Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2017
A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2017
An article that appeared to report that referees were bribed to poorly officiate a playoff game ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2017
An April 2017 recall of Frito-Lay jalapeno-flavored products was reported as new in July and Aug ...
Written by: Dan Evon Kim LaCapria
June 12, 2017
A fake news site spread a claim that a "furious" Chelsea Clinton was roughly detained on corrupt ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 12, 2017
A viral Facebook photograph purportedly showed a major spelling error in a congratulatory letter ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2017
Reports that a family got ticketed for burning a boat with a body in it originated from a hoax n ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2017
A supposed TIME magazine cover pictures President Trump with the headline "Liar in Chief."
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2017
Reports of a terrorist who accidentally killed himself while attempting to smuggle hand grenades ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2017
Reports that the city of Richmond is evicting low-income residents to decrease the municipal pov ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 10, 2017
Reports that the DEA raided the vacation ranch of U.S. Senator Hal Lindsay of New Jersey and sei ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 10, 2017
A misleading article twists standard practice for the Queen into an attack on Sadiq Khan and get ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 9, 2017
A self-debunking Reddit claim that Maxine Waters missed 90 percent of "Congressional meetings" w ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 9, 2017
Several web sites grossly misrepresented the truth about videos showing disturbances at a 2014 p ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 9, 2017
A Breitbart article accurately reports the fining of a Berlin woman under Germany's strict hate ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 9, 2017
Imelda Marcos has not died, despite a long-circulating (and undated) article about her purported ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 8, 2017
An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 8, 2017
A doctored image appears to show Monroe holding a cat to her face.
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 8, 2017
A fake news item claims that a Muslim Brotherhood plot to overtake the country was foiled by an ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 8, 2017
Although Spicer's actual reaction to the tweet drew widespread media attention, he did not claim ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 7, 2017
A woman's warning about a man who gave her a "bad feeling" at a Walmart in Coon Rapids, Minnesot ...
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