Fact ChecksMiscaptioned
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Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 16, 2018
Natural disasters do sometimes make for strange bedfellows.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 15, 2018
A circulated photograph of President Obama at the Arlington National Cemetery was intended as a ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 8, 2018
Social media users engaged in another round of whataboutism by claiming (falsely) that a video s ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 6, 2018
Photographs of alleged flag desecration are common fodder for social media posts expressing anti ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 5, 2018
Anti-immigration memes make sweeping speculations about epidemiology that are not supported by r ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 1, 2018
When it comes to fear-mongering over the Honduran caravan, any old picture of police being mistr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 30, 2018
A photograph of a family resting in front of a tent labeled “Cruz Roja Mexicana” has, somehow, b ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 29, 2018
Forced perspective can give any rodent the appearance of an unusually large size.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 29, 2018
A Twitter user shared a photograph wrongly said to be the 97-year-old synagogue shooting victim.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 29, 2018
Numerous substances are liquid, white, and opaque, and not all of them are milk.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 26, 2018
It's almost as if a single picture of a trash-strewn field gets applied to every event involving ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 26, 2018
A YouTuber’s staged video has been taken seriously by several media outlets despite some telling ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2018
An outdated set of photographs purportedly showing member of a refugee caravan traveling via tra ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 24, 2018
A viral video captures a woman using a musical tool to translate changes in a plant’s conductivi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2018
A series of old photographs were re-shared as if they depicted members of a migrant caravan burn ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2018
An all-purpose crowd shot can seemingly represent any number of different events in different pl ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 23, 2018
A photograph of protesters in the Honduran capital setting fire to a U.S. flag inflamed some Ame ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2018
A series of photographs showing injured police officers are genuine, but they are several years ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 21, 2018
A "get out the vote" meme highlights a photograph that was crucial to garnering public support f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
A baseless, fear-mongering and factually inaccurate tweet claiming that a group of refugees in H ...
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