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Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 31, 2018
A conservative youth organization's claims about Ripon College's response to a controversial pos ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 29, 2018
A prosecutor has requested the death penalty for Shia activist Israa al-Ghomgham, but she has no ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 27, 2018
The term "front hole" was used in a safe sex guide designed to serve transgender people, but it ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 17, 2018
Several viral memes made unfounded assumptions based on the complicated inner workings of the De ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 16, 2018
Right-wing web sites published misleading allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, based on very obvi ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 16, 2018
While speaking to U.S. troops about an upcoming military pay increase, Trump joked that he knew ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Aug. 14, 2018
A deceptive and factually challenged blog post on an anti-vaccine website is not a “Harvard stud ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 9, 2018
A widely shared meme suggested that mainstream American news outlets largely ignored North Korea ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 6, 2018
A disreputable web site distorted and misled readers on the subject of a new French law on sexua ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
July 17, 2018
A partisan Facebook page significantly exaggerated the likely consequences of the House's versio ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
July 16, 2018
The Unmasking Antifa Act, introduced to Congress in June 2018, would create additional penalties ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 28, 2018
Mike Huckabee claimed in interviews that the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, organi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 26, 2018
A notorious fake news web site got the basic facts right about the crimes of Monsignor Carlo Alb ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
June 25, 2018
Claims that lawmakers voted to spend a Social Security surplus to pay off government debt stem f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 20, 2018
A video showing former United States President Barack Obama "agreeing" with President Donald Tru ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 18, 2018
The character was written as a male bear — but it was originally inspired by a girl bear named W ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 12, 2018
The Hollywood actor's profane Tony Awards speech led to the recirculation of rumors that he was ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 9, 2018
An arrested Florida man professed an intent to kill child molesters, but he didn't kill, set fir ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 6, 2018
A popular meme confused pardons with commutations and spread an erroneous rumor about the former ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 5, 2018
The White House claimed that an event with the Super Bowl champions was cancelled due to a disag ...
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