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Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 22, 2018
A United States Air Force pilot is not MIA after shooting a North Korean missile down.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 22, 2018
Despite the claims of tabloid newspapers, Amanda Teague's marriage to her "spiritual husband" do ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 22, 2018
Several viewers were fooled by a well-made "concept trailer" for a nonexistent "Friends" movie i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 22, 2018
Unrelated images of Lady Gaga in a (possibly fake) fur and a baby fox were circulated with messa ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 22, 2018
Of the many causes behind the January 2018 U.S. federal government shutdown, bribes to senators ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 21, 2018
Reports that Malia Obama was arrested after being caught drinking while underage and running nak ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 21, 2018
Reports that the New York senator accepted a campaign donation from pro-immigration groups just ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 21, 2018
A viral fake tweet caused some social media users to question whether the Tide Challenge spelled ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 21, 2018
Clickbait web sites generate traffic by putting controversial political statements into the mout ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 20, 2018
A dog bite attorney's anti-pitbull video will not be airing during Super Bowl LII.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 19, 2018
A Turkish web site published, then deleted, a quickly-debunked story about Facebook's chief exec ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 19, 2018
A viral Facebook post is no more than a hoax that plays off the blood-like appearance of a popul ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 19, 2018
News of the nonexistent warning from the Marine Corps' top brass originated on a satirical blog.
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 19, 2018
Fake news sites reported that the former child star says Hollywood is run by Satanic pedophiles ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 18, 2018
A disreputable web site with a penchant for inventing celebrity quotes said the singer had calle ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 18, 2018
Rumors holding that Melania Trump plagiarized her Martin Luther King Day tweet from former First ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
U.S. Army medics will not be treating battlefield injuries with homeopathic dilutions and prayer ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 18, 2018
A fake tweet-generator was used to create the appearance that Sheila Jackson Lee had authored a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
Reports of a tourist's unfortunate bout of stomach upset on a Spanish roller coaster are fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 18, 2018
Reports that a Chinese engineer contracted an STD after having sexual intercourse with a sex rob ...
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