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Is U.S. Attorney General William Barr about to announce federal regulations banning Sharia Law in the United States? No, that's not true: The story was posted on a satirical site that trolls conservatives and bills itself as "satire for Islamphobes." But very often, real fake news sites copy and paste the information, positing it as true news. The story originated…

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…

Did Nancy Pelosi have the Health Department shut down the Trump Plaza hotel in Manhattan? 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…

Was Nancy Pelosi involved in one of the biggest heroin busts? No, that's not true: The claim that Speaker Pelosi was involved in a massive operation to smuggle heroin into the United States from southeast Asia has no basis in fact. A published report making the claim offered no documentation and included a conspiracy theory dating back to World War…

Did the Oxford University Press issue a complete ban on using the word "pork" (or other pig related terms) to avoid offending Muslims? No, that's not true: a memo reminding authors of children's books to be culturally sensitive when writing for foreign markets was misinterpreted as a "complete ban on using the word 'pork'" in 2015 and the story has…

Do U.S. Muslims make up only one percent of the population, but they file 40% of workplace discrimination complaints? No, that's not true: Yes, Muslims are just 1% of the U.S. population, but they filed only about 1.5% of all workplace discrimination complaints during 2018, according to an analysis of statistics provided by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The…

Did Pope Francis compare Christians to a fungus during an address in Morocco? No, that's not true: The speech quoted in misleading stories included the pope quoting a biblical passage in which Jesus responds to a question about the nature of the Kingdom of God by saying "It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three…

Did Kotex introduce a confetti-filled tampon that could be used to launch a festive cloud of absorbent material into the user's body? No, that's not true: the story was launched by one of America's oldest satire websites, it is not real. The story originated from an article published by The Onion on December 28, 2018 titled "Kotex Introduces New Confetti…

Is a "city" to pass a bill banning the wearing of face coverings (such as the burka or niqab) in public? No, that's not accurate, but not for the reason you might think. An article with that headline has been circulating on various Moroccan-run fake news websites but the body of the text correctly mentions that it is about Quebec…