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Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 4, 2016
A humorous article reporting that Dunkin Donuts' new holiday cup featured Richard Dawkins giving ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 4, 2016
Reports that Donald Trump had threatened to deport Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda were just fa ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 4, 2016
An image purportedly showing an electoral map based on "Facebook analytics" is not supported by ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 4, 2016
An image purporting to show Hillary Clinton addressing a sparsely attended campaign rally actual ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 3, 2016
Some outlets have implied a connection between an annually-released actuarial study lowering a p ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 3, 2016
A parody video showing Matthew McConaughey endorsing Donald Trump was shared as legitimate news ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 3, 2016
A spoof of the Starbucks "holiday cups" controversy held that CEO Howard Schultz admitted he is ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 3, 2016
A nonsensical claim conflates a $400 million Obama administration payment to Iran with a non-exi ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 2, 2016
Viral claims about humans’ ability to sense and feed off of one another’s emotional energy are t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 2, 2016
A Facebook post claiming that Hillary Clinton had cancelled a campaign event due to chants of "l ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 2, 2016
A story that drummer Ginger Baker sodomized a hapless burglar with his cane came from a satirica ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 2, 2016
Clickbait web sites posted misleading headlines claiming Hillary Clinton's property had been rai ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 2, 2016
A fake news site seized upon news of an FBI investigation to falsely claim Bill Clinton was impl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 1, 2016
A clip from the MSNBC show "Hardball" was deceptively edited to make it appear as if host Chris ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 1, 2016
Reports that a "secret operation" spread a birth defect-inducing vaccine in black communities be ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 1, 2016
A disreputable web site falsely accused First Lady Michelle Obama of "scrubbing" her Twitter acc ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2016
A warning about a computer virus being spread via social media with pictures of Donald Trump bei ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 1, 2016
A fabricated document purportedly from WikiLeaks' 'The Podesta Emails' describes Hillary Clinton ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 31, 2016
Conservatives pointed to a brief online video as "proof" that Clinton was paying California resi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 31, 2016
A since-deleted YouTube video falsely claimed an 11-year-old girl at Standing Rock was shot and ...
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