Evidence that Trump wears a toupee is as thin as a balding person's hair.
Snopes→ Hero or Villain, Ocasio-Cortez Remains a Media Fixation
Believe it or not, there are other members of Congress besides Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Snopes→ Were the Trumps Pictured With the Owner of a Massage Parlor Where Robert Kraft Was Arrested?
Be skeptical of memes because they are often inaccurate.
Truth or Fiction?→ 2005 Obama Immigration Quote
In January 2019, New Jersey politician Joseph Rudy Rullo shared the following meme (archived here), purportedly quoting then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama on immigration: It featured a photograph of Obama on the right, and on the left it read: “W
Washington Post→ Ocasio-Cortez’s misleading complaint: Trump did not transfer funds for the opioid emergency
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) misleadingly compares Trump's action on border-wall funding with the response to the opioid health-care emergency.
Snopes→ Does This Video Capture the Ethiopian Airlines Crash?
Tragedies are bad enough without misrepresenting them via repurposed videos.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Trump’s Budget Does NOT Contain Twenty Million Dollars for Bail
Did President Trump's latest federal budget proposal includet $20 million for bail money? No, it is a satirical report that purports Trump hid millions in the budget document to post bail for his children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. The sto
Snopes→ Did Donald Trump Autograph a Woman’s Chest?
If we had to sum up "Trump mania" during the 2016 presidential campaign in one image, this might be it.
Snopes→ Did Joe Biden Once Say He Was Conservative About Most Issues Except Civil Rights?
Biden's remarks appeared in an expansive 1974 'Washingtonian' feature following his election as the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.
Snopes→ Did the Girls Scouts Give Their ‘Highest Award’ to a Girl for Her Pro-Choice Activism?
Right-leaning and pro-life websites extrapolated loosely from a single November 2018 interview that did not mention abortion.
FactCheck.org→ Henry Winkler, Democratic Donor, Still Alive
Quick Take Henry Winkler is very much alive, contrary to a hoax story about his “death” that falsely claims he had been a “huge Trump supporter” and an NRA member. Full Story Henry Winkler, the actor who has been on televis
Snopes→ White House Mum on if Trump Really Thinks Dems ‘Hate’ Jews
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders refused several times to say whether Trump really thinks Democrats "hate" Jews.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Video Does NOT Show Moment Pilot Lost Control Before Ethiopian Plane Crashed
Does this video show the moment the pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 Boeing that crashed on Sunday? No, that's not true: the footage is from a different crash in Afghanistan in 2013. An example of the video was published on Instagr
PolitiFact→ Elizabeth Warren – Comparing Manafort's sentence to life sentence for man who sold pot
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | Comparing Manafort's sentence to life sentence for man who sold pot As far back as 2010, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was hiding a lot of money from the IRS. Prosecutors
Snopes→ Former Nebraska GOP Staffer Under Fire for Racist Remarks
Benett Bressman, 22, made the remarks anonymously in an online chat forum for fans of the YouTube show "America First."
Snopes→ Minnesota Politician Thanks Fox for Condemning Jeanine Pirro
On her show, Pirro noted that the Minnesota representative wears a hijab in apparent conformity to a directive in the Quran.
Snopes→ Is This Really a Video of a 10-Month-Old Baby Drawing?
Internet users were impressed with (and skeptical of) a video showing a baby drawing cartoon characters.
Snopes→ InfoWars Video Tries to Tie the ‘Four Families of California’ to Internet Domain Name Non-Profit
For discerning readers, the word to perhaps consider here is "apophenia."
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Say Her Girl Scout Troop Recreated the Challenger Launch?
On March 10 2019, right-wing YouTube personality and conspiracy theorist Mark Dice shared the following meme to Twitter and Facebook about a purported quote by U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: First, Dice tweeted the image above with no
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Brooke Shields Photographed for ‘Playboy’ at Age 10?
In March 2019, the following meme appeared (archived here), containing a claim that Brooke Shields had been photographed suggestively for Playboy magazine when she was just ten years old: The image featured a heavily made-up small girl who looked q
Snopes→ Are Chicken Nuggets Made From Feathers Heading to Store Shelves?
Some readers were a little confused, or maybe just grossed out, about a potential future food.
