For years, right-wing politicans and bloggers have leaned on the legend of a purported attempt by Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1983 to contact the leader of the Soviet Union when seeking to counter ...

A March 2009 event honoring then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lingered on for years online, as both right-wing political figures and internet “influencers” have linked her to another ...

In October 2019, the following post appeared on Reddit’s r/gaming, claiming that the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) title Super Mario Bros. was 40 KB (kilobytes) of data, and the ...

Summary of eRumor: After Thomas Edison’s school teacher called him addled or mentally ill in a letter, Edison’s mother hid the letter from the young inventor and homeschooled him so that Edison could ...

Claim: Resilience targeting is a new type of attack linked to disinformation campaigns Description: Rapid changes in the climate and technological advances have led to the emergence of hybrid threats, ...

On January 9 2020, an article about Army veteran Jerry Holliman and the repossession of his prosthetic legs after a payment dispute between the VA and Medicare was shared to Reddit’s r/nottheonion, a ...

Text at the start of the meme contained a clue involving the source of the claim, as it began “maybe not mind-blowing, but …” The exact same text appeared in a number of blog posts based on a popular ...

Claim: 12ft.io removes paywalls on major news sites, enabling readers to access higher quality news content. Description: The claim asserts that 12ft.io, a website, bypasses paywalls on major news ...