Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 26, 2018
Presumably, being the fictional mayor of a non-existent town shields one from prosecution for cr ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 26, 2018
Rumors of a ban on the Fox News Channel in Australia and New Zealand seem to have materialized o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 26, 2018
Celebrities say the most outrageous things, especially when it comes to politics! Or do they? S ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 26, 2018
A right-wing Facebook page used a prank photograph to misrepresent a Swedish government proposal ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 26, 2018
A viral video purportedly showing Pope Francis dancing merengue actually shows a lookalike at a ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 25, 2018
Claims that FBI agents had formed a "secret society" to oppose President Donald Trump are unfoun ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 25, 2018
The implications of a bill put forward by State Representative Credell Calhoun are unclear.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 25, 2018
President Trump may not talk to special counsel Robert Mueller after all, but not because he was ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 25, 2018
A former staffer said the senator forced himself on her outside a bar in April 2015.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 25, 2018
A disreputable web site recycled an already-spurious claim by an anti-vaccine publisher.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 25, 2018
Curious political rumor holds that Vice President Mike Pence will be stepping down from the Repu ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 25, 2018
A Georgia teenager's claims in a two-year-old video have long since been denied, but they contin ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 25, 2018
Heather Wick faced an online backlash after a racially insensitive Facebook post in 2017, and ag ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 25, 2018
Decrying a "non-stop feminization campaign against manhood," a GOP Senate candidate said he supp ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 25, 2018
An Internet meme cites extremely dubious statistics to convince readers that the young undocumen ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 25, 2018
The man heading an investigation that may implicate President Trump will not be stepping down ov ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 25, 2018
A Facebook page purporting to post live news appears to have stolen their footage from an Instag ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 25, 2018
A "satirical" web site run by a prolific purveyor of fake news published yet another distasteful ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 25, 2018
A satirical article caused confusion by playing off a recent policy change at the U.S. Departmen ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 24, 2018
There's no credible evidence linking a January 2018 indictment with a persistent Clinton conspir ...
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