Q: Is the American Red Cross “not helping California wildfire victims” but helping members of the “caravan”? A: No. The American Red Cross is helping in California, and the global Red Cross network is helping migrants from Cen
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Lead Stories→ Fake News: German Green Party NOT Calling For Ban on Indoor Candle Usage
Is the Green Party in Germany calling for a ban on indoor candle usage because it produces too much nitrogen oxides? No, that's not true: the whole story was made up by a right-wing satire website. The ban and the quote it was based on are c
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: Red Cross Is Helping California Wildfire Victims AND Mexico Migrant Caravan
Is the Red Cross helping migrants in the caravan crossing Mexico to the U.S. border but ignoring California wildfire victims? No, a meme making that claim is completely false. There is no truth to it at all. An example of the meme appeared in
Snopes→ Trump’s Thanksgiving Menu Includes Turkey and Grievances
President Donald Trump used a Thanksgiving Day call to troops deployed overseas to pat himself on the back and air grievances about the courts, trade and migrants heading to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Lead Stories→ Old News: AC/DC Guitarist and Co-Founder Malcolm Young Died… In 2017
Did Malcom Young, the guitarist and co-founder of the band AC/DC, pass away? Yes he did... in 2017. News of his death went viral again in 2018 around the one-year anniversary of his passing. He is indeed dead but it is old news. The story b
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Hillary Clinton NOT Arrested Drunk Outside of Trump Plaza Hotel
Was Hillary Clinton arrested drunk outside Trump Plaza Hotel? No, that's not true: the entire story was made up by a liberal satire website that tries to fool conservatives and Trump supporters into sharing ridiculously fake stories to teach
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Cannibal Tribe in Papua New Guinea Did NOT Offer To Take In Refugees
Did a cannibal tribe from Papua New Guinea offer to take in 48,000 refugees per year in the context of the UN Global Compact for Migration, also known as the Migration Pact? No, that's not true: the story originated from a German satire websit
Snopes→ Los Angeles Prosecutor Declines Felony Case Against Avenatti
The L.A. district attorney declined to prosecute attorney Michael Avenatti on felony domestic abuse charges and referred the case to the city attorney for a possible misdemeanor case.
Hoax-Slayer→ Fake-News Story Claims Millions of Turkeys Recalled Due to Avian Virus
Circulating report claims that millions of Thanksgiving turkeys have been recalled by the CDC because of concerns that they may harbour an avian virus. The post Fake-News Story Claims Millions of Turkeys Recalled Due to Avian Virus appeared first on Ho
Hoax-Slayer→ WhatsApp Gold and Martinelli — How a Valid Warning Got Mixed Up With a Silly Hoax
Unfortunately, this message combines information about a real threat with a silly virus hoax and this has caused considerable confusion. The post WhatsApp Gold and Martinelli — How a Valid Warning Got Mixed Up With a Silly Hoax appeared first on
FactCheck.org→ Bad Math Leads to Bogus Voter Fraud Claim
Q: Was “voter fraud” responsible for Democratic wins in Orange County, California? A: There have been no credible complaints of voter fraud in Orange County following the midterm elections. FULL ANSWER The traditionally Republican stro
Climate Feedback→ False claims of a coming ice age spread through ecosystem of unreliable news sites, blogs, and social media accounts
Solar Minimum expected to cool the upper-atmosphere Recently, a claim that we are heading towards a mini ice age has been popping up across the web. This was the subject of a widely discussed Metro article titled “A mini ice age could be on the way w
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→ Meme Resurrects, and Distorts, 2009 Airport Scuffle
Q: Did President Barack Obama in 2009 have a journalist named Brenda Lee removed from Air Force One? A: No. Lee, a newspaper contributor, was physically removed from a press area outside the aircraft in Los Angeles — before Obama arrived. FULL
PolitiFact→ Mailbag: Post-election edition
With the 2018 election season now complete, it’s time to go back and look at some of the reader commentary our articles have inspired. Here are a selection of emails we received from readers -- positive, negative, and neutral. They have been edit
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Police Did NOT Uncover Illegal Raccoon Fighting Ring In North Bay, Canada
Did police in North Bay, Ontario, Canada uncover an illegal raccoon fighting ring? No, that's not true: a Canadian satire website pretending to be a local news site made up the story. It is not real. The story originated from an article publis
FactCheck.org→ Trump Repeatedly Errs on California Wildfires
Over the past two weekends, as two major wildfires devastated communities in Northern and Southern California, President Donald Trump has inaccurately blamed the state’s forest management practices for the blazes. He has also wrongly said that raking
Snopes→ People in US, Canada Warned to Not Eat Romaine Lettuce
Health officials in the U.S. and Canada told people to avoid eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak.
FactCheck.org→ False Quote Attributed to Rep.-Elect Ilhan Omar
Q: A meme circulating online attributes an inflammatory remark about white men to congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar. Did she actually say that? A: No. The meme falsely attributes a fictitious quote to Omar. FULL ANSWER Ilhan Omar was one of the first tw
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Leeds Trinity University Ban Capital Letters to Avoid Frightening Students?
