Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 13, 2018
A year-old video showing a group of Antifascists beating up a right-wing activists in Berkeley, ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 13, 2018
The Supreme Court's 1943 ruling applied to school board officials and other government entities, ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 13, 2018
President Trump may have greeted the 'Bikers for Trump' at one of his golf courses, but he didn' ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 13, 2018
A man who flew on several NASA Space Shuttle missions is not a supporter of the proposed Space F ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 13, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news posted a fake meme about veterans with a reference to a video ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 11, 2018
Hyperpartisan websites published false reports that Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who is the father of New ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 11, 2018
News reports and photographs abound documenting the birth of children weighing upwards of 17 pou ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 10, 2018
The instructions on the back label of a bacon package advised consumers to "complain to elected ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 10, 2018
More false claims about Islamic sharia law taking over in the state of Michigan originated with ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 10, 2018
A group of right-wing street artists called "The Faction" posted a video claiming responsibility ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 10, 2018
Although a photograph of handcuffed children is shared with the claim the youngsters were arrest ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 10, 2018
“Let’s say, for example, that these gay aliens can assume human form. What’s to stop them from i ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 9, 2018
Iran has been criticized by the international community for allowing the use of stoning as a for ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 9, 2018
A widely shared meme suggested that mainstream American news outlets largely ignored North Korea ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 9, 2018
Curved or “clubbed” fingernails have been used as an indicator of health since the time of Hippo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 8, 2018
A speculative question about God's being black originated with one of the Kennedys, but it wasn' ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 7, 2018
One of the most famous of America's Founding Fathers might have agreed with this sentiment, but ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 7, 2018
A quote incorrectly attributed to the former British prime minister was spread on social media b ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 7, 2018
The young congressional candidate has already become the focus of satire and parody, not always ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 6, 2018
A disreputable web site distorted and misled readers on the subject of a new French law on sexua ...
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