Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Sept. 2, 2025
The claim originated with satirist Andy Borowitz.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 2, 2025
Online users made claims about a police body-camera video showing the March 2024 arrest of a Mei ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Sept. 2, 2025
Carrey supposedly said: "Palestine is not just a story of conflict. It is a living tragedy that ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Sept. 1, 2025
The intelligence agency named the project "Operation Midnight Climax."
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Sept. 1, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump did, however, once claim to have "a very high IQ" and "strong common ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 31, 2025
Yale pharmacologists in the 1940s realized mustard gas attacked white blood cells, which could h ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Aug. 31, 2025
"I don't want to hear another polite flor speech," the letter says. "I want strategy."
Written by: Joey Esposito
Aug. 31, 2025
James Richard Verone, who was unemployed, was arrested in June 2011 after a desperate plan to re ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Aug. 30, 2025
Miller made the comment on Sean Hannity's show on Fox while discussing crime in Chicago, Illinois.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Aug. 29, 2025
The order encourages forcible commitment of "homeless individuals into long-term institutional s ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 29, 2025
The fake video received millions of views the day after two children were killed in a school sho ...
Written by: Emery Winter
Aug. 29, 2025
Multiple databases of mass shootings indicate that transgender people are not unusually likely t ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 29, 2025
The storied coach's religious organization confirmed he was still alive.
Written by: Rae Deng
Aug. 29, 2025
Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis was one of three top officials at the CDC who resigned after the White ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 29, 2025
While the video of David on the "Today" show is real, it's circulating under misleading circumst ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
Aug. 29, 2025
The Road Warriors Motorcycle Club allegedly came to defend the honor of their founder after he w ...
Written by: Megan Loe
Aug. 29, 2025
Florida did not ban "The Diary of Anne Frank" statewide, as posts suggest. A graphic-novel adapt ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 29, 2025
Online users and prominent news media outlets promoted partly misleading information about yet a ...
Written by: Emery Winter
Aug. 28, 2025
Plenty of wars in human history have ended otherwise, despite the U.S. vice president's claim.
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 28, 2025 (Updated: Sept. 3, 2025)
A 23-year-old, who killed an 8- and 10-year-old in a Catholic church, became the focus of many r ...
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