Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 19, 2018
News of the nonexistent warning from the Marine Corps' top brass originated on a satirical blog.
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Jan. 19, 2018
The name of the wireless technology standard apparently originated during a Toronto pub crawl on ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 19, 2018
Fake news sites reported that the former child star says Hollywood is run by Satanic pedophiles ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 18, 2018
The department cited a judge's December 2016 ruling that does not extend patient protections to ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 18, 2018
A disreputable web site with a penchant for inventing celebrity quotes said the singer had calle ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 18, 2018
Rumors holding that Melania Trump plagiarized her Martin Luther King Day tweet from former First ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
U.S. Army medics will not be treating battlefield injuries with homeopathic dilutions and prayer ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 18, 2018
A fake tweet-generator was used to create the appearance that Sheila Jackson Lee had authored a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
Reports of a tourist's unfortunate bout of stomach upset on a Spanish roller coaster are fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
Reports that a Chinese engineer contracted an STD after having sexual intercourse with a sex rob ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 18, 2018
The CEO of a multinational company that makes billions annually selling bottled water called the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 17, 2018
A disreputable web site used an unsourced and fabricated quote to link deaths from the flu epide ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 17, 2018
Gabapentin’s potential for abuse, especially in combination with opioids, may have been misjudge ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 17, 2018
A list of rules on how to "resist" the Trump administration was incorrectly attributed to the au ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 17, 2018
Reports that the singer boasted about the results of a "DNA test kit" are just more fake news.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 17, 2018
Right-wing web sites grossly misrepresented the significance and meaning of one scene from one 2 ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 17, 2018
A collage purportedly showing members of the US Congress sleeping at their desks actually shows ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 17, 2018
The authorship of an opinion piece defending President Trump's lack of decorum and dignity in of ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 17, 2018
Reports that former NFL star O.J. Simpson was rearrested while attempting to slip across the U.S ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 16, 2018
A crude letter warning passengers on a cruise ship not to "engage in sexual acts" with pizzas wa ...
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