What Was the Actual Death Toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico?
28 August 2018 Puerto Rico officials originally set the hurricane's death toll at 64, but a more recent assessment of the data yielded an estimate closer to 3,000.
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South African Filmmaker Killed by Giraffe
5 May 2018 Carlos Carvalho died after being head-butted by a giraffe while filming at a safari lodge.
Conspiracy Theorists Arrested for Harassing Sutherland Springs Church Have Been Released
7 March 2018 Robert Ussery and Jodi Mann have been stalking mass shooting victims and survivors for months.
Conspiracy Theories About Mass and School Shootings, Explained
21 February 2018 Why do the same sets of shooting conspiracy theories and tropes appear every time there is a horrific mass shooting — and where do they come from?
Parkland High School Shooting Rumors, Hoaxes, and Conspiracy Theories
15 February 2018 A number of unverified claims about the Parkland school shooting spread on social media in its immediate wake.
Did Politicians Tweeting ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Receive Millions of Dollars from the NRA?
15 February 2018 After a mass shooting at a Florida school, comedy writer Bess Kalb made a powerful point about campaign donations with a series of tweets.
Train Carrying Republican Lawmakers Collides With Garbage Truck
31 January 2018 Injuries and at least one fatality are reported, but no passengers on the West Virginia-bound train were severely hurt.
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
28 December 2017 Despite sixty years of speculation about the deaths of nine skiers in Russia's Ural Mountains in 1959, the "Dyatlov Pass incident" is still an unsolved mystery.
Pearl Harbor Rumors Which Will Live in Infamy
7 December 2017 A list of fact checks related to the 7 December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, the event that launched the United States into World War II.
Multiple People Killed in Northern California Mass Shooting
14 November 2017 Authorities in Rancho Tehama said the gunman was allegedly involved in "a domestic violence incident" before the attack.
Former Blue Jays, Phillies Pitcher Roy Halladay Dies in Plane Crash
7 November 2017 The baseball player's private airplane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida on 7 November 2017.
Men Hailed as Heroes for Chasing Texas Church Shooter
Two locals chased Devin Kelley as he tried to flee the scene of the Sutherland Springs church shooting.
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Is Vaping ‘Linked’ to Brain Damage, Narrow Arteries, and Lung Damage?
22 May 2019 A blog post selling detox solutions does not a peer-reviewed, scientific study make -- but we took a look at its claims anyway.
What Are Those Bizarre ‘Bathe in My Milk’ Photographs About?
21 May 2019 "Is there really a granny standing by with a gallon of the good stuff?"
Does an Ohio Anti-Abortion Bill Ban Birth Control?
20 May 2019 HB 182 would limit access to, but not criminalize use of, certain types of birth control.
What We Learned Investigating a Network of Islamophobic Facebook Pages
16 May 2019 Snopes traced at least 24 Facebook pages spreading anti-muslim vitriol and conspiracy theory back to one evangelical activist. Here's why that matters.
Did the Wall GoFundMe Founder Use the Money to Buy a Yacht?
16 May 2019 We found no evidence Brian Kolfage purchased a yacht or any other personal items with money raised for building a border wall.