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Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Feb. 16, 2021
Donald Rumsfeld’s book about the Ford administration, “When the Center Held,” recounts an intera ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 3, 2021
AOC was targeted with another round of bad-faith smears after giving an emotional, firsthand acc ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Jan. 16, 2021
Could one of Barbie’s countless hobbies involve the occult?
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
Aug. 24, 2020
Kid Rock, “MyPillow Guy,” and “MAGA hat kid” were just a few of the speakers rumored to be lined ...
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
June 18, 2020
Widely shared posts from the summer of 2020, purportedly citing the CDC and U.S. Occupational Sa ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 23, 2019
A left-leaning website took the U.S. Department of Justice to task for its intervention in a sex ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 27, 2020
A meme circulating on social media appeared to serve up some xenophobia.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 20, 2020
The Redmond, Wash.-based computer company published a patent for a "cryptocurrency system using ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 31, 2018
A viral Facebook post created the misleading impression that carrying blue pumpkin buckets on Ha ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 17, 2019
Company spokesperson: "Chick-fil-A restaurants are individually owned and operated, so wage deci ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 10, 2018
A fake news site twisted information about self-serve kiosks into a false claim that McDonald's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 14, 2019
A meme uses a series of miscaptioned and out-of-context images to make its supposed point about ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 6, 2019
A viral video took off on Facebook in June 2019, but its claims about food safety were far from ...
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 28, 2019
A bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom leaves the decision whether individuals convicted of ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 26, 2018
Confirmation bias includes cherry-picking information that confirms a particular point of view w ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Alex Kasprak
March 27, 2017
Claims that this invasive species presents a 911-level emergency overstate the risk that they po ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
July 30, 2018
Statistics sound much scarier when presented without any context whatsoever.
Written by: Dan Evon
May 22, 2018
The policy has been in place for years and is not connected to BSA's decision to include girls.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 10, 2018
A number of international news reports about a Russian woman who was "embalmed alive" sensationa ...
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