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Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 10, 2018
A theoretical NASA paper written in 2015 was misconstrued in 2018 to suggest an urgent need to g ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 10, 2018
Junk news sites published a spurious report saying Swift was photographed with the controversial ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 10, 2018
Buy a fact check scorecard, because you can't always tell celebrities apart by the shirts they wear.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 9, 2018
Social media users express vehement distaste for fake protest signs -- without realizing they're ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 8, 2018
An image of a grocery store aisle sign is often shared with jokes about single and lonely people.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 8, 2018
If this were a new brand of candy, we'd definitely give it a try.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 7, 2018
A warning about a Facebook user's supposedly having received a second friend request from you is ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 5, 2018
A photograph of the moon and a waterfall seemingly align just right to create a "lava moon" melt ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 5, 2018
Simple mathematics, rather than a mysterious once-a-millennium event, explains a popular meme.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 5, 2018
An anti-Muslim group painted themselves as victims of anti-conservatism after the hotel chain an ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 5, 2018
Software engineer and cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee claimed the presidential alert system ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 4, 2018
Disreputable web sites and YouTube channels tried to turn a 2010 story into a current "scandal" ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 3, 2018
Wording displayed on t-shirts is one of the easiest and most common targets for digital image ma ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 3, 2018
A popular Facebook message claiming that 260 members of congress had settled sexual assault char ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 2, 2018
Conspiracy theorists outdid themselves in attempting to create connections between the CIA and B ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 2, 2018
Junk news websites used an unrelated image from 2016 to illustrate a story falsely claiming that ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2018
A 2016 appeal for which Kavanaugh wrote the decision has no bearing on the use of polygraph test ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 1, 2018
The notion that Dr. Ford's stating her job title while under oath constituted a "lie" or "perjur ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 1, 2018
Internet trolls manufactured a fake story in an attempt to discredit Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 1, 2018
Two legends, one photo -- but not necessarily a photograph that showed them in the same place at ...
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