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Was Clare Bronfman, the heiress to the Seagram fortune who was indicted in the case surrounding the NXIVM sex cult, a former Clinton aide? No, that's not true: she was just one of many donors to Hillary Clinton's campaign but she played no direct role in it. She was certainly not one of "her closest aides". That story was made…

Did Pope Francis call for the United States to have open borders and to take in "as many migrants as possible"? No, that's not true, he didn't say that. A twisted quote appeared in the headline of an article on a website that habitually takes bits and pieces of real news and then adds fake facts in their own headlines…

Did Pope Francis give diplomatic immunity to a priest named Carlo Alberto Capella for the express purpose of avoiding a jail sentence for posessing and trading child pornography? No, that's not true: an article with a highly misleading headline to that effect was posted by a site that regularily twists the facts in its headlines and the first paragraphs of…

Dit the Inspector General's report on the investigation by the FBI of the case surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server reveal that she ran a child sex ring? No, that's not true. The site making this claim has a history of taking some real news and then adding invented facts to their first paragraph and headline that…

Did French President Emmanuel Macron knowingly grant political asylum to an ISIS chief? No, that's not exactly true. Ahmed Hamdane Mahmoud Ayach El Aswadi posed as a refugee when he arrived in France in the summer of 2016. He was granted refugee status in June 2017, shortly after Emmanuel Macron took office in May 2017. The President of France does…

Was Anthony Bourdain killed by Clinton operatives according to investigators? No, that's not true: no actual evidence for this claim has been uncovered so far and the site making the accusation habitually takes bits and pieces from real news articles and then adds an invented claim to the headline and first paragraph in order to drive more traffic and make…

Did Melinda Gates say "We must discriminate against all white people"? No, that's not true: the fake quote came from a website that makes money by taking bits and pieces of real news and adding invented "facts" to the headline and first paragraph of their own version in order to drive traffic that earns them advertising money. She did not…

Are school boys in the United Kingdom now required to wear gender-neutral skirts? No, that's not exactly true: the claim was made by a website that habitually takes bits and pieces of real news and then adds some untruths to the headline and/or the first paragraph to make their articles more sensational in order to drive clicks. The headline and…

Did Pope Francis order white women to breed with muslims to counter declining birth rates? No, that's not true. The racially charged quote was invented by a website that habitually takes bits and pieces of articles from other sites and then adds invented claims in the headline and first paragraph of their own version of the story. The Pope did…

Is President Trump set to make medical marijana legal in all 50 states? No, that's not true despite claims in the headline of a viral article. It came from a site that habitually takes bits and pieces of real news and adds a misleading or false headline to get more traffic and ad revenue. The headline is highly misleading. The…