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.
