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Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 24, 2016
A online image claims Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren made a comically villainous stat ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 21, 2016
We found no evidence the Russian president issued a statement accusing Western countries of usin ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 20, 2016
An indecipherable noise recorded during the third 2016 presidential debate led to claims that so ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 13, 2016
A viral quote attributed to former LDS Church President and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 13, 2016
Mike Pence's father did run a chain of gas stations, but we found no evidence that those busines ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 13, 2016
A photograph purporting to show a recently discovered “giant” human footprint has been making wa ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 12, 2016
There's no hard evidence that President Obama was captured sporting an erection in front of fema ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Oct. 11, 2016
Viral news stories claimed that "new research" proved your intelligence is inherited only from y ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 11, 2016
Rumor holds that Donald Trump disparaged his wife Ivana's breast implants to the media during th ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 9, 2016
A long-circulating but completely uncorroborated rumor holds that Bill Clinton raped an Oxford c ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 6, 2016
Although medical records of JFK's hidden health struggles included use of unconventional drugs, ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 6, 2016
There's no evidence that a 15-year-old girl who asked Hillary Clinton a question during a Town H ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Oct. 5, 2016
A report that the defense minister of Malawi sent a lewd video of himself to American singer Bey ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 3, 2016
A letter that has been passed around since at least 2009 has questionable origins.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 2, 2016
A rumor that that Donald Trump stiffed his wedding caterer is old and completely unsubstantiated.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 30, 2016
We could find no proof that the supposed brain supplement InteliGEN enhances brain function or i ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 29, 2016
No evidence suggests that former FBI Director James Comey financially benefited from Bill and Hi ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 27, 2016
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had papers on their lecterns that were likely just notes t ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 23, 2016
Ramapo College officials in New Jersey deny they threatened to cancel a event over its patriotic ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 20, 2016
A viral image purportedly depicts a deep-fried rat head served to a customer at a Harlem-area Po ...
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