Arizona Election

Did the AARP -- the American Association of Retired People -- help elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats in the 2018 congressional mid-term elections? No, the AARP is a non-profit group banned by federal law from contributing to or taking part in federal elections in the United States. The false claims are made in a series of sponsored Facebook ads…

Did Nancy Pelosi offer to trade building a border wall in exchange for Donald Trump not running for president in 2020? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republicans about the need to actually click and read links before sharing or liking them in order to…

Is a Donald Trump action figure the hottest seller of the season in toy stores? No, that's not true. The story was published by a liberal satire website that tries to educate gullible Trump supporters and Republicans about the need to actually click and read links before sharing or liking them in order to avoid being embarrassed by fans of…

Will Lady Gaga perform again at the halftime show of this year's Superbowl, together with Hillary Clinton? Of course not, that's absurd. The story was put out by a liberal satire website that tries to fool gullible Republicans and Trump supporters into sharing over the top fake news so they look ridiculous. The story is not real but it is…

Did NASA 'just' release 2,540 stunning new photos of Mars? And does the first one show a crater that appears to be filled with liquid water? No, that's not true. The series of photos currently going viral was released a long time ago, back in 2016. And the first picture in the set (the one showing liquid water) was only…

Did President Donald Trump issue an executive order diverting the funding for Obama's presidential library to the Veteran's Administration? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a liberal satire website that tries to trick conservatives and Trump supporters into sharing fake news so fans of the site can then mock them for it and possibly teach them…

Was Hillary Clinton arrested drunk outside Trump Plaza Hotel? No, that's not true: the entire story was made up by a liberal satire website that tries to fool conservatives and Trump supporters into sharing ridiculously fake stories to teach them to be more careful about liking and sharing content without actually having read it in full. The story is not…

Were fake ballots in Georgia, Florida and Arizona traced to a "Soros Compound" in Seattle, Washington? No, that story originated on a liberal satire website mocking voter fraud conspiracy theories making the rounds online. The Soros compound story is not real. It originated from an article published by Be Best Website on November 9, 2018 titled "Fake Election Ballots in…

Is Sheriff Joe Arpaio replacing John McCain in the senate now the senator passed away? No, that's not true, the story was published by a website that is part of a network of satirical fake news sites that make it a sport to get conservatives and Trump supporters to share unlikely and over the top fake news so fans of…

Newsexaminer.net, a website that used to be run by Paul Horner before the fake news superstar died last year has apparently been taken over by a spammer from Vietnam who bought the domain name somewhere in January 2018. The current version of the site (archived here) seems to be automatically reposting articles from fact checking website Snopes.com right now, systematically…