Was COVID-19 found in toilet paper, and does the virus breed in tissue fibers? No, neither is true: A meme making the claim about COVID-19 - which is the medical term for the novel coronavirus - was made by an online prank generator. A virus d
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A NYC Man With Suspected Coronavirus Did NOT Drop Dead In The Middle Of The Street
Did a man wearing a mask - and suspected to have coronavirus - drop dead on a street in Queens, New York? No, that's not true: The story was put out by a site that shares satirical stories and includes as its tagline a disclaimer which reads,
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Publish Sponsored Facebook Post Asking For Help With "Escaped" Coronavirus Patient
Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention run a sponsored Facebook post asking for help locating a man who arrived from Hong Kong, and who refused to go into mandatory quarantine? No, that's not true: the post was published by a Faceb
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: It Is NOT Known Whether Novel Coronavirus Has A Survival Rate Of 99.7%
Does a graphic being widely shared on social media accurately represent the survival rate of the novel coronavirus at 99.7%? No, that's not true: Scientists do not know precisely how many people survive or recover from the virus versus how man
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Common Cold Is NOT The Only Type Of Coronavirus
Is the novel coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, just the common cold? No, that's misleading: Coronaviruses can cause different illnesses in animals and humans, including the common cold. However, they can also lead to severe diseas
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Patents Do NOT Mean Deadly Diseases And Viruses Were Created Or Invented In A Lab
Do patents accurately suggest that deadly diseases and viruses were created or invented in a lab? No, that's not true: Just because there is a patent for something does not mean it works. Likewise, patents for diseases and viruses do not mean
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Journalist Did NOT Claim A Coronavirus Patient Was Murdered
Did a Seattle journalist tweet out a claim that a coronavirus nursing home patient was the victim of a homicide? No, that's not true. The tweet did go out from a TV reporter, but it was doctored to claim that a murder investigation was underwa
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: President Trump Did NOT Say Reading Mein Kampf Had A Profound Effect On Him
Did President Trump say that reading Mein Kampf, the manifesto written by Adolf Hitler, "had a profound affect (sic) on me"? No, that's not true: The quote has previously been shown to be completely made up, and the claim that Hitler's book ha
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: VP Pence Did NOT Urge People With Coronavirus To Go To The Police
Did Vice President Mike Pence send out a tweet urging people infected with the novel coronavirus to go to the nearest police station? No, that is a hoax. Pence did not send such a tweet, as evidenced by the fact that no record of this tweet ex
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Doctors Do NOT Recommend Carbon Filter Face Masks To Prevent Coronavirus Spread
Do doctors recommend carbon filter face masks to prevent Coronavirus? No, this is misleading. Videos falsely claims that doctors are recommending carbon filter masks as a way to protect families, although the FDA and CDC both concluded that th
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Recommend Men Shave Their Beards To Protect Against Coronavirus
Did the CDC recommend men shave their beards to protect against coronavirus? No, that's not true: The claim is based on a Centers for Disease Control chart created in 2017 to advise medical workers on the best practices for wearing "filtering
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Priest Did Give Congregation Rat Poison To Prove They’re Above Death; Fortunately Nobody Died
Did a priest in South Africa kill members of his congregation when he fed them rat poison? No, that's not true: A man known as Prophet (not Priest) Light Monyeki of Grace Living Hope Ministries insists that, yes, in 2017 he mixed rat poison wi
Snopes→ In 2 Years, Florida ‘Red Flag’ Law Removes Hundreds of Guns
A 23-year-old man who posted on Facebook, “I don't know why I don't go on a killing spree." A West Palm Beach couple who shot up their home while high on cocaine. A 31-year-old Gulf Coast man who pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a motorcyclist.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Nancy Pelosi Was NOT Involved In One Of The Biggest Heroin Busts
Was Nancy Pelosi involved in one of the biggest heroin busts? No, that's not true: The claim that Speaker Pelosi was involved in a massive operation to smuggle heroin into the United States from southeast Asia has no basis in fact. A published
FactCheck.org→ Biden on the 1994 Crime Bill
Former Vice President Joe Biden defended his support decades ago for a controversial crime bill, saying in a speech in South Carolina, “There’s another part of my long record that’s being grossly misrepresented: the 1994 crime bill.” W
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pornhub Does NOT open first SIPR website
Did Pornhub open a SIPR (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network) so that U.S. military personnel can access pornography in war zones? No, that's not true: The claim was made in a satirical article published by a humor website targeted at mili
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Smell Like Popcorn?
On April 4 2019, the following warning appeared (archived here), containing the claim that marijuana smokers can detect fentanyl contamination by smell: In addition to its primary claim (that fentanyl-laced weed smells like popcorn), the post cont
Truth or Fiction?→ Does Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana Smell Like Popcorn?
On April 4 2019, the following warning appeared (archived here), containing the claim that marijuana smokers can detect fentanyl contamination by smell: In addition to its primary claim (that fentanyl-laced weed smells like popcorn), the post cont
Truth or Fiction?→ Was Samuel L. Jackson an ‘Unknown Heroin Addict’ Before ‘Pulp Fiction’?
