Fact Check Claim: "Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich, not the poor. The richest 1% evade 3 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has a yacht tax deduction.

Fact Check Claim: A Black man named Nathaniel Alexander invented the folding chair in 1911; an image appearing with the meme in August 2023 is a photograph of him. Description: A meme appeared in the ...

Fact Check Claim: Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu said “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” Description: A widely shared quote on social media attributes the claim ...

Fact Check 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 ...

In May 2022, news and discussion about a formula shortage in the United States ticked upward — but the severity of the issue and its implications were rarely clear in broad reporting. Complicating ...

On March 28 2022, an Imgur user shared a meme (“The Father of Fake News”) about President Ronald Reagan, the Fairness Doctrine, and the Federal Communications Commission’s purported role in the rise ...

Fact Check Claim: Mark Twain said "the truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie." Description: A meme attributed the quote ‘the truth has no defense against a fool determined to ...

Fact Check Claim: "Ukrainian refugee kids arrive in Italy, and start at local schools. On their first day they enter nervously. You won’t believe what the Italian kids did next …" Description: A video ...

On December 13 2021, a poem titled “When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan” spread virally on Facebook and Twitter: The poem read as follows: When You Meet A Member Of The Ku Klux Klan Robert L.

Fact Check Claim: Image shows an authentic January 4 2021 memo issued by Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, restricting deployment of the Washington, DC National Guard on January 5th and 6th ...

On September 28 2021, the following post made a series of claims about humans having “stripes” that are visible but aren’t actually stripes, and that they also have stripes that do exist but which are ...

On September 2 2021, a Facebook post featured an image suggesting that George Orwell’s 1984 was banned in the United States for pro -communist sentiments, but that it was also banned in the USSR for ...