Fact Check in April 2018
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Monday, April 30, 2018
- Fake News: Snopes NOT Finally Exposed As CIA Operation
- Fake News: Kim Jong-un Did NOT Defect To South Korea
- Fake News: Hillary Clinton NOT Killed During FBI Raid
- Fake News: Israel Did NOT Drop Tactical Nuclear Bomb On Syria
Sunday, April 29, 2018
- Fake News: Comedian Bill Cosby NOT Dead Of Apparent Suicide At Age 80
- Fake News: Hulu Did NOT Cancel Michelle Wolf's Standup Special After Disgustisting Attacks
- Fake News: Michelle Wolf NOT Fired -- Comedy Central Did NOT Apologize To Sarah Sanders
- Fake News: 'Smallville' Star Did NOT Confess She Sold Children To Rothschilds And Clintons
- Fake News: Queen Elizabeth II NOT Dead At 94
Saturday, April 28, 2018
- Fake News: Clint Eastwood NOT Leaving His Estate To The Trump 2020 Campaign
- Fake News: George H.W. Bush NOT Dead at 93 -- Update: Now Actually Dead at 94
- Fake App: "Who visits your Twitter profile?" Is NOT Real
- Fake News: Kanye West Did NOT Say He's Not Black In Recently Deleted Tweet
Friday, April 27, 2018
- Fake News: Planned Parenthood Did NOT Defend Bill Cosby, Did NOT Say: 'Sexual Assault Is Only 3% Of What He Does'
- Fake News: Canadian Lumberjack NOT Accidentally Voted Portland's 'Hipster of the Year'
- Fake News: Superstar DJ Avicii Found Dead But Did NOT Expose Pedophile Ring
Thursday, April 26, 2018
- Fake News: 'Smallville' Actress Faces 15 Years But NOT For Providing Kids To Hollywood Pedos
- Fake News: New Research Did NOT Show Cardi B Fans Have a 90% Higher Chance Of Acquiring An STD
- Fake News: Cohen NOT Charged With Collusion And Treason
- Fake News: Woman Did NOT Sue Parents For $2.3M For Naming Her Herpesia
- Fake News: Donald Trump's UK Trip NOT To Include A Visit to Southend-on-Sea
- Fake News: Pushma Al Haffyn Did NOT Win Lawsuit To Fly Muslim Flag Over Federal Building In Dearborn, Michigan
- Fake News: Muslim Bar Owner Did NOT Shoot And Kill 2 Christians
- Fake News: Donald Trump Did NOT End Obama's My Brother's Keeper Program
- Fake News: Nightclub DJ NOT Beaten Up After Playing 'Despacito' For The Tenth Time
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
- Fake News: Prime Minister Did NOT Issue Reminder To UK Parents That The State Owns Their Children
- Fake News: Channel Tunnel NOT To Close Permanently On 30th April In Brexit Dispute
- Global Fake News Network Responsible For Dozens of Death Hoaxes Shuts Down After Ghana Connections Revealed
- Fake News: US Surgeon Found Dead Did NOT Expose Clinton Foundation Corruption In Haiti
- Fake News: Jalen Hurts Departure NOT Confirmed
- Fake News: Midget NOT Stuck 3 Days In Mailbox After Falling In While Mailing Letter
- Fake News: Cardi B Did NOT Say Bruno Mars Might Be The Baby Daddy
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
- Fake News: Franklin Graham Did NOT Say Trump Befriends Prostitutes Like Jesus
- Fake News: Bezos Did NOT Say Pee Tape Will Be Free for All Amazon Prime Members
- Fake News: California Did NOT Ban Parents From Pulling Kids From 'Obscene' LGBT Sex Ed Classes
Monday, April 23, 2018
- Fake News: David Hogg NOT Connected To The Death Of 11-Year-Old Boy, NO Blood On His Hands
- Fake News: Sam Hyde Is NOT The Van Driver In Suspected Toronto Terror Incident
- Fake News: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Did NOT Name Baby Boy 'Leroy'
- Fake News: Lil Tay NOT Rushed to Hospital, NOT Beat By Group of Children At Playground
Sunday, April 22, 2018
- Fake News: Trinidadian Cricketer Denesh Ramdin NOT Arrested at New York JFK Airport With 20Kg of Cocaine
- Fake News: George H.W. Bush Did NOT Die at 93
- Fake News: SB 1238 Will NOT Eliminate The Second Amendment
- Fake News: California Gov. Jerry Brown or Assembly Bill 2943 NOT To Ban Sales Of The Bible
Friday, April 20, 2018
- Fake News: Man Did NOT Kill His Wife After She Refused To Have Sex With Him For 52 Years
- Fake News: 28 Year-Old Man Did NOT Overdose From Marijuana
