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Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 30, 2017
A satirical article about a Navy Destroyer colliding with a building during Hurricane Harvey was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 30, 2017
A photograph taken at a UK 'Star Wars' premiere is often circulated with the false claim that it ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 29, 2017
A site posing as the Houston Chronicle claimed Mayweather was giving aid money to Hurricane Harv ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 29, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing President Donald Trump getting a spray tan before a television ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 29, 2017
One of many human trafficking warnings spread on Facebook in August 2017 involved a purported ki ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 28, 2017
A fake article on a comedy web site managed to fool a number of readers into thinking the author ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 28, 2017
Reports that Hillary Clinton was ejected from an interview with Katie Couric after using a racis ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 28, 2017
Reports that protesters had blocked emergency crews from reaching people stranded by Hurricane H ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 25, 2017
And just what do they find so amusing?
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 25, 2017
A satirical article about Mariah Carey covering the Dead Kennedys in support of anti-fascism was ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 24, 2017
Viral images attempting to sell pyramid-shaped features as evidence of an ancient civilization i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 24, 2017
An image purportedly showing a Simpsons chalkboard gag in which Bart mocked Islam is fake.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
Multiple mugshots were falsely claimed to show Antifa members who were arrested during a white n ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
A viral Facebook post suggested it is legal in Texas to use deadly force to stop Confederate sta ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 23, 2017
Despite a misleading clickbait headline, Green Bay Packer coach Mike McCarthy didn't put anythin ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 23, 2017
A fake news article claimed that a cemetery in Delaware, Ohio, was exhuming the bodies of confed ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
A fake news article claimed that a boxing promoter was killed for saying that the Mayweather-McG ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
An image purportedly showing sunlight forming the shape of a cross during the August 2017 eclips ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 22, 2017
Members of the "alt-right" have dared antifa to protest the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, but no ant ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 21, 2017
Counter-demonstrators had permits for two parks, while the "alt-right" was granted an injunction ...
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