Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 15, 2017
A video showing a religious procession in Bradford, England, was misrepresented as a protest by ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 15, 2017
A promotion launched by the game company includes the claim that it will slow or stop the wall t ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 14, 2017
YouTube personality Blaire White initiated a confrontation at an anti-Trump protest, according t ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 14, 2017
Was a nineteenth-century Englishman named Edward Mordake (or Mordrake) born with a malevolent "s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 14, 2017
A picture of veterans in Mexico who were deported after serving the U.S. military was met with s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 14, 2017
A video purportedly showing a marijuana grower hiding from police is not genuine footage.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 13, 2017
A conspiratorial web site shared a story based solely on unsourced tweets claiming the venerable ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 13, 2017
A misleading viral video that purports to show wasted food at a store in Celina, Ohio in fact sh ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2017
A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international news ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 13, 2017
A rumor holding that actor Harry Shearer had announced his departure from "The Simpsons" in Nove ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 13, 2017
Reports that the famous theoretical physicist had been accused of sexual impropriety originated ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 13, 2017
Sketchy articles about the Warrior Canine Connection and a canceled contract with Walter Reed Me ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 12, 2017
A lurid report about an aquatic animal encounter gone wrong was fake news.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 10, 2017
An internet post purporting to prove that the worst genocides of the twentieth century were the ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 10, 2017
The U.S. Senate candidate wrote in 2006 that newly-elected Representative Keith Ellison, a Musli ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 10, 2017
Big hands or small can? Inquiring minds want to know.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 9, 2017
A "news" article reported that an elderly woman had succeeded in herding cats.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 9, 2017
A "satirical" web site regurgitated Islamophobic stereotypes in a post following Bhalla's Novemb ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 9, 2017
Rumors that Trump implied a legislator from the Philippines was a drug smuggler originated with ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 8, 2017
The group has proposed state legislation aimed at replacing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the na ...
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