Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 8, 2018
Researchers agree that an inactive Chinese space station will probably crash back to Earth by mi ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 8, 2018
Unreliable partisan web sites reposted a work of satire reporting that an FBI investigation into ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
This isn't a real UFO and a real alien, wherever in the world this clip wasn't actually filmed.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 8, 2018
A popular meme attributes an unlikely quote to the then-businessman, who was already making comm ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
A fake news article claimed that the world suicide rate plummeted after Logan Paul's "Suicide Fo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 8, 2018
The story is no more than a satirical but inflammatory fabrication.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
A doctored image purportedly shows the North Korean leader reading a book that portrays U.S. Pre ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 8, 2018
Joanna and Chip Gaines, stars of the home improvement reality TV show, made the announcement on ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that the former First Lady was arrested after acting “unpredictably violent” during a do ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a federal judge overturned a Syrian immigrant's conviction and made aspects of Shar ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
The putative victim supposedly dreamed that he cheated on his girlfriend with a waitress at a go ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a Waffle House waitress told church choir members she “was forbidden by her holy bo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 6, 2018
Distributors of sweetened drinks in the Emerald City now have to pay an excise tax of 1.75 cents ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 5, 2018
Reports that President Trump's political rival would narrate a tell-all book about his presidenc ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 5, 2018
It is possible to experience some psychoactive effects from secondhand exposure to marijuana smo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 5, 2018
The billboards are real, but the so-called Republican group has an interesting donor behind it.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 5, 2018
A story about two bakers who won a big lottery payout just after being slapped with a fine came ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 5, 2018
President Donald Trump shared the picture intending to criticize NFL players — but it was taken ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 5, 2018
How the daughter of a former U.S. president found herself in the company of a supermodel and the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 5, 2018
A fire at a property owned by Bill and Hillary Clinton in New York state sparked a veritable inf ...
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