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Written by: Bethania Palma
April 12, 2018
Unfortunately, some hate groups do currently enjoy tax-exempt status.
Written by: David Emery
April 12, 2018
An evidence-free Internet meme says that tilapia, one of the most popular freshwater fish consum ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 11, 2018
A December announcement by a WHO committee stated that one specific component of marijuana is sa ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 6, 2018
Facebook users everywhere are not entitled to collect cash in compensation over the Cambridge An ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 3, 2018
An account of a Georgia woman who fatally shot a burglar in her home was embellished with fabric ...
Written by: David Emery
April 2, 2018
Despite the media's breathless coverage of this alleged social media "craze," most of the extant ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 29, 2018
Media reports conflate a number of events, some of them speculative, to manufacture the existenc ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 12, 2018
Spurious blogs and "alternative health" purveyors tried to misrepresent the country's already-vo ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 12, 2018
The iconic motorcycle manufacturing company announced they were opening a factory in Thailand ne ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 11, 2018
A man convicted of sex crimes against children died in prison, but not in the grisly manner clai ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 9, 2018
A viral Facebook post exaggerated efforts to give military veterans affordable and accessible he ...
Written by: David Emery
March 3, 2018
Web sites mischaracterized the governor's order instructing state police to disarm individuals d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 1, 2018
Social media posts inaccurately claim that the formulation of Suave Professionals brand products ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 26, 2018
Viral stories rehash a legal tussle between Pepsi and the Center for Environmental Health, but t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 14, 2018
Mars, Incorporated makes a "Pods" product, but these candies were first manufactured more than a ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 12, 2018
The 38-year-old's death from complications of influenza became an internet cause célèbre after i ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 9, 2018
A "screening test" highlighted on the 'Today' show and subsequently amended by a series of dubio ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 7, 2018
The seeds of a number household plants can cause psychoactive effects, but they are far from a n ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 6, 2018
An Internet meme credited the Black Panther Party with inventing Women, Infants, and Children, a ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 5, 2018
For once, a notorious purveyor of fake news gets some details right, but gets the overall story ...
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