Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 12, 2018
A travel web site got the basic facts right about the gruesome death of David Baloyi in February ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 12, 2018
An image showing a bear dangerously close to an oblivious fisherman was created for a Photoshop ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 12, 2018
A news web site got some facts right but gave an incomplete and misleading account of a June 201 ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 12, 2018
A photograph of a common piece of farm equipment was shared with false accusations concerning an ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 11, 2018
A Facebook Live video prompted widespread outrage and an internal investigation into the conduct ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 11, 2018
Some viewers mistook a spoof trailer for a sequel to the movie "Forrest Gump" as genuine in June ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 10, 2018
Conspiracy-peddling web sites seized on a fatal explosion as a means to push more dubious stories.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 10, 2018
Images showing "melted" cars in are real, but the extreme heat came from a nearby construction f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 10, 2018
A meme created by a satirical Facebook page convinced some viewers that a fictional congresswoma ...
Written by: David Emery
July 9, 2018
Reports of a viral epidemic that supposedly killed 16 people in Louisville originated on a prank ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 9, 2018
An image graphic purportedly comparing how Obama, Clinton, Bush and Trump celebrated the 4th of ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 9, 2018
An obscure satirical web site managed to trick many readers with a fabricated story in the summe ...
Written by: David Emery
July 8, 2018
An Internet meme made misleading comparisons between presidential donations and the sizes of the ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 7, 2018
A satirical website's post about the American televangelist was re-disseminated online in meme form.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 7, 2018
An image showing an optical illusion created with floor tiles is genuine, but it wasn't created ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
July 6, 2018
During a rally in Montana, President Trump went on a tangent about crowd size in which he compar ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 6, 2018
The sartorial aspects of Gareth Southgate, manager of England's national football team, have dra ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 6, 2018
A phrase contained in a excerpt from one of America's founding documents triggered the social ne ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
July 5, 2018
This claim, in circulation since at least 2012, is mathematically impossible and factually defic ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 5, 2018
People could "survive" eating a very limited diet, health experts told us, but they wouldn't get ...
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