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Written by: Alex Kasprak
Jan. 24, 2017
Sleeping with onion slices in your socks might give you more space in bed, but it’s certainly no ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 24, 2017
A fake Facebook account overstated the amount of conservatives who attended demonstrations world ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 24, 2017
A report that President Obama had promoted former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl to staff sergean ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 24, 2017
A known hoax purveyor spread false claims that the FBI "raided" the CDC in the middle of the nig ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 24, 2017
A fake tweet attributed to President Trump suggested mandatory drug testing would be imposed on ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 24, 2017
An image from Chicago's 2013 'Slutwalk' was circulated with false claims that it was taken at a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 24, 2017
A fake news site leveraged the "Cash Me Outside" meme to fabricate a story about a young teen's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 23, 2017
Although a statement defending the importance of the arts is frequently attributed to Winston Ch ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 23, 2017
A persistent rumor holds that the term "snowflake" originated during the Holocaust, but no evide ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 23, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing the former president touching First Lady Melania Trump's buttoc ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 23, 2017
Reports that Malia and Sasha Obama were arrested for vandalism in Hawaii originated with a satir ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 21, 2017
Claims about President Trump's lifting lines from various films for his inaugural address were u ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 20, 2017
A Time magazine reporter erroneously tweeted that a bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 20, 2017
In 2014, two 12-year-old girls arrested for stabbing a schoolmate in Waukesha, Wisconsin told po ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 20, 2017
Readers misinterpreted as news a spoof political story that was clearly intended to be satirical ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 20, 2017
An old photograph of Joe Biden chatting with a woman at a town hall meeting was digitally manipu ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 20, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a Maryland highway sign exhorting motorists to avoid Inaugurati ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 20, 2017
Early on Inauguration Day 2017, some older unrelated images of crowds were passed off as depicti ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 20, 2017
Yet another of the multiple images posted online surrounding the 2016 election in an attempt to ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 19, 2017
No, Donald Trump didn't visit an auction house to stage an inaugural speechwriting photograph at ...
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