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Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 24, 2017
Claims that members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are using ticks for the wides ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 23, 2017
A questionable "satire" site fabricated a Fox News report about the progressive filmmaker's hara ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 23, 2017
A conservative web site offers an incomplete, misleading and false summary of Wilson's legislati ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 23, 2017
Social media posts falsely stated that the 5-year-old Nigerian abduction victim -- who has since ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2017
"Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old 'Ms. Ruth' sews hoods and rob ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 21, 2017
Reports that the embattled film producer turned over "names of elite pedophiles" in Hollywood an ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 20, 2017
Disreputable web sites regurgitated a "satirical" story about J.T. Brown's silent protest agains ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 20, 2017
A series of articles fervently blamed immigrants and Muslims for devastating California fires -- ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 20, 2017
Images purportedly depicting a creepy chimera-like creature actually show a silicone doll.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 20, 2017
No, the Department of Homeland Security hasn't advised that a Halloween curfew be implemented ov ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 19, 2017
A satirical web site published fake news reporting that Jesus Campos worked in the non-profit's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2017
Italian lawmaker Maria Elena Boschi was targeted for ridicule in a doctored image.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2017
An unfounded online rumor that a Melania-lookalike appeared at an event in the first lady's stea ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2017
A popular social media image purportedly depicts President Trump getting a spray tan in the Oval ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 17, 2017
The explanatory last line of a Halloween joke about a real-life Freddy Krueger was removed in su ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 16, 2017
Police told us that despite widespread rumors and speculation, Jesus Campos is not missing.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 16, 2017
A disreputable web site published an illogical and inaccurate conspiracy theory about a valet wo ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 16, 2017
While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 16, 2017
An image purportedly showing a woman who was pierced by a urine icicle originated on a 1990s-era ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Emery
Oct. 14, 2017
Anecdotal reports say the expression "a shot of whiskey" came into being when cowboys traded bul ...
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