Does the Pope want you to pray for a "One World Religion"? No, that's not true: a 2016 video that suddenly went viral in 2019 after being shared in several Facebook groups and on several Facebook pages uses clips from a 2016 video of the Pope asking people to pray for dialogue between people of different faiths and claims that…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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