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Was Reka Gyorgy Banned by Twitter for Criticizing Lia Thomas? A number of misleading and false claims were circulated after Lia Thomas became the first...

False

Did Turkish Football Fans Chant Putin ‘Looks Like a Dick’? This wasn't the first time anti-Putin chants rained down from the rafters.

True

Does Watching the Super Bowl Cause Male Impotence? It was rumored that a 2011 study “successfully linked the watching of high-intensity, fast-paced sports...

Research In Progress

Did Kevin Garnett Say ‘If You Can’t Win Alone, You’re Considered a Bum?’ Twitter users were quick to point out that K.G. played with Paul Pierce and Ray...

False

Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict 2022 Super Bowl Winner? "The Simpsons" is not nearly as good at "predicting" things as the internet believes the...

False

No, the 2022 Olympics Aren’t Taking Place at Chernobyl These photographs are real, but this isn't the site of a nuclear power plant, much...

Miscaptioned

us bobsled team renames their sled biden

No, the US Bobsled Team Didn’t Name Their Sled ‘Biden’ The claim originated with a website that bills itself as "the most reliable source of...

Labeled Satire

Do 25% of Americans Believe God Decides the Super Bowl Winner? An intriguing claim was shared widely online during the build-up to the 2022 Super Bowl.

Mostly True