An often-circulated quote from a University of Pennsylvania faculty member attacking United States President Donald Trump was posthumously spread second-hand. The purported remark attributed to ...

On April 8 2021, Imgur user “superscout0233” shared the following meme with a fakeout ending, initially stating that “under [Joseph] Stalin,” the Soviet Union’s gulags held 22 percent of the world’s ...

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.

Narratives about a purported string of food factory fires in 2022 had long-tail staying power, but rarely did debunkings address the "whys" of the conspiracy theory.

A self-professed “targeted individual” on Twitter apparently had his hackles raised by a group of German satiricists enough to try to use their work to gin up fears about “Antifa.” “Ever seen an ...

A viral, ham-handed parable about "who shook the jar" of proverbial ants was attributed to David Attenborough.

On May 23 2023, several social media posts popped up with the jarring claim that a majority of book removal or book ban requests in American schools were an effort by the same eleven individuals: ...

What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.

Discourse about the tragic deaths of several attendees at Travis Scott's Astroworld in November 2021 included viral posts claiming that the catastrophe had occult overtones.

Numerous social media users in August 2020 were unsettled to hear Tinkerbell never "dotted the i" in Disney home media DVDs or VHS tapes.

As outgoing United States President Donald Trump and his supporters were locked out of some digital platforms, social media users asked — sometimes derisively — if Trump would open an account on the ...

On August 22 2020, the Facebook page “She Is Fire” attributed the following poem — often titled “If I Have to Say It” — to artist Frida Kahlo: What became a text-only post read: Frida Kahlo to her ...