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Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 31, 2016
ABC reported in September 2016 that Trump has business interests in Russia, not that the Russian ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 31, 2016
Attorney General Loretta Lynch did not invoke her Fifth Amendment protections to avoid giving in ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 28, 2016
President Obama didn't spend $3.6 million in taxpayer funds just to play golf with Tiger Woods.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 27, 2016
A viral blog post warning about the dangers of baby wipes contained several inaccurate — and pot ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 26, 2016
The DOJ issued a statement saying that voter intimidation is against federal law, not that accus ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 25, 2016
Astronomers analyzed a database of spectra from 2.5 million stars and were unable to explain the ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 25, 2016
Parental pearl-clutching about Minecraft "sex mods" was largely based on misinformation about th ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 25, 2016
Although rumors of "vote switching" in Texas are rampant, we found only one case in which a repo ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 24, 2016
A claim that 6,000 Muslim migrants were captured at the U.S.-Mexico border with forged papers is ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 24, 2016
More than 30,000 people may have signed a petition challenging the veracity of anthropogenic glo ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 21, 2016
A fake news site overstated televangelist Kenneth Copeland's anti-Hillary Clinton rant -- but no ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 19, 2016
One WikiLeaks e-mail referenced unproven rumors that the Obama campaign had "flooded" the 2008 I ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 18, 2016
A post on Bernie Sanders' Facebook page did not suggest he believes the presidential election is ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 14, 2016
A "WholeFoods" business in Australia asked customers to be mindful of gendered language, but the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 11, 2016
The term "sand n*****" does appear in e-mail sent by Hillary Clinton and published by Wikileaks, ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 6, 2016
The measure, which concerned the disposal of fetal remains, was part of a bigger anti-abortion l ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 5, 2016
An inspector general's report stated that $6 billion in U.S. State Dept. expenditures weren't pr ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 4, 2016
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump did not say veterans suffering from PTSD are "weak," "un ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 3, 2016
A clickbait web site used a misleading picture to advance a rumor about unclaimed veterans' corp ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 2, 2016
Leaked audio captured Hillary Clinton talking about disappointed millennial voters, but she didn ...
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