Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 25, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 28, 2017)
A "satirical" web site published a false claim that certain NFL teams issued refunds to a majori ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 24, 2016 (Updated: Sept. 27, 2017)
For much of the NFL's history, players weren't present on the field during the playing of "The S ...
Written by: David Emery
May 9, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2017)
Contrary to Internet rumor, the home improvement maven isn't quitting the HGTV show to start her ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 25, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2017)
A Facebook post got some facts right about a popular tradition by the University of Iowa's footb ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 24, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Confusing claims about whether the NFL's rulebook or game operations manual specifically require ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 28, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 22, 2017)
Studies suggesting a link between public water fluoridation and reduced intelligence rely on uns ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 27, 2016 (Updated: Feb. 4, 2018)
Soros was all of 13 years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, his home country, and 14 when Wor ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 13, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 14, 2017)
In 2017, a website falsely claimed to be showing live footage of a mass crab migration in the af ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill Brooke Binkowski
Sept. 13, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 18, 2017)
A viral video from Houston, Texas makes claims about the Red Cross' treatment of food and other ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 8, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 27, 2017)
After a massive data breach, the terms of service for an Equifax product spawned allegations tha ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 5, 2017
Right-wing web sites tried to link a local health emergency to undocumented immigrants, but with ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 30, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 31, 2017)
Twitter users tried to pin the blame for Katrina relief issues on Obama, though he wasn't even p ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 28, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 29, 2017)
Congress passed a bill authorizing a transit safety committee that contained language one repres ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 28, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 29, 2017)
The evangelist was criticized on social media for not opening Lakewood Church to help people fle ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 22, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 28, 2017)
Joshua Witt, 26, was arrested for filing a false police report after admitting he accidentally c ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 4, 2016 (Updated: Aug. 28, 2017)
As Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in 2017, so too did a rumor that Mexico sent troops to assist U.S. ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 24, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 25, 2017)
Debates over monuments led to a rumor that Confederate soldiers are legally considered veterans ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 26, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2017)
A dubious web site contradicted its own source on an alleged seizure concerning the lawmaker's f ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 16, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2017)
Fake news web sites floated an incoherent story alleging that a white supremacist arrested for v ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 9, 2017
Representatives from Walmart said they were investigating whether the photograph is authentic.
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