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Did Two Men Confess to Assaulting a Woman Accusing a Supreme Court Nominee?
The confessions were anonymous, reported thirdhand, and lacked corroborating evidence.
Truth or Fiction · English · Sep 28, 2018
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Did the WSJ Report That a Sex Crimes Prosecutor Was Pulled from a Hearing for Asking Too Many Questions?
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Truth or Fiction · English · Sep 28, 2018
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Justin Trudeau’s Surprise Conversion
A story about Canada’s prime minister converting to Islam was a recycled version of a years-old classic.
Truth or Fiction · English · Sep 27, 2018
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Was FBI Special Agent David Raynor Murdered Before Clinton Testimony?
A seemingly shocking story that was pushed by a site that peddles outright disinformation bore little resemblance to any facts.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jun 22, 2018
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‘Lots of Free Stuff Ahead’ Sign at U.S.-Mexico Border
Rumor has it that the Democratic National Committee posted a sign at the United States’ southern border that reads “lots of free stuff ahead.”
Truth or Fiction · English · May 2, 2018
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Did Sen. Kamala Harris Use an Affair With a Married Man to Launch Her Career?
Rumors that the California Democrat used a relationship with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown to launch her political career years later are mostly fiction.
Truth or Fiction · English · Dec 22, 2017
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‘Muslim Migrant Beats Up Dutch Boy’ and ‘Islamist Mob’ Videos
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted videos that purportedly show a migrant attacking a Dutch boy on crutches and a mob killing a boy.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 29, 2017
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United States President Barack Obama Banned Nativity Scenes at the White House?
False claims that President Obama banned nativity scenes at the White House have been circulating since 2009 — and they persist today.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 24, 2017
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Do Refugees Receive $3,874 (or $1,890) Per Month in Federal Assistance?
A viral post on social media has been recycled since it first appeared as a letter to the editor in a Canadian newspaper — in 2004.
Truth or Fiction · English · Nov 16, 2017
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AIDS Warning: Worker Adds HIV-Positive Blood to Pepsi?
Text messages and social media posts warn people not to drink Pepsi products for the next couple weeks because an HIV-positive worker added his blood to the company’s products.
Truth or Fiction · English · Aug 23, 2017
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Did John McCain Start the USS Forrestal Fire?
A smear about former Senator John McCain sparking a deadly 1967 fire on an aircraft carrier that killed 134 sailors is as persistent as it is untrue.
Truth or Fiction · English · Aug 7, 2017
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President Richard Nixon Pardoned John McCain of War Crimes?
Rumors appeared in 2017 that the former Arizona senator had confessed to war crimes and to committing treason during the Vietnam War, but that he was later pardoned.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jul 25, 2017
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‘Muslim Invasion: UK Overrun’ Chain Emails
Chain anti-Muslim emails that have circulated for years have been effectively weaponized into corrosive disinformation online, and the claims they make are false, but tenacious. We found the central theme of the emails — that the U.K.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jun 15, 2017
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President Trump Ends Barack Obama’s ‘Vacation Scam’?
A rumor that United States President Donald Trump “cracked down” on his predecessor Barack Obama’s “vacation scam” or sent the former president a bill for vacations that weren’t part of official state business reappears on social media periodically.
Truth or Fiction · English · Jun 7, 2017
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‘Clinton Body Count’ Rumors
A list of people associated with the Clintons who have died originated in the mid-1990s with an organization that made a name for itself in the conspiracy theory world.
Truth or Fiction · English · Mar 17, 2015
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