Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 21, 2019
Citizenship is one of 72 questions on the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual sampling of ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 21, 2019
As of this writing, portions of the Amazon rainforest reportedly were still burning.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 21, 2019
Posting a "legal notice" to a social media account has no real effect on the social platform, ei ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 20, 2019
Trump was a guest at a wedding at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 20, 2019
As it turns out, Tom Selleck is not the same person as Jon Voight.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 20, 2019
Something that was fine for children a century ago would now be considered inappropriate in so m ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 20, 2019
Bad history does not make for good learning.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Aug. 20, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 20, 2019
CVS corporate and its associated PAC contributed $535,000 in donations in 2017 to political orga ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 20, 2019
Sometimes the author of a poem gets lost in translation.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 20, 2019
A remarkably forthright open letter, supposedly written by Ellen Weintraub to the U.S. president ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 20, 2019
Multiple news articles detailed a controversy surrounding the president's August 2019 visit to a ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 19, 2019
An unreliable website's claim about the immigration status of the suspect in a double-murder cas ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 19, 2019
One woman's kindness sparked rumors about the harvesting habits of an entire country.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Aug. 19, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 16, 2019
Numerous websites exaggerated the role of J.H. Kellogg's odd beliefs about sexual health in the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 16, 2019
Nikolai Machulyak was a bit of a local celebrity in Siberia due to his frequent encounters with ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 16, 2019
The burger-imitation products do share a few ingredients with some brands of vegan, grain-free “ ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 16, 2019
Words in different languages do tend to have different meanings.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 15, 2019
Snopes spoke to the artist behind the painting, who could not corroborate August 2019 news repor ...
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