Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 12, 2016
Magazine tips advised readers to burn batteries in the fireplace in order to prevent soot format ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 12, 2016
After a series of news stories about politically motivated e-mail hacks emerged in 2016, an old ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 12, 2016
A tweet purportedly issued by Donald Trump making disparaging comments about Utah is a fake.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 12, 2016
A fake news article played on a hoax involving Hillary Clinton's "leaked" medical records to cra ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 12, 2016
Fake news articles reported that 106 people were killed at an ISIS-related California music fest ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 12, 2016
A fake news site leveraged recent tragedies to promulgate a falsehood about a DNC staffer killed ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A misleadingly titled article asserted that the U.S. had approved plans to mix animal and human DNA.
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 11, 2016
Circulating images purport to compare the effects of urban decay in Detroit with the destruction ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2016
On 8 August 2016, fifty Republicans who formerly held positions in national security signed an o ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2016
Satire positing that Donald Trump claimed the news media are biased for accurately reporting his ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A mobile phone video purportedly showing a plane crash-landing on a beach is actually a commerci ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2016
No, that phallic silo is not the official logo of the 2016 Iowa State Fair.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A scammy web site has perpetrated a false rumor that Actress Angelina Jolie committed suicide.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2016
Pundit Bob Beckel called for the assassination of Julian Assange in 2010, but not as a Hillary C ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A spurious rumor holds that the Twitter social media platform will be shutting down in 2017 due ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
A Snapple "fun fact" and commercial created the misleading impression that bees are born fully g ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2016
An image showing a Twitter conversation between Hillary Clinton and Gary Sinise about guns is fake.
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 10, 2016
A viral video showing a statue of Jesus Christ in a Mexican church 'miraculously' opening and cl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 10, 2016
"When I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with a president," Reagan re ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 10, 2016
A photograph showing a blurred-out woman's volleyball player did not originate from an Iranian n ...
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