Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 20, 2016
Another rumor about human traffickers has been spread on Facebook, this one involving lures of f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2016
An audio clip of Donald Trump calling Abraham Lincoln a dishonest traitor is a fabricated compil ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 20, 2016
A satirical blog post suggesting President Obama planned to ban trucks following the terror atta ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2016
Police do not believe that the restaurant intentionally tried to harm him.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 20, 2016
A satirical article reported that President Obama had signed an executive order mandating that ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
July 19, 2016
Donald Trump's son said that the family's greenskeeper missed his own sister's wedding in order ...
Written by: David Emery
July 19, 2016
After Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech, a claim circul ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2016
Several media outlets have called into question Melania Trump's claim that she graduated with a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2016
A quote from Eric Trump defending the originality of Melania Trump's Republican National Convent ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2016
The widely popular game Pokemon Go is not being used by Japan's military to plan future bombing ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 19, 2016
After Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech at the 2016 RNC ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 19, 2016
A fabricated article claimed an "illegal alien" employed at McDonald's was fired for telling cop ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2016
Donald Trump and two of his children are witnesses, not defendants, in a tax evasion lawsuit.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 19, 2016
A clearly doctored image does not depict a woman standing on an American flag while waving a "Hi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2016
Melania Trump did not suggest her husband could "make peace with the blacks" by increasing their ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 19, 2016
Donald Trump's tweet congratulating his wife Melania on her speech at the Republican Convention ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 18, 2016
An online article misleadingly suggested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had warned Ame ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 18, 2016
Scott Baio asserted during a July 2016 MSNBC appearance that President Obama once said if [Repub ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 18, 2016
Just as Pokemon Go's popularity spread like wildfire on social media, so too did a rumor the app ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 18, 2016
A fan-made poster quickly crossed from Instagram to Facebook and led fans to believe Pixar was r ...
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