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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 fact checking website Snopes.com recently 'exposed' as a CIA operation? No, that's nonsense peddled by an unreliable website that likes to copy paste together bits and pieces of articles from other websites and then adds unsupported facts in the headline and first paragraphs to make it more juicy in order to get clicks, traffic and ad revenue. The CIA…

Did Israel drop a tactical nuclear bomb on Syria? No, there is no evidence for this at all, just a report by an unreliable website that habitually takes some real news from other sources and then adds a headine and introductory paragraph that doesn't contain any sourced facts and is usually made up in order to gain traffic and advertising…

Did Smallville actress Allison Mack confess she sold children to the Rothschilds and Clintons during her time in a sex cult? No, that's not true. There are no reliable sources that confirm the news about her 'confession' and the site on which it originated has a long history of taking a piece of real news, copy pasting some other articles…

Did DJ Avicii expose a pedophile ring before he died? No, that's not true: if that was the case we would know who was a member of this supposed ring, what they did and when and who the victims were. That's what "exposing" means. But that is not what happened contrary to claims made in the headline of yet another…

Is 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack facing up to 15 years in prison for providing children to Hollywood pedophiles? And did the police say she procured children for an elite pedophile ring? No, the part about the pedo ring is not true, although she is facing up to 15 years for sex trafficking and other crimes related to what some call…

Are California parents banned from pulling their kids from 'obscene' LGBT sex education classes? No, that's quite the distortion of what is actually going on, the headline is not true. It was written by a site that regularily twists the truth in order to create false headlines that are way more shocking than what is going on in reality. The…

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 Åke 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…