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Did Theresa May Say Pedophiles Should Be Allowed to Adopt Children?

18 January 2019 - A notorious junk news site twisted a news story from 2010.

Does This Photograph Show Barack Obama Dressed as Satan?

19 June 2018 - "Gosh, that cheek looks awfully familiar. Could it be ... Satan?"

Did Miley Cyrus Tell Fans to Worship Satan If They Want to Be Rich and Famous?

11 December 2018 - Contrary to what's claimed on various junk news websites, the pop songstress has not sung the praises of Satan.

Was This Man Whipped to Death for Molesting a 2-Year-Old Child?

16 October 2018 - A graphic video showing a man being brutally whipped while tied to a post is real, but it has nothing to do with pedophilia.

Did a Harvard Study Prove That “Unvaccinated Children Pose No Risk” to Other Kids?

14 August 2018 - A deceptive and factually challenged blog post on an anti-vaccine website is not a “Harvard study,” yet its false conclusions are popular on social media.

Was an FBI Agent Who Exposed Hillary Clinton’s Corruption Found Dead?

23 July 2018 - A murder-suicide involving an FBI agent and his estranged wife was not related to a probe into Hillary Clinton and the "Fast and Furious" scandal.

Did HR 6054 Make It Illegal to Join ‘Antifa’?

16 July 2018 - The Unmasking Antifa Act, introduced to Congress in June 2018, would create additional penalties for committing "certain offenses" while in disguise.

Did a Study Find That Almost All Politicians Are ‘Actual Psychopaths’?

21 June 2018 - A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented the finding of a May 2018 study about the geographic distribution of psychopaths.

Did Chelsea Clinton Tweet That ‘Pizzagate Is Real’?

11 June 2018 - Neither Pizzagate nor a "child trafficking bunker" in Tucson is real or connected to illegal activities supposedly directed by Hillary Clinton.

Did Snopes.com Ignore a Huge Child Trafficking Bust in Arizona?

11 June 2018 - Disreputable web sites conflated a homeless camp in Arizona with a carefully orchestrated multi-agency sting on the other side of the country.

Is McDonald’s Replacing All Cashiers with Robots to Avoid a Minimum Wage Increase?

10 June 2018 - A fake news site twisted information about self-serve kiosks into a false claim that McDonald's is replacing all their cashiers with "robots."