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Original reporting from Snopes and others.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 17, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2018)
The sites are accused of defamation.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Jan. 4, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 7, 2018)
The attorney general's lawsuit alleges employees gave immigration officials information for more ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Jan. 13, 2018
A terrifying emergency alert falsely notified people of an incoming ballistic missile strike.
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 8, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 11, 2018)
The Sweden-based apparel retailer received complaints of racism after a product page on their we ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 15, 2017 (Updated: Dec. 18, 2017)
Policy analysts will be instructed to avoid using seven words in budget policy documents, includ ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 14, 2017
Far-right Internet trolls boasted about having documents that could end a senator's career.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Dec. 1, 2017
No explanation has been offered as to why the LA Weekly's reporters and editors were laid off.
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
Nov. 1, 2017 (Updated: Nov. 5, 2017)
A gunman reportedly opened fire in a story at a shopping center in the Denver suburb of Thornton.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Nov. 2, 2017 (Updated: Nov. 3, 2017)
Twitter said in a statement that an employee "inadvertently deactivated" the president's persona ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 26, 2017 (Updated: March 2, 2018)
The Clean Label Project claims 80 percent of baby formula contains arsenic.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 26, 2017)
Though the star has not performed at the halftime show since the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 4, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 5, 2017)
Text messages presented in a news article appear to suggest Murphy asked Shannon Edwards to have ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Oct. 2, 2017
The musician suffered cardiac arrest a week after he and his group the Heartbreakers had conclud ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 27, 2017
Lawmakers had called for the now-waived Jones Act to be suspended to allow aid to more easily re ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 23, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Investigamos a las habladurías que fueron circuladas tras el temblor del 19 de Septiembre de 2017.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 22, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Some of the phone numbers shared widely on social media no longer appear to be working or have b ...
Written by: David Emery
Sept. 21, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Residents of Everglades City, Florida remain on notice to boil drinking water due to fecal conta ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Sept. 21, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
We examine various claims that have surfaced after the 19 September 2017 earthquake.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Sept. 6, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 11, 2017)
The Socrates Institute for Therapeutic Immunology is run from the home of a defiant 92-year-old ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
April 19, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 1, 2017)
Juicero's founder said the machine generated enough force to "lift two Teslas."
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