Florida
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 9, 2019
Claims of rampant looting are a persistent type of racial hoax during disasters.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 3, 2019
The hurricane was making its way across the Atlantic Ocean in early September 2019, but that doe ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 20, 2019
Two viral social media posts described a terrifying, life-threatening ordeal for a woman leaving ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Nov. 16, 2018
Zombie voters, or zombie claims?
Written by: Bethania Palma
Nov. 13, 2018
A temp worker signed an affidavit in 2016 stating she saw elections officials filling out blank ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2018
If it was carried out, the president's call to finalize the preliminary election results before ...
Written by: David Emery
Oct. 30, 2018
The photograph is genuine, but the story behind it is significantly more complicated than it may ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 11, 2018
Some social media users recycled an old, digitally-edited photograph that misled viewers in Octo ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 22, 2018
The incident at a Hialeah drive-thru formed the basis of a viral Facebook video.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 19, 2018
Sexual harassment in public spaces is widespread, but police said they had no evidence of traffi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 20, 2018
A viral meme, based on a piece of investigative journalism, left out some important context in t ...
Written by: Dan Evon
June 1, 2018
Florida police arrested the woman on drug charges after they allegedly found her in possession o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 30, 2018
Several conspiracy sites attempted to link the deaths of two Broward County sheriff's deputies, ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
April 17, 2018
City of Jacksonville employee Melinda Power was targeted by Jaguar Power Sports after citing the ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
March 26, 2018
Conspiracy theorists used an out-of-context clip to raise "questions" about a statement made by ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 23, 2018
A fake news item falsely led social media users to believe that Florida became one of the states ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 20, 2018
Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
Written by: Dan Evon
March 19, 2018
Reports that an all-female construction company built a bridge that collapsed at Florida Interna ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 21, 2018
A very small minority of Twitter users expressed a critical view of Andrew Pollack, but none app ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 19, 2018
A set of images showing President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump in the aftermath of di ...
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