Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 6, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a waterspout produced in North Carolina by Hurricane Hermine is ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 6, 2016
A Norwegian hairdresser is facing legal punishment for discriminating against a hijab-wearing woman.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 6, 2016
Forced perspective made a photograph of a "half-eaten shark" appear more mysterious than it was ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 6, 2016
Jaelin and Brianna Joy White claim they moved to Chicago and left one day later after being rand ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 6, 2016
The late Phyllis Schlafly, an outspoken, anti-feminist conservative, said a great many controver ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 6, 2016
Multiple like-farming Facebook pages have lured users with the false promise of tiny house givea ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 6, 2016
A fake news article reported that President Obama asked Americans not to hold 9/11 victim tribut ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 6, 2016
There is not a grain of truth to a report about an atheist mayor in Louisiana's firing a praying ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 6, 2016
Anti-Islam articles falsely reported that the Empire State Building would be illuminated green o ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 5, 2016
Viral photographs showed meager, unappetizing meals served to flood victims in Louisiana by the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 5, 2016
It might seem unbelievable to some that Donald Trump could have been considered for an award in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 4, 2016
Reports that singer Miley Cyrus’ lifeless body was found by her entourage in a bathtub after she ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2016
A hoax news article reported that a woman was sentenced to seven years in prison for breastfeedi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2016
A tweet purporting to be from a CBS reporter claiming that Hillary Clinton was dropping out of t ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 4, 2016
A video showing a chimp finding numbers on a screen is real, and part of ongoing research at Kyo ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 3, 2016
Authentication is lacking for a verbal exchange that supposedly took place many years ago betwee ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 3, 2016
The faux-spirituality web site Spirit Science posted a spoof story of a Spanish fisherman suppos ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 3, 2016
The Los Angeles Times did not stop publishing a cartoon called "Boombox" by Dixon Diaz because o ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 2, 2016
An altered video twists the words of billionaire Democrat George Soros to create the impression ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 2, 2016
A government effort to control the spread of the Zika virus via aerial insecticide spray killed ...
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