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Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 9, 2018
This figure may be accurate if limited to people Trump has supported via his Twitter account, bu ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 8, 2018
As a community reeled in the aftermath of a mass shooting that left 13 people dead, a baseless, ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 27, 2017
The claim that Theophilus Van Kannel was motivated by a hatred for chivalry stems from no more t ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 1, 2018
Conspiracy theorists claim they've found 'three degrees of separation' between fired FBI agent P ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 20, 2018
An old conspiracy theory about the 1993 suicide of Clinton associate Vincent Foster, whose death ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 25, 2017
Inaudible sonic weapons are an unlikely cause of the mysterious symptoms suffered by American an ...
Written by: David Emery
June 25, 2018
Fake news articles peddling the false claim that the Jackson family patriarch was dead followed ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 31, 2018
The Internet is full of dubious claims regarding a genius Zimbabwean inventor, but nobody has ev ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 17, 2018
A photograph of a toppled statue is real; but the incident took place in Texas, not the Tomb of ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 18, 2018
On human timescales, sediment and rocks flowing into the ocean do not appreciably contribute to ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 14, 2018
Right-wing blogs once again tried to present "red flag" bills as a sign of widespread seizing of ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 7, 2018
Although puncturing one's skin with a nail that has been in contact with the soil is a risk fact ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 18, 2018
Several dubious web sites complained about a "media blackout" surrounding Jason Fitzsimons' deat ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
April 20, 2018
A Republican politician and a right-wing television station grossly misrepresented California le ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 21, 2016
Conspiracy web sites discovered an old recorded phone call between a NASA scientist and a conspi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 9, 2014
Catholic bishops in Kenya asserted that a tetanus vaccine campaign was really a secret effort to ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 13, 2018
A controversial paper from 2014 continues to be shared as evidence that fluoride has "officially ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 13, 2018
A journalist's tweet inflamed discussion about a potential second bout between the boxing and UF ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 31, 2009
"Facebook is a free site and will never require that you pay to continue using the site."
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 9, 2018
A British tabloid published an "exclusive" based around an alleged analysis of a statement alrea ...
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