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Written by: Bethania Palma
Jan. 10, 2018
A story in an "alternative health site" falsely states mobile phones are causing people to go in ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 10, 2018
A viral video shows the president apparently fumbling for the words as he sings along with the n ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 10, 2018
A more-creative-than-usual junk news piece claimed that Katy Perry, Meryl Streep, and Chelsea Cl ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 10, 2018
Reports that University of Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough's scholarship was revoked over an ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 10, 2018
Reports that New Jersey state senators were arrested in connection with a child prostitution rin ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 10, 2018
Although an Atlanta Starbucks briefly closed after complaints of contamination, these rumors ste ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 9, 2018
The problem here is that our legal system doesn't really provide for the prosecution of fictiona ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 9, 2018
A satire site published doctored images that appeared to show former presidents Obama, Bush, and ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 9, 2018
Dubious YouTube videos aside, there is nothing unique about Aquafina bottled water that prevents ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 9, 2018
Reports that the former president's foundation is being investigated for racketeering are fake news.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 8, 2018
A dubious web site overstated the danger posed by the small blaze in New York City in order to p ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 8, 2018
Unreliable partisan web sites reposted a work of satire reporting that an FBI investigation into ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
This isn't a real UFO and a real alien, wherever in the world this clip wasn't actually filmed.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
A fake news article claimed that the world suicide rate plummeted after Logan Paul's "Suicide Fo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 8, 2018
The story is no more than a satirical but inflammatory fabrication.
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 8, 2018
A doctored image purportedly shows the North Korean leader reading a book that portrays U.S. Pre ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that the former First Lady was arrested after acting “unpredictably violent” during a do ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a federal judge overturned a Syrian immigrant's conviction and made aspects of Shar ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a Waffle House waitress told church choir members she “was forbidden by her holy bo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 5, 2018
Reports that President Trump's political rival would narrate a tell-all book about his presidenc ...
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