Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2022
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 13, 2022
A lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton provoked headlines and social media posts in May ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 13, 2022
An online advertisement showed a picture of the White House correspondent and led to a 223-page ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 13, 2022
File this under "Things we just realized."
Written by: David Emery
May 13, 2022
Is it "satire," or gaslighting the public with potentially dangerous medical misinformation? You ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 13, 2022
Another rumor about the Depp v. Heard case makes the rounds.
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 12, 2022
The alleged quote was cited in May 2022, just after it was announced that Jean-Pierre would take ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 12, 2022
According to a viral meme, Gowdy attended a viewing of the film purporting to prove the 2020 pre ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
May 11, 2022
It's either a door leading to another celestial dimension ... or part of a rock.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 11, 2022
Abortion-rights activists responded with outrage to a footnote from the draft opinion overturnin ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 11, 2022
Twitter users celebrated the first anniversary of the original tweet by reposting the message to ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 10, 2022
"Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand," the ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
May 10, 2022
Snopes spoke with NASA and the lead author of a popularly cited study to clarify.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 10, 2022
A video purports to show the actor's sneaking a bump mere feet away from the judge during her te ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 10, 2022
Please, do not eat any part of a pregnancy test.
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 9, 2022
A paid ad on Facebook showed a picture of "The Price Is Right" host Drew Carey and asked the que ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
May 9, 2022
We looked for the origins of a quote about confusing education with intelligence that has been a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 9, 2022
This rumor doesn't pass the smell test.
Written by: David Emery
May 7, 2022
In less than 24 hours, a fabricated claim from a self-described "satire" website was copied and ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 6, 2022
The statement attributed to Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, spread widely on socia ...
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