Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2016
A video clip purportedly shows presidential candidate Hillary Clinton undergoing a seizure on ca ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2016
Rumors about a mass ammunition shortage supposedly caused by a forced closure of the Doe Run Lea ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 23, 2016
A fake news article reported that France has announced they are bringing back the guillotine for ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2016
A Facebook page that promises to give away luxury RVs to users who like and share it is a scam.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2016
A video purporting to show a UFO over Turkey actually shows a rocket launch in Florida.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 22, 2016
Waverly Labs claims their 'Pilot' earpiece can translate conversations in real-time, but there's ...
Written by: David Emery
July 22, 2016
The famed film director supposedly wrote a profanity-laced letter to MGM executive James Aubrey ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 22, 2016
The claim that Donald Trump plagiarized his RNC speech from Hitler's 1933 inaugural address orig ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 22, 2016
A man was tragically killed in a wrong way crash near Knoxville, but police say there's no indic ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 21, 2016
Award-winning photograph captures a protester right up against an NYPD officer, but whether she ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
July 21, 2016
A story about CIA involvement in Turkey's July 2016 military coup attempt was light on documenta ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 21, 2016
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that Donald Trump 'would destroy much of what is great about Amer ...
Written by: David Emery
July 21, 2016
Viral rumors of 'Islamic symbolism' added to the White House fence during a 2015 security upgrad ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 21, 2016
Massachusetts didn't announce a new law banning the sale of semi-automatic rifles, but rather en ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 21, 2016
The details of a shelter's Pokemon Go dogwalking program were exaggerated for a heartstring-tugg ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 21, 2016
When Donald Trump campaign ghostwriter Meredith McIver emerged to take the fall for Melania Trum ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 21, 2016
A photograph showing Melania Trump wearing the 'pirate shirt' featured in a memorable episode of ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 21, 2016
Amidst Republican Convention chatter on social media, an item from 'The Onion' claiming Donald T ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2016
An image comparing the diversity (or lack thereof) of Republican and Democratic interns is somew ...
Written by: David Emery
July 20, 2016
Saul Alinsky made a literary allusion to Lucifer as 'the first radical known to man' in an epigr ...
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