Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 18, 2016
Taxpayers pick up part of the tab when a President makes campaign trips on Air Force One, but wi ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 18, 2016
Donald Trump said in 2015 that he would refuse the $400,000 annual president's salary if elected.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 18, 2016
Infowars says Putin's "chief propagandist" exposed a plan to take out the GOP presidential nomin ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 18, 2016
His Holiness has offered only superficial commentary about Donald Trump and has not denounced th ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2016
Reports that singer Billy Ocean passed away in October 2016 during a visit to South Africa are f ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 18, 2016
A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 18, 2016
A post on Bernie Sanders' Facebook page did not suggest he believes the presidential election is ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2016
Nice work, if you can get it.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 17, 2016
Reports that the famous drag queen said he was groped by Donald Trump at a party in 1995 are fak ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 17, 2016
A urine-powered generator built by a team of high school girls at Maker Faire Africa in 2012 is ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 17, 2016
The real estate mogul's son asserted on a radio show in 2013 that women who can't handle workpla ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 17, 2016
A Twitter user claimed to be a postal worker who regularly destroys mailed-in Trump votes in Ohi ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 17, 2016
The Trump/Pence campaign delivered $29,000 in food and supplies to Hurricane Matthew victims in ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 17, 2016
Social media users claimed Trump supporters attempted to suppress the vote in Pennsylvania by fa ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 17, 2016
A chilling account of a gruesome illness caused by recalled tampons is merely a work of horror f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 17, 2016
The purported cloning of dinosaurs has been a popular online topic in recent years.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2016
Reports of a Danish woman allowed to fertilize her own eggs with the frozen sperm of her decease ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2016
Gruesome reports of a killer clown in Memphis murdering people and stuffing their bodies into a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2016
A "secretly made Israeli intelligence video recording" supposedly showing "former President Bill ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2016
Fabricated conspiracy theory holds that Hillary Clinton underwent secret brain surgery, followed ...
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