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Did Donald Trump Acknowledge the Threat of Climate Change to His Irish Golf Course?

The 45th president has been adamant and consistent in describing global warming and climate change...

Did Georgia’s Secretary of State ‘Block’ the Registrations of 53,000 Voters, Most of Them African-American?

Left-wing Facebook pages weighed into Georgia's gubernatorial race with widely shared memes about alleged voter...

Did Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Register Her Yacht in the Cayman Islands?

Several viral memes made unfounded assumptions based on the complicated inner workings of the DeVos...

Were None of 154 Mass Shootings in 2018 Committed by a Black Man, Illegal Alien, or Woman?

A hyperpartisan Facebook page gave readers an incomplete picture of mass shootings in America in...

Is This Audio of Detained Children Crying for Their Parents?

ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unnamed detention facility.

Are These Immigrant Children in Orange Jumpsuits?

A viral Facebook post falsely implied a photograph of youngsters in orange jumpsuits shows detained...

Did President Trump Establish a ‘Religious Office’ in the White House?

A Facebook meme gets the basic facts right but misses some important context.

Did Samuel L. Jackson Tweet About Overpaid ‘Modern Mumble Rappers’ and Teachers’ Pay?

A poorly-formatted purported Twitter quote attributed to the actor is just a hoax.

Did Jane Goodall Compare Donald Trump’s Actions to Primate Dominance Behavior?

A meme about United States President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron possibly references...

Did Abraham Lincoln Order the Execution of 38 Dakota Fighters?

After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions...

Does the Dow Jones Do Worse Under Republican Presidents?

A Facebook meme purporting to prove that the Dow suffers under Republican presidencies ignores key...

Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in the last...