Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 7, 2020
Falwell said the picture was intended to be a joke.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 7, 2020
An unreliable website with a penchant for publishing clickbait and repackaged satire appeared to ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 7, 2020
The list of dozens of names posted to Facebook was offered up in connection with the Jeffrey Eps ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 7, 2020
The question was in response to a journalist's query about Biden's cognitive fitness for office.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 7, 2020
A similar picture circulated years earlier.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 7, 2020
If you were a Google Plus user between 2015 and early 2019, you could receive compensation from ...
Written by: Jessica Lee
Aug. 6, 2020
"Even if a person receives multiple ballots, only one return ballot can be counted," according t ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 6, 2020
Fear-mongering Facebook memes misrepresented the position articulated by the presumptive Democra ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 6, 2020
Former MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary expressed discomfort with the commercial news model.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 6, 2020
"Stop getting your news from memes and calling it research!"
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 6, 2020
Rumors about masks are getting more creative, but health experts still recommend wearing cloth f ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 6, 2020
The pandemic response team led by Kushner, senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, report ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 6, 2020
Video of a catastrophic explosion in Beirut was pretty shocking without being manipulated.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 5, 2020
Seems odd to describe a video as "banned" while watching it on the platform that supposedly bann ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Aug. 5, 2020
Following the arrests of anti-police-brutality protesters, a bailout assistance organization rec ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 5, 2020
A website with a penchant for attention-grabbing headlines about life in Canada struck again in ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 5, 2020
Plenty of outrage, but very little evidence, surrounded a widely shared meme in the summer of 2020.
Written by: Lisa Wang Dan MacGuill
Aug. 5, 2020
English-language news outlets shared a set of reports that emerged from Hunan and Henan province ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Aug. 5, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 5, 2020
Halloween may look a little different in 2020, but not due to a lack of Spirit Halloween stores.
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