In November 2018, an odd little article about a leaked internal memo at Leeds Trinity University appeared in the British tabloid the Express. According to the story, the university told professors not to use all capital letters in order to avoid R
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Drug Dealer NOT Busted After Calling 911 to Report 150-lbs of Cocaine Stolen
Was 29-year old José Ramirez arrested by the LAPD after he called the cops to complain other drug dealers had stolen his stash? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes up tales about weird cr
FactCheck.org→ Trump Spins Midterm Election Results
President Donald Trump in recent days has engaged in some post-election spin: Trump said with his help Gov. Rick Scott won the Senate race in Florida “by a lot.” That’s a relative phrase, but Scott’s victory over incumbent Sen.
Truth or Fiction?→ Does a Photograph Prove that Michael Avenatti (or Keith Ellison) Badly Beat a Woman?
A bombshell report about Michael Avenatti, a high-profile lawyer turned potential politician, appeared on celebrity news and gossip site TMZ in November 2018: Michael Avenatti, who became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her battle with Pre
Truth or Fiction?→ Is a Caravan of Central American Asylum-Seekers Demanding Special Treatment?
An annual caravan of people traveling from Central America to the United States to seek asylum and refuge from extreme violence in their home countries has been beset by falsehoods, lies, and disinformation from start to finish — from baseless claim
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Trump Did NOT Warn Flu Shots Are The Greatest ‘Scam’ In Medical History
Did President Trump warn flu vaccinations are the greatest scam in medical history? No, that's not true: an old article from YourNewsWire (a fake news website that got fact checked so often it had to change its name) was copied by several othe
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Florida’s ‘Neck Guy’ Did NOT Undergo Plastic Surgery To Decrease Neck Size
Did drug suspect Charles Dion Mcdowell get judge-approved surgery to reduce his neck size after his mugshot went viral because his neck seemed to be unusually wide on it? No, that's not true: the surgery part of the story was made up by a kno
Snopes→ World Toilet Day Highlights Global Sanitation Crisis
"Half the world needs toilets. They don't have them because the infrastructure is too expensive for governments."
Lead Stories→ The Ultimate Christopher Blair and America’s Last Line of Defense Reading List
Yesterday Eli Saslow at the Washington Post wrote a fantastic article about Christopher Blair, a man from Maine who has been trolling conservatives and Trump supporters online for years and occasionally even made a living out of it. Blair's ma
Lead Stories→ Fake News: NO Whistleblower Investigating 2018 Broward County Election Fraud Shot Himself Dead
Did a whistleblower investigating 2018 election fraud shoot himself and was no gun recovered from the scene? No, that's not true: a political website run by a marketing firm ran a story about Beranton J. Whisenant, Jr., a federal prosecutor wh
Lead Stories→ Fake News: No 12 (or 123) Dead At ‘Gilets Jaunes’ Protests in France
Were 12 (or 123) people killed at the "Gilets Jaunes" protests in France today, and were 2300 people seriously injured? No, that's not true: so far the protests against rising fuel prices have caused one death but a Belgian satire website with
Lead Stories→ Fake News: African Migrant Did NOT Make Mother And Three Daughters Pregnant Before Running Away
Did an African migrant from Senegal seek revenge on his boss in Paris, France by impregnating the wife and three daughters of the man before taking flight? No, that's not true: the story was created by a French website with a well hidden satir
Truth or Fiction?→ Are Young People Boiling Menstrual Pads to Get High?
A strange story about Indonesian youths finding a interesting “new” way to get high made the rounds in November 2018: taking sanitary pads, boiling them into a soup, and then drinking the ensuring slurry after it cooled. The pads, the stor
FactCheck.org→ Video: False Florida Recount Claims
In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper looks at several dubious claims about voter fraud in Florida. Tapper begins with a claim President Donald Trump made in an interview with the Daily Caller on Nov. 14, in which he accused Democra
FactCheck.org→ FBI Didn’t Reach Conclusion on Kavanaugh Accusations
Q: Did the FBI issue a report that “confirms” that “none” of Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers’ stories were true? A: No. Contrary to false social media claims, the bureau did not reach any conclusion in its background inv
Lead Stories→ Fake News: French Army Not Getting Ready to Stop Demonstration of Yellow Vests
Is the French army preparing to break up roadblocks tomorrow during a planned protest against high fuel prices (by protesters that have taken up yellow safety vests as their sign)? No, that's not true: the protest are real but the "news" about
FactCheck.org→ Viral Meme Makes Up Trump Jr. ‘Quote’
Q: Did Donald Trump Jr. say, “Let California burn” for voting blue? A: No. That’s a made-up quote from a self-described “parody” site. FULL ANSWER A viral meme falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr. blamed Californians for the o
Snopes→ Was the ‘Intern’ Who Took Acosta’s Microphone Actually the Deputy Press Secretary?
Who's in charge of the White House press microphone? Internet sleuths muddied the waters.
FactCheck.org→ Partisan Site Spins Falsehoods in Georgia Election
Q: Have provisional ballots been rejected as “duplicates” in Fulton County, Georgia? A: No. A provisional ballot labeled “duplicate” means it has been counted, not rejected. FULL ANSWER More than a week after the midterm el
FactCheck.org→ Deutch Misses Mark in Attack on Scott
Rep. Ted Deutch accused Florida Gov. Rick Scott of “trying to manipulate the outcome of elections,” providing examples that went beyond the facts: Deutch claimed Scott took “the unheard of approach of trying to use his own state police to impoun