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Written by: Dan Evon Alex Kasprak
Oct. 14, 2017
The Mississippi River is not "going dry" as it drains into a fault line, despite claims made in ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 13, 2017
A disreputable web site distorted real concerns over children who have gone missing from the sta ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 13, 2017
In the spirit of bipartisanship and good foreign relations, there's always room for two Thanksgi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 13, 2017
Reports that the Mandalay Bay security guard wounded in the Las Vegas mass shooting has been arr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 12, 2017
Research documenting chemical changes in the Yellowstone magma chamber prior to a past eruption ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 12, 2017
A woman posted an image of a petition that she says an anonymous individual gave her at the hote ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 11, 2017
News reports were based on false claims made by a CBS reporter, who has since resiled from them.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2017
A video uses editing and 3D models to make it appear as if the cars routinely miss each other by ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 10, 2017
An image purportedly showing LeBron James wearing a "We march, y'all mad" shirt was digitally ma ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 10, 2017
Two disreputable web sites seized on tragic events in upstate New York to further their conspira ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 10, 2017
A distasteful fake news story got a partisan makeover when it was passed from one disreputable w ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 10, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a foot after "Cinderella Surgery" is actually a digital creation.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 10, 2017
Morgan Freeman isn't dead, as reported by a fake news site.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 9, 2017
Judi Dench once put a temporary tattoo of Harvey Weinstein's initials on her backside as a joke.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 6, 2017
A meme with a fabricated quote painted the U.S. Representative as having been shockingly insensi ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 4, 2017
Single data points presented without context do not interfere with the scientific consensus on c ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 4, 2017
A page falsely posing as part of the anti-fascist movement put up a post claiming that "comrades ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 4, 2017
A bizarre conspiracy theory holding that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock died in 2013 was base ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists spread false information that a second person targeted a country music conc ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 3, 2017
A "satirical" web site published an especially crude story about the former president, which was ...
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