Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 25, 2018
A photograph showing a protest against extreme violence toward women in Argentina was re-caption ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia Bethania Palma
June 22, 2018
The figure would mean undocumented immigrants, who account for roughly 3 percent of the populati ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 22, 2018
Fracking does not take place on Hawaii’s Big Island, but that is far from the only problem with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 22, 2018
A parody account posing as Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands tweeted that the International Co ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 22, 2018
Hyperpartisan social media pages and bots used yet another fake quote in order to attempt to dru ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 22, 2018
Southwest Key's chief executive officer earned an annual salary of $1.5 million in 2016.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 21, 2018
Lori McAllen has faced a backlash after screenshots emerged of her calling for immigrants to be ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2018
A photograph showing protesters holding a sign is real, but the sign is referring to separations ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 21, 2018
A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented the finding of a May 2018 study about the geograp ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 21, 2018
A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing c ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2018
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a federal agent seizing Elián González was recycled nearl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2018
A video showing former United States President Barack Obama "agreeing" with President Donald Tru ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 20, 2018
The actor apologized for saying Donald Trump's 12-year-old son should be put in "a cage with ped ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 20, 2018
Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tole ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 20, 2018
Clothing made from certain synthetic fibers has been known to exacerbate burns, but there's no i ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 20, 2018
A congressional report and criminal indictment resulted from a 2014 incident in which multiple i ...
Written by: David Emery
June 19, 2018
Nixon's former Secretary of State once said Trump could go down in history as "a very considerab ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 19, 2018
ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unname ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 19, 2018
Rob Rogers was let go after his newspaper rejected a number of cartoons, but not all of them had ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 19, 2018
As public debate over the policy of separating families at the border continued, rumors appeared ...
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