- Real News: Melania Trump Did NOT Say Special Little Carrots Remind Trump Of Ivanka
- Fake News: Young Boy NO LONGER Missing And Feared Lost, His Parents Are NOT Asking You To 'Share'
- Fake News: Fortnite Creator Did NOT Admit Game's Purpose Is To Prepare Young Men For War
- Fake News: NO Potato Pipeline Planned From Prince Edward Island, NO Threats To New Brunswick's Potato Shipments
Thursday, April 19, 2018
- Fake News: Malia Obama Did NOT Launch Anti-Trump Website Trumpscrewed.us
- Fake News: Climber Did NOT Suffer Brutal Sexual Assault By Yeti-like Creature
- Fake News: Beenie Man Did NOT Die at 44
- Fake News: NO Total Failure in Launching French Maval Missiles to Strike Syria
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
- Fake News: Former Prime Minister John Howard Did NOT Die at 78
- Fake News: Hillary Clinton NOT Founder Of Website Notmypot.us
- Fake News: Coronation Street's Bill Roache Did NOT Die at 85
- Fake News: George Soros Did NOT Say "I've made my life's mission to destroy the United States"
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
- Fake News: Man Did NOT Leave Store After Announcing He Will Pay For Every Customers' Cart
- Fake News: 'Facebook Courts' Application NOT Launched For Trials By Social Media
- Fake News: Suge Knight NOT Found Dead in Jail Cell Again, NOT Stabbed Several Times Again
- Fake News: Bill Nye Did NOT Tweet About Copper, Nitrogen, Terbium and Silver
- Fake News: NO Police Warning, NO Killer Animals Escaped From Essex Zoo
Monday, April 16, 2018
- Fake News: Beenie Man NOT Fighting For Life After Gunshot Injuries
- Christopher Blair AKA Busta Troll Starts Several New Trolling Websites (And A Porn Site Network)
- Fake News: R. Lee Ermey NOT Victim Of Death Hoax, Actually Dead
- Fake News: Former First Lady Barbara Bush Did NOT Die At 92 (UPDATE: She Did Now)
- Fake News: Horrific "#Frazzledrip" Hillary Clinton Snuff Film NOT Circulating On Dark Web
Sunday, April 15, 2018
- Fake News: FBI Raid at NSA Employee Home Did NOT Reveal Over 4,000,000 "Dick Pics"
- Fake News: Will Ferrell Did NOT Die After A Two Car Crash
Saturday, April 14, 2018
- Fake News: Article 54 Of Obamacare Will NOT Take 30 Percent of Social Security From People Over 60
- Fake News: Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Rescind Partnership With Rappler As A Fact-Checker
- Fake News: Stormy Daniels NOT Killed In Syrian Airstrike
- Fake News: Father Of 23 Kids Did NOT Have Sex At Night Because He Thought Sperm Was Sleeping
Friday, April 13, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
- Fake News: USS Donald Cook Did NOT Turn Back After Forgetting Missiles
- Fake News: Dead Burglar NOT To Get State Funeral
- Fake News: Yassmin Abdel-Magied NOT Denied US Entry For Conversations With Known Terrorist Groups on Her Phone
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
- Fake News: Top UN Inspector Did NOT Say Assad Not Responsible For Chemical Weapons Attack
- Fake News: Three Trump Campaign Workers Did NOT Enter 'Not Guilty' Pleas In Court
- Fake News: Man in China Does NOT Face Execution After Rubbing His Penis on Mao Zedong's Corpse
- Fake News: Popular Teen YouTuber NOT Planning 'Live On-Camera Abortion' For Bitcoin Donations
- Fake News: Malia Obama NOT Charged With Starting The Tide Pod Challenge
- Fake News: Former FC Barcelona Striker Samuel Eto'o NOT Arrested, Girlfriend Did NOT Plunge To Death
- Fake News: Zuckerberg Did NOT Lose Contact Lens During Senate Hearing, Revealing NO Horrifying Lizard Eye
- Fake News: Man Did NOT Skip Police Control Because He Thought They Were Filming 'Star Wars'
- Fake News: Mexican Boy NOT Arrested & Deported For Singing Rancheras At A Local Walmart Store
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
- Fake News: Man Did NOT Contract Flesh-eating Disease After Anal-Oral Contact With Boyfriend With Diarrhea
- Fake News: Queen Elizabeth Did NOT Say Imminent War Being Planned By Powerful Forces
- Fake News: 100% (NOT Just 84%) of UK's Tap Water is Halal
