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Written by: Dan Evon
May 3, 2016
After a Paralympic swimmer was disqualified from a race for violating an advertising rule, a rum ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
May 2, 2016
A meme suggests that a course of treatment costing $900 in India carried a far heftier price tag ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 28, 2016
A viral video of a young woman purportedly getting removed from a women's bathroom for not appea ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 28, 2016
"Who else can let WATER meet and touch but NEVER mix together?"
Written by: Dan Evon
April 27, 2016
A video of an excavator destroying a plane was circulated along with the claim that the act was ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 26, 2016
Several landmarks went purple after Prince died, but not all of the images circulating are authe ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 21, 2016
A popular meme holds that 643,000 Americans go bankrupt every year over medical bills, but the u ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 20, 2016
A social media controversy erupted when Target announced a chain-wide policy inviting transgende ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 15, 2016
A number of memes somewhat misleadingly reported that the "leader" of opposition to a controvers ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 15, 2016
Car headrests were designed for resting heads. Any other use is incidental to their intended pu ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
April 14, 2016
A long-running claim that cocktails were an entirely American invention appears to be something ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 13, 2016
A photograph of the Space Shuttle Endeavour blasting off from Earth is real, but it has been sub ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 13, 2016
With so few white tigers in existence, the genetic pool is limited, and inbreeding is an inevita ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 11, 2016
A decades-old story of a doctor purportedly strangling a live infant after complications during ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 9, 2016
According to social media rumors, Bernie Sanders claimed a win in Nevada in a surprise post-cauc ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 8, 2016
The student-led Freedom Education Fund imposed a $30 fee to fund a yearly scholarship for one un ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 4, 2016
The quote used by a popular meme about cannabis legalization and for-profit prisons is accurate, ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 4, 2016
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said that he would abolish teachers' lounges, but ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 30, 2016
Donald Trump's remarks about women facing "some form of punishment" for abortion were made in a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders famously flew coach through much of his campaign, but that may have changed after ...
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