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Did a Super Bowl 'Streaker' Win $374K on Prop Bet?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Feb 9, 2021
Wanna bet?
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Did Biden Block Giving Aid and Admittance to Vietnamese Refugees in 1975?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Feb 16, 2021
Donald Rumsfeld’s book about the Ford administration, “When the Center Held,” recounts an intera ...
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Did AOC Exaggerate the Danger She Was in During Capitol Riot?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Feb 3, 2021
AOC was targeted with another round of bad-faith smears after giving an emotional, firsthand acc ...
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Is the Barbie Ouija Board in This Photo Real?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Jan 16, 2021
Could one of Barbie’s countless hobbies involve the occult?
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Is This a Real Lineup of Speakers at the Republican National Convention?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug 24, 2020
Kid Rock, “MyPillow Guy,” and “MAGA hat kid” were just a few of the speakers rumored to be lined ...
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Are These Claims About the Effectiveness of Face Masks True?
Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Jun 18, 2020
Widely shared posts from the summer of 2020, purportedly citing the CDC and U.S. Occupational Sa ...
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Did DOJ Say Christian Employers Should Be Allowed to Force Women to Wear Skirts?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Aug 23, 2019
A left-leaning website took the U.S. Department of Justice to task for its intervention in a sex ...
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Are Birds Eye and Green Giant Vegetables 'All from China'?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
May 27, 2020
A meme circulating on social media appeared to serve up some xenophobia.
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Does Microsoft Own Patent '666' About Implanting Microchips in People?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Apr 20, 2020
The Redmond, Wash.-based computer company published a patent for a "cryptocurrency system using ...
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Does Carrying a Blue Halloween Bucket Signify That a Trick-or-Treater Has Autism?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Oct 31, 2018
A viral Facebook post created the misleading impression that carrying blue pumpkin buckets on Ha ...
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Does Chick-fil-A Pay a $17 Starting Wage?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Sep 17, 2019
Company spokesperson: "Chick-fil-A restaurants are individually owned and operated, so wage deci ...
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Is McDonald’s Replacing All Cashiers with Robots to Avoid a Minimum Wage Increase?
Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jun 10, 2018
A fake news site twisted information about self-serve kiosks into a false claim that McDonald's ...
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Is This 'Your City on Socialism' Meme Accurate?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jun 14, 2019
A meme uses a series of miscaptioned and out-of-context images to make its supposed point about ...
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Are These ‘16 Easy Tests' to Check Whether Food Is 'Fake or Real'?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jun 6, 2019
A viral video took off on Facebook in June 2019, but its claims about food safety were far from ...
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Did California Pass a Law Protecting Pedophiles Who Rape Children?
Written by:
David Emery
Feb 28, 2019
A bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom leaves the decision whether individuals convicted of ...
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Is Europe Governed by 'Childless Baby Boomers'?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov 26, 2018
Confirmation bias includes cherry-picking information that confirms a particular point of view w ...
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Should People Call the Police if They See a New Guinea Flatworm?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Alex Kasprak
Mar 27, 2017
Claims that this invasive species presents a 911-level emergency overstate the risk that they po ...
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Has Iowa Seen an Alarming Increase in “Vanishing Children” This Summer?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Jul 30, 2018
Statistics sound much scarier when presented without any context whatsoever.
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Did the Boy Scouts of America Implement a New Policy Requiring Condoms to Be Available at Jamboree?
Written by:
Dan Evon
May 22, 2018
The policy has been in place for years and is not connected to BSA's decision to include girls.
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Was a Russian Woman 'Embalmed Alive' with a 'Formalin Drip'?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Apr 10, 2018
A number of international news reports about a Russian woman who was "embalmed alive" sensationa ...
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