- Fake News: Pope Francis Did NOT Cancel The Bible, Did NOT Propose To Create New Book
- Fake News: Federal Judge Did NOT Toss Michael Cohen Warrant And All Evidence With It
Monday, April 9, 2018
- Fake News: 11 Year Old Boy NOT Arrested For Yodeling In A Walmart Store
- Fake News: Malia Obama NOT Suspended From Harvard
Sunday, April 8, 2018
- Fake News: Muhammad Al-Salad Does NOT Exist
- Fake News: Islamic State NOT Invited To Enter 2018 Eurovision Song Contest
Saturday, April 7, 2018
- American Troll: John Prager Takes Us Inside Christopher Blair's Secret Troll Cave (Part 1/2)
- Fake News: Malia Obama Did NOT Say White People Will Be Blended Out By The Time She Is 30
Friday, April 6, 2018
- Fake News: NO Post-Brexit Remake of Fawlty Towers, NOT To Star Idiot English Waiter
- Fake News: CDC Doctor Found Floating In River Did NOT Expose Flu Shot
- Fake News: Vangelis NOT Dead, Despite Claims From Uruguayan Website
- Fake News: Mexico Did NOT Agree to Pay for Trump's Psychiatric Care
Thursday, April 5, 2018
- Fake News: The Moon Will NOT Turn Green For 90 Minutes On April 20, 2018
- Fake News: Rotten Tomatoes Did NOT Introduce New Negative Scores For Faith-Based Films
- Fake News: Covington County Woman Did NOT Force Feed Cheating Husband His Own Genitals
- Fake News: Panel of Saudi Scientists Did NOT Conclude Europeans Evolved From Pigs
- Fake News: Man Did NOT Get Arm Bitten Off By Pet Shark He Raised In His Bathtub
- Fake News: Caster Semenya NOT Fighting For Her Life After Snake Bite
- Fake Video: Youtube Shooter Nasim Aghdam NOT Doing Squats In Front Of Israeli Flag
- Why Lead Stories Debunks Satire Stories
- Fake News: Cut Off Your Genitals Challenge Is NOT Real
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
- Fake News: Body NOT Found near I-40 In Duplin County
- Fake News: Toni Braxton NOT Dead at 50
- Fake News: Online Shop NOT Selling Horse Burkas
- Fake News: California School Children NOT Forced "To Sharia" In Class
- CORRECTION: Board Game "Settlers of Catan" Was Renamed In Part Because "Settlers" Offended Some People
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
- Fake News: Child NOT Born In India With 12-inch-long Penis, NOT Venerated As Incarnation Of Ganesh
- Fake News: Ted Nugent Did NOT Declare Bankruptcy After Boycott
- Fake News: Sam Hyde NOT The Active Shooter At YouTube Headquarters
- Fake News: Massive Sinkhole NOT Growing In The Smoky Mountains, NOT To Become Second Grand Canyon
- Fake News: President Trump Did NOT Scare Toddlers During Classroom Visit
- Fake News: Girl Did NOT Commit Suicide After Being Bullied on Social Media
- Fake News: First 90 Kangaroos Have NOT Been Released in Wyoming
- Fake News: WWE NOT Sold To Walt Disney Company For $5 Billion; Vince McMahon Did NOT Confirm
- Fake News: Sinclair TV Anchor Did NOT Suddenly Begin Reading News in Russian
Monday, April 2, 2018
- Fake News: Liberal Teacher NOT Arrested in San Francisco Easter Egg Hunt : Children NOT Given Marijuana Eggs
- Fake News: Welsh Dragon NOT Successfully Hatched at Bangor University
- Fake News: NO Flesh Eating Disease Outbreak in Tennessee
- Fake News: Morgue Employee Did NOT Pretend To Be Dead For April Fools; Did NOT Get Cremated
Sunday, April 1, 2018
- Southend News Network To Close After Losing European Subsidies Due To Brexit
- Uncle Of Politifact Editor Sustains Third Degree Burns At Easter Brunch After Refusing To Believe His Pants Are On Fire
- BuzzFeed To Launch Fake News Spin-off, You Won't Believe What Happens Next!
- Reporter Baxter Dimitri Kidnapped By Russian Deep State Aliens On Orders From Pope Francis
- Looming Crisis As Experts Warn The World Is Running Out Of Facts To Check
- Most News Websites In Kosovo Actually Run By Native Americans
- The Onion To Become A Regular News Website
- InfoWars To Be Renamed InfoPeace After Peace Agreement Signed
- Two Canadian Men Arrested For Running Fake News Site To Fund Poutine Addiction
- Fake News Kingpin Christopher Blair Found Murdered By Hillary Clinton
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