Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
Despite claims that an image of a marine saluting an American flag was deemed offensive by Twitt ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 19, 2018
Two criminal cases that were widely disparate in the sentencing were also widely disparate in ma ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
A baseless, fear-mongering and factually inaccurate tweet claiming that a group of refugees in H ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 19, 2018
Is it true that extraneous letters were dropped from certain words in American English because n ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
A glacier comparison project documented some stark changes in the Arctic landscape across the sp ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 18, 2018
A downturn in employment at Ford that some people want to blame on President Trump is disclaimed ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2018
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Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 18, 2018
The president's son-in-law reportedly owes a $1 billion-plus mortgage on a building he purchased ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 18, 2018
Social Security cost of living allowances are established by formula and don't require Congressi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2018
An article about a secret child supposedly born to JFK and Marilyn Monroe resurfaced online year ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 17, 2018
Left-wing Facebook pages weighed into Georgia's gubernatorial race with widely shared memes abou ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 17, 2018
Barron Trump was once photographed with a chess set, but that doesn't make him a Grandmaster.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 17, 2018
A series of fake tweets have been created and circulated in order to denigrate New York Times jo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 17, 2018
A political group without an official flag has nonetheless been represented by many photoshopped ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 17, 2018
The vast majority of voters are entitled by federal law to demand a provisional ballot if they e ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 16, 2018
A viral tweet, offered in response to remarks made by the Republican candidate in a Texas senato ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 16, 2018
A graphic video showing a man being brutally whipped while tied to a post is real, but it has no ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 16, 2018
The Canadian singer-songwriter disclaimed a report quoting him as saying he would "leave at the ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 15, 2018
An image disseminated online cites part of a 2008 study on domestic violence but omits one key p ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 15, 2018
Numerous websites list cream of tartar as a home remedy for headaches, but the scientific claims ...
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