death ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Alex Kasprak
March 27, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 20, 2018)
Claims that this invasive species presents a 911-level emergency overstate the risk that they po ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 23, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 18, 2018)
Several state legislatures have proposed bills that would create harsher penalties for protester ...
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