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: “My favourite new factoid is that they hit dead popes on the head three times with a special dead-pope hammer. Just to ensure they are, in fact, dead [.]” Description: A tweet ...

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 ...

Fact Check Claim: “Reminder that ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ was initially a joke about an absurd, impossible thing to do, and that it is not a real thing one can do.” Description: The ...

Fact Check Claim: “The recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the ‘Hunger Stones’ in some Czech and German rivers. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would ...

Fact Check Claim: The outlaw “Pretty Boy Floyd” was known for destroying mortgage papers on heists. Description: The infamous outlaw ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ was known for his actions during bank robberies ...

After the June 11 2022 arrests of 31 Patriot Front extremists in a U-Haul near a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Pride event, the far right began its usual “false flag” claims on social media, this time with ...

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 ...

An October 2 2021 Facebook post (screengrab included) contained a claim that a Swedish TV station accidentally put subtitles from children’s’ programming over a political debate: Beneath an apparent ...

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 ...