Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 29, 2017
A site posing as the Houston Chronicle claimed Mayweather was giving aid money to Hurricane Harv ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 29, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing President Donald Trump getting a spray tan before a television ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 29, 2017
One of many human trafficking warnings spread on Facebook in August 2017 involved a purported ki ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 28, 2017
A fake article on a comedy web site managed to fool a number of readers into thinking the author ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 28, 2017
Viral posts on social media largely accurately describe a change to Texas state law about hurric ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 28, 2017
Reports that Hillary Clinton was ejected from an interview with Katie Couric after using a racis ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 28, 2017
Images of the former president serving food appeared alongside claims that he was in Houston aft ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 28, 2017
As usual, fake and misleading images were circulated on social media in the wake of a storm that ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 28, 2017
Reports that protesters had blocked emergency crews from reaching people stranded by Hurricane H ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 25, 2017
And just what do they find so amusing?
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 25, 2017
A picture related to a promotion held at one Dunkin' Donuts outlet in 2014 has popped up again o ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 25, 2017
Richard Robert Rawling has been charged over his alleged actions in the March 2016 primaries, bu ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 25, 2017
A satirical article about Mariah Carey covering the Dead Kennedys in support of anti-fascism was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 25, 2017
A letter by Col. Jeffery Powers to the NFL's commissioner about football players kneeling during ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 24, 2017
Viral images attempting to sell pyramid-shaped features as evidence of an ancient civilization i ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 24, 2017
A right-wing web site accurately describes some parts of a gun control law, but also uses exagge ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 24, 2017
The Cleveland Browns running back posted the artist's rendering to Instagram in July 2016; then ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 24, 2017
The former California governor and future U.S. president made the comment during a 1975 intervie ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 24, 2017
An image purportedly showing a Simpsons chalkboard gag in which Bart mocked Islam is fake.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 23, 2017
East Central University in Oklahoma may ultimately have to remove Christian symbols from their n ...
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