Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 6, 2017
A less than credible Twitter account spread a fake tweet attributed to civil rights activist De ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 6, 2017
Reports that a group of "Dump Trump" protesters was fatally struck by a truck while blocking a S ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 5, 2017
Wheaties and other breakfast foods are fortified with iron, which reacts to magnets.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 5, 2017
Authorities are investigating the death of a Polk County, Georgia, girl who livestreamed her sui ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 5, 2017
The Washington Post's free daily newspaper mistakenly used a male gender symbol to illustrate a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 5, 2017
Reports that koalas and other animals are being sex trafficked in Australia are fake news.
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 4, 2017
President Obama received a medal bestowed by the Secretary of Defense, not himself, that has bee ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 4, 2017
Instructions for blocking Facebook users who are supposedly furtively following you are spurious.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 4, 2017
A fake tweet attributed to the televangelist says anyone who gives his ministry $5,000 will rece ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 4, 2017
Despite claims to the contrary, the ADA has not issued any guidance on the use of semen as eithe ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 4, 2017
A bit of evidence suggests that compounds in grapes may have antiviral properties, but no scienc ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 3, 2017
The boy pictured in a missing child appeal circulating on Facebook was actually abducted and fou ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 3, 2017
A turtle now residing at a wildlife refuge in Los Angeles was found with a plastic ring around i ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 3, 2017
An image of a supposed deleted tweet from Donald Trump expressed feelings of regret and inadequa ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 3, 2017
Unless ‘hairy spider monkey’ is your name for ‘run-of-the-mill Mars rock’, this report is someth ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Jan. 3, 2017
The Washington Post was heavily criticized for jumping the gun and suggesting a Vermont power co ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 3, 2017
False rumors that First Daughter Malia Obama was named the "Highest-Paid Heir" were started by a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 3, 2017
Common depictions of Jesus as possessing blonde hair and blue eyes are a rather ahistorical curi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 2, 2017
A fake news site appropriated the name of a popular newspaper to claim MMA fighter Ronda Rousey ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 2, 2017
An unsubstantiated pop culture rumor holds that Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Ku ...
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