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Did Barack Obama Visit Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day?
15 November 2018 - A circulated photograph of President Obama at the Arlington National Cemetery was intended as a contrast to President Trump.
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Were Ewok-Like Creatures Called ‘Chay Na Men’ Found Near a Cave in Thailand?
12 November 2018 - Ewoks, for the time being, can still only be found on the fictional forest moon of Endor.
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Did ‘The Grinch’ Pistachio Ad Make a Crude Reference?
14 November 2018 - A cross promotion between the new movie "The Grinch" and "Wonderful Pistachios" is genuine, but the character never stated that pistachios are "green and salty just like my nuts"
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Did Donald Trump Jr. Say ‘Let California Burn’ Because They Voted for Democrats?
14 November 2018 - President Trump’s son purportedly proclaimed that California deserves wildfires over their political choices.
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Did Obama Have Journalist Brenda Lee Forcibly Removed from Air Force One?
12 November 2018 - Barack Obama has possibly set a record for being the target of the most false political equivalencies.
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Was a Group of High Schoolers Photographed Performing a Nazi Salute?
13 November 2018 - Officials launched an investigation into the photograph of Baraboo High School students after it was posted on Twitter.
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Does This Photograph Show President Trump Visiting a WWI Cemetery in the Rain?
13 November 2018 - President Trump was widely criticized for skipping a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I due to the rain, but he did attend another event (also in the rain) to honor the occasion.
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Did Stan Lee Condemn Bigotry and Racism in a Marvel Comics Column?
14 November 2018 - In a 1968 op-ed, the comics pioneer called racial prejudice of any kind "patently insane."
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Did California Governor Jerry Brown Veto a Wildfire Management Bill, Increasing the Risk of Wildfires?
13 November 2018 - A conservative political web site drew a link between the Democrat's rejection of a legislative proposal in 2016, and the prevalence and risk of wildfires in the following two years.
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Do ‘Illegal’ Refugees Receive $3,874 Per Month from the Government?
15 November 2017 - A viral Facebook post of an apparently authentic document showing refugee benefits grossly misrepresents the document's contents.
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Secret Sisters Gift Exchange
12 November 2018 - A "Secret Sister" gift exchange scheme spread via social media promises windfalls it can't deliver.
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Did the French, But Not Trump, Attend WW1 Services at Arlington National Cemetery?
14 November 2018 - French officials participated in Veterans Day services at Arlington National Cemetery on the centennial of WW1’s conclusion.
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Costco ’50th Anniversary’ $75 Coupon Scam
13 November 2018 - Costco is not giving out free coupons to Facebook users to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary.
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Did Levi Strauss Announce a Partnership with Michael Bloomberg to Advocate for Gun Control?
10 September 2018 - Conservative web sites and the NRA gave largely accurate accounts of a September 2018 announcement by the maker of the iconic Levi's jeans.
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Is ‘Trumpy Bear’ a Real Product?
11 January 2018 - As seen on TV: "The fearless, super-plush American grizzly"
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Should You Call #77 or 112 to Contact the Police in an Emergency?
13 November 2017 - Those numbers work sometimes, but calling #77 or 112 on your cell phone will not necessarily connect you to emergency services no matter where you are.
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Will Dangerous Cosmic Rays Pass Close to Earth ‘Tonight’?
21 August 2017 - This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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Did Broward County Record More Votes Than Registered Voters in November 2018?
12 November 2018 - A viral meme used wildly inaccurate figures as part of a conspiracy theory about electoral fraud.
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Did President Trump Revoke Gun Background Checks for Mentally Ill People?
15 February 2018 - In February 2017, President Trump repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have made it easier to flag the potential sale of firearms to people with certain mental illnesses.
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Did This Video Show Obama Kicking a Reporter Out of a Press Conference?
8 November 2018 - Social media users engaged in another round of whataboutism by claiming (falsely) that a video showed President Obama kicking a reporter out of a press conference.
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Prayer Request for 30 SEALs Killed in Afghanistan
25 September 2017 - A request for prayers for the families of 30 U.S. military personnel who died when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan is several years old.
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Was a Veterans Day Tribute at Lambeau Field Not Aired by ESPN?
26 January 2012 - Television exposure of 'entertainers' before NFL games and at halftime can't be guaranteed.
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Did President Obama Decline to Lay Wreaths on Memorial Day?
28 May 2018 - Critics falsely claimed that Barack Obama was the only U.S. president not to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.
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Did Stacey Abrams Admit Her Plans May Require Georgians to ‘Turn Their Guns In’?
13 November 2018 - "The fundamental responsibility is commonsense gun safety legislation in Georgia, making sure we get dangerous weapons off the streets."
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Does the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 Bar Muslims from Holding Public Office?
20 August 2018 - Such an interpretation of the 1952 law would not only be incorrect, it would betray an egregious ignorance of the U.S. Constitution.
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Would a Proposal by President Trump Exclude Overseas Military Votes in Florida’s Elections?
