Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 1, 2017
A chart purportedly documents that no foreign national from any of seven countries included in a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
A viral Facebook post holding that President Trump's controversial immigration ban was a "shock ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
"Palace staff have assured the Queen that, according to English law, Trump is a subject of the C ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 31, 2017
The Supreme Court nominee was unanimously confirmed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006 ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 31, 2017
A legal expert told us the law does not require Bannon to be confirmed by the Senate to sit on t ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 31, 2017
The president had admitted to having "a little conflict of interest" because of a licensing deal ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 31, 2017
An image showing a promotion at Starbucks that exhorts customers to provide the name "Aloha Snac ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 31, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing Melania Trump's grandmother is actually actress Janet Leigh in ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
No, President Trump's immigration order did not result in the capture of "Rasheed Muhammed" at J ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
Comparisons between a 2011 Obama administration slowdown on processing Iraqi visas and President ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
Reports that Trump has put transgender people "on notice" come from a fake news web site.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 31, 2017
Reports of an international dispute over social media usage among world leaders are complete fab ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 31, 2017
Despite rumors, the White House has not rewritten the actual Constitution to change the word "pe ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 30, 2017
This claim is rooted in the willfully negligent reading of a NASA press release by a U.K. tabloi ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 30, 2017
Though her citizenship status was apparently incorrectly documented in the 1940 United States ce ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 30, 2017
A purported quote from a White House senior adviser came from a web site that blends factual sto ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 30, 2017
President Trump's defenders maintained his January 2017 executive action on immigration and asyl ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 30, 2017
No study proved that 25 million fraudulent votes were counted or cast for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 30, 2017
An order calling for the construction of more immigrant detention facilities along the U.S.-Mexi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 30, 2017
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer retweeted The Onion's satirical video about him, leaving ...
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