Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
March 19, 2018
Reports that an all-female construction company built a bridge that collapsed at Florida Interna ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 19, 2018
One man in California alleged he independently found lead in Blue Buffalo dog food, a claim that ...
Written by: David Emery
March 19, 2018
A satirical web site took accusations of Putin's involvement in the March 2018 poisoning of a fo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 19, 2018
A disreputable Facebook page engaged in a time-honored ritual — the phony deathbed conversion of ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 19, 2018
An Internet hoax links missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with — what else? — aliens.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 18, 2018
The reasons behind a high school student's suspension were misconstrued in a debate over a natio ...
Written by: David Emery
March 17, 2018
A Justice Department decision made under Obama and implemented under Trump has garnered bipartis ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 16, 2018
An Ohio Republican candidate recycles a misrepresentation of the border used by President Donald ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 16, 2018
A photograph of Angela Merkel at a party as a teenager does not feature Theresa May or Dalia Gry ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 16, 2018
A fake news web site posing as ABC News reported that the former Baywatch star passed away at 50 ...
Written by: David Emery
March 15, 2018
The accidental handgun firing in California was one of two such incidents at schools in the Unit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 15, 2018
A series of unconfirmed and anonymous reports about Matt Damon moving to Australia were almost i ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 15, 2018
A "militia" group on Facebook attempted to paint local high schoolers participating in a demonst ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 15, 2018
New Prague High School in Minnesota says a pro-gun rights placard was removed from a protest bec ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 14, 2018
Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate Maine's House of Representatives, called Parkland school s ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 14, 2018
Recycling a ubiquitous rumor from every election in recent memory makes for poor political trolling.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 14, 2018
A Democrat apparently won the special House election in southwestern Pennsylvania, with no judic ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 14, 2018
After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions ...
Written by: David Emery
March 14, 2018
The founder of a so-called "Church of Lucifer" launched in Quindío, Colombia in 2016 also claims ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 14, 2018
An image misidentifying a man at a Vietnam War protest as Stephen Hawking went viral after the t ...
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