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A tweet from Occupy Democrats claimed there was breaking news and said that an unhinged conservative husband and wife interrupted an elementary school track-and-field meet, accused a 9-year old girl with short hair of being a boy, and demanded that the young girl produce her birth certificate in the middle of the race or be disqualified.

9-Year-Old Girl's Gender Allegedly Questioned by Couple at Track Meet

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Jordan Liles
Jun 15, 2023 An altercation at a children's track meet in British Columbia left a young girl traumatized, acc ...
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Did President Trump Establish a 'Religious Office' in the White House?

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Dan MacGuill
May 4, 2018 A Facebook meme gets the basic facts right but misses some important context.
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Why Are NFL Players on the Sidelines for the National Anthem?

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Arturo Garcia
Oct 24, 2016 For much of the NFL's history, players weren't present on the field during the playing of "The S ...
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Is the Supreme Court Deciding Whether to Nullify the 2016 Election?

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Kim LaCapria
Feb 24, 2017 A petition challenging the 2016 U.S. presidential election results has long since died on the vi ...
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Did Donald Trump Acknowledge the Threat of Climate Change to His Irish Golf Course?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Dec 10, 2018 The 45th president has been adamant and consistent in describing global warming and climate chan ...
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Did Georgia's Secretary of State 'Block' the Registrations of 53,000 Voters, Most of Them African-American?

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Dan MacGuill
Oct 17, 2018 Left-wing Facebook pages weighed into Georgia's gubernatorial race with widely shared memes abou ...
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Did Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Register Her Yacht in the Cayman Islands?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Aug 17, 2018 Several viral memes made unfounded assumptions based on the complicated inner workings of the De ...
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Were None of 154 Mass Shootings in 2018 Committed by a Black Man, Illegal Alien, or Woman?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jul 15, 2018 A hyperpartisan Facebook page gave readers an incomplete picture of mass shootings in America in ...
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Is This Audio of Detained Children Crying for Their Parents?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 19, 2018 ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unname ...
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Are These Immigrant Children in Orange Jumpsuits?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jun 11, 2018 A viral Facebook post falsely implied a photograph of youngsters in orange jumpsuits shows detai ...
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Did Samuel L. Jackson Tweet About Overpaid 'Modern Mumble Rappers' and Teachers' Pay?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
May 3, 2018 A poorly-formatted purported Twitter quote attributed to the actor is just a hoax.
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Did Jane Goodall Compare Donald Trump's Actions to Primate Dominance Behavior?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Apr 25, 2018 A meme about United States President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron possibly ref ...
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Did Abraham Lincoln Order the Execution of 38 Dakota Fighters?

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Dan MacGuill
Mar 14, 2018 After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions ...
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Does the Dow Jones Do Worse Under Republican Presidents?

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Dan MacGuill
Feb 8, 2018 A Facebook meme purporting to prove that the Dow suffers under Republican presidencies ignores k ...
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Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

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Dan MacGuill
Jan 31, 2018 Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in th ...
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Did Ivanka Trump 'Scold' Poor Parents for Not 'Investing' in Food?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov 8, 2017 Web sites misrepresented an analysis of child care costs presented by President Donald Trump's d ...
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Did the U.S. Government Pay for Mitch McConnell's Polio Care in the 1940s?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jun 23, 2017 Partisan web sites misrepresent the source of funding for the Republican senator's care as an in ...
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U.S. Intelligence Confirms Trump was Blackmailed by Russia?

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Bethania Palma
Jan 10, 2017 Memos leaked to the media claiming that Trump was blackmailed by Russian operatives are not veri ...
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Mitch McConnell Blocked New Bipartisan Panel From Investigating Russian Hacks?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Dec 27, 2016 The senator said in a television interview that he thought existing committees were capable of i ...
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Did Every Single School Marching Band in DC Just Boycott Trump’s Inauguration?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Dec 15, 2016 While many high school marching bands did not apply to play at Donald Trump's inauguration, thes ...
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