Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 21, 2018
A very small minority of Twitter users expressed a critical view of Andrew Pollack, but none app ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 21, 2018
A viral cartoon accurately presented several quotations by the then-presidential candidate, deli ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 20, 2018
A glitch that affects the time stamps on Google searches has led to bogus "false flag" conspirac ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 20, 2018
A meme used a fabricated quote based on Lahren's comments about politicians' offering thoughts a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 20, 2018
An impostor Twitter account posing as Rep. Maxine Waters posted an inflammatory remark with the ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 19, 2018
According to popular lore, an assortment of United States presidents from John Quincy Adams to H ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 19, 2018
Dubious web sites have used students' purportedly conflicting accounts of a Florida mass shootin ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 19, 2018
The Metallica vocalist was falsely identified in a photograph amid 2014 protests over his involv ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 19, 2018
An image purportedly showing a large shark on a Kitty Hawk beach is a composite of at least two ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 19, 2018
A set of images showing President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump in the aftermath of di ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 19, 2018
A parody account tricked Twitter users with a darkly comic video about a fictional mix-up.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 19, 2018
A youth baseball coach in Missouri said he wanted to make the giveaway "a positive thing."
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 19, 2018
Despite the clickbait caption, the video comes from East Texas, not Kensington Palace.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 19, 2018
A student did get shot while locking a door during a school shooting -- but his name is not Chri ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 18, 2018
Saying "no one without a law enforcement badge needs this rifle," Ben Dickmann surrendered his w ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 16, 2018
After a massacre at Dunblane Primary School in 1996, there have been no school shootings in the UK.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 16, 2018
A prank Facebook post, and old reports about a drug overdose, fueled unfounded rumors about the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 16, 2018
Rumors holding that the show 'The Simpsons' predicted that there would be a mass shooting at a s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 16, 2018
Rumors that Nikolas Cruz was a registered Democrat were based on the voter registration of a dif ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
A meme intended to undermine President Trump's call for a military parade quotes general-turned- ...
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