Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 15, 2018
A fake image suggested that Buzzfeed had published a story headlined "Why We Need To Take Away W ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 15, 2018
A photograph purportedly showing Nikolas Cruz in a red "Make America Great Again" hat was taken ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
Despite conspiracy theorist speculation, no evidence supports a link between Nikolas Cruz and Is ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
Junk news websites gave a blatantly manufactured account of a statement by Archbishop Denis Hart.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 15, 2018
In February 2017, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easie ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 15, 2018
In the wake of a school shooting that left 17 people dead in Florida, trolls attempted to stir u ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 14, 2018
A newspaper editorial gets some facts right, and some wrong, in weighing up the consequences of ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 14, 2018
An image purportedly showing an teacher with a gun slung across her back while watching over stu ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 14, 2018
The rules for Kanesville Elementary's school dance attracted national attention before being "re ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 14, 2018
Canada's former minister of defense has long espoused conspiracy theories.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 14, 2018
Mars, Incorporated makes a "Pods" product, but these candies were first manufactured more than a ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 13, 2018
The story was essentially true, but it picked up some embellishment along the way.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 13, 2018
Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller posted an obvious fake and claimed it was an example of "migra ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 13, 2018
President Donald Trump has proposed entirely privatizing the International Space Station by 2025 ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 13, 2018
Artist Kehinde Wiley is best known for reimagining classical heroic paintings using black men an ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 13, 2018
An account posing as an ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2018
Shortly after a Trump senior aide resigned amid domestic abuse allegations, a false rumor was sp ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 12, 2018
Conspiracy theorists falsely linked a deadly Moscow plane crash to Uranium One, a debunked Hilla ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 12, 2018
A graphic disseminated dismissive (and entirely fabricated) statements from the New Jersey Democrat.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 12, 2018
Websites attempted to paint the congresswoman as a hypocrite after she came out in support of DA ...
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