Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Snopes Staff
May 21, 2017
Reports on the death of former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly were nothing more than fake news.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 19, 2017
A recent viral Facebook post isn't the first to cause concern about the product.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 19, 2017
An image of President Obama handcuffed before a judge and charged with wiretapping President Tru ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 19, 2017
Conservative-leaning websites fabricated several stories about the high court's weighing in on t ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 19, 2017
A 1973 satirical column offering familiar-sounding responses to criticisms of the Nixon Administ ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 19, 2017
A thinly-sourced article relies on questionable reports to make a claim about the former FBI dir ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 19, 2017
A joke on Twitter has been fleshed out into a full-fledged hoax by two satirical web sites.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 18, 2017
While a number of media outlets reported on some briefly-lived scientific fears over global cool ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 18, 2017
A fake news web site leveraged shakeups at Fox News to push a falsehood about the network's hiri ...
Written by: David Emery
May 18, 2017
A 1987 missive from the former president said his wife, Pat, had seen Trump on television and pr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing the martial artist and singer together is actually a composite ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2017
A May 2017 petition called for a boycott of the network until the show is renewed.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 18, 2017
A fake, satirical story originally published by a white supremacist web site has been republishe ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 18, 2017
An article reporting that Bill Clinton filed for divorce from Hillary Clinton in May 2017 is a hoax.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 18, 2017
Biographers say President Trump gave up exercise in college so as not to expend his finite energ ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 17, 2017
A satire site posing as a Fox News affiliate falsely claimed a statue of the Confederate leader ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 17, 2017
A potent new mix of drugs includes carfentanil, which is used to tranquilize elephants.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2017
Poor reporting and a sensationalized title led some to believe that "adorable drug kingpin" Sara ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 17, 2017
Several web sites have revived an old, fake story about the Russian President's fictional former ...
Written by: David Emery
May 17, 2017
People compared snippets of a commencement address delivered by Trump to snippets of a scene fro ...
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