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Written by: Bethania Palma
June 4, 2018
New water conservation legislation does not penalize individual California residents for specifi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 4, 2018
In June 2018, a year-old story about Ivanka Trump's line being rebranded circulated as new news.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
May 31, 2018
Both the company and an insurance expert refuted online anecdotes painting the company as hostil ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 23, 2018
"Cosmo After Dark" will feature content about sex, but this Snapchat channel isn't porn and will ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 17, 2018
Years of exaggerated headlines have turned a painful story about a woman accidentally eating a s ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 14, 2018
An advocate for body acceptance wrote an opinion piece detailing her experience at a Harry Potte ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 11, 2018
Deanne Carson's commentary about consent and sexuality education appeared to be misconstrued on ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 9, 2018
Another embellished report from a site with a penchant for spreading fake news about pedophiles.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 9, 2018
A notorious fake news web site wrenches the Pope's remarks out of context to create yet another ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 8, 2018
An anecdote about the musician's time as a soldier in Kosovo has been distorted over the years.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 8, 2018
The White House quickly corrected a statement on its web site claiming that a document written b ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 8, 2018
A news report about analog clocks and timed exams morphed into a Internet-wide bashing of "kids ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 7, 2018
Two of the three men being held by North Korea in 2018 were not detained until Donald Trump's pr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
May 4, 2018
A number of outlets reported on the discovery of a two-headed shark fetus by sharing doctored im ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
May 1, 2018
Some gun control advocates misrepresented security measures imposed by the Secret Service, not t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 30, 2018
Several conspiracy sites attempted to link the deaths of two Broward County sheriff's deputies, ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
April 30, 2018
Some web sites inaccurately describe the provisions of California's Healthy Youth Act.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
April 26, 2018
It's probably best not to get your legal advice from social media.
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 23, 2018
A man convicted of sex crimes against a child died in prison, but not in the grisly manner claim ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 19, 2018
Memes suggesting Michigan lawmakers wanted to place a yellow star on immigrants' licenses were c ...
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