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Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists attempted to tie the alleged Las Vegas mass shooter to an anti-Trump protes ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 3, 2017
There is no truth to a widely-shared claim that the flight crew of the New Orleans Saints' team ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 2, 2017
A meme circulated in an effort to discredit professional athletes protesting racism contained fa ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 2, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing the Army Black Knights team kneeling in protest actually shows ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 2, 2017
An old but still thriving urban legend about Walt Disney World in Florida holds that the theme p ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 2, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a fake story about the sportswear company, which has in fact ex ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 29, 2017
A doctored photograph purportedly showed a member of the Seattle Seahawks setting a U.S. flag on ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 28, 2017
The New York City Board of Elections has said that their computer system is to blame for a mix-u ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 28, 2017
Some were fooled by a joke that depicted the press secretary as repeating conspiracy theories ab ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 28, 2017
Rumors holding that a morgue employee was involved in a salacious organ trafficking operation or ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 27, 2017
A well-known "satirical" web site published yet another entirely fabricated story.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 27, 2017
An Indian man's prediction is based on his purported psychic abilities and carries no scientific ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 26, 2017
Nearly all reports of fentanyl-laced marijuana use are based on faulty reporting, and no evidenc ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 26, 2017
Some web sites published erroneous claims that the coach criticized the U.S. Army veteran for st ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 26, 2017
A rumor holding that the brewing company had "pulled out of the NFL" over "take a knee" protests ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 26, 2017
A disreputable web site hyped an ongoing controversy with a false claim.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 25, 2017
For safety reasons, solar panels generally go offline after a crisis downs the power grid — unle ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 25, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers holding a "Stand fo ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 24, 2017
Reports that the NFL was fining Pittsburgh Steelers players $1 million each for staying in their ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 23, 2017
A meme claiming that Trump plagiarized a September 2017 speech from a 2014 talk by the former Fi ...
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