13 November 2018 - If it was carried out, the president's call to finalize the preliminary election results before 16 November would discount ballots cast by Floridians overseas.
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Did Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Register to Vote as a Republican from Jail?
13 November 2018 - Cruz, who has confessed to the shooting but has yet to be convicted, has a constitutional right to vote and used that right to vote as a Republican in July 2018.
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Did ABC News Ban Flag Lapel Pins?
28 January 2018 - Misunderstandings about prior policy led to the rumor that ABC had banned their on-air news personnel from wearing American flag pins after 9/11.
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Did a 5G Cellular Network Test Cause Hundreds of Birds to Die?
13 November 2018 - The theory that a 5G network test caused the unexplained death of birds in The Hague relies on such a test's actually having taken place.
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Brian Peppers
10 April 2017 - A photograph of a man named Brian Peppers, who was a registered sex offender in Ohio, was indeed real.
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Do Recent Wildfires Match Up “Exactly” with California’s Proposed High Speed Railway?
15 November 2018 - A conspiracy theory suggests the deliberate burning of populated areas to make way for a high-speed rail system.
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Did a Broward County Employee Witness Elections Staff Filling Out Blank Ballots?
14 November 2018 - A temp worker signed an affidavit in 2016 stating she saw elections officials filling out blank absentee ballots.
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Did an FBI Report Conclude That None of the Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh Was True?
12 November 2018 - A viral Facebook post significantly misrepresented what the FBI said about sexual assault and misconduct allegations against the Supreme Court justice.
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Can Southwest and American Airlines Passengers Collect Money from a Lawsuit Settlement?
31 October 2018 - A website urging certain travelers to register advises that "it may not be economically practical" for them to collect cash stemming from a real court case.
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Thai ‘Cannibalism’ Photographs
7 August 2017 - WARNING -- DISTURBING IMAGES: Photographs purportedly showing people in Thailand carving up and consuming a human body actually depict a very different activity.
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Did Trump Just End Obama’s ‘Vacation Scam’?
1 March 2018 - President Donald Trump supposedly sent former President Barack Obama a bill for all the vacations the latter took before leaving office.
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Did an Undelivered Speech from JFK State That ‘Our Duty as a Party is Not to Our Party Alone’ But to ‘All of Mankind?’
12 November 2018 - The words of President John F. Kennedy that the world never got to hear.
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Are 300 ‘Known Convicts and Gang Members’ Among the Migrant Caravan?
13 November 2018 - A vague U.S. government press release ambiguously stated that some 270 people with criminal histories were "along the caravan route."
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Comic Book Genius Stan Lee, Spider-Man Creator, Dies at 95
12 November 2018 - As the top writer at Marvel Comics and later as its publisher, Lee was widely considered the architect of the contemporary comic book.
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Were Democrats Allowed to Vote Twice in Maryland’s Midterm Election?
12 November 2018 - A caller on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Internet talk show claimed he overheard poll workers encouraging voters to vote a second time.
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Did Democrats Elect Four Horrible People?
9 November 2018 - Criticisms of four 2018 Democratic election winners included in a meme are mostly subjective or unsubstantiated.
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Did Goodwill Offer Free Supplies to Wildfire Victims Throughout California?
14 November 2018 - Various local Goodwills in California were offering assistance to residents forced to flee the Camp Fire in November 2018, but it was not a universal, statewide policy.
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Did President Donald Trump Donate His Entire $400,000 Salary to Rebuild Military Cemeteries?
5 October 2018 - Prominent conservative commentators boosted a false, mathematically impossible rumor about the president's salary donations, taking aim at the news media along the way.
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What Does Obama Read? ‘The Post-American World’
25 September 2018 - A photograph supposedly captured Barack Obama reading a book about "a Muslim's view of a defeated America."
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Did the Same ‘Crisis Actor’ Play the Mother and Victim in Three Different Mass Shootings?
10 November 2018 - Three women who have suffered grievously deserve more respect than to be made the subject of japes or ridiculous conspiracy musings.
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Is This a Photograph of Christine Blasey Ford Partying?
23 September 2018 - Apparently any photograph of a woman semi-clothed and drinking can be used to smear the credibility of someone who reported a sexual assault.
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Is Ellen Degeneres Holding a Facebook Giveaway?
2 November 2018 - Don't fall for scams that use counterfeit Facebook accounts to falsely associate themselves with celebrities.
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Prayer Request: Child Shot by Nail Gun
2 August 2018 - A prayer request about a 22-month-old child who shot himself in the heart with a nail gun is several years old.
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Did Clint Eastwood Say Obama Was the “Biggest Fraud Ever Perpetrated on the American People”?
10 November 2018 - Eastwood made something approximating this remark in 2012, following his appearance in support of Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention.
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Is Mexico Providing Charter Buses to Transport Caravan Migrants to the Border?
12 November 2018 - Sketchy reports claimed the thousands-strong migrant caravan was being chartered to the U.S. border by tour bus.
