Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2017
A hoax article reported that televangelist Paula White was selling American flags that had been ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2017
A video purportedly shows a feline with an extremely deep meow.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 16, 2017
A web site claimed that Sessions stood to gain from the recent reversal of an Obama-era policy o ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 16, 2017
A man claiming to be a private investigator is making uncorroborated claims about the deceased s ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 16, 2017
Articles reporting that Lewinsky's son "David" had been reported missing and was subsequently fo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2017
An image purportedly showing a biplane flying low over a California beach is actually an early e ...
Written by: David Emery
May 16, 2017
President Trump ordered the White House lit up in blue to commemorate Peace Officers Memorial Da ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2017
A false story used photographs of an Argentinian domestic abuse survivor to advance a claim with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 16, 2017
Although a photograph does show a real location in Peru, the colors of the mountains appear to h ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 16, 2017
Rumors that a man claimed he was set upon by Bigfoot while on a hunting trip are just fake news.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 16, 2017
An amusing story about a man who got a popular toy lodged in his anus is fake news.
Written by: David Emery
May 15, 2017
The existence of "colored only" businesses under Jim Crow laws in the southern United States com ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 15, 2017
This claim, made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a solid illustration of why scale and context matt ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 15, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing the famously reclusive author wearing nothing but a pair of san ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 15, 2017
Multiple tabloids repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a pastor was eaten by crocodiles in an ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 15, 2017
The actor and director did not die of a heart attack while filming a commercial in August 2019.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 14, 2017
Reports that the Fox News Channel host succumbed to injuries from an automobile accident are fak ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 13, 2017
An image spread online promoting a Mother Day's lunch special from the restaurant chain is a hoax.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 12, 2017
A disturbing video purportedly showing two men lynching a black woman was not related to the dea ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Emery
May 12, 2017
An Internet meme claims that government agencies tried to curb consumption of illegal liquor by ...
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