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Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 11, 2020
Take a deep breath and consult the CDC or WHO's latest guidance before following any coronavirus ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 26, 2020
The former vice president has repeatedly claimed to have been arrested while attempting to visit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 21, 2020
A popular meme appears to have conflated two different tax proposals from the 2020 Democratic pr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 21, 2020
After receiving financial support from a wide range of celebrities, a bullied boy with dwarfism ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 19, 2015
Reports that the SS Cotopaxi was discovered by the Cuban Coast Guard decades after it vanished i ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 29, 2008
One common form of satire is to lampoon a particular position on a modern political or social is ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 16, 2019
This concept art could earn "Lilo & Stitch" a not-so-Disney G-rating.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 7, 2017
Actor Kirk Douglas passed away in February 2020, not in December 2017 when an old death hoax cir ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 17, 2020
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 4, 2015
An image appearing to show the profile view of two human faces on a cow's face has its origins a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 17, 2009
Accepting a Facebook friend request from a stranger will not provide hackers with access to your ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 10, 2019
The former congressman from South Carolina was said to have been tapped to join a team of lawyer ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 3, 2018
Prominent conservative commentators boosted a false, mathematically impossible rumor about the p ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 7, 2014
Reports of the death of actor Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson are not real nor new.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 31, 2019
Viral social media posts claimed members of the Trump family had been barred from running charit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 18, 2016
The death of Monica Petersen, an assistant director at the Human Trafficking Center, sparked con ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 21, 2016
The claim that Girl Scout Cookie sales fund Planned Parenthood became popular in mid-2015 and e ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 25, 2019
The "crisis actor" conspiracy theory reared its ugly head again in September 2019 regarding a te ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 13, 2018
The theory that a 5G network test caused the unexplained death of birds in The Hague relies on s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 29, 2018
An image purportedly showing a huge, ominous storm approaching a Florida beach town is actually ...
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