Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 4, 2019
Two different people sharing a name does not make them the same person.
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 3, 2019
No information is yet publicly known about the motive for the deadly mass shooting, but authorit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 3, 2019
The Band of the Grenadier Guards played several songs during the president's visit to Buckingham ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 3, 2019
Widely shared memes contained a quotation that is commonly attributed to the Great Emancipator.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2019
Sometimes spoof is stranger than fiction ... or it's the same thing.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2019
The supposed quote eventually became immortalized in meme form and then REALLY took off.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 3, 2019
A niche genre of 'satire' gives animated characters sexuality.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2019
“The babies kept coming and coming and coming and coming ..."
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 31, 2019
The retail chain is donating to a charity that works to prevent the bullying of LGBT children in ...
Written by: David Emery
May 31, 2019
Roosevelt railed against the revolutionary anarchists of his day, whose violent activities he te ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 31, 2019
This eggcellent eggsperiment has clearly been eggsagerated.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 30, 2019
A flurry of news reports brought controversy in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's Memori ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 30, 2019
A fabricated quote was added to a still frame from a video of a Canadian politician's wishing th ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 30, 2019
Some readers questioned the authorship of this viral piece of text.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 29, 2019
A meme compared the sentences given to John Walker Lindh, a white American known as the "America ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 29, 2019
Was the president referring to a "non-sun," "nonsense," or a "not sun"? Take your pick.
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 29, 2019
The senator actually proposed rectifying a system that doesn't allow immigrants to pay or receiv ...
Written by: David Emery
May 29, 2019
The president took verbal potshots at his potential 2020 Democratic rival during a May 2019 stat ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 29, 2019
While this poster may express the sentiments of the McCarthy era, this quote can actually be tra ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 28, 2019
If the banana you are looking at came from a supermarket, it’s almost certain to have been ethyl ...
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