Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
June 5, 2018
A viral video shows people wearing jewelry consisting of what appear to be live beetles decorate ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 5, 2018
An opinion piece arguing that the United States is in the midst of a Civil War was incorrectly a ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 5, 2018
A photograph shared widely online made it look as if the prices for gasoline in Los Angeles had ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 5, 2018
The White House claimed that an event with the Super Bowl champions was cancelled due to a disag ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
June 5, 2018
Statements from the pontiff about European assimilation of migrants were absurdly characterized ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 4, 2018
New water conservation legislation does not penalize individual California residents for specifi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 4, 2018
In June 2018, a year-old story about Ivanka Trump's line being rebranded circulated as new news.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 4, 2018
Viral stories falsely suggest that a NIH fact sheet was “quietly” amended to state that cannabis ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 4, 2018
A photograph of a car crash scene is real, but the accompanying story was evidently manufactured ...
Written by: David Emery
June 4, 2018
In keeping with his campaign promise to forgo a presidential salary, the White House announced i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 4, 2018
A startling quote from the football player actually originated on a sports satire page.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2018
A spoof of the Starbucks race controversy and anti-bias training featured an apocryphal quote fr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 3, 2018
A photograph of President Obama with current and future FBI directors is neither ominous nor rev ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 2, 2018
A satirical Twitter account added its own "update" to a report saying that President Trump was c ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 2, 2018
A Florida man named Jesse Pariseau tweeted about an alleged encounter with Donald Trump which su ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 1, 2018
An artist's satirical post about the First Lady circulated online, eventually spreading without ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 1, 2018
A sign informing Starbucks customers that stores would be closed in order to "educate white peop ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 1, 2018
A Twitter user claimed — with no evidence — that the former First Lady ordered the network to ca ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 1, 2018
A Virginia congressional candidate served prison time for threatening to kill the president and ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 31, 2018
Rosaries are among personal belongings confiscated from immigrants when they are arrested at the ...
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