Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 6, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 7, 2025)
While the California governor and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, have purchased pricey homes, ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 6, 2025
Online users discussed a video about this claim in the days after the release of the British doc ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Aug. 6, 2025
False claims about the contents of the UN's Agenda 2030 originated from anti-vaccine conspiracy ...
Written by: Emery Winter
Aug. 6, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 7, 2025)
One of the sections that was removed from the U.S. Constitution website referenced the writ of h ...
Written by: Cindy Shan
Aug. 6, 2025
Facebook pages claimed the former Beatle serenaded his fellow musician with an acoustic performa ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Aug. 6, 2025
The claim followed on the heels of another false claim that the WNBA would implement "sex testin ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 6, 2025
The president did not squirt massage oil into a toilet to ease the teen's passage through.
Written by: Cindy Shan
Aug. 6, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 7, 2025)
Social media users claimed the Republican Party digitally altered Vance's appearance in a post c ...
Written by: Emery Winter
Aug. 6, 2025
Social media posts about an anti-LGBTQ+ law in Uganda and the fast-food chain make claims that a ...
Written by: Jack Izzo
Aug. 6, 2025
Social media posts claim Molly Forbes — a "little frail 92-year-old Scottish widow" — fought wit ...
Written by: Megan Loe
Aug. 5, 2025
Social media posts claimed Darnell, 38, from Birmingham, Alabama, mysteriously vanished and his ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
Aug. 5, 2025
Kyle Haden Lewter, arrested in March 2024, was a campaign chairman for a GOP state senator.
Written by: Emery Winter
Aug. 5, 2025
Scotland's decision to OK more than 300 wind turbines in July 2025 seems to be unrelated to Trum ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 5, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 6, 2025)
The claim stemmed from a misunderstanding of the word "drop" in a headline.
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 5, 2025
An online video allegedly showed the rescue of Mark and Jennifer Patterson, who purportedly vani ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
Aug. 5, 2025
A meme suggested the federal deficit deepened under Republicans while it receded under Democrati ...
Written by: Nick Hardinges
Aug. 5, 2025
Social media users have repeatedly shared the picture for more than a year, with many questionin ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Aug. 4, 2025
A New York court ordered Lawrence Taylor to register himself after he pleaded guilty to sexual m ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Aug. 4, 2025
This latest death hoax about the famed entertainer appeared online in early August 2025.
Written by: Joey Esposito
Aug. 4, 2025
The comedian made the comment during a 2010 episode of his satirical news show "The Colbert Report."
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