In February 2019, a Facebook page shared the following biographical meme about Samuel L. Jackson, detailing a purported drug addiction that defined his life before he got clean, which was around the time he appeared in Pulp Fiction. Alongside the mem
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Say Masturbation Is No Longer A Sin
Did Pope Francis declare masturbation is no longer a sin for followers of the Catholic Church? No, that's not true: the quote was made up by a Spanish website with a well hidden satire disclaimer and it later translated the story for its Engl
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking the State of the Union
Summary President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address included many claims that were familiar to fact-checkers. He has repeated most of these assertions before: Trump wrongly claimed El Paso transformed from one of the most dangerous citie
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO Man Hospitalized After Inserting a Battery Up His Butthole to Boost His Energy
Did a 19-year-old boy get admitted to hospital because he stuck a battery up his rectum hoping to get more energy? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Spanish satire website and later got translated for their English-language vers
Lead Stories→ Fake News: 63-year-old Daycare Owner Did NOT Breastfeed Toddlers in Public While Smoking Crystal Meth
Did 63-year-old daycare owner Ivanka Kuklinski from Columbus, Ohio breastfeed toddlers in public while smoking crystal meth? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing ficti
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Study Did NOT Find Taking The Piss Out Of Your Partner Strengthens Your Relationship
Did a study from the University of Kansas find that mocking your partner strengthens your relationship? No, that's not true: a lighthearted summary of some research findings was posted with a headline that misrepresents and even contradicts t
Snopes→ Chris Brown Accuser Alleges Multiple Rapes, Lawyer Says
Lawyer Franck Serfati told The Associated Press on Thursday the woman alleges she was forced to take cocaine and raped by the three men at a Paris hotel.
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Illinois Boy Was NOT Unable To Unlock His iPhone X Because Of A Pimple
Did an unnamed Illinois teenager get a pimple on his face causing his iPhone to not recognize him anymore so he could no longer unlock it? No, that's not true: the story was made up by the English version of a Spanish satire website, it is no
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Coast Guard Employee Did NOT Tell Cops She Was Forced Into Prostitution By Government Shutdown
Did Coast Guard employee Marleen Freeman tell the cops who arrested her for prostitution that she was forced into it to cope with the effects of the recent government shutdown. No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertai
Truth or Fiction?→ United States President Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech
On the evening of January 8, 2019, United States President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office on the topic of immigration and what he calls a humanitarian and national security crisis on the country’s southern border as a shut
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Pelosi Daughters NON EXISTENT Drug Trafficking Charges DID NOT Mysteriously Disappear
Did the drug trafficking charges against two of Nancy Pelosi's daughters mysteriously disappear after their mother became Speaker of the House? No, that's not true: the charges didn't exist in the first place. The story was published by a lib
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Nancy Pelosi’s Daughters NOT Arrested Smuggling Contraband at the Border
Were Nancy Pelosi's daughters, Pamela, 22, and Loreen, 25 arrested at the Mexican border carrying cocaine and "bloogies"? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Nuns Did NOT Cook Magic Shrooms By Mistake, Did NOT End Up In Orgy
Did some nuns in Albacete, Spain cook magic mushrooms by accident and did they end up in an orgy afterwards? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Spanish entertainment website and later got translated to English (sort of) for the i
Lead Stories→ Fake News: President Trump Did NOT Order Drug Tests for All Members of Congress
Did ¨President Trump order drug test for all congressmen and -women so he could replace the ones that failed it with people appointed by himself? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate g
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Did NOT Have Woman’s Brain Transplanted and Did NOT Have Five Car Crashes in Two Weeks
Did a man named Phil Robertson from Scranton in Pennsylvania get a brain transplant of a woman who died in a car accident and did he subsequently have five car crashes in two weeks? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian ent
Lead Stories→ Fake News: FBI Raid at NSA Employee’s Home Did NOT Reveal Over 16,000,000 ‘Dick Pics’
Was an NSA agent by the name of Hillary Wang charged after 16 million "dick pics" were found on her computer during a raid at her house? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website specializing in invented ta
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Did NOT Divorce Caucasian Wife After DNA Test Proves He Is Of 9% African descent
Did 37-year-old Jeffrey McAllister from Massachusetts divorce his Caucasian wife after finding out through a DNA test that 9% of his descent was from Africa? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Did NOT Lose 200 Pounds in Six Months by Drinking Menstrual Blood
Did a Milwaukee, Wisconsin man named Martin Sanders lose 200 pounds by drinking menstrual blood? No, that's not true: the story about the bizarre and disgusting weight loss method was invented by a Canadian website that creates stories about
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Trans-species Man Did NOT Identifies as Turkey & Does NOT Want to Ban Thanksgiving Day
Did a 42-year old man from Oklahoma named James O'Keefe call for a ban on Thanksgiving Day because he identifies as a trans-species turkey? No, that's complete nonsense: the story was made up by a Canadian website that invents stories about b
FactCheck.org→ The 2018 FactCheck Awards
Summary It is our tradition on Election Day to set aside our fact-checking role and instead highlight funny, odd and entertaining ads from the campaign cycle. These are noteworthy for reasons other than making false or misleading claims (though some ma
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Did NOT Beat Little Brother After He Found Him Masturbating During "No Nut November"
Did 21-year-old Sergio Lopez from Albuquerque get arrested for beating up his little brother after he found him masturbating while taking part in the "No Nut November" internet challenge? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a notori
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO Vaginayoga Instructor Arrested After Police Receive 200 Sexual Harassment Complaints
Was a Californian yoga instructor named Donald O'Keefe (aka "Sri Shiva Vaginanda") arrested after the cops received 200 sexual harrassment complaints about his "Vaginayoga" classes? No, that's not true: the story originally appeared on a site