9/11

Did an Antifa member try to block a car and assault someone, but the driver jumped out and beat up the protester? No, that's not true: A video that purportedly shows an Antifa member assaulting an SUV actually shows a pedestrian attacking cars because he was upset about drivers not using turn signals, a local police spokesman said about the…

Was a medical experiment in India about male birth control stopped because the testicles of the patients started exploding during sexual intercourse? No, that's not true: the story was originally put out by a South African satire website that used to disguise itself as news and got widely picked up by various English-language websites in Africa that didn't realize the…

Did the Jeffrey Epstein saga get fishier and fishier with the hanging death of a banker? No, that's not true: Thomas Bowers, who worked at two large banks over recent decades, committed suicide by hanging at his Malibu, California, home on November 19, 2019, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. His suicide has not "caused speculation" about his…

Is Ilhan Omar married to a Somali man named B'oom B'oom? No, that's not true: The man in the photo is Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, an American actor who played the role of Freddy 'Boom Boom' Washington in the popular TV series Welcome Back, Kotter from 1975- 1979. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to mislead Trump…

Was best-selling author Jennifer Jaynes assassinated for exposing vaccine fraud? No, that's not true: Jaynes, who wrote domestic thrillers and children's books, died of a single gunshot that investigators ruled was self-inflicted. Although her recent novel "Malice" was a medical thriller with "Big Pharma" as a villain, she was not known for "exposing vaccine fraud." Her books were fictional. Her…

Does a leaked Pentagon video show that a flu vaccine was used to modify human behavior? No, that's not true: The video that was purportedly recorded in 2005 and "leaked" from the Defense Department was apparently produced in 2011 as a promotion for a faux documentary about a fictional scheme by the U.S. government to infect religious extremists with a…

Did Duane 'Dog' Chapman die of suicide after a depression attack and did the BBC report this? No, that's not true: an outfit of scammers likely from the Philippines has put out a video and a number of websites making that claim but it is all bogus. The scammers are tricking people into sharing more copies of the story on…

Are the people shown in this "Stolen Lives Quilt" meme victims of illegal alien killers? No, that's not true. While many of those pictured were killed by undocumented immigrants, the 30 images on the right half of the meme show victims of the 2016 Orlando, Florida, Pulse Nightclub massacre, which was blamed on a man born in New York state.…

Did Turkey just launch an air raid on Tel Aviv in Israel and is CNN reporting about it? No, that's not true: an old video from the 2003 Gulf War showing explosions and air defense systems in action over Baghdad seems to have been uploaded to YouTube with a misleading title in 2010 and the video went viral again in…

Did Fox News dump anchor Chris Wallace, claiming Wallace was "spreading lies" through his reporting? 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…