Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2016
Trump Hotels announced in September 2016 that their new hotels would be named "Scion," but the n ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a recreation of the Statue of Liberty made from the rubble of w ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: Drivers in China commonly intentionally kill pedestrians in hit-and-run accidents to mini ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
FACT CHECK: Was Brandon High School ordered to remove the hymn 'How Great Thou Art' from their m ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
FACT CHECK: Did Chipotle create a 'Never Forget 9/11' ad campaign featuring burritos in the plac ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: 'Saturday Night Live' aired a 'Conspiracy Theory Rock!' segment once in 1998, after which ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: A Facebook page was suspended because the Marine Corps emblem violates the network's comm ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $992.2 million to Planned Parenthood.
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 23, 2016
The claim that Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide despite trailing well be ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2016
Hillary Clinton's supposed statement to the Des Moines Register about her planning to shut down ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 22, 2016
A story that Donald Trump personally sent out an airplane to transport hundreds of stranded U.S. ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2016
An unfounded rumor held that Hillary Clinton threw a tantrum, and a water glass, after NBC's "Co ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 22, 2016
A first-person account of a voting pen glitch allocating Clinton votes to Trump went viral but s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 21, 2016
An image of reporter Maria Bartiromo holding a phone decorated with a "Trump/Pence" sticker at t ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 21, 2016
A photograph of a ribbon seal spotted in Washington state was snapped by the National Oceanic an ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Oct. 21, 2016
An image of an Oregon ballot listing Democratic presidential candidates twice but no Republican ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 21, 2016
We found no evidence the Russian president issued a statement accusing Western countries of usin ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 21, 2016
Online images tout the sparsely researched claim that a woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 21, 2016
A fake news item reported that ISIS' second-in-command had urged Muslim-Americans to vote for Hi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 21, 2016
Neither Pope Francis nor any other pope decreed that Catholics cannot vote for Democratic presid ...
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