Fact Check in January 2019

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

• Fake News: Henry Winkler NOT Dead at 77 - NOT A Huge Trump Supporter and Lifelong Gun Lover
• Fake News: Local Man NOT Arrested After Cosplaying Mr. Freeze And Yelling Cold Weather Puns At People in Sioux Falls
• Fake News: Scientists Did NOT Say Being Single Will Kill You Faster Than Obesity

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

• Fake News: Elderly Couple Did NOT Burn Down House During Sex Game Involving WW2 Flamethrower
• Fake News: NO Proof Champagne Protects the Brain From Dementia
• Fake News: 63-year-old Daycare Owner Did NOT Breastfeed Toddlers in Public While Smoking Crystal Meth

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

• Old Fake News: NO NFL Lawyer Found Dead, Did NOT Claim Super Bowl Is 'Rigged'
• Fake News: Cousins NOT Arrested After Refusing to Stop Having Sex During Funeral Ceremony

Monday, January 28, 2019

• Fake News: Study Did NOT Find Taking The Piss Out Of Your Partner Strengthens Your Relationship
• Fake News: Man Did NOT Ejaculate in Boss' Coffee Every Day For Four Years
• Fake News: Trump 'MAGA' Hats NOT To Be Banned At Superbowl By Stadium Security
• Fake News: Jean-Claude Van Damme NOT Dead, NOT Victim of Heart Attack
• Fake News: Covington Catholic Teen Nicholas Sandmann NOT Hospitalized After Being Jumped In A Mall

Sunday, January 27, 2019

• Fake News: NO New Study Says Women Prefer Low Testosterone Effeminate Liberal Men to Muscular Confident Alpha Males

Friday, January 25, 2019

• Fake News: CIA Did NOT Issue Posthumous Apology, New Evidence Did NOT Clear Osama Bin Laden Of Involvement In 9/11 Attacks
• Fake News: Man Did NOT Undergo $200,000 of Plastic Surgery to Look Like Jesus Christ

Thursday, January 24, 2019

• Fake News: New Research Did NOT Say Drinking Wine Is More Important Than Exercise For Living Past 90
• Fake News: Homeless Man's Penis NOT Snapped In Half During Sex With Manhole Cover

Monday, January 21, 2019

• Fake News: Binge Eater NOT Hospitalized After Gobbling Up More Than 30 lbs of Urinal Deodorizers
• Fake News: Kevin Spacey Did NOT Admit Affair With Mike Pence

Saturday, January 19, 2019

• Fake News: Court Did NOT Order Tiger Woods To Take 137 Paternity Tests
• Fake News: Man Did NOT Wake Up After 10 Years In Coma To Fall Back In After Seeing Hospital Bill

Friday, January 18, 2019

• Fake News: NO Drunk Demolition Worker Arrested After Blowing Up The Wrong Building

Thursday, January 17, 2019

• Macedonian Fake News Network Shuts Down Dozens Of Websites After Joint Investigation By Lead Stories & Nieuwscheckers
• How A Tattoo Led Us To The Macedonian Trucker Delivering Loads of Fake News To The Internet
• The Kumanovo-connection: Macedonian Spam Clans Still Make Money With Fake News About Muslims and Migrants
• Here Are The Tools And Methods We Used To Map A Macedonian Fake News Network And The People Behind It
• Decline and Fall Of A Macedonian Fake News Network: Numbers Indicate Facebook's Measures Forced Desperate Move To Twitter
• Fake News: Fox News Did NOT Debut Premium Channel For 24-Hour Coverage Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Fake News: Kylie Jenner's Ex Tyga Is NOT The Face Behind the Famous Egg Instagram Account
• Fake News: 'To Catch a Predator' Host Chris Hansen NOT Arrested After Meeting Up With 13 Year-Old Girl

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

• Fake News: Doctor Did NOT Say Man Struck by Lightning Has Permanent Erection

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

• Fake News: Tlaib and Omar Did NOT Co-sponsor Bill to Recognize Muslim Holidays as Federal Holidays

Monday, January 14, 2019

• Fake News: Ocasio-Cortez Did NOT Accuse Math Of Sexism In Tweet
• Fake News: Hillary Clinton NOT Arrested in Fentanyl Raid at D.C. Airport
• Fake News: Saudi Man Did NOT Eat Two Of His Four Wives To Survive 13 Days Stranded In The Desert
• Fake News: Saudi Man NOT Sentenced To 1000 Lashes For Performing Oral Sex On a Camel

Sunday, January 13, 2019

• Fake News: President Trump Did NOT Urge Americans To Boycott Chinese Restaurants
• Old News: Infamous Lion Hunter Slipped And Fell 100 Feet To His Death During Hunt... In 2016!
• Fake News: Chelsea Clinton Did NOT Go On Drunken Rampage That Landed Her Behind Bars
• Fake News: Trump Will NOT End the Shutdown Monday Morning AND Get the Wall
• Fake News: Venezuela Did NOT Declare War On Republic of Paraguay
• Fake News: Man Did NOT Admit Using Condom Filled With Frozen Poo To Kill Wife
• Old News: Suspected Drug Smugglers Got Stuck Trying to Drive Over U.S.-Mexico Border Fence... in 2012

