Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 11, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden tried to make a point about Black history in the wak ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 10, 2020
A non-peer reviewed paper took off on the internet ... and then came the critics.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
While the president repeatedly downplayed the deadliness of COVID-19 in public, he acknowledged ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
Creating a fake tweet is surprisingly easy.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest caused some surreal scenes in 2020.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
The truth was even stranger than the fiction.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 8, 2020
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate obtained support from some high-profile GOP figures.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 8, 2020
A photograph of a man kneeling before a priest was widely shared on Twitter and Facebook.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 8, 2020
Letters arranged on a school wall appeared to insult the U.K. prime minister during a televised ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
Credible reports that Trump called fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers" were followed by incre ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
Several boats did sink during a parade for U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2020.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Sept. 8, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Sept. 5, 2020
In 2019, Hawaii became the seventh U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted death for some term ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 5, 2020
The president added that when questioned, protesters pretended the weaponized soup was food for ...
Written by: Jessica Lee
Sept. 4, 2020
Differences between the April 18, 1775, "shot heard round the world" and the August 2020 killing ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2020
A QAnon supporter and congressional candidate's Facebook post was removed for violating the soci ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he "never called John (McCain) a loser," but that isn't true.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 4, 2020
The Twitter account @lifeisasoph briefly trended in August 2020, before it was suspended.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Sept. 3, 2020
These supposed plans appear to have been circulating online for years.
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