A website that allows users to create fake tweets from public figures is behind false reports that U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tweeted that President Trump is determined to start war with North Japan.
Rumors that Sen. Kamala Harris had an affair with a married man and used it launch her political career have been circulating since the early 1990s, but they’re mostly fiction.
Once again, online trolls used a “prank” website to attack the Texas lawmaker.
A prolific “satire” blog regurgitated its own joke about the New York senator.
A right-wing smear campaign targeted the newspaper and tried to derail its reporting on Moore.
President Trump retweeted ant-Muslim videos in November 2017. One of the videos does not show a Muslim migrant attacking a Dutch boy, as it claims.
False claims that President Obama banned nativity scenes at the White House have been circulating since 2009, and they persist today.
“Health” blogs seized on and regurgitated outdated, false claims yet again.
False claims that Canada pays illegal refugees $3,874 per month are based on a misleading document posted on Facebook.
A satire story was — as usual — mistaken as real by some readers who didn’t see the displayed disclaimers.
