Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 26, 2017
Disreputable web sites are falsely reporting that a 2015 video of a nighttime tsunami alert in C ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 26, 2017
A partisan web site published false and contradictory information about the origins and religiou ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 26, 2017
Reports that a man was assaulted by a 400-pound primate originated on a hoax news web site.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 26, 2017
A rumor that lions saved Christian missionaries from being stoned by Islamic militants in Asia w ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 25, 2017
A viral marketing campaign called a resource used in lithium batteries a secret superfuel — all ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 25, 2017
A fake news web site published a series of inaccurate articles concerning Trey Gowdy, Hillary Cl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 25, 2017
A fake news headline claiming that Chelsea Clinton was arrested for having sexual relations with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 25, 2017
The lack of dates in prayer chains often causes confusion about the validity of such messages.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 25, 2017
A hoax news site used an British tabloid's old photograph to claim that the former First Lady o ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 24, 2017
A fake news site used an unrelated picture to claim a search warrant was executed at the home of ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
There is no proof that the Utah Republican is facing multiple looming scandals.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 24, 2017
A fake news article reported that Hillary Clinton's assistant died under mysterious circumstances.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 24, 2017
An image purportedly showing marijuana plants growing in potholes is fake.
Written by: Kim LaCapria Bethania Palma
April 24, 2017
Rumor: Instagram model Kristina Martelli (famous for her plastic surgeries) died during an elect ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 22, 2017
The power outages did not take place simultaneously, and they appear to have been caused by phys ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 22, 2017
A video purportedly showing a sea roach actually shows an animatronic sea mite from the movie "P ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 21, 2017
A video purportedly showing black stones raining from the sky in Turkey actually depicts an ordi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 21, 2017
Rumors that the porn star is HIV-positive originated on a fake news web site.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 21, 2017
Although something may have appeared odd about weapons seen during a North Korean military parad ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 21, 2017
Social media posts claimed Villaggio's in Massapequa, New York, shunned a military member becaus ...
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