Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Joey Esposito
July 28, 2025 (Updated: July 30, 2025)
The aspiring politician, Kyle Langford, added, "My German Ancestors smile upon me."
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 28, 2025
The clip, shared in late July 2025, shows one of the U.S. president's caddies tossing a golf bal ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 28, 2025 (Updated: July 29, 2025)
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said his team found 4,725 transactions to and from ...
Written by: Emery Winter
July 28, 2025
The screenshot of the supposed Leavitt post was created by a person who runs a subreddit for scr ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
July 28, 2025
A statement by Democratic state Rep. Patricia Moore during a June 2025 Louisiana House hearing s ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 28, 2025
A claim spread online that a new federal rule would make it harder for senior drivers seeking to ...
Written by: Cindy Shan
July 27, 2025
The lightweight device can influence bee behavior in laboratory settings, but current limitation ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 27, 2025
One participant even obtained an illness-benefit payout as a result of calling in sick to work f ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
July 27, 2025
According to the rumor, the girls survived for nearly 10 days by relying on rainwater and applyi ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
July 26, 2025
Using Sora, a text-to-video model developed by OpenAI, a TikTok creator produced a series of vid ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
July 26, 2025
The letter has circulated online since 2018.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
July 26, 2025
The MSNBC host addressed a surge of AI slop in July 2025 and directed viewers to Snopes for the ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 25, 2025 (Updated: July 28, 2025)
The airline that operated the flight claimed the teenagers were being unruly. The Jewish summer ...
Written by: Cindy Shan
July 25, 2025
The newspaper's front page reflected Trump's legal challenges while avoiding using his name dire ...
Written by: Cindy Shan
July 25, 2025
Social media users claimed the wrestling icon's death on July 24, 2025, occurred exactly a decad ...
Written by: Emery Winter
July 25, 2025
A video mimicking a news report about an Iowa farming discovering unicorn bones in his field had ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
July 25, 2025
The "Prince of Darkness" experienced poor health for decades.
Written by: Laerke Christensen
July 25, 2025
The claim stemmed from a newly declassified Department of Justice watchdog review of the FBI's i ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
July 25, 2025
People looking to reduce the U.S. national debt can also do so via debit or credit card, PayPal ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
July 25, 2025
Social media users shared the image in June 2025, following a DOJ memo rejecting allegations abo ...
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