Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 23, 2017
Kennedy did utter these words prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration, but the omission of context ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
Multiple mugshots were falsely claimed to show Antifa members who were arrested during a white n ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 23, 2017
Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis didn't target President Trump's supporters, but directed his co ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
A viral Facebook post suggested it is legal in Texas to use deadly force to stop Confederate sta ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 23, 2017
A web site posted an unclear translation of a news account about a grisly incident that killed a ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 23, 2017
Despite a misleading clickbait headline, Green Bay Packer coach Mike McCarthy didn't put anythin ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 23, 2017
On the question of erecting Civil War monuments, the former Confederate general wrote that he th ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
A fake news article claimed that a cemetery in Delaware, Ohio, was exhuming the bodies of confed ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 22, 2017
A Tumblr post mischaracterizes the two Confederate leaders' positions after the Civil War.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 22, 2017
News reports exaggerate and misrepresent the extent and nature of financial problems at the Secr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 22, 2017
While it's true that Russia is developing the ability to hack GPS systems, experts doubt that GP ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
A fake news article claimed that a boxing promoter was killed for saying that the Mayweather-McG ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
An image purportedly showing sunlight forming the shape of a cross during the August 2017 eclips ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
Members of the "alt-right" have dared antifa to protest the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, but no ant ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 21, 2017
Counter-demonstrators had permits for two parks, while the "alt-right" was granted an injunction ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 21, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a supine man on a beach near a mountain resembling his outline ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 21, 2017
Liz MacKean fought to reveal historical child sexual abuse, but there is no evidence that she di ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 21, 2017
"Those who can't work will be provided a stipend and unlimited supply of opiates, marijuana, met ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill David Mikkelson
Aug. 21, 2017
Two conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the content of a lyric essay in The Atlantic m ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 19, 2017
The 21 August 2017 celestial event will be viewable to millions in North America, but taking the ...
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