In April and May 2025, claims that a judge slapped White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spread online.  For example, a YouTube video (archived) that had 75,000 views as of this writing made ...

The French president was traveling by train with the leaders of Germany and the U.K. to Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2025.

In the past, four "Sesame Street" characters parodied U.S. President Donald Trump, including Oscar-winning actor Joe Pesci ...

Online users, primarily posting on Facebook, copied and pasted a made-up rumor about the former vice chief of staff of the ...

Not only did Japan not end early childhood vaccinations, it implemented strong incentives for families who follow the ...

"To be called 'woke' in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult - it is Gospel," a meme featuring the quote read.

The widely shared rumor about the U.S. attorney general originated from a Facebook page describing its output as "satirical." ...

We’ve investigated dying words and actions attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and a NASA rover ...

Cortez, a progressive Democrat from New York, has been the target of numerous rumors since she was first elected.

One YouTube video spreading the claim noted in its description that "no actual debate" between the two had occurred.

The made-up story claimed Biden's administration rerouted the packages away from Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina ...

The combined MMR jab contains three live attenuated viruses. These versions of the viruses are too weak to cause an infection but are strong enough to provoke an immune reaction in which the body ...