Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 21, 2016
A fake news site overstated televangelist Kenneth Copeland's anti-Hillary Clinton rant -- but no ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 20, 2016
Talk of a Harvard study linking the popular British children’s show “Peppa Pig” to autism went v ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 20, 2016
A comedy sketch featuring Donald Trump "buying" two children was shared as a real news story fro ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 20, 2016
An indecipherable noise recorded during the third 2016 presidential debate led to claims that so ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 20, 2016
The Daily Caller lied and falsely reported that 16 states would be using voting machines control ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 20, 2016
A viral rumor misattributed commentary about choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump f ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 20, 2016
A report that moderator Chris Wallace received a legal warning from Trump not to mention groping ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 20, 2016
Outgoing President George H.W. Bush left a supportive note that welcomed incoming President Bill ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 20, 2016
President Obama has not passed a law removing a restriction that bars food stamp recipients from ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 20, 2016
During a presidential debate Hillary Clinton mentioned a four-minute response window for launchi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2016
A record number of people were "deported" from the U.S. during President Obama's tenure as presi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 19, 2016
One WikiLeaks e-mail referenced unproven rumors that the Obama campaign had "flooded" the 2008 I ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2016
A software start-up has been accused of framing the WikiLeaks founder, but the CEO says confusio ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 19, 2016
In the wake of a controversy over lewd comments, someone stitched together claims about Donald T ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 19, 2016
Reports that the small Indiana town wants to avoid being associated with the Democratic candidat ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2016
Reports that singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has rejected his Nobel Prize Award for Literature are f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 19, 2016
A satirical item about President Obama's mandating that the loser of the 2016 election leave the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2016
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's offering money to Facebook users who don't share social media hoa ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 18, 2016
We investigate the claim that more U.S. embassy attacks, with more fatalities, occurred under Ge ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 18, 2016
A conservative site falsely claimed President Obama demanded a monument to himself because "ther ...
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