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Written by: Alex Kasprak
July 2, 2018
A common rumor holds that a car bearing a full tank of gas on an exceptionally hot day may explo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 2, 2018
Exactly what would a bag of sugarless sugar hold? And how would it taste?
Written by: Dan Evon
July 2, 2018
A spurious quote supposedly uttered by actor Clint Eastwood about how he was "leaving Hollywood" ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 2, 2018
In response to a hashtag asking Twitter users to describe the United States in three words, a pa ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 2, 2018
A hyperpartisan Facebook page shared an edited image from a real interview by the California con ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 2, 2018
A quote attributed to former president Barack Obama has him vowing to "do something" about Presi ...
Written by: David Emery
July 1, 2018
The anachronistic use of the word "media" is just one reason to be skeptical of a quote often at ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 29, 2018
A satirical article jokingly claimed that the television personality and producer best known as ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 29, 2018
A satirical web site left some readers unsure about a fake article that followed a real controve ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 29, 2018
A right-wing Facebook page published a grossly misleading meme that compared the immigration pol ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 28, 2018
Rumors that the pop song is about vibrators are based solely on one interpretation of the song's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 27, 2018
Hacked Google Reviews and manufactured Yelp pages led some to believe that the Red Hen restauran ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 27, 2018
Matthew Levatich was accused of calling Donald Trump a "moron" after the president objected to t ...
Written by: David Emery
June 26, 2018
According to a Facebook meme, a school of bluegills can completely dismantle a human body in les ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 26, 2018
Hyperpartisan web sites used shoddy image editing to spread inflammatory disinformation.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 26, 2018
A conspiracy theorist web site once again published groundless, scaremongering claims about the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 25, 2018
A story about a six-year-old getting in trouble for his choice in superhero attire came from a s ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 25, 2018
A "satirical" blog used a fake meme to gin up outrage by attempting to link the company to Miche ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 25, 2018
A photograph showing a protest against extreme violence toward women in Argentina was re-caption ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia Bethania Palma
June 22, 2018
The figure would mean undocumented immigrants, who account for roughly 3 percent of the populati ...
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