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Written by: Dan Evon
April 20, 2017
A video that purported to show a member of a lost tribe was shared with a variety of unproven cl ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 19, 2017
A claim that Russians have compromising information on Rep. Jason Chaffetz appears to be unfounded.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 18, 2017
This claim, rooted in scientific research that is increasingly seen as flawed, is likely an arti ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 17, 2017
While we cannot prove a negative, there are few mechanisms by which a MOAB-like bomb would benef ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 13, 2017
While we cannot rate the questions addressed by the study, we can rate the study itself as appar ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 10, 2017
Twitter sleuths alleged that the racial justice movement was funded by the Putin administration, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 10, 2017
Online reports claimed that President Trump owns stock in Raytheon and thereby profited from a U ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 6, 2017
A 2014 study makes this argument, but its findings are complex and contested.
Written by: Dan Evon
April 5, 2017
A video purportedly captures Muslims trapped in a cage, but it likely depicts a training exercis ...
Written by: David Emery
April 5, 2017
An investigation by the West Virginia Department of Health was inconclusive, though evidence sug ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 4, 2017
It's unclear whether the men were really ejected from the restaurant for eating too much, or jus ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 31, 2017
A number of web sites are citing a tweet about President's Trump's possible resignation that con ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 29, 2017
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee owns stock in a California winery that says the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 28, 2017
The House Intelligence Committee chair was a speaker at an event for public figures and official ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 27, 2017
The "mainstream media" isn’t covering the discovery of a cargo container full of young black wom ...
Written by: David Emery
March 25, 2017
Unreliable sources claimed that Denis Voronenkov, a Vladimir Putin critic who was shot dead in U ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 21, 2017
A sharp blow to the gonads is a painful experience, but could it also be a deadly one?
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 14, 2017
According to rumors, the jewelry chain regularly replaces customers' stones with fakes — but the ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 10, 2017
A family member told us Ukrainian-American Alex Oronov died of an illness and had no ties to Pre ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 27, 2017
A Kansas chiropractor was awarded a patent, but we found no evidence Mensez "menstrual glue" exi ...
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