Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 26, 2017
An article stakes its claim on a regurgitation of false information from a blogger who rejects m ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 26, 2017
A Twitter account posing as JD Wetherspoon falsely claimed the chain banned the flowers due to " ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 26, 2017
A doctored image of Trump circulated with a tongue-in-cheek request not to repost it.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 26, 2017
A gross-out story about an Iowa teacher's inappropriate punishment of a student was completely f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 26, 2017
No, police didn't strand the football team in their locker room after a game against the Philade ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2017
"The short answer is that we don't know much about orgasms in other species."
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 24, 2017
Social media users sought to smear demonstrations against police brutality by insulting the char ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 24, 2017
A fabricated story blames the fluke 1967 aircraft carrier fire on the negligence of then-Navy bo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 24, 2017
A doctored image featuring Jimi Hendrix covered in tattoos was circulated on social media in Oct ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 24, 2017
A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented a memo reportedly sent to NFL Commissioner Roger ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 24, 2017
Claims that members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are using ticks for the wides ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 24, 2017
The Washington Post columnist did not write an article alleging that former President Bar ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 24, 2017
The mayor of Dickinson, Texas, says a new state law requires that the city ask aid recipients no ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 24, 2017
Despite rumors, the President did not recall a thousand retired Air Force pilots by amending Exe ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 23, 2017
A questionable "satire" site fabricated a Fox News report about the progressive filmmaker's hara ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 23, 2017
A conservative web site offers an incomplete, misleading and false summary of Wilson's legislati ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 23, 2017
Social media posts falsely stated that the 5-year-old Nigerian abduction victim -- who has since ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2017
"Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old 'Ms. Ruth' sews hoods and rob ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 21, 2017
Reports that the embattled film producer turned over "names of elite pedophiles" in Hollywood an ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 21, 2017
A widespread story claiming the Federal Bureau of Investigation had erased Las Vegas witnesses' ...
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