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Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 23, 2016
A Pennsylvania man was arrested for alleged invasion of a women's bathroom, but he was not trans ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 20, 2016
A viral Facebook post claimed Costco lied about the sale of cage-free eggs, but the retailer ope ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 18, 2016
New York voters won't be turned away from primary polling places for wearing shirts endorsing an ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 18, 2016
An Oxford University study that supposedly indicated "big butts make you smarter" was heavily di ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 15, 2016
CAIR didn't call to end Memorial Day or to replace it with a holiday honoring "Muslim terrorists."
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 15, 2016
A 2013 news story about a man filming in women's bathrooms was misrepresented as having occurred ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 14, 2016
Several online items have misleadingly claimed that Ted Cruz tried to ban dildos in Texas.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 8, 2016
A social media rumor held that new mothers or pregnant women were eligible for a free meal from ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 5, 2016
A controversial Mississippi bill expressly allowed guns in churches, but it didn't legally besto ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 29, 2016
Temporary reproductions of the Temple of Baal's arch (destroyed by ISIS in Syria) planned for Ne ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
March 29, 2016
Images claiming that waves of migrants and refugees asking for asylum are "mostly young men" are ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 28, 2016
A misleading image macro claimed Chobani's CEO vowed to "drown the United States in Muslims" and ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 28, 2016
Social media rumors claimed Bernie Sanders bused youthful disruptors to rallies, caucuses, and p ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 24, 2016
A controversy at Emory University over graffiti promoting Donald Trump led to some predictably i ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders wasn't on the New Jersey ballot in March 2016, but neither was anyone else.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton's assertion that "we didn't lose a single person in Libya" appeared to overlook ...
Written by: Dan Evon
March 15, 2016
A viral video showing molten copper being poured over a Big Mac does not demonstrate the "indest ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 15, 2016
Yes, two men were photographed wearing Nazi-style armbands in conjunction with a Donald Trump p ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 11, 2016
Parents on social media were warned about pedophiles' symbols after a little-known heart design ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 9, 2016
President Obama was previously engaged to present a keynote speech at the South by Southwest con ...
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