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Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 20, 2016
A photograph showing a group of young men in Ghana is frequently shared with misinformation abou ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 20, 2016
A viral video of a spider breaking out of a banana skin is an animation created by a talented CG ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
The patient reportedly inserted the unfortunate creature to simulate the feeling of being pregnant.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
Fake news reported a WikiLeaks' DNC e-mail dump captured Democratic staffers referring to voter ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 19, 2016
An organization claiming to have invented a vaccine against diabetes that also reverses the effe ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 19, 2016
A disreputable web site started a false rumor holding that President Obama was raising the Socia ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
A conspiracy site republished a satirical claim that NASA admitted alien contact but failed to d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 19, 2016
A game of conspiracy telephone resulted in the false claim that Hillary Clinton was seriously in ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 18, 2016
A report that Republican VP candidate Mike Pence doesn't want to be referred to as the vice pres ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Sept. 17, 2016
Popular comedian Jeff Foxworthy was not "attacked by liberals," nor did he "publicly slam Hillar ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 16, 2016
We investigate Donald Trump's claim that the conspiracy theory about Barack Obama not being born ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 16, 2016
One of the stranger claims about the Democratic candidate for president is that she was "elimina ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Sept. 16, 2016
After Hillary Clinton went to visit her daughter after appearing to fall during an 11 September ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 16, 2016
A satirical article reporting that an American legislator wanted to ban Canadian drivers from U. ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 16, 2016
The U.S Department of Transportation is not working with eleven states to keep trucks off the ro ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 15, 2016
A fake news story from a conspiracy-flogging site reported that tens of thousands of Russian tro ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 15, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a pipeline protest in North Dakota is actually a picture of the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 15, 2016
Facebook purchased the texting app in 2014, but WhatsApp says personal user information won't be ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 15, 2016
Ted Nugent recently made comments about President Obama's support for NFL player Colin Kaepernic ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 15, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a young woman protesting pipeline construction in North Dakota ...
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