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Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 8, 2018
A Twitter account posing as the E! cable network fabricated "forgiveness" statements by both Swi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 13, 2017
A photograph of President Trump signing an executive order was doctored to include a fake message.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 2, 2018
Clickbait headlines suggesting a future without chocolate were based on a distorted reading of e ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 11, 2017
A web site passed off a video shot in Canada in 2011 as "live footage" of a storm that lashed Fl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 19, 2017
Hoboken mayor-elect Ravi Bhalla is Sikh, not Muslim, and he didn't ban the word "Christmas."
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 13, 2017
Native American activists published several elaborate fake web sites as a "satirical action" aga ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 7, 2017
While people naturally want to help animals, experts advise that "it's just better not to have a ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 17, 2017
Despite rumors, there was no "stand-down" order issued to police overseeing a white supremacist ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 29, 2017
A video of a teenager beating up a person on crutches was shared by President Donald Trump along ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
March 15, 2017
Rumors that various restaurants around the world were shuttered for serving "the most dangerous ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 7, 2017
The likelihood of such a scenario is scientifically dubious and the law enforcement agency that ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 6, 2017
A short-lived fake story about the giant tech company illustrated the dangers of sharing posts b ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 10, 2017
Despite what random people might say in homemade YouTube videos, they offer no proof that any an ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 21, 2017
An alleged Facebook post from the widow about a controversial condolence call was "published" at ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 17, 2017
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Called U.S. President Donald Trump's claim "fake news."
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 18, 2015
An urban legend about the "Game of 72" became the "48-hour challenge," this time holding that te ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 24, 2016
Allegations of a "quid pro quo" deal giving Russia ownership of one-fifth of U.S. uranium deposi ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 18, 2017
Web sites misstate what would happen under a bill that was signed into law on 6 October 2017.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 7, 2017
Dubious and fake news web sites reported, without a shred of evidence, that the security guard h ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia Dan MacGuill
Oct. 2, 2017
Reports that truck drivers are on strike in Puerto Rico are false -- Teamsters have asked mainla ...
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