Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 15, 2018
Clickbait social media posts claim Facebook has an anti-religion bias.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 15, 2018
A circulated photograph of President Obama at the Arlington National Cemetery was intended as a ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 14, 2018
Various local Goodwills in California were offering assistance to residents forced to flee the C ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 14, 2018
President Trump’s son purportedly proclaimed that California deserves wildfires over their polit ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 14, 2018
In a 1968 op-ed, the comics pioneer called racial prejudice of any kind "patently insane."
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 14, 2018
A cross promotion between the new movie "The Grinch" and "Wonderful Pistachios" is genuine, but ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 13, 2018
A temp worker signed an affidavit in 2016 stating she saw elections officials filling out blank ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 13, 2018
Cruz, who has confessed to the shooting but has yet to be convicted, has a constitutional right ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2018
A conservative political web site drew a link between the Democrat's rejection of a legislative ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2018
If it was carried out, the president's call to finalize the preliminary election results before ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 13, 2018
President Trump was widely criticized for skipping a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversar ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 13, 2018
A vague U.S. government press release ambiguously stated that some 270 people with criminal hist ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 12, 2018
"The fundamental responsibility is commonsense gun safety legislation in Georgia, making sure we ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 12, 2018
Ewoks, for the time being, can still only be found on the fictional forest moon of Endor.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 12, 2018
A caller on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Internet talk show claimed he overheard poll workers ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 12, 2018
Barack Obama has possibly set a record for being the target of the most false political equivale ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 12, 2018
A viral meme used wildly inaccurate figures as part of a conspiracy theory about electoral fraud.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 12, 2018
The words of President John F. Kennedy that the world never got to hear.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 12, 2018
Sketchy reports claimed the thousands-strong migrant caravan was being chartered to the U.S. bor ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 12, 2018
A viral Facebook post significantly misrepresented what the FBI said about sexual assault and mi ...
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