Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 10, 2016
A proposed change to Title X family planning regulations preventing states from defunding Planne ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
Rumors claimed classes and exams were canceled at Yale due to student distress over Donald Trump ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
Racially-charged reports that Donald Trump said that he wanted to get rid of specific social pro ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
Reports that Canadian film producer Chris Ball was bloodied shortly after the election by suppo ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 10, 2016
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist and public intellectual seemed to predict the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 10, 2016
A hoax news article reported that Hillary Clinton filed for divorce from Bill Clinton just after ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 10, 2016
Chicago police said they are investigating an battery caught on video that stemmed from a traffi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
A story that millennials were pacified by "participation trophies" originated from a "satire" site.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 10, 2016
President-elect Trump has selected Myron Ebell, who disputes the scientific consensus around ant ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
Reports of deadly fake cigarettes in counterfeit packs circulating in Detroit are fake news.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 10, 2016
A since-retracted article on the "Steel Magnificat" blog claimed that Trump scrubbed every menti ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Nov. 9, 2016
Reports that President Obama has overruled Donald Trump's presidential victory and ordered a rev ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 9, 2016
The Indiana governor, now Vice President-elect, signed a bill penalizing anyone who "knowingly ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 9, 2016
Following Donald Trump's surprise electoral landslide, Canada's immigration web site appeared to ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 9, 2016
The Canadian prime minister did not announce that his country had received millions of immigrati ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 9, 2016
Facebook rumors claimed that as many as eight transgender children committed or attempted suicid ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 9, 2016
Viral election night jokes about "Obama phones" immediately getting "cut off" confused social me ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 9, 2016
A too-prescient-to-be-true quote attributed to recently-deceased former U.S. Attorney General Ja ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 9, 2016
Unsubstantiated post-election rumor claimed that supporters chanted "We hate Muslims, we hate Bl ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 9, 2016
A misleading picture circulating on social media claims to depict the KKK marching on a bridge t ...
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