Saturday, January 12, 2019

• Fake News: Illinois Boy Was NOT Unable To Unlock His iPhone X Because Of A Pimple
• Fake News: Vet Who Organized GoFundMe For Trump Border Wall Did NOT Buy New Ferrari And Mansion In Mexico, Is NOT Gonna Build The Wall Himself

Friday, January 11, 2019

• Fake News: Former Price Is Right Host Bob Barker NOT Dead at Age 95
• Fake News: Trump Did NOT Strip Obama of Secret Service Protection For Remainder of Shutdown
• Fake News: Gypsies DID NOT Install Their Caravans On The Champs-Élysées In Paris For Gilets Jaunes Protests

Thursday, January 10, 2019

• Fake News: Dolly Parton, Country Music and Film Star, NOT Deceased
• Fake News: Coast Guard Employee Did NOT Tell Cops She Was Forced Into Prostitution By Government Shutdown
• Fake News: Aquaman Actor Jason Momoa NOT Caught Inappropriately Touching Underage Girls Breast On Video
• Fake News: William Shatner NOT Dead, Final Thoughts NOT of Leonard Nimoy and President Trump
• Fake News: Chevy Chase NOT Dead at 89, Did NOT Donate Estate to Wall Fund
• Fake News: R. Kelly Did NOT Visit Bill Cosby In Prison for Advice

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

• Fake News: Vice President Pence NOT Kicked Out Of Iceland
• Fake News: Man Did NOT Cut Off His Penis To Show His Faithfulness To Estranged Girlfriend

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

• Fake News: MSNBC NOT To Air Obama's 2004 Convention Speech During Trump's Address to Nation
• Fake News: K. K. Downing NOT Back in Judas Priest

Monday, January 7, 2019

• Fake News: Bre Payton's Death NOT Ruled Murder - DA NOT Investigating Clinton Connection
• Fake News: Tlaib Did NOT Apologize For "Impeach The Motherfucker" Comment, Did NOT Mean To Say "Imprison The Motherfucker"
• Fake News: White Woman Did NOT Give Birth to Black Child, Did NOT Blame Coffee Husband Drinks
• Fake News: Richard Petty NOT Dead at 81
• Very Old News: Sharifa Alkhateeb Talking About Using Public Schools to Convert America to Islam... In 1989
• Fake News: ISIS Luring Irish Members By Offering Decent Broadband
• Fake News: French Army Did NOT Save President Ali Bongo in Gabon, Did NOT Capture Military Coup Leaders
• Fake News: Jerry Jones Did NOT Give Ted Nugent a Night at Texas Stadium and $3 Million For Wall Benefit Concert

Sunday, January 6, 2019

• Fake News: Scientists DID NOT Discover A Hot Bath Burns As Many Calories As A Bike Ride
• Fake News: Medical Drone Delivering Drugs Did NOT Crash In Togo
• Fake News: French Riot Police Did NOT Loot A Store During #GiletsJaunes Protest
• Fake News: Supreme Court Did NOT Rule 5-4 That Oaths Not Taken on Bibles Are Illegal

Saturday, January 5, 2019

• Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Say She Will Skip Trump and Negotiate Directly With Putin
• Fake News: Chinese Lunar Rover Finds No Evidence of American Moon Landings (Exactly As Expected...)

Friday, January 4, 2019

• Fake News: Pelosi Daughters NON EXISTENT Drug Trafficking Charges DID NOT Mysteriously Disappear
• Fake News: Nancy Pelosi's Daughters NOT Arrested Smuggling Contraband at the Border
• Lead Stories Fastest At Debunking 2018 Top Hoaxes Identified By BuzzFeed News
• Fake News: Netflix Did NOT Announce French Version of Suicide Squad
• Fake News: Texas Man Did NOT Crash After Attempting To Drive Blindfolded Doing 'Bird Box' Challenge

Thursday, January 3, 2019

• Fake News: Woman Did NOT Stab Husband To Death After He Kept Leaving Skid Marks In The Toilet
• Fake News: Nuns Did NOT Cook Magic Shrooms By Mistake, Did NOT End Up In Orgy

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

• Fake News: Man Did NOT Snort 10 Lines of Cocaine During Countdown To New Year, Did NOT End Up In Hospital
• Fake News: Pelosi Did NOT Offer To Build The Wall In Exchange For Full Gun Ban
• Fake News: Man Doing 'Bird Box Challenge' Did NOT Get Jumped And Mugged In Hood
• Fake News: 10,800 U.S. Children Were NOT Raped By Illegal Immigrants in 2018

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

• Fake News: Woman NOT Charged After Slowly Eating Husband Alive Over Three Years