Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 17, 2018
A young woman dressed in a "Stay Clear Boys" shirt supposedly exacted revenge on her overprotect ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 17, 2018
A partisan Facebook page significantly exaggerated the likely consequences of the House's versio ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 17, 2018
Some confusion over the meaning and process of impeachment resulted in the spread of false infor ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 17, 2018
A handful of parents in Texas said they were told by social workers they would have to pay for D ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 17, 2018
An image purportedly showing accused Russian spy Mariia Butina in the Oval Office with President ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 16, 2018
Alyssa Carson's passion for space has fueled her desire to take part in a mission to Mars as an ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 16, 2018
Caught between a rock and a hard place ... literally?
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 16, 2018
The Unmasking Antifa Act, introduced to Congress in June 2018, would create additional penalties ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 16, 2018
A flippant and fabricated article about a genuinely horrific subject is an example of the worst ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 16, 2018
Criticism of the U.S. president's actions in the U.K. was largely based on cherry-picked images ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 16, 2018
President Trump made a comment during an interview with British media personality Piers Morgan s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 16, 2018
Years-old footage of a newscaster laughing was repurposed and shared as if it showed a reporter ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 15, 2018
A hyperpartisan Facebook page gave readers an incomplete picture of mass shootings in America in ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 15, 2018
A legal argument offered in a discrimination case by the Justice Department in 2017 disclaimed T ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 15, 2018
Pictures of President Trump's suffering a stroke and a supposed virus attached to them are both ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 15, 2018
A 13-year-old girl with special needs was beheaded because she saw her grandmother murdered in a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 14, 2018
Rumors holding that MAPs (Minor Attracted Persons) created a pride flag in an attempt to join th ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 13, 2018
The department of Health and Human Services confirmed the request to redirect the "unused" funding.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 13, 2018
The mischievous use of pixellation gave some viewers the false impression that a video showed Lo ...
Written by: David Emery
July 12, 2018
In June 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced they were staffin ...
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