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Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 21, 2017
Liz MacKean fought to reveal historical child sexual abuse, but there is no evidence that she di ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 21, 2017
"Those who can't work will be provided a stipend and unlimited supply of opiates, marijuana, met ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill David Mikkelson
Aug. 21, 2017
Two conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the content of a lyric essay in The Atlantic m ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 18, 2017
A false article convinced some that NASA scientists miscalculated the solar eclipse date and wer ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 18, 2017
Right-wing Facebook pages created a meme containing a fabricated quote attributed to the Democra ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 18, 2017
An image purportedly showing a rainbow-colored mountain range in California was digitally manipu ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 17, 2017
A California scientist told us that Breitbart's story on his team's 2013 study was "not an accur ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 17, 2017
An image of Steve Bannon with a bloody lip was a creatively edited — but convincing — photograph ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 17, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing Queen singer Freddie Mercury applying intricate maquillage was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 16, 2017
Flyers calling for the murder of white children were not created or distributed by an anti-fasci ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 15, 2017
Various right-leaning sources immediately — and inaccurately — identified the driver of the vehi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 14, 2017
A doctored photograph appearing to show Trump posing with a white supremacist garnered attention ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Aug. 14, 2017
A conservative web site mischaracterized the case against Rosa Ortega, who voted illegally -- an ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 14, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing an Antifa member hitting a police officer has been digitally ma ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 14, 2017
A satirical web site publishes the latest in a series of entirely false stories about Malia Obama.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2017
Despite rumors to the contrary, Trump's comments about North Korea were not plagiarized from a C ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 11, 2017
A dubious right-wing web site makes a false claim about the family of California lawmaker Kevin ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 11, 2017
Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have not announced that "Our L ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 11, 2017
A hoax news article falsely reports that the House Minority Leader was involved in a collision w ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 11, 2017
Various outlets misleadingly quoted a 2013 article to blame President Obama for a 2017 roach inf ...
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