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: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2018
An image purportedly showing multiple tornadoes touching down in Kansas is actually a composite ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 23, 2018
A 1930s photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., the President’s son, is a popular item online ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 16, 2018
A video purportedly showing refugees looting a café in Spain actually captures an incident from ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 15, 2018
A video showing Secret Service surrounding Donald Trump at a 2016 rally is real, but the audio p ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 13, 2018
A year-old video showing a group of Antifascists beating up a right-wing activists in Berkeley, ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 10, 2018
Although a photograph of handcuffed children is shared with the claim the youngsters were arrest ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 9, 2018
Iran has been criticized by the international community for allowing the use of stoning as a for ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 6, 2018
A spectacular image of red-tinted clouds at sunset was repurposed to falsely connect it with 201 ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 1, 2018
Two unrelated videos, one of a large landslide and the other of a frozen debris flow, have been ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 25, 2018
A 2,000-year-old carving of a figure riding a modern bicycle was supposedly found inside an anci ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 24, 2018
A video featuring a Palestinian makeup artist was used as propaganda to claim that reports of at ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 24, 2018
Internet memes falsely used an unrelated image of a Moroccan girl to illustrate the unusual life ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 10, 2018
Images showing "melted" cars in are real, but the extreme heat came from a nearby construction f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
July 7, 2018
An image showing an optical illusion created with floor tiles is genuine, but it wasn't created ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 25, 2018
Footage from a video featuring a remote control crocodile (or alligator) was actually a response ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2018
A photograph showing protesters holding a sign is real, but the sign is referring to separations ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 21, 2018
A 2014 photograph of unaccompanied minor immigrants is misleadingly being described as showing c ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 21, 2018
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a federal agent seizing Elián González was recycled nearl ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2018
A viral photograph showed massive crowds out on the streets of an English city, but the scene wa ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 12, 2018
A heart-rending photograph of a crying child in a cage was part of a protest to call attention t ...
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