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Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 14, 2017
A prank-generating website churned out a hoax about the demise of the iconic candy.
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 13, 2017
An actual television ad that pranked European viewers with a shock ending in 2005 has since been ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 13, 2017
Reports that the Muslim mayor of a Michigan town banned Christmas festivities and decorations ar ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 13, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing actors Heath Ledger and Cillian Murphy is a digital creation.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 12, 2017
A video purportedly showing sharks swimming in a flooded area of Miami after Irma passed through ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 12, 2017
Fake news articles claiming that people died while watching the movie were circulated on social ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 12, 2017
Stan Lee did not fire Jennifer Lawrence from a film over comments she purportedly made about Pre ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 11, 2017
"'My First Vape' has been specially made to be suitable for children 9 months or over so they do ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 11, 2017
There was no threat in an Inauguration Day letter from former President Barack Obama to his succ ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 11, 2017
Right-wing web sites misrepresented Lawrence's assertion that climate change is caused by human ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 11, 2017
A meme widely circulated in the wake of a controversy over Confederate memorials does not accura ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 11, 2017
A notorious purveyor of fake news churns out another fabrication.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 11, 2017
A clip from a television sitcom showing a stop sign crashing into a weather reporter during a st ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 11, 2017
The White House's social media director mistook a video showing heavy flooding at the Mexico Cit ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 11, 2017
A 2013 CBS video segment about weather modification was dishonestly reframed as a clip about Hur ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2017
A video purportedly showing Hurricane Irma destroying buildings in Antigua and Barbuda actually ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 8, 2017
An online conspiracy theory about government-created hurricanes gets even the most basic facts w ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 8, 2017
Appliance experts and flooding victims advise against storing valuables in a dishwasher during a ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 7, 2017
A science experiment on YouTube was co-opted by anti-vaccine activists to make scientifically il ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 7, 2017
A clickbait news web site invented a controversy involving Celine Dion, Loretta Lynn, Cher, and ...
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