Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 21, 2018
Although some viewers expressed skepticism about a video of a child getting lifted into the air ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 21, 2018
A Belgian political party lampooned the president's view on climate change using 'deep fake' tec ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 21, 2018
A video of a 2013 protest in Egypt is often shared with erroneous claims about false flag attack ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 21, 2018
A meme summarized Nazi beliefs about Jewish people but drew a less accurate link to President Tr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 20, 2018
The picture in question actually has nothing to do with Germans, fuel prices, or any form of pro ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 20, 2018
One of many hoaxes involving the claim that a common food product has somehow become contaminate ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 19, 2018
A notorious producer of hoax news stories turns a fabricated quote into a Facebook meme.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 18, 2018
An old false report about actor Eddie Murphy's dying in a car crash recirculated in May 2018.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 18, 2018
An attempt to link the rifle to several major mass attacks circulated widely online in the hours ...
Written by: David Emery
May 18, 2018
The former Facebook vice president supposedly advocates solving global problems by exterminating ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2018
Old, unrelated images were passed around social media just after news broke about a plane that c ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 17, 2018
A woman was fatally mauled by a pack of dogs that mainly consisted of dachshund mixes of varying ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 17, 2018
Although the state has passed an operating budget without evicting elderly people, Louisiana's f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2018
A video purportedly showing a group of ducks waiting patiently at a traffic light may have been ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2018
Years of exaggerated headlines have turned a painful story about a woman accidentally eating a s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2018
An image of an unidentified man on a New York beach in 1898 is frequently described as showing i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2018
Digital effects, professional skiers, and ostrich costumes were used in an advertising campaign ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 16, 2018
The "Girther" conspiracy theory is based on false assumptions about how the human body can vary ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 16, 2018
A tweet attributed to Trump about the "liberal media" prohibiting a Mother's Day for fathers is ...
Written by: David Emery
May 15, 2018
An Internet meme holds that the KKK touted its political power by marching en masse outside the ...
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