Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 15, 2018
Fake local news sites spread junk news about a supposed serial killer targeting pedophiles.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 15, 2018
The president denied making the offer, but video from a July 2018 speech seemingly demonstrates ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2018
The former American VP opined that the Russian president seeks to undermine NATO and the EU, not ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 15, 2018
Politics does make for strange bedfellows at times, but not quite as claimed here.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2018
Rumors swirled on Twitter that Rapper Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) had died from a ‘ligma overdose.’
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 15, 2018
An extraordinary photograph from an April 2018 rally re-emerged on social media several months l ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 13, 2018
Some said the Craigslist ad proved Trump has to pay people to attend his rallies, while others d ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 12, 2018
A controversial Virginia Department of Corrections regulation regarding tampons was scuttled sho ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 12, 2018
The research arm of The Economist magazine releases an annual “Democracy Index” ranking the stre ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 12, 2018 (Updated: March 5, 2025)
We found a few reasons to be skeptical of this tweet.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 12, 2018
A photograph of an approaching storm is real, but it was taken months before Hurricane Michael m ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 12, 2018
An out-of-context, incomplete sentence and an apocryphal quotation do not make for an informativ ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 12, 2018
A left-wing web site's January 2018 meme was based on data that were accurate at the time, but w ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 11, 2018
A long-running junk news site used a legitimate stock photo for another one of its "satirical" s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2018
A compilation of acts by a violent American "left-wing mob" uses a mixture of genuine, unrelated ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 11, 2018
Conspiracy mongers attempted to draw a line between two unrelated things by linking them to more ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 11, 2018
An online comedy series highlighted the fact that the end of the war did not mean the end of per ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2018
Was the use of Nike shirts for mugshots a subtle jab at the company's political choices, or a pr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 11, 2018
A viral image of one municipal ordinance regarding Halloween activities left viewers wondering w ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2018
A chilling historical image was used to illustrate a political point, but it was taken from a ci ...
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