Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 6, 2017
An image purportedly showing a screenshot of a Fox News broadcast featuring a parody Twitter acc ...
Written by: Megan Alpert Kim LaCapria
June 2, 2017 (Updated: June 5, 2017)
After President Donald Trump mistyped (then deleted) a tweet in May 2017, some hurried to ascrib ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 31, 2017
Some commentators have drawn a link between Kushner's contributions and the New Jersey Senator's ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 25, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2017)
An order from the Saudi king allows women access to more services, barring a previous 'regulator ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 23, 2017 (Updated: May 28, 2017)
It's not "stolen valor" — the notorious Milwaukee sheriff never claimed to have served in the mi ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 4, 2001 (Updated: May 25, 2017)
Rumors that service station customers are getting stuck by HIV-loaded syringes affixed to gas pu ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 23, 2017
A viral Facebook post with pictures lifted from various sources doesn't provide any specifics ab ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 22, 2017 (Updated: May 23, 2017)
An experienced attorney's blog post has caused widespread concern.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 22, 2017 (Updated: May 23, 2017)
The restaurant review web site and app confirmed that data for millions of users was compromised.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 16, 2016 (Updated: May 23, 2017)
Sensationalist stories about how cooking with aluminum foil could spur the onset of Alzheimer's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 19, 2017 (Updated: May 22, 2017)
A tasteless fake news story included the claim that World Superbike star Nicky Hayden passed away.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 18, 2017 (Updated: May 19, 2017)
An article about a high school teacher's being "seriously injured" after a classroom game with t ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Dan MacGuill
May 18, 2017
A woman wrote a harrowing story on Facebook about her daughter's needing surgery after swallowin ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 15, 2017 (Updated: May 16, 2017)
The sourcing of a story reporting a sealed indictment has been issued against the president is t ...
Written by: David Emery
May 11, 2017
Conspiracy theorists find the timing of President Clinton's firing of William Sessions in 1993 " ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 27, 2017 (Updated: May 11, 2017)
An image purportedly shows a still from an old episode of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" about gende ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 14, 2016 (Updated: April 30, 2017)
A nongovernmental search-and-rescue organization on the ground in Syria has drawn a lot of atten ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 24, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 14, 2017)
A petition challenging the 2016 U.S. presidential election results has long since died on the vi ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 20, 2000 (Updated: Jan. 7, 2017)
Long-standing false rumor holds that Jesus and His disciples will be portrayed as homosexual in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 22, 2009 (Updated: July 15, 2016)
The Gardasil HPV vaccine hasn't been proved to have caused the deaths of 32 women.
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