7 August 2018 One of the most famous of America's Founding Fathers might have agreed with this sentiment, but we found no evidence that he wrote it.
1 July 2018 The anachronistic use of the word "media" is just one reason to be skeptical of a quote often attributed to American author Mark Twain.
19 June 2018 Nixon's former Secretary of State once said Trump could go down in history as "a very considerable president," but he never praised him as the "one true leader."
7 June 2018 In a 1998 article about the pitfalls of making predictions about technological progress, the Nobel Prize-winning economist questioned the future role of the Internet.
18 May 2018 The former Facebook vice president supposedly advocates solving global problems by exterminating 90 percent of the human population.
2 February 2018 There is no evidence that the billionaire supporter of progressive causes ever uttered such a remark, or anything resembling it.
10 January 2018 Detractors have seized on Winfrey's 2013 comments about how to end racism in an effort to discredit the star.
22 November 2017 A dramatic account of the great genius's dying moments has been disputed by historians for centuries.
11 September 2017 A meme widely circulated in the wake of a controversy over Confederate memorials does not accurately reflect Abraham Lincoln's and Robert E. Lee's views on slavery and the Civil War.
19 July 2017 Unreliable web sites stoked partisan rancor by attributing a fake, self-aggrandizing quote to former President Barack Obama.
17 July 2017 A widely-shared quotation comes from a 2014 theater adaptation, not the original 1949 novel.
29 February 2016 A fabricated quote from Hillary Clinton saying children should be "raised and trained" by the state originated with one of many sites dedicated to spreading misinformation about presidential candidates.
