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Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 19, 2018
An image purportedly showing a large shark on a Kitty Hawk beach is a composite of at least two ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 19, 2018
A parody account tricked Twitter users with a darkly comic video about a fictional mix-up.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 19, 2018
Despite the clickbait caption, the video comes from East Texas, not Kensington Palace.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 19, 2018
A student did get shot while locking a door during a school shooting -- but his name is not Chri ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 16, 2018
A prank Facebook post, and old reports about a drug overdose, fueled unfounded rumors about the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 16, 2018
Rumors holding that the show 'The Simpsons' predicted that there would be a mass shooting at a s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 16, 2018
Rumors that Nikolas Cruz was a registered Democrat were based on the voter registration of a dif ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 15, 2018
A fake image suggested that Buzzfeed had published a story headlined "Why We Need To Take Away W ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
Despite conspiracy theorist speculation, no evidence supports a link between Nikolas Cruz and Is ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
Junk news websites gave a blatantly manufactured account of a statement by Archbishop Denis Hart.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 15, 2018
In the wake of a school shooting that left 17 people dead in Florida, trolls attempted to stir u ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 13, 2018
Anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller posted an obvious fake and claimed it was an example of "migra ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 13, 2018
An account posing as an ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who resigned a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 13, 2018
Shortly after a Trump senior aide resigned amid domestic abuse allegations, a false rumor was sp ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 12, 2018
Conspiracy theorists falsely linked a deadly Moscow plane crash to Uranium One, a debunked Hilla ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 12, 2018
A graphic disseminated dismissive (and entirely fabricated) statements from the New Jersey Democrat.
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 12, 2018
Websites attempted to paint the congresswoman as a hypocrite after she came out in support of DA ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 12, 2018
A anti-Islam, anti-refugee video widely shared on Facebook was blatant fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 12, 2018
A scurrilous fake news site took a controversial court case and added a fabricated element to it ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 12, 2018
An image was digitally created after a construction tycoon was arrested for hunting in a protect ...
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