Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 27, 2018
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's answer to a question posed by a child was misrepresented as an ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 26, 2018
A TEDx talk broadcast from Germany prompted widespread controversy over the speaker's comments a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2018
The Giza Pyramids and lenticular clouds are spectacular photographic subjects individually, but ...
Written by: David Emery
July 25, 2018
Missouri's Republican-controlled state legislature passed a law in May 2017 rolling back a minim ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
July 25, 2018
In 1965, an obese man actually survived without eating for over a year, living entirely off his ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2018
A video showing a man flying through the air is real, but we're skeptical about the claimed spe ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 25, 2018
A notorious producer of fake news attempted to provoke outrage with yet another fabricated memet ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2018
A 2,000-year-old carving of a figure riding a modern bicycle was supposedly found inside an anci ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2018
An unsubstantiated accusation that Whoopi Goldberg used a racial slur in reference to Judge Jean ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 24, 2018
A 'zombie' recall notice from 2017 prompted by defective can seams continues to be presented as ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2018
A video featuring a Palestinian makeup artist was used as propaganda to claim that reports of at ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 24, 2018
The former Democratic Congresswomen accused the Department of Homeland Security of "making war o ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2018
A photograph showing four female defense ministers from Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and Germany ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 24, 2018
Internet memes falsely used an unrelated image of a Moroccan girl to illustrate the unusual life ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 23, 2018
Republican Bobby Wilson brought up a dark chapter from his past during a public debate about gun ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 23, 2018
A murder-suicide involving an FBI agent and his estranged wife was not related to a probe into H ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2018
A video purportedly captures a young woman being struck by an automobile while performing the "K ...
Written by: David Emery
July 23, 2018
A right-wing blog with a history of spreading conspiracy theories claimed the FBI agent is reall ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2018
Whatever John F. Kennedy, Jr. might have thought about Donald Trump, he likely wouldn't have des ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2018
The controversial artwork was removed from the gallery's window after the business received nume ...
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