The famed cook, writer, and host of the CNN series "Parts Unknown" killed himself in a luxury hotel.
Snopes→ Did a Mother Deer Sacrifice Herself to Cheetahs to Save Her Fawns?
A haunting photograph and a stirring tale of maternal sacrifice: one is real, the other isn't.
Snopes→ Was Anthony Bourdain About to Expose an Elite Pedophile Ring?
Some fake news sites just can't get over their obsessions with pederasty, likely because it makes for effective clickbait material.
Snopes→ Was a Child’s Skull Found at an Alleged Sex-Trafficking Bunker Area in Tucson?
Authorities have determined a skull found roughly 20 miles from an abandoned homeless camp belonged to an adult.
Snopes→ Are More Than 10,000 Children in U.S. Detention Centers?
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that 10,773 unaccompanied immigrant children were indeed in detention facilities as of May 2018.
Snopes→ Was Pope Francis ‘Found Guilty’ of Child Trafficking and Murder?
A blog devoted to the roundly-debunked "Pizzagate" story reprinted an equally false post from 2014 about the leader of the Catholic Church.
Snopes→ Was James Doohan Shot Six Times on D-Day?
A popular meme recounting the actor's involvement with the D-Day invasion at Normandy is largely accurate, but some of the details are a little hazy.
FactCheck.org→ No Evidence of Tucson ‘Child Sex Camp’
Q: Was a recently discovered encampment in Arizona used as a “child rape camp”? A: There is no evidence to support that claim. Authorities say their investigation revealed no such criminal activity. FULL QUESTION Hi, would like your help
Snopes→ Have Children Been Fined for Operating Lemonade Stands?
Country Time promoted a "legal-ade" fund for kids fined over lemonade stands, but has that ever actually happened?
Snopes→ Did Ronald Reagan Warn Against ‘Demagogues’ Willing to Declare a Trade War Against America’s Friends?
During a 1988 radio address, President Reagan railed against those calling for trade tariffs and derided protectionism as "a cheap form of nationalism."
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Trump’s Energy Boasts
At a meeting on hurricane preparedness, President Donald Trump took credit for U.S. energy production milestones that have been expected for years, and misstated the facts in the process: Trump said the U.S. is now “the largest energy producer i
Climate Feedback→ National Geographic accurately covers research pointing to slower-moving hurricanes
SCIENTISTS’ FEEDBACK SUMMARY This National Geographic article covers a result reported in two recent studies: global warming seems to be causing the movement rate of hurricanes to slow. One study shows this trend in data going back to about 19
Snopes→ Does Muhammad Ali Need a Pardon?
President Donald Trump said that he was thinking about pardoning the boxing legend, but his conviction was already overturned.
Snopes→ Boston Man Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run After Oddly Candid Television Interview
Phocian Fitts, 23, was arrested in a fatal hit-and-run after telling a local news station that "accidents happen."
Snopes→ Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain Found Dead in France at 61
CNN confirmed the death, saying in a statement that Bourdain was found unresponsive morning by friend and chef Eric Ripert in the French city of Strasbourg.
Washington Post→ Trump’s claim that an Obama administration effort on Iran was ‘totally illegal’
The president is calling for a probe of a proposed transaction that the Senate investigated — and did not find to be illegal.
Washington Post→ Trump’s claim that an Obama administration effort on Iran was ‘totally illegal’
“The Obama Administration is now accused of trying to give Iran secret access to the financial system of the United States. This is totally illegal. Perhaps we could get the 13 Angry Democrats to divert some of their energy to this “mat
Hoax-Slayer→ Giant Table and Chairs Horse Shelter Photograph
Message featuring a photograph of horses sheltering under a giant table and chairs claims that the horse owner built the massive furniture after he was denied council permission to build a more traditional horse shelter. The post Giant Table and Chair
Snopes→ Did Donald Trump Tell Justin Trudeau That Canada Burned Down the White House in 1812?
Three news outlets confirmed that the United States president made the comment to Canada's prime minister during a phone call about trade.
Hoax-Slayer→ ‘Alton Towers 5 Free Tickets’ Facebook Survey Scam
According to a post that is currently circulating rapidly on Facebook, you can click to get 5 free tickets for the popular UK theme park Alton Towers. Supposedly, the tickets are being given away as a means of celebrating the theme park's 39th annivers
Snopes→ Is ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ Getting Rebooted?
