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Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 27, 2017
A fake news site appeared to report that WikiLeaks released a cache of so-called "Deep State Fil ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 27, 2017
A misleading headline suggested that the president used first responders' salaries to justify in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 26, 2017
Reports that the Hungarian-American billionaire experienced a life-threatening cardiac condition ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 26, 2017
A social media image highlighting a supposedly "amazing" aspect to the 2018 calendar is neither ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 2017
Reports that an arrested Nebraska man confessed to murdering more than 30 sex offenders in a 15- ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 2017
Reports that Democrat Doug Jones received votes from over 12,000 dead people in a special Senate ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 2017
Reports that the comedian was taken into custody by federal authorities over a controversial pol ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 23, 2017
Reports that poll workers in Birmingham were arrested for voter fraud in connection with the spe ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 22, 2017
Reports that a Muslim man deliberately caused the crash of an Amtrak train in Washington by sabo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 21, 2017
Check your wheel wells for critters -- but you don't need to check your car hood for cows.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 21, 2017
A story claiming that a man had scammed people by selling "Bitcoins" was just fake news from a r ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 19, 2017
There are no plans to put UN Peacekeeper boots on the ground in Chicago.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 19, 2017
Images purportedly showing a real mermaid are based on an animatronic sculpture.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 18, 2017
"A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toil ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 18, 2017
Rumors that the former adult actress confronted the Federal Communications Commission chairman o ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 17, 2017
Reports that poll workers had been detained in connection with voter fraud during Alabama's Dece ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 15, 2017
A satirical sports site vastly overstated the University of Alabama football coach's "performanc ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 15, 2017
A popular Facebook rumor contends that Alabama's December 2017 election showed major voting irre ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 14, 2017
Although many women accused then-candidate Trump of sexual assault during the 2016 election, tha ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 14, 2017
Sensational claims of President Donald Trump receiving a bomb via Amazon drone have their origin ...
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