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Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 7, 2016
While Hillary Clinton's portrait was surrounded by Christmas decorations in 2016, this painting ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 7, 2016
A number of articles inaccurately reported that United Airlines would begin charging passengers ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 5, 2016
Viral warnings about disease-carrying ticks in Christmas trees ignore much of the scientific lit ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 2, 2016
The cartoon cat and mouse duo survived explosions, burns, falling anvils, misplaced rakes, and e ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 1, 2016
Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh did pen an open letter requesting that gun owners refrain from bring ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 30, 2016
Rumors circulated that Apple was purging its app store of "fake news" web sites — starting with ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 28, 2016
Reports that millions of Muslims protested against ISIS and that the news media ignored the even ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Nov. 18, 2016
Stories about a man whose throat was burned through by an extremely hot pepper were frightening, ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 18, 2016
A Republican senator proposed a bill that would classify some forms of protesting as "economic t ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 18, 2016
The number of pages added to the Federal Register is not indicative of new regulations being added.
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 17, 2016
Celebrity Cruise Lines released an advertisement addressing some of Donald Trump's talking point ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 17, 2016
WikiLeaks has long sought relief from U.S. investigations and interference, and Julian Assange h ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 15, 2016
Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi never told supporters of Donald Trump to "take their business elsewhere," ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 15, 2016
Ford did not move manufacturing to Ohio from Mexico because Donald Trump was elected president i ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 15, 2016
A police horse kicked a student in Ontario, Canada, after she sneaked up and slapped it, but the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 12, 2016
A disreputable web site published an article falsely claiming that Donald Trump's "first order" ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 10, 2016
Rumors claimed classes and exams were canceled at Yale due to student distress over Donald Trump ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 4, 2016
In what is becoming a common pre-election conspiracy-driving glitch, an NBC affiliate's software ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 2, 2016
Several web sites falsely claimed President Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic politi ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 2, 2016
Unfortunately, myriad claims about tequila's putative health benefits are not rooted in science ...
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