Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
June 29, 2016
A viral story in Spanish-language media about a family naming their daughter "Breksit," after th ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 29, 2016
President Obama hasn't altered the White House logo to replace the Stars and Stripes with a whit ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 29, 2016
A long-circulating photograph of a haggard-looking Hillary Clinton is an altered version of the ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 29, 2016
A one-second segment of an October 2015 video tweeted by Hillary Clinton was screencapped to sug ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 28, 2016
A fake news article reported that a woman allowed her boyfriend to etch a full-chest tattoo on h ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 28, 2016
Texas did not declare that all children whose families believe the Rapture is imminent are exemp ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 28, 2016
A woman's claim that three Muslim men menacingly approached her family at Kiroli Park in West Mo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 28, 2016
A fake news article reported that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had promised to ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 28, 2016
A hoax Twitter account propagated a false rumor that acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy had died o ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2016
A compendium of misrepresentations led to a Facebook rumor claiming a long-dead doctor had recen ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 27, 2016
Advertisements that mimic magazine articles falsely report that Ellen DeGeneres is leaving her t ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2016
It's true, a mental health care facility in North Carolina is incorporated under the name "Nutz ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2016
A baseless Facebook rumor held that President Obama was giving food stamp recipients an extra $1 ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2016
UN vehicles and trucks spotted in the U.S. weren't purchased to address imminent economic collap ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2016
Former U.N. Diplomat John Ashe did die in a June 2016 accident, but his trial was not set to beg ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
June 26, 2016
A shocking, internationally-flavored story came straight from a site that peddles hoaxes and con ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 26, 2016
A fake news article reported that all 4th of July fireworks shows in the U.S. have been cancelle ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 25, 2016
A misleading and fear-mongering video purportedly showing 'radical' Muslims rallying around an i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 24, 2016
An image showing a "British Refugees Welcome" sign on the Palacio Cibeles in Spain was digitally ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 24, 2016
An article reporting that a child killed his parents because they wouldn't let him access the In ...
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