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Written by: Jordan Liles
Oct. 14, 2025
According to the alleged quote, the retired Super Bowl-winning center defended the NFL's selecti ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Oct. 8, 2025
We traced the quote back to Karen Karbo, author of "In Praise of Difficult Women," whom National ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Oct. 7, 2025
An image supposedly showed a Fox News chyron with the quote attributed to the president criticiz ...
Written by: Aleksandra Wrona
Sept. 30, 2025
"His words mislead, his attacks divide, and his greed for power is tearing this nation apart," P ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Sept. 17, 2025
According to the rumor, Betts said, "If you want people to speak kindly about you after you're g ...
Written by: Megan Loe
Sept. 9, 2025
While Trump did make comments about some people who were "born to be criminals" during a briefin ...
Written by: Taija PerryCook
Sept. 8, 2025
The Vatican confirmed that – given the circulation of quotes without sources – all the pope’s sp ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
Aug. 31, 2025
"I don't want to hear another polite flor speech," the letter says. "I want strategy."
Written by: Joey Esposito
Aug. 28, 2025
There is nothing to suggest the Supreme Court's chief justice said the phrase publicly.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 26, 2025
But the president has made errors when referring to the 1941 attack from Japan.
Written by: Rae Deng
Aug. 26, 2025
The rumor appeared to originate with Leavitt's claims about judicial overreach during a May 2025 ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
Aug. 15, 2025
Internet users shared a letter beginning, "I'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of yo ...
Written by: Rae Deng
Aug. 12, 2025
A proposal in Ireland suggested boycotting Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
Written by: Jordan Liles
July 30, 2025
Online users falsely claimed the actor said, "I've seen a lot of evil in Hollywood scripts — but ...
Written by: Caroline Wazer
July 26, 2025
The letter has circulated online since 2018.
Written by: Emery Winter
July 13, 2025
There's no evidence Williams said the quote, which began circulating alongside his name over hal ...
Written by: Cindy Shan
July 9, 2025
The claim spread widely on social media after the floods that devastated the Lone Star State in ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
June 30, 2025
The post made statements like: "It seems women’s rights only matter if those women are liberal."
Written by: Joey Esposito
June 25, 2025
The popular social media rumor circulated as tensions rose over U.S. involvement in the Israel-I ...
Written by: Laerke Christensen
June 25, 2025
An incorrectly attributed Facebook post from April 2025 recirculated in June.
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