Fact Check in February 2018
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- Fake News: UK Parents Will NOT Be Fined for Every Child Missing School Because of the Snow
- Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Forgive 4,444 Pedophile Priests In Australia
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
- Fake News: Trump Did NOT Order Parade to Celebrate His Hypothetical Act of Heroism in Florida School
Monday, February 26, 2018
- Fake News: Media Mogul Harvey Weinstein Did NOT Commit Suicide in Arizona
- Fake News: Military NOT Drawing Up Plans For Nationwide Gun Confiscations
Sunday, February 25, 2018
- Fake News: BBC Did NOT Add Permanent Arabic Subtitles to Eastenders to Help Refugees Settle In
- Fake News: Gay Man Did NOT Turn Heterosexual After Seeing Gates of Hell During Near Death Experience
Friday, February 23, 2018
- Fake News: Obama Did NOT Announce Bid To Become UN Secretary General
- Fake News: Missing CDC Doctor DID NOT Claim Flu Shot Caused Outbreak
- Fake News: NO Student Suspended Pretending to be Transgender To Use Girl Showers After Gym Class
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
- Fake News: Two Priests NOT Arrested After Putting Weed Into A Thurible
- Twitter Users Are Complaining About a #Twitterlockout and a #Twitterpurge
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
- Fake News: Cast of Black Panther NOT Added to FBI Watch List
- Dutch Newspaper And Two Websites Sue European Union Over Fake News Accusations
- A Closer Look At The Sites In Newsweek's Al Franken vs. The Alt-Right Bot Network Story
- Fake News: Mount Pleasant Woman Did NOT Fake Pregnancy and Newborns Death
Monday, February 19, 2018
- Fake News: Joe Biden Did NOT Just Confirm That He Is Running For President In 2020
- Fake News: Pope Benedict XVI Is NOT Dead
- Fake News: Sugar Is NOT 8 Times More Addictive Than Cocaine
Friday, February 16, 2018
- Fake News: Various Celebrities Who "Peacefully Passed By A Home" Are NOT Dead
- Fake News: Man With Alzheimer's Disease Did NOT Get 14 Flu Shots In A Day, Did NOT Die
- Fake News: NRA NOT Releasing Commemorative Line Of AR-15 Rifles To Raise Money For Parkland Victims
- Old Photo Used In New Fresno School Shooting Threat Was Previously Used In Ad
Thursday, February 15, 2018
- Fake News: Soros And The DNC Are NOT Clients of Snopes.com
- Fake News: Christian Pastor And His Wife NOT Stripped And Humiliated By Indians In Uttar Pradesh
- Fake News: Burning Lay's Potato Chips Does NOT Prove They Are Plastic
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
- Fake News: Drunk Man NOT Sentenced To Death, Did NOT Mistake Kaaba Stone For Urinal
- Fake News: Irish Teenager Did NOT Die After Using Fake Kylie Lip Kit
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Monday, February 12, 2018
- Fake News: Judge Did NOT Cut Pedophile's Prison Term Claiming 3-Yr-Old Asked To Be Raped
- Twitter Appears To Be Blocking All Blogspot.co.uk Links
- Update: Macedonian Officer Launches New Fake News Website
- Fake News: Rob Gronkowski NOT Traded to the Seattle Seahawks
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Saturday, February 3, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
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