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Written by: Dan Evon
April 14, 2016
Fake news stories report that a woman ate her grandchild while high on bath salts.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 14, 2016
Fake news reports that the whole Goldman Sachs board was arrested by the FBI for defrauding mill ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 13, 2016
A Facebook user incorrectly claimed that urinals were installed in the ladies' restroom at a Pil ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 13, 2016
A number of social media posters claimed President Obama was "encouraging" schools to teach the ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 13, 2016
An old, thinly sourced 2012 video led to rumors that the UN planned to disarm Americans by force.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 12, 2016
A fake news item claiming New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a multi-state "travel ban" ove ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 12, 2016
A letter purportedly from Oxford University's chancellor to students protesting a statue of Ceci ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
April 12, 2016
Some quotes are documented in history and textbooks, while others appear nowhere but the internet.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 12, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a woman walking down a deserted shopping aisle in Venezuela was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 11, 2016
An article that reported Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi were cousins originated with a fake news w ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 11, 2016
A satirical meme mocking anti-Muslim Facebook content was mistaken as factual by some social med ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 11, 2016
Several fake news articles reported on a fabricated Facebook confession from a mother purportedl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 11, 2016
Fake news reports that recently-deceased country music legend Merle Haggard left his entire esta ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 7, 2016
A sensational tabloid article built upon benign statements from a retired astrophysicist to surm ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 7, 2016
A quote attributed to John F. Kennedy warned of what would happen "one day" after he was "long g ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 6, 2016
"The young man was caught by the throat by the alligator, who dragged him underwater and drowned ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 6, 2016
A fake news site posing as Los Angeles-area television station KTLA spread a fabricated but juic ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 6, 2016
A new fake news generator capitalized on fabricated local stories by creating false rumors of de ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 5, 2016
A popular article on social media incorrectly claimed that St. Cloud schools bought prayer rugs ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 5, 2016
A photo purportedly showing a group of college students with the amount of debt they're in writt ...
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