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Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 20, 2017
Reports that authorities in Mexico confiscated a massive shipment of cocaine headed towards a U. ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 20, 2017
The Secretary of the Interior is not the man in a widely-circulated photograph.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 20, 2017
A particularly brazen attempt at "clickbait" scraped together two unrelated stories under a rand ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 17, 2017
“We are absolutely not saying that marijuana killed that child,” the co-author of a recently mis ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 17, 2017
Most of us who ride the subway have shared this experience at one time or another.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 17, 2017
A fake quote ostensibly uttered by the photographer who took the infamous image of Senator Al Fr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 16, 2017
Out-of-control fires and tires are dangerous enough individually, never mind in combination.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 15, 2017
Hyperpartisan web sites persist in recycling false reports about California legislators' exempti ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 15, 2017
An image circulating on Facebook purporting to depict the Texas church shooter in Bernie Sanders ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 15, 2017
A video showing a religious procession in Bradford, England, was misrepresented as a protest by ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 14, 2017
Was a nineteenth-century Englishman named Edward Mordake (or Mordrake) born with a malevolent "s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 14, 2017
A video purportedly showing a marijuana grower hiding from police is not genuine footage.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 13, 2017
A conspiratorial web site shared a story based solely on unsourced tweets claiming the venerable ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2017
A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international news ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 13, 2017
A rumor holding that actor Harry Shearer had announced his departure from "The Simpsons" in Nove ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 13, 2017
Reports that the famous theoretical physicist had been accused of sexual impropriety originated ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 12, 2017
A lurid report about an aquatic animal encounter gone wrong was fake news.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 9, 2017
A "news" article reported that an elderly woman had succeeded in herding cats.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 9, 2017
A "satirical" web site regurgitated Islamophobic stereotypes in a post following Bhalla's Novemb ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 9, 2017
Rumors that Trump implied a legislator from the Philippines was a drug smuggler originated with ...
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