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Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 1, 2018
Conservatives and conspiracy theorists have made much of the fact that Luis Gutiérrez quietly wa ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 31, 2018
Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in th ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 26, 2018
A Facebook meme gets some facts right about the demise of the Fairness Doctrine but ignores impo ...
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 25, 2018
An Internet meme cites extremely dubious statistics to convince readers that the young undocumen ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 16, 2018
A viral Facebook post comparing U.S. immigration policy to that of North Korea and Afghanistan g ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Jan. 15, 2018
President Obama used the term "shit show" in private to refer to the escalating violence in Liby ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Jan. 12, 2018
Dozens of Sam's Club stores are closing, but a partisan Facebook page vastly exaggerates the num ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 28, 2017
Although some states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books, they are unenforceable because of ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 28, 2017
Websites misrepresented details of an agreement between the National Football League and protest ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 25, 2017
Despite misleading claims by a left-wing web site, federal agencies are already allowed to use " ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 14, 2017
A long-circulating rumor claims retailers use "disappearing ink" to inhibit the return of mercha ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 13, 2017
A number of hyperpartisan web sites claimed that DNA testing companies deliberately fabricated A ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Dec. 13, 2017
While the company confirmed that photographs taken outside its New York City store are real, the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 7, 2017
The German foreign minister gave a speech calling on Germany and Europe to more aggressively ass ...
Written by: David Emery
Dec. 4, 2017
Proponents of keeping the FCC's net neutrality regulations cited a Portuguese company's mobile d ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 29, 2017
A social media rumor calling for a boycott of Taco Bell inaccurately claims that either the chai ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 15, 2017
"This is what 1 illegal refugee gets with the federal assistance program: $3874 per month."
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 10, 2017
An internet post purporting to prove that the worst genocides of the twentieth century were the ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 30, 2017
An Alexandria church's decision to relocate two plaques due to ongoing controversy over memorial ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 24, 2017
Despite rumors, the President did not recall a thousand retired Air Force pilots by amending Exe ...
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