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Written by: Dan Evon
May 3, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a group of underappreciated Vietnam veterans is actually a fram ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 3, 2016
A prank generator site led many social media users to believe Kings Island was closing due to "d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 3, 2016
An old fake news article reported that two CIA agents were arrested at the Mexican border with a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 2, 2016
An image showing an impressive spiral cloud formation encircling a tower was rendered by an arti ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 2, 2016
A story about a flagpole that was removed from a Pearl Harbor memorial was blamed on President O ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 2, 2016
A story that a woman was arrested for pleasuring herself with a Happy Meal toy in a McDonald's b ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 2, 2016
An unverified claim that Tim Hortons was removing pork from its menu to appease Muslims was late ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 30, 2016
Reports that the source of Michigan's water pollution problems was the presence of numerous dead ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 30, 2016
A Google April Fools' Day video showing a "self-driving bicycle" continues to confuse viewers lo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 30, 2016
A fake news article reported that actor Jim Carrey had died in a snowboarding accident.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 30, 2016
A viral video purportedly shows a spectator using a not-yet-available camera phone to take photo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 29, 2016
An article reporting that the Dalai Lama was renouncing religion and pursuing a career as a sitc ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 29, 2016
Blogs dug up an old and misleading article to falsely report that the American Psychiatric Assoc ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 29, 2016
An article reporting that Indiana governor Mike Pence signed a law banning boys from wearing "ga ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 29, 2016
An unsourced meme on Facebook accused Nike of making their sneakers with the hides of elephants.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 29, 2016
A viral image is not a photograph of African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as a young woman.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 29, 2016
A video showing an encounter between Hillary Clinton and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanya ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 27, 2016
An image purportedly showing a curt response from a Target customer service representative on Tw ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 27, 2016
An article reported that the $20 was no longer considered legal tender in North Carolina, but it ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 27, 2016
Long-debunked claims from 2009 about a novel approach to Multiple Sclerosis were misleadingly pr ...
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