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Written by: Bethania Palma
June 26, 2020
The claim appears to have originated with a state representative who does not live in Minneapolis.
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 25, 2020
Can you smell the copypasta rumors?
Written by: Dan Evon
June 24, 2020
A meme attempted to show Facebook's bias when it comes to blocking racist content on its platform.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 24, 2020
A person by that name definitely posted the message.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 23, 2020
The New York representative did not advocate that governors keep businesses shut down to blunt T ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 22, 2020
“Things were so bad that the Secret Service recommended the president go down to the bunker,” AG ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 22, 2020
TikTok users and K-pop music fans claimed to have registered hundreds of thousands of tickets fo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 18, 2020
The 2020 NFL season will certainly be unique in some ways.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
June 17, 2020
The American dictionary announced it would revise its entry on racism in June 2020 after receivi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 17, 2020
The former U.S. secretary of state's lawyers were in court in June 2020 for a hearing about a pu ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 17, 2020
In June 2020, NASCAR announced that it was banning the display of the Confederate flag, promptin ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 16, 2020
Falsely accusing CNN of altering the racial identity of crime suspects in news photographs has b ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 16, 2020
This incendiary rumor was supported by little more than unfounded claims and unrelated videos.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 15, 2020
A controversial Facebook post about an Oklahoma Walmart store and Black Lives Matter was quickly ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 15, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to 1,107 cadets at West Point's 2020 graduation ceremonies.
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 14, 2020
Adolf Hitler posed as a champion of law and order, claiming he would uphold traditional German v ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2020
A supposed embarrassing accident led to some online mockery of the former soccer player.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 11, 2020
Even in a movie involving time travel, calling this a "prediction" takes more than a small stret ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 11, 2020
Tongue-in-cheek social media posts led to rumors about the popular Nickelodeon show.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 11, 2020
“We are ANTIFA, and we're willing to pay up to 1,000 people $25 per hour for protester,” one ad ...
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