Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 18, 2017
Reports that President Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples died in an airline accident are fake news th ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 17, 2017
Reports that the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision about the teaching of Islam in public scho ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 17, 2017
While we cannot prove a negative, there are few mechanisms by which a MOAB-like bomb would benef ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 17, 2017
A video purporting to show a new spa treatment is actually repurposed footage from a comedy video.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 17, 2017
Reports that United Airlines flight attendant assaulted a 7 month-old baby for crying during a f ...
Written by: David Emery
April 17, 2017
A number of "true facts" web sites have stated that women in ancient and medieval times "sweeten ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 17, 2017
A fake news article that fabricated statements by Eric Trump got picked up by hyper-partisan web ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 17, 2017
WJW-TV called a doctored screenshot of their news broadcast a "distraction."
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 17, 2017
In the late 2000s, the former U.S. Vice President sometimes inaccurately represented studies tha ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 17, 2017
Yet another seeming announcement of a new Oreo flavor was just someone's expression of a wish-li ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
April 17, 2017
A comment made by Arizona senator Jeff Flake during a town hall meeting was reproduced without c ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
April 16, 2017
Reports that the chief executive has banned airings of NBC's long-running comedy sketch show are ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 16, 2017
Reports that a Taiwanese airliner dumped human waste onto the top deck of a cruise ship are fake ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 15, 2017
Reports that a couple seeking to conceive via IVF discovered through DNA testing that they were ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
April 15, 2017
Department of State employee Candace Claiborne was arrested and charged in connection with her i ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 15, 2017
A photograph used to spur heckling of the embattled airline actually chronicles a training cours ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 15, 2017
Another entry in a long-running series of articles about holiday traditions being used to conver ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 14, 2017
Reports that the Supreme Court justice has been urgently hospitalized are fake news.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 14, 2017
A video purporting to show the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb exploding in Afghanistan in April ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 14, 2017
A doctored photograph replaced a giant catfish with an image of a "record-breaking" shrimp.
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