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Did Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg announce that he would stage a sit-in to block a 4th of July parade in Washington? No, that's not true: This is a satirical report by a known satire site. Hogg, who has been waging a campaign against gun violence, did not say he was planning a Washington protest to disrupt the celebration at…

Did Pope Francis call on US authorities to disarm the population and confiscate all weapons? No, that's not exactly true: the claim comes from a website that consistently takes a bit of real news and then twists it by adding an inflammatory headline and some invented facts in order to get easily excited people to click on it so they…

Did California Governor Jerry Brown and Senator Stewart Copeland from Ohio write a bill (SB 1238) that would eliminate the Second Amendment if passed? No, that's not true, it is a complete piece of fiction that originated on a Facebook page set up to troll conservatives and Republicans with fake memes and satirical fake news articles. The Facebook page America's…

Did Emma Gonzáles of "March for our Lives" fame attack a truck using a umbrella? Despite what a meme would have you believe it is not true. We found a copy of the image in a post on America's Last Line Of Defense's Facebook page, published on March 28, 2018 with the caption "She has to be stopped!" (archived here).…

Did Emma Gonzáles of "March for our Lives" rip up the United States Consititution on video? An animated meme being spread on social media seems to show Gonzales and three other students who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida doing just that but the video is manipulated. Here's an example in the wild…

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation seems to be reporting that Texas prison Labute Penitentiary is so serious about the second amendment rights of the inmates that it will allow them to keep guns. Of course there are some security implications. The story quotes "Lyle Wyatt", the warden: If everybody has a gun, then everybody is safe ... besides the inmates are…