Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2016
While "Finding Dory" voice star Ellen DeGeneres joked about the movie's featuring a transgender ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 21, 2016
Social media rumors about free tickets from Ticketmaster were largely true, but with some import ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2016
A whale of a picture, impressive at any scale.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 21, 2016
A man claimed to have found a pantry moth in his Little Debbie snack cakes, but he has so far re ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 21, 2016
A purportedly credible source reported that the DEA would be reclassifying marijuana as a Schedu ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 21, 2016
Speaker Paul Ryan did not literally say that he doesn't care if Donald "Trump destroys the Unite ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2016
Democratic presidential candidates have only won the White House in years that an Eastern Confer ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
June 20, 2016
An alarmist article about what the United States is purportedly doing with people showing up at ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a baby moose holding a gay pride flag is a digital creation.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 20, 2016
A popular meme incorrectly states that former U.S. Marine and heroic Pulse bouncer Imran Yousuf ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 20, 2016
An event involving children that occurred in Twin Falls, Idaho, was widely reported in inaccurat ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2016
Reports of the possible spotting of a kraken near Antarctica actually show a very large rock.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 19, 2016
Conspiracy-oriented web sites claimed that the U.S. defense readiness alert level was quietly ra ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
June 19, 2016
Rsearchers didn't discover that octopus DNA is "alien," or that it originated anywhere but on Ea ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 19, 2016
Fake news reports that President Obama banned assault weapons and promised "large scale Homelan ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 18, 2016
A California pastor praised the Orlando nightclub shooting, saying that it's a tragedy more "pre ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 18, 2016
A photograph taken in Syria in 2013 purportedly captured Senator John McCain posing with ISIS le ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 17, 2016
A false flag conspiracy about the Orlando shooting held that Google News carried word of the inc ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 17, 2016
Fake tweets and bad reporting left many NBA fans worried that Golden State Warriors star Steph C ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 17, 2016
A purported Jimmy Carter quote about the election of the United States' first woman president ap ...
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