Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 8, 2017
A prank web site user used a photograph from 1936 to gin up a "story" spoofing modern player pro ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 8, 2017
The primary missions agency of the Southern Baptist Convention will cover any out-of-pocket fune ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 8, 2017
Roem's victory in Virginia came 25 years after Althea Garrison was elected to state office in Ma ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 8, 2017
Congress reportedly passed a law banning the playing of Christmas music before Thanksgiving, eve ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 8, 2017
A video purportedly showing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rolling down a golf bunker during a round ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 8, 2017
Web sites misrepresented an analysis of child care costs presented by President Donald Trump's d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 8, 2017
Claims that a reproductive health care worked used aborted fetuses as Halloween decor are fake news.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 7, 2017
Notorious fake news sites falsely reported the Democratic lobbyist had been taken into custody.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 7, 2017
A Facebook post brought attention to the retail chain's treatment of workers after Hurricane Maria.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 7, 2017
A photograph showing a hunter with a recently killed bear is frequently shared with a erroneous ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 7, 2017
A "satirical" web site published an unpleasant and entirely fabricated story about a fictional m ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 7, 2017
Reports that the Texas church shooter was an atheist who was also on the DNC's payroll are fake ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Nov. 6, 2017
A rumor that the popular messaging site was about to be taken off line originated on a prank new ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 6, 2017
Claims about a "devastating snowfall" predicted for Montana in 2018 originated with a prank gene ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 6, 2017
An image showing President Trump dumping fish food into a koi pond was shared with misleading st ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Brooke Binkowski
Nov. 6, 2017
A mass shooting at a Texas church on 5 November 2017 led to an avalanche of false information.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 6, 2017
Members of anti-fascist groups (popularly called "antifa") did not attack an elderly woman, and ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 6, 2017
False reports revive a long-running hoax about the comedian Sam Hyde.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 5, 2017
Reports that the perpetrator carried an Antifa flag and told churchgoers “this is a communist re ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 3, 2017
A conspiratorial web site is falsely insinuating the deaths of several Las Vegas shooting witnes ...
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