Did Governor Jerry Brown of California outlaw homelessness? No, that's not exactly true. A website known for taking real bits of news from other sites and then adding a headline and a few paragraphs of unsupported facts to spice things up has been at it again. Their goal appears to be profit driven, it looks like they want to get…
Is North Korea opening the door for Christian missionaries and aid groups? No official announcement about this has been made despite what a false headline from a site known for mixing real news with made up headlines containing unsupported claims is trying to get you to believe. The claim appeared in an article published on May 3, 2018 on YourNewsWire…
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…
Was a DJ at an Ibiza nightclub beaten up after playing the Luis Fonsi hit "Despacito" for the tenth time? No, satisfying as it would be, the story is not true. It originated on a satire website, the news was fake. The story originated with an article published on April 10, 2018 by There Is News titled "Nightclub DJ beaten…
Is California governor Jerry Brown preparing to ban sales of the bible? No, that's not true. The claim was made by a website that habitually takes some real news and then adds a few paragraphs and an inflammatory headline to make it sound much, much worse than what is really going on in order to get people to click and…
Is there a video named "Frazzledrip" circulating on the dark web that shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin raping and slicing the face off a young girl and then drinking her blood? No, that's complete nonsense, no such video exists and the screenshots conspiracy websites are circulating as proof are not real. We became aware of the rumors via an…
Did a top UN inspector named Ã…ke 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…
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