Yet another spurious rumor about an old show returning to the small screen appeared on Facebook in June 2018.
Snopes→ Wandering Caterpillars Make for Slippery Road In Maine
The Maine Department of Transportation posted an alert for two days that the insects were making things slippery along Route 15.
Snopes→ South Dakota Sheriff Loses Re-Election, Fires Winning Deputy
Bon Homme County Sheriff Lenny Gramkow fired deputy sheriff Mark Maggs after Maggs defeated him by a vote of 878-331.
Snopes→ Man Beats Huge Odds: 2 My Million Lottery Wins in 18 Months
Le Parisien newspaper says mathematicians it queried calculated the double win at 1 chance in 16 trillion.
PolitiFact→ Fact-checking Malcolm Jenkins' posters on prisons and police shootings
After President Donald Trump disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles from a White House celebration of their Super Bowl victory on Twitter, safety Malcolm Jenkins responded with another written message. Trump complained that "only a small number of pla
Washington Post→ Be wary of the latest death toll from Hurricane Maria
Snopes→ Did Paul Krugman Say the Internet’s Effect on the World Economy Would Be ‘No Greater Than the Fax Machine’s’?
In a 1998 article about the pitfalls of making predictions about technological progress, the Nobel Prize-winning economist questioned the future role of the Internet.
PolitiFact→ President Trump's lawyers – Was initial Trump statement on Trump Tower meeting accurate, as lawyers' memo said?
The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Was initial Trump statement on Trump Tower meeting accurate, as lawyers' memo said? The New York Times made a splash when it published a document prepared by President Donald Trump’s legal team to specia
Snopes→ North Carolina Restaurant Employee Arrested for Reportedly Tainting Cheese with Rat Poison
Ricky Lee Adami was charged with distributing food containing noxious or deleterious material.
Truth or Fiction?→ Pope Francis Orders White Women to Have Children with Muslim Migrants-Fiction!
Pope Francis Orders White Women to Have Children with Muslim Migrants-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: Pope Francis supposedly encouraged white women to “breed” with Muslim migrants to counter declining birthrates. The Truth: The claim that Pope
Snopes→ Did a Georgia Lawmaker Tweet a Photograph of Nazis on D-Day?
Rep. Drew Ferguson posted — then deleted — the image from his Twitter account.
Snopes→ Poster Featuring Kindergarten ‘Lockdown Song’ Circulates on Twitter, Facebook
A Massachusetts parent's photograph of a kindergarten "lockdown song" went viral on Twitter and Facebook.
Snopes→ Did a Tennessee Hardware Store Put Up a ‘No Gays Allowed’ Sign?
The store that put up the sign in 2015 was back in the news several years later when it celebrated a Supreme Court decision in favor of a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Snopes→ Pizza Delivery Man Apprehended by Border Agents at Brooklyn Military Base
Pablo Villavicencio arrived at Fort Hamilton to deliver pizza, and wound up in an unspecified detainment center.
Snopes→ Severed Rattlesnake Head Bites Texas Man
A Texas man discovered in the most unpleasant way possible that a decapitated rattlesnake can still bite.
Snopes→ Did Roseanne Adopt an African Child After a Racism Kerfuffle?
A fake news sites capitalized on controversy involving the comedian, claiming she adopted a black child from Africa to prove she wasn't racist.
FactCheck.org→ No ‘Treason’ or ‘Bust’ for Obama
Q: Have the “feds bust[ed] Barack Obama” on felony charges? A: No. That claim is based on the false assertion that the former president committed treason in his last few months in office. FULL ANSWER A story making the rounds online ha
Washington Post→ Did Trump’s aluminum tariffs spark a $1.5 billion plant in Kentucky?
White House aide Peter Navarro keeps suggesting the Kentucky plant stemmed from Trump's policies. Is that the case?
Washington Post→ Did Trump’s aluminium tariffs spark a $1.5 billion plant in Kentucky?
“Just last Friday, we had a plant, a groundbreaking in Ashland, Kentucky, the heart of poverty in America in Appalachia. $1.5 billion aluminum rolling mill because of the president’s tax and tariff policy.” –White House aide Pet
Snopes→ First Lady Returns to Public Eye After ‘Little Rough Patch’
The first lady showed herself in publicy for the first time in nearly a month, seated alongside her husband for a briefing on the federal government's preparedness for the hurricane season.