Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 12, 2018
A bogus quotation added to the widely-held, and possibly mistaken, belief that the 45th presiden ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 12, 2018
People looking to boycott Nike-owned companies may want to avoid Converse and Hurley products, b ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 11, 2018
A meme used mostly accurate stats to draw a somewhat questionable link between the duration of a ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 11, 2018
A meme echoes President Trump's 2001 comments about having hundreds of workers search for surviv ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 11, 2018
Sensationalized headlines mischaracterized a controversial area of science that is in no way rel ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 11, 2018
‘If you are going to live in this community, you want to be a part of this community and give back.’
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 11, 2018
An ongoing controversy over Nike's endorsement deal with Colin Kaepernick expanded to include an ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 11, 2018
A creative sneaker-based artwork was wrongly associated with later protests against Nike.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 10, 2018
A joke posted to the political humor section of Reddit was mistaken as genuine news by a number ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 10, 2018
Junk news sites reported that the currently unsigned NFL quarterback lost his endorsement deal a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 10, 2018
An image purportedly showing a racist sign at Rollman Farms in southern Illinois has not been ve ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 10, 2018
Conservative web sites and the NRA gave largely accurate accounts of a September 2018 announceme ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 10, 2018
A widely-shared meme fabricated a statement by the singer and actor, who is a fervent opponent o ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 9, 2018
Immigrant children as young as 14 were forcibly restrained at a Virginia facility, but authoriti ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 9, 2018
The popular Los Angeles-born actor did not suddenly pass away at age 74 in September 2018.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 9, 2018
The latitude of the pyramid in decimal degrees can match a sequence of numbers expressing the sp ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2018
A video purportedly documenting a new strain of marijuana that was crossbred with a Venus flytra ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 8, 2018
Nike may not be "taking a drastic hit to their bottom line," but they didn't say that quite so b ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 8, 2018
A purported statement from the company asked critics to "respect our troops" and donate clothing ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 7, 2018
The Senate campaign of Beto O'Rourke denies asking the VFW post commander if flags could be take ...
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