Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Snopes Staff
July 27, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 25, 2020
Numerous U.S. residents have reported receiving seeds in the mail from China that they did not o ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 24, 2020
An altered receipt misled some viewers on social media.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2020
According to one estimate, the COVID-19 pandemic may leave as many as 300,000 Americans dead by ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2020
The White House Coronavirus Task Force leader has been highly scrutinized throughout the COVID-1 ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 23, 2020
This is a type of bizarre viral claim that pains us to even have to address.
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 23, 2020
A case that was initially tallied among coronavirus deaths in 2020 caused some confusion.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 23, 2020
The claims circulated after a July 2020 White House press briefing on COVID-19.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2020
The United States is not the only country that has seen violent clashes between police and prote ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2020
On the contrary, testing this conspiracy theory actually proves the opposite of what it imagines.
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 23, 2020
Many Twitter users claimed in July 2020 that they were locked out of their accounts after postin ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 22, 2020
The rumors and conspiracy theories flowed in after Maxwell's arrest in 2020.
Written by: Jessica Lee
July 22, 2020
The claim surfaced as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to deploy federal law enforcement age ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 22, 2020
"Somehow it never occurred to me that this concept — a guy pissing on another guy — was not goin ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2020
Jokes and conspiracy theories often get mistaken from one another on social media.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
July 22, 2020
Polar bears have long been seen as a bellwether for climate change.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2020
President Donald Trump has been photographed with Jeffrey Epstein on several occasions.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
July 22, 2020
The U.S. secretary of education's actual statement came during a CNN interview that went a bit i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2020
A number of videos have documented police brutality in the United States in 2020.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 21, 2020
"These babies have not even had their first birthday yet," Nueces County Public Health Director ...
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