Fact Checks
Rumors and questionable claims we have researched recently.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2016
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia didn't quite say that factual innocence of the accused was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 12, 2016
An absurd claim about a Joe Biden statement features a distorted version of his actual words.
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Feb. 12, 2016
Setting your iPhone's date to 1 January 1970 won't bring up a cool new theme; it'll just potenti ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 12, 2016
An intendedly humorous meme claims that the use of solar panels drains the sun of energy.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 12, 2016
No, a Smithsonian employee wasn't arrested for "raping" a 2,500 year old mummy.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
The story of a girl becoming pregnant in a shared swimming pool is an old urban legend, but this ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 11, 2016
A single-source statement from an Iranian leader suggested unnamed Republicans had attempted to ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
Two Harford County Sheriff's deputies succumbed to their injuries after shootings at an Abingdon ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
Despite claims that Coca-Cola is an effective solution for eliminating head lice, the evidence t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
A meme on Facebook claimed that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk came into the U.S. without documentat ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 11, 2016
Chuck E. Cheese basements hold nothing but old pizza boxes, really.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 11, 2016
If opening locked cars were this easy, no vehicle would be secure.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
A spoof news article reported that the thrash metal group Megadeth was set to play at a Bernie S ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 11, 2016
A Vermont parlor provided free tattoos to Bernie Sanders supporters, but those tattoos did not i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 10, 2016
A video showing the creative shaming of a motorist who illegally parked in a handicapped spot wa ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 10, 2016
The pilot of long-missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is also still missing, not a patient in a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 10, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pays his campaign interns, but most (if not all ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 10, 2016
A February 2016 press release led many racing enthusiasts to believe the EPA had banned road car ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 10, 2016
A false claim from 2014 about a Texas man forced to take down his American flag because it threa ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 10, 2016
A social media post claimed Levi's jeans' "two horse" logo was a racist symbol representing a sl ...
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