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Did a top UN inspector named Åke Sellström say President Bashar Al-Assad was not responsible for the recent chemical attack on the town of Douma? No, that was a serious misrepresentation by a site known to be creative with the truth very often in the past. YourNewsWire posted an article on April 10, 2018 titled "Top UN Inspector: Assad Not…

Was a 24-year old man in Zamora, Spain arrested because he thought a police alcohol checkpoint was a Star Wars movie set? No, that's not true, the guy did not mistake the flashlights and police lights for lightsabers and laser beams. The fake story was made up by a Spanish satire website. It was published in an article on April…

Did Queen Elisabeth II of Britain record a speech about an imminent global war being planned by certain forces? Almost certainly not because the only source for this "news" is a website with an extremely unreliable reputation that claims it got the info from an unnamed "BBC production staff" member. The story appeared on YourNewsWire where an article was published…

Did Pope Francis cancel the Bible and did he propose replacing it with a new book possibly named "Biblia 2000"? No, that did not happen. Rumors about this are false, they originated on a satirical website so they are not true. The story went viral via an article published on April 8, 2018 by There Is News titled "Pope Francis…

Did Dr. Timothy Cunningham, a CDC doctor whose body was found in the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta last tuesday, "expose" that this year's flu shot actually caused a flu epidemic? No, he did not, that is fake news made up by a website with a very dubious reputation. YourNewsWire posted an article on April 5, 2018 titled "Body Of CDC…

Reports indicate intrepid reporter and truth-teller Baxter Dimitri from the always reliable legitimate news website YourNewsWire was kidnapped today by Russian Deep State Aliens on direct orders from the Vatican. According to these reports Pope Francis has ordered a secret cabal of big pharma supporting doctors to make sure Dimitri is injected with a mind control vaccine to stop him…

Did Russia and China just roll out a new currency that is 100% backed by gold? You would expect they did if you saw a news article titled "Russia And China Roll Out 100% Gold-Backed Currency" but you would be wrong. In fact an article was published by YourNewsWire with just that title on March 25, 2018 (archived here) which…

Were protesters really paid $300 each by George Soros to attend the "March For Our Lives" event and was he "busted" for doing this? Not really. The claim is being pushed by an unreliable website based on a few tweets and a Craigslist ad. The story originated from an article published on March 25, 2018 on YourNewsWire titled "Busted: Soros…

An article on YourNewsWire claims Pope Francis has "forgiven" the oddly specific number of 4,444 pedophile priests in Australia. As usual with articles on that site the headline "Pope Francis Forgives 4,444 Pedophile Priests In Australia" bears only limited resemblance to what really happened. It was published originally on February 27th 2018 (archived here) and opened: An inquiry in Sydney…

The pope has redefined the meaning of the word 'ironic' with this tweet: Do not underestimate the value of example, for it is more powerful than a thousand words, a thousand "likes", retweets or YouTube videos. -- Pope Francis (@Pontifex) February 23, 2017 Here is a screenshot of the tweet, with the ironic part highlighted: He certainly sets a great…