Snopes→ Trump Signed Bibles. Heresy? Many Religious Leaders Say No
President Donald Trump was just doing what he could to raise spirits when he signed Bibles at an Alabama church for survivors of a tornado outbreak, many religious leaders say, though some are offended and others say he could have handled it differently.
Snopes→ Decline in Readers, Ads Leads Hundreds of Newspapers to Fold
More than 1,400 cities and towns across the U.S. have lost a newspaper over the past 15 years, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Snopes→ A Shredded Book, a Passport: What 157 Victims Left Behind
Searchers in white gloves and canvas shoes picked their way through the scattered remains of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302.
Snopes→ Trump Reviving His Border Wall Fight with New Budget Request
In seeking $8.6 billion for more than 300 miles of new border wall, the budget request would more than double the $8.1 billion already potentially available to the president for the wall after he declared a national emergency.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Catholic Church Did NOT Introduce Burka For Altar Servers
Did the Catholic Church announce that it was introducing burkas for altar servers? No, it is a satirical report published by a California website that specializes in social commentary through satire. The claim that the church is planning to ad
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Was NOT Fired From Hot Dog On A Stick In 2008 For Incompetence
Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired from Hot Dog on a Stick in 2008 for incompetence? No, that's not true: a meme making that claim uses an actual 2008 photo of a Hot Dog on a Stick worker named "Stephanie" but at the time Ocasio-Cortez was in
Washington Post→ President Trump stretches others’ comments to claim ‘no collusion’
Trump is miscasting various comments by Richard Burr, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort's attorney and the judge who sentenced Manafort.
Hoax-Slayer→ ‘Private Investor Seeking Partnership’ Scam Email
This email claims to be a person who has a lucrative investment fund proposal to discuss with you. The post ‘Private Investor Seeking Partnership’ Scam Email appeared first on Hoax-Slayer.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Kenya: Authorities Did NOT Release Barack Obama’s ‘Real’ Birth Certificate
Did Kenyan authorities release former U.S. President Barack Obama's "real" birth certificate? No, this is a fake report pubished initially by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving
Snopes→ As Newspapers Close, Role of Government Watchdog Disappears
Newspapers are closing or being consolidated at an astounding rate, often leaving behind what researchers label as news deserts — towns and even entire counties that have no consistent local media coverage.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Muslim Figure Did NOT Say "We must have Pork-Free Menus Or We Will Leave U.S."
Did a "Muslim Figure" demand pork-free menus and did she threaten to leave the U.S. if the request wasn't complied with? No, that's not true: the story has been repeated over and over again by dozens of websites using pictures of several diffe
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Picture Does NOT Show Muslim Women in Michigan With `Down With USA´ Written On Their Hands
Was a picture showing Muslim women with "Down With USA" written on their hands really takein in Michigan? No, the image is from Iran. The caption on the image is incorrect, it reads: This is not the Middle-East where America is hated and musl
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Millennials Are NOT Getting The Bernie 2020 Logo Tattooed On Their Face
Are millenials getting their face tattooed with the Bernie 2020 logo as a show of support? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a righ-leaning satire website, it is not true. The story originated from an article published on March 8,
Snopes→ Emoji Gods Approve Skin-Tone Options for Couples of Color
The emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people “holding hands.”
Snopes→ Japanese Woman Honored by Guinness as Oldest Person at 116
The global authority on records officially recognized Kane Tanaka in a ceremony at the nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan's southwest.
FactCheck.org→ Video: Trump on Deficits
In this week’s video, CNN’s Jake Tapper explains that federal deficits are rising rather than “coming down,” as President Donald Trump claimed. On Feb.19, Trump said, “I don’t know if you noticed, but deficits seem to
Snopes→ Are IV Drug Users Cleaning Needles by Poking Toilet Paper Rolls?
A single, unverified Facebook post is never a good reason to panic.
Snopes→ Did a Man Fake Being Deaf and Dumb for 62 Years to Avoid Listening to His Wife?
There have to be easier ways to ensure domestic tranquility.
Snopes→ FDA Approves 1st Immunotherapy Drug to Treat Breast Cancer
Mount Sinai breast cancer specialist Dr. Amy Tiersten in New York called it "tremendously exciting news."