Fact Checks

Is the Hotel Closest To Area 51 Fully Booked for the ‘Storm Area 51’ Event?

Buzz about the viral “Storm Area 51” Facebook event continued through July 2019, including an article on a site called AnonNews.co about a flurry of hotel bookings for the venue nearest the famed military installation: Despite the warnings from the air force, and from a number of high profile Area 51 researchers, the event continues …

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Do Federal Guidelines List ‘Go Back Where You Came From’ as an Example of Harassment?

On July 16 2019, producer Nick Ramsey sent a tweet referencing a controversy involving U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that people unhappy with the United States should “go back to where they came from”: Ramsey referenced a controversy which arose in response to tweets published by Trump on July 14 2019: In the tweets, Trump …

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Did Riots and War End Japanese Internment, Slavery, and World War II?

On July 16 2019, the Facebook page “Close the Camps” shared the following screenshot (archived here) of a Facebook post asserting that riots, rebellion, and war were necessary to put a stop to concentration camps, World War II, and slavery: The original post was published by Facebook user Rick Glass that same day. In full, it …

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Did United States President Barack Obama Remove a ‘Citizenship Question’ from the Census?

In July 2019, a Facebook user shared a text-based status update about the census-related “citizenship question,” which claimed that such a question had existed on the United States Census for 160 years — until President Obama outlawed it: Like so many other status update memes before it, the text against a colorful background with no supporting evidence and …

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