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Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 7, 2017
An image showing a cartoon Donald Trump in a coffin was purportedly featured on 'The Simpsons' a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 7, 2017
Reports that President Trump had temporary banned vaccinations via executive order came from a f ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 6, 2017
A dubious quote played on the unlikely idea of rock stars foretelling the political rise of Dona ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 6, 2017
A photograph of 2017 Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady subtly "flipping the bird" at NFL commissioner Rog ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 6, 2017
Tepco, the company responsible for clean-up after 2011 Fukushima disaster, found high levels of ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 6, 2017
A video showing CNN host Anderson Cooper laughing uncontrollably at Trump adviser Kellyanne Conw ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 5, 2017
A hoax shared on Facebook claimed that Evolution Fresh brand cold-pressed juices and smoothies w ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 3, 2017
Despite early uncertainty, the weight of scientific evidence and medical consensus is that abort ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 3, 2017
A pop culture web site posted a fake announcement by the film and WWE star, touted as 'the only ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 3, 2017
Video of a supposed UFO sighting in Malaysia in 2016 was actually taken from a CGI creation post ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 2, 2017
A story reporting that President Trump ordered he be deemed the winner of the popular vote in 20 ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 2, 2017
A Twitter account falsely attributed an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader's remarks to the Supreme Court no ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 2, 2017
Tabloid claims that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch had founded a "Fascism Forever" club in h ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 2, 2017
Pizza Hut confirmed that a man named 'Caleb Lee' fabricated a story about a rude store manager's ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 2, 2017
A popular report claiming police raided and burned a Standing Rock camp was dubbed 'fake news' b ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 1, 2017
A story appearing to report that Trump planned a 20 percent cut in U.S. carbon emissions by 2022 ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 1, 2017
Trump supporters claim an academic study shows proof of hundreds of thousands of illegitimate vo ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 1, 2017
Legal experts don't believe President Trump's filing for re-election early will have a noticeabl ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 1, 2017
President Trump signed a large number of executive orders during the first weeks of his administ ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 1, 2017
Reports that the president was swapping out portraits on the White House walls with images of "G ...
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