Category archive page for Fact Checks.The conversation around homelessness in America's cities is often charged with political undertones, yet at its core, it's a human issue that transcends party ...

Fact Check Claim: "Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade 3 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction.

[rs_post_grid_series style=”style2″ show_author=”no” show_comment=”no” orderby=”date” post_per_page=”20″] ...

In August 2022, a miscaptioned 2019 Facebook post about a man purportedly arrested for huffing glitter glue at a county fair recirculated in groups and on pages.

Social media posts claiming humans have invisible stripes were suddenly everywhere in September 2021.

On April 8 2021, Imgur user “superscout0233” shared the following meme with a fakeout ending, initially stating that “under [Joseph] Stalin,” the Soviet Union’s gulags held 22 percent of the world’s ...

A midwestern meme contains claims that Lake Superior, because of its size and frigid waters, "never gives up her dead." ...

This is part of an ongoing series about how communities can fight back and protect themselves against weaponized disinformation. Any anthropologist can tell you that human lives are created, bounded, ...

On August 22 2020, the Facebook page “She Is Fire” attributed the following poem — often titled “If I Have to Say It” — to artist Frida Kahlo: What became a text-only post read: Frida Kahlo to her ...

Dubious and dated stats about missing children spread in August 2020, among them that 2,000 children go missing in the United States every day.

A self-professed “targeted individual” on Twitter apparently had his hackles raised by a group of German satiricists enough to try to use their work to gin up fears about “Antifa.” “Ever seen an ...

According to blog posts and memes, the derogatory connotation of the word comes from historical resentment toward women who were able to earn their own way without having to depend on a man to support ...