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Written by: Dan Evon
Dec. 13, 2016
A video shows a man kicking a woman down a set of stairs in Berlin, but reports that the man was ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 12, 2016
Multiple media outlets report the couple has called it quits, but their public statements say ot ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 12, 2016
A viral "action alert" advises citizens to flood a federal agency's inbox in order to initiate a ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 12, 2016
There's no evidence Macy's donated to Planned Parenthood, nor that it pulled funding from the gr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 9, 2016
There is a lot of speculative science from the man who invented the diet, but actual evidence in ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 9, 2016
An anti-Muslim web site posted an inaccurate report that Muslim migrants are doing "sick" things ...
Written by: David Emery
Dec. 8, 2016
Dr. Vanessa Kerry's nonprofit organization, Seed Global Health, was awarded Peace Corps funding ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 6, 2016
A speculative article held that the iconic fragrance Chanel No. 5 could be discontinued "for a v ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 5, 2016
Shortly after the Army Corps of Engineers denied Energy Transfer Partners a Dakota Access Pipeli ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 1, 2016
Brandon Hall was convicted on several counts of election fraud related to a 2012 signature gathe ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 1, 2016
Scarelore about purported lead levels in vintage Pyrex does not jibe with the popular brand's do ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Dec. 1, 2016
Rumors hold that Ace Hardware refuses to sell propane to Dakota Access pipeline protesters.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 29, 2016
A 2006 article in New York Magazine publicly outed the brother of Kathleen "KT" McFarland.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 29, 2016
According to rumors on social media, the President-elect owns shares in the company building the ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 29, 2016
A viral video claiming that the BBC used computer graphics to capture a viral "iguana vs. snake" ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 26, 2016
Rumors that Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornaments were made in China wer ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 24, 2016
According to a biography of President Kennedy, the chief executive proclaimed that "nobody can s ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 21, 2016
A November 2016 article reported that the Democratic presidential candidate regularly asked her ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 21, 2016
There's no evidence that a threatening letter from a new "neighborhood town watch" was circulate ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 18, 2016
A series of stories has revived the claim that the retail chain was "ditching political correctn ...
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