Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 21, 2017
A story claiming that a man had scammed people by selling "Bitcoins" was just fake news from a r ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 20, 2017
Viral reports of a woman’s harrowing experience with a life-threatening skin infection are mostl ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 19, 2017
There are no plans to put UN Peacekeeper boots on the ground in Chicago.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 19, 2017
Your elementary school teachers weren't lying to you -- this oft-repeated phrase is correct, but ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 19, 2017
Images purportedly showing a real mermaid are based on an animatronic sculpture.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 19, 2017
Activist groups have targeted tracks in the area, but there is no evidence that anti-fascists ar ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 18, 2017
"A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toil ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 18, 2017
A Facebook user shared a touching story about Chewy.com's customer service after the deaths of h ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 18, 2017
Rumors that the former adult actress confronted the Federal Communications Commission chairman o ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 17, 2017
Reports that poll workers had been detained in connection with voter fraud during Alabama's Dece ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 16, 2017
Progressive blogs reported that the White House hosted the National Rifle Association on the ann ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 15, 2017
A 2006 photograph shows Behar and Williams cutting up with fellow comedians Billy Crystal and Wh ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 15, 2017
A satirical sports site vastly overstated the University of Alabama football coach's "performanc ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 15, 2017
A popular Facebook rumor contends that Alabama's December 2017 election showed major voting irre ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 14, 2017
Although many women accused then-candidate Trump of sexual assault during the 2016 election, tha ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 14, 2017
A long-circulating rumor claims retailers use "disappearing ink" to inhibit the return of mercha ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 14, 2017
Sensational claims of President Donald Trump receiving a bomb via Amazon drone have their origin ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 14, 2017
Paranoid reports twisted the details of a tragic suicide to further a false narrative about the ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 13, 2017
A Facebook meme accurately presents the basic facts of two very different but equally controvers ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 13, 2017
Brits often post a photograph of a dog purportedly defecating on the steps British government he ...
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