Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 25, 2017
River Falls-based Three Square Market is giving its workers the option of voluntarily having a m ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2017
A satirical article posited that the controversial televangelist had a new pulpit made of money.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2017
A photograph appears to show a student who literally researched the question "jumping off buildi ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 24, 2017
There's no evidence that Justine Damond was targeted for her healing practices.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a large whale swimming through a canal in Venice was digitally ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 23, 2017
Reports that a waste company will be offering curbside dead body pickup service to offset “Trump ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 21, 2017
A disreputable website claimed the deceased singers from Linkin Park and Soundgarden were murder ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 21, 2017
A still from the movie Blitzmädels an die Front is frequently shared as if it were an aut ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 21, 2017
Satire about rivalry between Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise lines was mistaken for real new ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 21, 2017
Scientists at Finnish universities are targeting a strand of viruses linked to Type 1 diabetes, ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 21, 2017
A parody video used logos and graphics from legitimate news sources to make a story about the ac ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2017
"This poor fellow trespassed on the wrong farmer's property."
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2017
A video purporting to show a huge storm moving over a rural road was digitally manipulated, alth ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 20, 2017
A Fox News story cites only a sentence from a staffer's leaked email as proof of Clinton's wrong ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2017
A video showing a bear riding in a sidecar of a motorcycle may beggar belief, but it is genuine.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 19, 2017
A widely-shared article gets some crucial facts wrong about a September 2016 FDA ruling on the u ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 19, 2017
A blog fabricated a story about the tiny hamlet — after a series of threats and demonstrations t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2017
The same fake news report of an estranged husband who murdered his wife and three children has b ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2017
A centuries-old photograph purportedly showing a tornado in Oklahoma is actually an early exampl ...
Written by: David Emery
July 19, 2017
Unreliable web sites stoked partisan rancor by attributing a fake, self-aggrandizing quote to fo ...
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