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Was Teargas Used ‘Once a Month’ at the Border Under the Obama Administration?
Stories attempting to justify a cross-border chemical attack on unarmed people in Mexico omit crucial details and show no supporting evidence.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 27, 2018
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Were Photographs Showing the United States Firing Teargas at a Crowd in Mexico ‘Staged’?
Images of a woman pulling two children away from chemical agents at the international border were quickly decried as fake — but they are real.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 26, 2018
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Did Leeds Trinity University Ban Capital Letters to Avoid Frightening Students?
A widely misinterpreted memo launched a thousand think pieces about “snowflake” students.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 20, 2018
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Does a Photograph Prove that Michael Avenatti (or Keith Ellison) Badly Beat a Woman?
A years-old image of unknown provenance is being used as “proof” of abuse claims against specific individuals.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 19, 2018
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Is a Caravan of Central American Asylum-Seekers Demanding Special Treatment?
Rumors that hundreds of people waiting in Tijuana are insisting on only receiving specific dishes while they wait for their asylum claims to be processed come from a doctored image.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 19, 2018
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Did United States President Donald Trump Threaten to Withhold Disaster Funding from California?
Fires raging in the north and the south of the state left dozens dead, hundreds missing, and thousands without homes, which Trump inaccurately blames on poor forest management by the state.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 12, 2018
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Was the Thousand Oaks Shooter Identified as a Man of Middle Eastern Descent?
Hoaxes about the suspect started to pop up almost immediately after a mass shooting at a southern California nightclub.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 8, 2018
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Did a CNN Reporter Assault a White House Employee?
Rumors appeared about Jim Acosta after a woman tried to take away his microphone during a press conference.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 7, 2018
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Are Members of a Refugee Caravan Defiling American Flags on Their Way to the United States?
Various photographs purporting to show members of a caravan of asylum-seekers en route to the United States border were stolen and repurposed from unrelated protests.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 6, 2018
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Were Seven Children Rescued From Smugglers Embedded in a ‘Migrant Caravan’ in Guatemala?
A story about smugglers in a group of people making their way to the United States border to seek asylum is light on details.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 1, 2018
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Is the United States the Only Country that Offers Birthright Citizenship?
A claim made by United States President Donald Trump about “jus soli” bears no resemblance to reality.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 30, 2018
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The Florida Mail Bombs Are Not ‘False Flags’
Various attempts to link suspect Cesar Sayoc, Jr. to politically motivated frame-up jobs do not hold water.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 29, 2018
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Did a Caravan of Central Americans Beat Up Police in Mexico?
Various years-old images have been reappropriated from Mexican media to spread coördinated disinformation about a caravan of asylum-seekers traveling through Mexico.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 24, 2018
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Will Hurricane Willa Hit a Refugee Caravan in Mexico?
Reports that the two are destined to intersect fail to take into consideration the country’s true size.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 23, 2018
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The ‘All Democrats Voted Against a Social Security Raise’ Meme
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again — don’t get your news of the day from unsourced, uncredited statements on social media, no matter how viral they might be.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 19, 2018
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Is the Media Covering Up ‘the Real Story’ About Jamal Khashoggi?
A video from a man wearing a colander on his head is predictably short on facts and evidence — but long on baseless speculation.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 17, 2018
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The Case of the Monsanto Deer
A photograph showing a deer covered in tumors is real, but it has been recycled with a misleading description.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 16, 2018
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Do Mobile Phones and Other 4G Devices Contain an ‘E911 Chip’?
Claims made by a colorful cybersecurity and cryptocurrency figure had people on social media abuzz.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 4, 2018
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Were the Obamas Forced to Surrender Their Law Licenses?
Controversy and scandal over a 2018 Supreme Court nominee led to the resurrection of a decade-old email hoax.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 4, 2018
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The ‘Amy Schumer Is Actually Christine Blasey Ford’ Conspiracy Theory
Disinformation purveyors are offering up increasingly creative explanations for a California professor’s sexual assault claims against a Supreme Court nominee.
Truth or Fiction · English · Oct 1, 2018
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