Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 11, 2017
Reports about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's being given an ominous note in the middl ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 10, 2017
The computer magnate believes that vaccines can be used to reduce childhood mortality and ultima ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 10, 2017
The bill allows offering benefits for "voluntary" workplace programs that may include "health ri ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 10, 2017
A statement ostensibly uttered by Ben Carson about the 'nut of the mind' holding our 'most hated ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 10, 2017
A family member told us Ukrainian-American Alex Oronov died of an illness and had no ties to Pre ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 9, 2017
Reports that President Obama was evicted from his "mansion" in Washington, D.C., because he tras ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 9, 2017
Misleading headlines inaccurately suggested that long-documented caves in Shropshire, England we ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 9, 2017
An image of a giant isopod is frequently shared along with the claim that it shows an insect fir ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 9, 2017
The claim that the former Fox News host was fired before even starting at her new post was just ...
Written by: David Emery
March 9, 2017
2017 reports that Fox News anchor Shep Smith had been fired by chairman Rupert Murdoch for being ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 9, 2017
Franceska Mann is celebrated for her purported act of defiance against Nazi guards as she faced ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 8, 2017
Rumors about a "free cone day" at Dairy Queen on 20 March 2017 are accurate, at the chain's part ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 8, 2017
An image showing a New York Times front page was circulated on social media along with statement ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 8, 2017
An alternative bill authored by a Texas Republican has an auspicious title, but it's not the one ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 8, 2017
This popular myth has its roots in a series of flawed papers published in the late 1980s and ear ...
Written by: David Emery
March 8, 2017
A report stating that Trump's Secretary of Education wants to exclude all information not found ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 8, 2017
A statement supposedly made by House speaker Paul Ryan on CNN in which he asserted that women wh ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 7, 2017
A single sockeye salmon found in a Canadian lake in 2015 did test positive for trace amounts of ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 7, 2017
A photograph showing an adult Barack Obama with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. is chronol ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 7, 2017
An unreliable entertainment site falsely reported that reggae musician Buju Banton had killed hi ...
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