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Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 28, 2017
The Trump administration did not implement a Department of State policy that was widely rumored ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 25, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a false claim that certain NFL teams issued refunds to a majori ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 28, 2017
Studies suggesting a link between public water fluoridation and reduced intelligence rely on uns ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 27, 2016
Soros was all of 13 years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, his home country, and 14 when Wor ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 13, 2017
In 2017, a website falsely claimed to be showing live footage of a mass crab migration in the af ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 5, 2017
Right-wing web sites tried to link a local health emergency to undocumented immigrants, but with ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 30, 2017
Twitter users tried to pin the blame for Katrina relief issues on Obama, though he wasn't even p ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 22, 2017
Joshua Witt, 26, was arrested for filing a false police report after admitting he accidentally c ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 26, 2017
A dubious web site contradicted its own source on an alleged seizure concerning the lawmaker's f ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 16, 2017
Fake news web sites floated an incoherent story alleging that a white supremacist arrested for v ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 1, 2017
Facebook's artificial intelligence scientists were purportedly dismayed when the bots they creat ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 8, 2006
Does a web site offer a device for performing LASIK eye surgery at home?
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
July 1, 2017
A horrifying tale of racially-motivated violence originated with a fake news site.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 24, 2016
A disreputable web site reported — falsely — that Vladimir Putin gave President Barack Obama 24 ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 5, 2017
Reports of a Supreme Court decision holding that President Trump's travel bans are "well within ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 15, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a "freshwater sturgeon whale" between Lake Huron and Lake Michi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 13, 2017
Reports that the Golden State Warriors voted unanimously to skip a visit to the White House afte ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 8, 2017
A 'prank' web site published a fake story using a real picture of police shooting and killing an ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 6, 2017
An image purportedly showing a screenshot of a Fox News broadcast featuring a parody Twitter acc ...
Written by: Megan Alpert Kim LaCapria
June 2, 2017
After President Donald Trump mistyped (then deleted) a tweet in May 2017, some hurried to ascrib ...
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