Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Emery Winter
July 9, 2025
Sagan, a scientist and educator known for championing rationalism, died in 1996.
Written by: Cindy Shan
July 8, 2025 (Updated: July 11, 2025)
Social media users sharing the claim asked questions about Minnesota's hiring procedures for sta ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 8, 2025
Users shared the rumor about former U.S. President Barack Obama, apparently without realizing th ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
July 8, 2025 (Updated: July 31, 2025)
The pediatrician allegedly wrote "Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. ...
Written by: Megan Loe
July 8, 2025
Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corpora ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 8, 2025
The video shows around two or three dozen young girls sitting in the back of a high-water milita ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 8, 2025
Massive flooding blamed on heavy rains began in Central Texas on July 4, 2025, and continued for ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
July 8, 2025
Air India said it was providing "comprehensive financial assistance" to families of victims of t ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 8, 2025
Online users shared this rumor about the British royal family in June and July 2025.
Written by: Taija PerryCook
July 7, 2025
The alleged post railed against Namibia's relations with Russia as enabling "attempts to destabi ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
July 7, 2025
An X user attempted to make a point about Noem's "own modern Auschwitz" as the department of hom ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 7, 2025
Users claimed the Oscar-winning actor filed a lawsuit after U.S. Vice President JD Vance mocked ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 7, 2025
Users shared the alleged quote from Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
July 7, 2025
The Republican representative previously suggested that Democrats can "control the weather."
Written by: Laerke Christensen
July 7, 2025 (Updated: July 8, 2025)
The claim circulated as rescuers searched for people missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 7, 2025
Online users shared the rumor about the Texas congresswoman following devastating flash floods o ...
Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 7, 2025
Cobb, who worked as a White House lawyer during the first Trump administration, made the stateme ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 7, 2025
An online video reported, "What started at the borders may now be happening inside the country."
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
July 7, 2025
AI-generated images helped spread a false claim that the English broadcaster and Scottish singer ...
Written by: Joey Esposito
July 7, 2025
The advice column in question ran in newspapers across the country on Dec. 27, 2001.
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