Fact ChecksMiscaptioned
Miscaptioned This rating indicates visual media (photo or video) is authentic (i.e., it is not the product, partially or wholly, of digital manipulation or artificial intelligence software) but is nonetheless misleading because its accompanying material falsely describes its origin, context or meaning. Learn more about our rating system here.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 27, 2020
Social media posts attempted to tie the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville to a Trump supp ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 21, 2020
Online trolls misleadingly labeled a photograph of a French modeling agent sitting with Jeffrey ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 17, 2020
An image of the pop icon got edited as a joke.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 15, 2020
Welcome to Mojosemi Forest Park.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
Dec. 13, 2020
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, who fact-checks the story behind it?
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 10, 2020
A TikTok user put a new spin on an age-old conspiracy theory.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 7, 2020
Ugur Sahin, who led the team that helped find a vaccine breakthrough, definitely has a remarkabl ...
Written by: Jordan Liles
Dec. 5, 2020
Is an article on page 27 of a tabloid newspaper "front page news"?
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 23, 2020
As the head of the General Services Administration drew political attention in November 2020, sh ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Nov. 23, 2020
The former reality star has made this claim before.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 18, 2020
Whitmer has a gold-colored jacket that she frequently wears, a fact that was exploited to spread ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 14, 2020
"At this time in our lives, we need to be united with love and respect for all."
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 6, 2020
Even the most innocuous actions can be made to seem sinister when presented with a healthy heap ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 4, 2020
The humpback whale can grow to nearly 50 feet in length — or five kayaks — and can weigh more th ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 2, 2020
President Trump repeatedly asserted that Joe Biden improperly tried to help his son’s business i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 2, 2020
The genuine acronym for this school is C.U.A.A. (Concordia University of Ann Arbor).
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 28, 2020
Ashley Biden introduced her father at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 17, 2020
A little background research can go a long way towards avoiding the making of embarrassingly ina ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 14, 2020
Photographs can be misleading, especially if you don't know when they were taken.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 12, 2020
Critics claimed a viral photograph showed the former vice president "taking a knee" at an Octobe ...
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