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Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 11, 2016
President Obama did not give an interview to the Washington Post during which he opined that Ame ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 11, 2016
The heartbreaking tale of a young heart transplant patient fatally obstructed by Black Lives Mat ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2016
Fake news reports a 15-year-old boy stabbed his brother to death because he thought the younger ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2016
A falsely-captioned video supposedly shows the chief Iranian negotiator on television candidly r ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 10, 2016
A false rumor holding that actor Nicolas Cage passed away in a motorcycle accident circulated in ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 10, 2016
A Facebook-driven celebrity death hoax held that wrestler John Cena had died in a car accident.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 9, 2016
A hoax news article reported that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had threatened to leave the Supreme Court ...
Written by: David Emery
July 9, 2016
An altered image purports to show Albert Einstein racing away from an atomic bomb explosion on a ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 9, 2016
Fake news reports a man absorbed in playing the new Pokemon Go app caused a major traffic accident.
Written by: Dan Evon
July 8, 2016
Reports that a pride of lions had killed a group of poachers in Zimbabwe came from a hoax news a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 8, 2016
Fabricated Twitter messages claiming activist DeRay Mckesson was plotting a "summer of chaos" wi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 8, 2016
A satirical article reporting President Obama had commissioned pastor Rob Bell to write a gender ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 7, 2016
A troll Twitter account started a false rumor that a neo-Nazi named Jeffrey Harris was responsib ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 7, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing that 'The Simpsons' animated television series predicted the ad ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 7, 2016
A number of blog posts objecting to the Whole Foods CEO's comments about GMO labeling rejuvenate ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 7, 2016
A 2015 fake news item claiming a Baltimore officer shot and killed toddler Malik Gibson after mi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 7, 2016
A fake news article reported that a teenager was stabbed after accidentally wandering into a bad ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
July 6, 2016
Fake news reports that Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen's final text to his wife admitted h ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 6, 2016
New Jersey governor Chris Christie vetoed a pay parity bill, but not over any reasons relating t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 6, 2016
Shortly after Alton Sterling was killed by Baton Rouge police, a rumor appeared on social media ...
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