Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 13, 2016
An audio recording purportedly capturing Democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine yelling at his daught ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 13, 2016
Green Party candidate Jill Stein did not endorse Donald Trump, and she expressed wariness of eit ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 13, 2016
A report that police shot a white coal miner in Kentucky after mistaking him for a black man is ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 12, 2016
In an e-mail published by WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton said she dreamed of a "hemispheric common m ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 12, 2016
A report that widespread voter fraud was carried out by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 20 ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 12, 2016
A conservative web site used a photograph from a 2013 jazz festival claiming it pictured the au ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 12, 2016
A speculative game of telephone led to the false assertion WikiLeaks had published forged anti-C ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 12, 2016
There's no hard evidence that President Obama was captured sporting an erection in front of fema ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 12, 2016
A political golf joke involving Arnold Palmer and Hillary Clinton was mistaken for real news by ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 12, 2016
A fake news site spread an offensive story about a plane forced to make an emergency landing due ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 11, 2016
Fake news reports WNBC received leaked documents proving Donald Trump paid $40 million in federa ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2016
A parody page, not former Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann, said Christopher Columbus w ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 11, 2016
Viral news stories claimed that "new research" proved your intelligence is inherited only from y ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2016
The term "sand n*****" does appear in e-mail sent by Hillary Clinton and published by Wikileaks, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 11, 2016
Rumor holds that Donald Trump disparaged his wife Ivana's breast implants to the media during th ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 11, 2016
Former National Endowment for the Arts chairman Bill Ivey says a leaked e-mail to Clinton deputy ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 11, 2016
The First Lady gave a 2014 speech in Topeka commemorating Brown v. Board of Education but did no ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 11, 2016
An e-mail chain revealed by WikiLeaks purportedly documents that Hillary Clinton privately maint ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2016
A satirical item published by The New Yorker reported that Russian president Vladimir Putin had ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 10, 2016
A fake news story reported that Elizabeth II would be retiring and passing the crown to her gran ...
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