Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
March 7, 2017
Legislation advanced by the GOP included bills to terminate the EPA, repeal the Affordable Care ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 7, 2017
Hoax warnings claimed that paracetamol (or acetaminophen) is contaminated with a dangerous virus ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 7, 2017
Although 122 detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay were found to have subsequently engaged i ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 6, 2017
Reports that former president Barack Obama was about to be arrested over charges of illegal wire ...
Written by: Megan Alpert
March 6, 2017
Spurious articles reported that a man was crushed by a pile of pornography; he actually died of ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 6, 2017
Reports that President Trump said he was going to deport Native Americans back to India are fake ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 6, 2017
Female lions' growing manes is not common, and scientists are unclear on the cause, but the phen ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 6, 2017
Ruth Bader Ginsburg joked about moving to New Zealand in the event of a Donald Trump presidency.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 6, 2017
“Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family," wrote Friedrich Trump in 1905.
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 6, 2017
Reports that a Florida drug trafficker pardoned by President Obama was re-arrested for the murde ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 6, 2017
An image purportedly shows a gliding, wraith-like dark creature photographed in the skies over Z ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 6, 2017
Photographs of an artist's "Future Internment Camp" sign at various sites appeared on social med ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 6, 2017
Reports that NBC's long-running 'Saturday Night Live' has been cancelled due to low ratings are ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 3, 2017
A fake news site used a screenshot of Ivana Trump to prop up a false claim she said her famous f ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 3, 2017
Reports that the vice president is seeking to 'safeguard US Judeo-Christian interests' by battli ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 3, 2017
A meme urging a boycott of Disney after the studio featured a same-sex kiss in a cartoon does no ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 3, 2017
Reports that President Trump is sending thousands of dollars to individuals as compensation for ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 2, 2017
Comedian Amy Schumer did not threaten President Trump on live television at the Academy Awards c ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 2, 2017
And is Malia really a talented dulcimer musician?
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 2, 2017
Reports that a group of Saudi scientists had made an unusual declaration about the biological cl ...
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