DidMikePenceSayHeWantsto‘Hang’GayPeople?
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Updated President Trump reportedly joked that Vice President Pence, whose views are notably anti-LGBTQ, wants to “hang” gay people.
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Buckley Family Halloween Beheading
Updated Grisly photograph purportedly shows the Buckley family, whose children beheaded their mother with an axe on Halloween.
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Did a Drag Queen in a ‘Demonic’ Outfit Read a Sexually Explicit Book to Children at a Public Library?
18 October 2017 Right-wing web sites used alarmist language and false claims to describe a reading event at a California library.
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Urban Legend: Drilled Wire
Updated A competitor one-ups a company proud of their new ultra-thin wire by drilling a hole through it.
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Trump Got a Spray Tan in the Oval Office?
18 October 2017 A staged photograph actually shows a presidential lookalike.
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US Rep: Trump Says Fallen Soldier Knew What He Signed Up For
18 October 2017 Rep. Frederica Wilson said President Trump told Myeshia Johnson, the widow of a fallen soldier, that he "knew what he signed up for." Trump denies it.
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Will Burning Bay Leaves Reduce Anxiety?
17 October 2017 A chemical compound found in the leaves of the bay laurel may affect mood, but the results are inconclusive and not necessarily relevant to bay leaf smoke.
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Did a Football Fan Sit on an American Flag While Wearing a Shirt Reading ‘I Stand for the National Anthem’?
17 October 2017 A sports news web site published the photograph, which was taken during a game between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots.
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Did ‘Mexican Drug Cartels’ Start the California Wildfires?
17 October 2017 Disreputable web sites provide no evidence to support a half-baked theory about the cause of the October 2017 fires.
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Is Ireland Lowering Its Corporate Tax Rate?
17 October 2017 Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Called U.S. President Donald Trump's claim "fake news."
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President Obama Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Weinstein, Weiner, Clinton, and Cosby?
17 October 2017 A meme claiming that President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, and Bill Cosby uses doctored images.
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Was This Coyote Given a Bath After Being Mistaken for a Dog?
17 October 2017 A photograph showing a coyote in a bathtub was circulated with an inaccurate backstory in October 2017.
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Was Freddy Krueger From ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Based on a Real Serial Murderer?
17 October 2017 The explanatory last line of a Halloween joke about a real-life Freddy Krueger was removed in subsequent shares.
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‘Trailer Park Boys’ Actor John Dunsworth Dies at 71
17 October 2017 The Canadian actor, who played Mr. Lahey on the comedy series, died after a short illness.
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Is the Mandalay Bay Security Guard ‘Missing’?
16 October 2017 Police told us that despite widespread rumors and speculation, Jesus Campos is not missing.
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Is Trump Spending More Taxpayer Dollars on Personal Travel than Obama Did?
16 October 2017 Despite preliminary indications that the Trump family's government-paid travel expenses are higher than the Obamas', Internet rumors exaggerate the disparity.
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Did a Mandalay Bay Hotel Worker ‘Vanish’ After Giving an Interview?
16 October 2017 A disreputable web site published an illogical and inaccurate conspiracy theory about a valet worker who reportedly had a brush with the Las Vegas gunman.
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Are Hurricane Maria Survivors Getting ‘Skittle Meals’ From The Government?
16 October 2017 Volunteer veterans, journalists, and others claim that FEMA is providing "meals" that are little more than unhealthy snacks to hurricane victims, but a FEMA spokesperson says images circulating online misrepresent what the agency is doing to help Puerto Ricans.
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NASA Confirms Existence of Earth’s Second Moon?
16 October 2017 While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit, this object cannot be classified as a moon.
