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Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 22, 2018
Fracking does not take place on Hawaii’s Big Island, but that is far from the only problem with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 22, 2018
A parody account posing as Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands tweeted that the International Co ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 22, 2018
Hyperpartisan social media pages and bots used yet another fake quote in order to attempt to dru ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 21, 2018
A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented the finding of a May 2018 study about the geograp ...
Written by: David Emery
June 19, 2018
Nixon's former Secretary of State once said Trump could go down in history as "a very considerab ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 19, 2018
As public debate over the policy of separating families at the border continued, rumors appeared ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 19, 2018
"Gosh, that cheek looks awfully familiar. Could it be ... Satan?"
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 18, 2018
A prolific producer of fake news publishes yet another false meme about an 'Arnim Zola'.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 18, 2018
A satirical quote attempting to draw a comparison between Melania Trump and Adolf Hitler's mistr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 18, 2018
The Drudge Report used a years-old photograph of children in Syria holding toy guns without cred ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 18, 2018
Viral posts on social media contain claims that immigrant children are receiving numbers like Ho ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 18, 2018
There is no federal law mandating children and parents be separated at the border; a policy resu ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 17, 2018
Strong winds did hit a Chinese city, but the objects they displaced didn't include a whole octopus.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 15, 2018
Despite what a hoax news article says, Happy Meals from McDonald's do not actually guarantee hap ...
Written by: David Emery
June 14, 2018
The claim that a Trump-branded hotel opened in North Korea's capital less than 24 hours after th ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 14, 2018
A quote widely attributed to the Attorney General appeared to stem from a viral video shared by ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2018
Japan's Lake Kawaguchi truly does sit within eyesight of Mount Fuji.
Written by: Dan Evon
June 12, 2018
An odd video purportedly showing the royal couple at an event actually features two "live figure ...
Written by: David Emery
June 11, 2018
Spurious claims linking the celebrity chef's death to Hillary Clinton were published on a web si ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 11, 2018
Neither Pizzagate nor a "child trafficking bunker" in Tucson is real or connected to illegal act ...
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