Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 23, 2016
A fake NSA "toilet cameras" notice directed complaints to the customer service line for Pizza Hut.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 23, 2016
President Obama signed legislation pertaining to the use of dated terminology ("negro" and "orie ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 23, 2016
An old photoshoot features then-model Melania Trump posing provocatively for GQ magazine.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 23, 2016
An image showing the inside of a leatherback turtle's mouth is gruesome and terrifying ... but i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 23, 2016
An animated image purportedly showing a road rage incident was actually taken from an episode of ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 23, 2016
A false rumor reported that 'A-Team' actor Mr. T passed away in May 2016.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 23, 2016
A grainy photograph doesn't show Barbara Boxer giving Bernie Sanders supporters the finger, and ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 23, 2016
A fake news article reported that the heavy metal band Lamb of God was given an “excellence in f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 22, 2016
We were unable to locate any evidence that Benjamin Franklin ever said it was the first responsi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 21, 2016
Donald Trump did not write that if "you tell people a lie three times, they will believe anything."
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 20, 2016
An unreliable web site claimed that President Obama declared Islam is the U.S.'s "official relig ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 20, 2016
A social media rumor about forced cross-dressing at Sunny Oaks Elementary School appears to have ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
May 20, 2016
A treasure trove of documents released by the FBI includes hundreds of unsubstantiated reports c ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 20, 2016
Target did sue Michael Turner, a man who saved a girl from being stabbed in one of their stores, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 20, 2016
It was an official-sounding but fringe group of politically motivated pediatricians who issued a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 20, 2016
An article about recovered e-mails belonging to Hillary Clinton revealing plans for a government ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 20, 2016
Even the best of us see our efforts rejected for not being good enough sometimes, this wants to say.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 19, 2016
A Las Vegas reporter's second-hand claim Bernie Sanders supporters threw chairs at a Nevada conv ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 19, 2016
The events that follow the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described as the Great Tribulation.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 19, 2016
Rep. Trey Gowdy conceded a point of dispute in the Benghazi controversy, but it was misleading t ...
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