Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 13, 2017
Some observers claimed they saw elements of a 'Satanic ritual' in Lady Gaga's halftime performan ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2017
Reports that Donald Trump was spotted at a Swiss resort with Vladimir Putin before the 2016 elec ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 13, 2017
Reports of President Donald Trump refusing federal disaster aid to California over a sanctuary c ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2017
American-born JPL scientist Sidd Bikkannavar asserted CBP seized his phone and demanded access t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2017
An open letter about President Trump allegedly from Bruce Springsteen was not actually written b ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 10, 2017
An anti-abortion activist revived claims that Planned Parenthood maintains "abortion quotas."
Written by: Snopes Staff
Feb. 10, 2017
Some confusing wording misleadingly suggested the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decisions almo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 10, 2017
A video purportedly showing a 1969 mayoral campaign ad for Fred Trump called "Dope Man" was crea ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 10, 2017
Vermont state trooper Arcot Ramathorn is a fictional character and thus unaffected by U.S. entry ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 9, 2017
An article reporting that the Secret Service has added a new unit to coddle the president's feel ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 9, 2017
Coretta Scott King acknowledged Senator Jeff Sessions (as well as many other politicians) in a d ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
Feb. 9, 2017 (Updated: March 3, 2025)
It wasn't until his second term in office that Trump issued an executive order designating Engli ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 9, 2017
Multiple online sources aggregated a secondhand claim that ISIS operatives had killed 250 Syrian ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 9, 2017
Web sites reposted and misinterpreted a television report about one of the president's early cam ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
Feb. 9, 2017
We found no evidence that President Trump's election has sparked a massive wave of self-deportat ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 9, 2017
A report that President Trump had fired White House butler Cecil Gaines for disobedience was sat ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 9, 2017
Huffington Post's satire channel confused some readers by appearing to report that newly-confirm ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 9, 2017
Despite headlines suggesting otherwise, the coincidence of a full moon and a lunar eclipse is no ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 8, 2017
President Trump incorrectly told a group of county sheriffs in February 2017 that the U.S. murde ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 8, 2017
A man was charged for kicking a Muslim woman in the stomach and killing her unborn twins, but he ...
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