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Written by: David Emery
Sept. 8, 2016
Pundits accused President Obama of insulting Americans after he used the word "lazy" during a to ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 1, 2016
President Obama did not pardon a convicted drug dealer named Wendell Callahan, who was later cha ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 30, 2016
A newspaper's video critique of FDA guidelines for healthy food led to claims the agency said Fr ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 29, 2016
While a South Carolina high school principal prevented students from bringing a U.S. flag to a f ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 25, 2016
Cheez-It brand crackers contain the synthetic preservative TBHQ, but the latter is not "created ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 25, 2016
The pharmaceutical company Mylan (manufacturer of the EpiPen), not their CEO personally, donated ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 25, 2016
Some Binghamton University resident assistants utilized material with the words "stop white peop ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 25, 2016
Social media rumors inaccurately reported water was cut off to Native Americans protesting again ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Aug. 22, 2016
The Australian government has limited test strip subsidies for some diabetics, but there's been ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 20, 2016
A Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat was outfitted by a custom aftermarket shop with an elephant leath ...
Written by: David Emery
Aug. 15, 2016
How the red-bellied pacu, a mostly vegetarian cousin of the piranha with human-like teeth, gaine ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 9, 2016
A misleading article reported that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had "refused" to congr ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Aug. 5, 2016
A nine-month-old 'Meet the Press' statement by Donald Trump about primary campaign polling was m ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 5, 2016
Legal analyst Eugene Volokh's article about an EEOC decision pertaining to the Gadsden flag ("Do ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 28, 2016
The Vermont senator will return to his roots as an Independent, but not as a protest over leaked ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 27, 2016
A meme claiming Rep. Elijah Cummings misattributed responsibility for the 15th Amendment during ...
Written by: David Emery
July 26, 2016
An Internet meme claiming that Hillary Clinton was forced to return $200,000 worth of furniture, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 21, 2016
The details of a shelter's Pokemon Go dogwalking program were exaggerated for a heartstring-tugg ...
Written by: David Emery
July 20, 2016
Saul Alinsky made a literary allusion to Lucifer as 'the first radical known to man' in an epigr ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 19, 2016
After Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing Michelle Obama's 2008 DNC speech at the 2016 RNC ...
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