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Written by: David Emery
March 19, 2018
A Facebook video alleging that pinholes were found in bottled water caps morphed into rumors tha ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
May 3, 2017
This claim, inelegantly formulated on an alternative health website, is remarkable for both its ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 12, 2018
Storm Durham's claim that she was fired over possessing a concealed carry permit is not supporte ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 7, 2018
Dubious right-wing blogs misrepresented an encounter prompted by Washington state's "red flag" law.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 6, 2018
Some fringe blogs in North America picked up a claim about the Guarani Aquifer that has already ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 2, 2018
A fake tweet was spread in an attempt to smear the reputation of David Hogg, who survived a mass ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 1, 2018
Unreliable web sites misrepresented the substance of the American Civil Liberties Union's critic ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 22, 2017
Breitbart pushed an extremely flawed study as evidence of a widespread conspiracy to inflate sea ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 22, 2018
The network denied Colton Haab's allegation that it asked him to write a speech for a town hall ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 16, 2018
Online trolls tried to push claims of violence, but they were quickly foiled by others on social ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Feb. 17, 2018
A meme about Snopes.com has been debunked by the very source it cites.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 14, 2018
Tamiflu is not responsible for the high number of flu season deaths, even if its potential rare ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 14, 2018
In the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting on Valentine's Day, social media users began specu ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 14, 2018
This claim is based on the incorrect interpretation of single quote from one nurse in Wisconsin ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 13, 2018
Far-right pundits went off the deep end after African-American artist Kehinde Wiley's portrait o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 14, 2012
A video supposedly documenting that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were a staged ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 13, 2018
Social media users from Nigeria to New York City accused an unidentified man of being a taxi dri ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 6, 2018
Rep. Adam Schiff, who authored a rebuttal to Devin Nunes's memo about the Trump-Russia investiga ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 2, 2018
Rumors that there is a security wall outside the representative's Palm Beach House are inaccurat ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 22, 2018
A factually dubious story about wetland degradation published the opinions of an alligator chef ...
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