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Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 30, 2018
A tip spread via social media advises that debit card theft via card readers can be easily thwarted
Written by: David Emery
Dec. 27, 2018
The deaths of two undocumented immigrant children detained by Border Patrol agents in December 2 ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 21, 2018
As usual, the simplest explanation is the correct one.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 11, 2018
Some headline writers latched onto the highest possible estimate from a 2016 study about the lif ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 8, 2018
If you're looking for seasonal employment, this perennial holiday meme isn't for you.
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 6, 2018
Selective and misleading images of President Trump at George H.W. Bush's funeral went viral with ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 4, 2018
A viral tweet misrepresented the nature (and consequences) of a bureaucratic decision made by th ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 30, 2018
The "new" News Punch is just as fake as the old Your News Wire. And just as unoriginal.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 30, 2018
Many caravan migrants are dealing with assorted health complaints, but not these specific commun ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 28, 2018
A widely-shared Facebook meme grossly misrepresented the nature of an infamous Holocaust-era pol ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 27, 2018
While President Trump's fitness has been the butt of a few late night jokes, a viral image of th ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 19, 2018
President Trump mentioned Osama bin Laden in his 2000 book "The America We Deserve," but he didn ...
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 16, 2018
Obama's relationship with Fox News was tempestuous to say the least, but none of the network's c ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 12, 2018
A viral Facebook post significantly misrepresented what the FBI said about sexual assault and mi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 31, 2018
Conspiracy theorists got the details badly wrong in an attempt to link Sayoc with one of Preside ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 25, 2018
A viral meme confused the legalities of entering the United States with the legalities of applyi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2018
The Trump administration rolled back a few guidelines of an Obama-era school lunch initiative, b ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 12, 2018
An out-of-context, incomplete sentence and an apocryphal quotation do not make for an informativ ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 4, 2018
The social network says they're working to fix a glitch that causes one-time donations to appear ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 6, 2018
An Internet meme characterized the planned departure of the Supreme Court nominee's daughters fr ...
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