Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 20, 2016
A fake news article reported that Jennifer Aniston made a curse-filled remark on the 'Today Show ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 20, 2016
A photograph showing a group of young men in Ghana is frequently shared with misinformation abou ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 20, 2016
A viral video of a spider breaking out of a banana skin is an animation created by a talented CG ...
Written by: Stephanie Larsen
Sept. 20, 2016
Carnauba wax is used to add an attractive sheen to everything from cars to candy -- including fr ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 20, 2016
Viral images show streets running red with bloody water in parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, after hea ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 20, 2016
A viral image purportedly depicts a deep-fried rat head served to a customer at a Harlem-area Po ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 20, 2016
A misleading article reported that Dolly Parton "trashed" Hillary Clinton by calling her "crazy, ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 19, 2016
A 10-second clip from a 2014 speech by Hillary Clinton has been misrepresented as an instance of ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
The patient reportedly inserted the unfortunate creature to simulate the feeling of being pregnant.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
Fake news reported a WikiLeaks' DNC e-mail dump captured Democratic staffers referring to voter ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 19, 2016
An organization claiming to have invented a vaccine against diabetes that also reverses the effe ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 19, 2016
A disreputable web site started a false rumor holding that President Obama was raising the Socia ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
A conspiracy site republished a satirical claim that NASA admitted alien contact but failed to d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
A game of conspiracy telephone resulted in the false claim that Hillary Clinton was seriously in ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 18, 2016
An image reporting that all living ex-presidents have warned Americans to not vote for Donald Tr ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 18, 2016
Misleading ads touting a "new law" that provides consumers with a "cash rebate on every single p ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 18, 2016
A report that Republican VP candidate Mike Pence doesn't want to be referred to as the vice pres ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Sept. 17, 2016
Popular comedian Jeff Foxworthy was not "attacked by liberals," nor did he "publicly slam Hillar ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 16, 2016
We investigate Donald Trump's claim that the conspiracy theory about Barack Obama not being born ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 16, 2016
One of the stranger claims about the Democratic candidate for president is that she was "elimina ...
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