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  • Fake News: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Approve $1 Million Expense Accounts For Any Rep That Votes For Impeachment

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    Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offer an extra $1 million expense account to any member of congress who votes for the Trump impeachment? No, that's not true: The claim that Speaker Pelosi offered a financial bribe for impeachment support was published as satire by a known and well-labeled satire website. Unfortunately, more than a few readers see the fake headline,…

    • Nov 20, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Nancy Pelosi Did NOT Approve $1 Million Expense Accounts For Any Rep That Votes For Impeachment
  • Fake News: No Evidence Hillary Clinton Killed Jeffrey Epstein And She Did Not Admit It

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    Is there any evidence that Hillary Clinton killed Jeffrey Epstein and did the former secretary of state declare that she did it? No, that's not true: Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019 in a federal prison cell in New York, where he was being held pending prosecution for child sex trafficking charges. The medical examiner determined that…

    • Nov 19, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: No Evidence Hillary Clinton Killed Jeffrey Epstein And She Did Not Admit It
  • Fake News: LeBron Did NOT Tell NBA To "Dump The Anthem Or I'll Quit"

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    Did LeBron James tell the NBA in a letter from his lawyer that he will quit playing if the National Anthem continues to be played? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually…

    • Nov 8, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: LeBron Did NOT Tell NBA To "Dump The Anthem Or I'll Quit"
  • Fake News: Malia Obama Did NOT Have 24 Classmates Expelled For Praying On Campus

    Fact Check

    Did Malia Obama have 24 classmates expelled for praying on campus? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually click them. Articles from the site are frequently copied by foreign-run fake news websites.…

    • Nov 7, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Malia Obama Did NOT Have 24 Classmates Expelled For Praying On Campus
  • Fake News: UN Did NOT Award Obama "Leader of the Century Award"

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    Did the United Nations award Barack Obama the "Leader of the Century Award" for the 4th time straight? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually click them. Articles from the site are…

    • Nov 2, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: UN Did NOT Award Obama "Leader of the Century Award"
  • Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Say "Americans Are The Stupidest People On Earth"

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    Did Nancy Pelosi say "Americans are the stupidest people on Earth" while caught on a hot mic? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to manipulate Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually click them. Articles from the site are frequently…

    • Oct 23, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Say "Americans Are The Stupidest People On Earth"
  • Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Say God Will Abandon America If Trump Is Re-elected

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    Did Pope Francis Say God will abandon America if President Donald Trump is re-elected? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump supporters and Republicans into sharing made up stories that are clearly marked as satire when you actually click them. Articles from the site are frequently copied by foreign-run…

    • Oct 21, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Say God Will Abandon America If Trump Is Re-elected
  • Fake News: First Vagina Scented Air Freshener NOT Launched Onto Market By OlorPur

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    Did Spanish company OlorPur just launch a vagina-scented air freshener onto the marked and were they first with it? No, that's not true: the story was put out by a Spanish humor website as a joke but many people believed to be real. Note that several vagina scented products do in fact exist and are sold but none of them…

    • Oct 20, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: First Vagina Scented Air Freshener NOT Launched Onto Market By OlorPur
  • Fake News: Single Men Will NOT Get The Right To Start A Family Under New Definition Of Infertility

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    Will single men get the right to start a family under a new definition of infertility adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO)? No, that's not true: WHO made it clear in a statement issued a day after the claim appeared in a British newspaper that it was not changing its definition to consider single men who could not find…

    • Oct 10, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Single Men Will NOT Get The Right To Start A Family Under New Definition Of Infertility
  • Fake News: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Say Satanism Is A Religion That Deserves Respect

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    Did Chelsea Clinton say that satanism is a religion that deserves respect? No, that's not true: The only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did say in a tweet that people should be "civil, cheerful, respectful" to "people who don't share our religious beliefs," but she never referenced satanism. She was replying to…

    • Aug 29, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Say Satanism Is A Religion That Deserves Respect
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