fact-check
No, Dr. Anthony Fauci did not write the “How dare you you risk the lives of others so cavalierly?” essay
A copy-paste meme I've encountered recently compares chickenpox, herpes and HIV with COVID-19, and builds up to a powerful rebuke…
Fact check: DeVos never said ‘only’ 0.02% of children will die if schools reopen in the fall
Several times in the past few days I've come across this claim in my social media feed. I didn't share…
No, Trump’s tweet about “Heritage, History, and Greatness” is not a quote from a speech Hitler gave in 1939
Trump really did tweet "This is a battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country!" Plugging those…
When is Donald Trump kidding? When is he being sarcastic? When is he being serious? Who gets to decide?
Earlier today a reporter, following her journalism training, asked Trump, "Were you just kidding, or do you have a plan…
Fox News, accused of manipulating news images, relabels them as “collages,” “regrets these errors”
Using bits and pieces of real news in order to distort the public perception of a story is unethical. Not…
There’s nothing like a fair-minded, good-faith analysis of the facts
There's nothing like a fair-minded, good-faith analysis of the facts. And this article from PJMedia is nothing like a fair-minded,…
Police Department, Fire Department Tell Different Versions of Same Richmond Incident
A Richmond police official and a fire official agree that Sunday, multiple individuals interfered with a fire truck's response to…
Meme unfairly blames “protesters” for four crimes
A Facebook meme that claims "3 of these 4 honorable men were killed by 'protesters'" is false. I don't mean…
Minneapolis protest cleanup: Did you share this meme without fact-checking it? (Don’t spread fake news about the news.)
A Facebook meme with 52k reactions and 37k shares includes pictures of volunteers cleaning the streets in Minneapolis, the day…
Trump, Obama seem equally disinterested in portrait unveiling — but journalism takes hits from both sides
On social media recently I saw people mocking Trump for "refusing" to unveil the traditional presidential portrait of Obama, and…
Carolyn Gombell Is Not a Real Person: #JusticeforCarolyn Is a Campaign Against Twitter Refusing to Delete Trump’s Tweets Accusing Joe Scarborough of Murdering Lori Klausutis
Fascinating use of social media. To be clear, this story about "Carolyn Gombell" is a fabrication, intended to spark Twitter…
Kimmel’s Jab at Pence’s “empty box” joke illustrates a bi-partisan #fakenews problem
If, like pollster Matthew McDermott, you shared (or at least chuckled at) that Jimmy Kimmel clip of VP Pence joking…
Another NewsBreak.com Exclusive Exposes a Royal Family Lie #FakeNews
You sheep who trust the lamestream fake news media think you know them as Prince Charles, the heir to the…
No, This Beach Photo Doesn’t Prove The Media Is Lying
Have you seen this image mashup being cited as evidence that you should wake up because "the media" is lying…
Fake Graph: The Actual “Dunning-Kruger Effect” Is NOTHING Like I Thought It Was
For years, I've been teaching a fake graph. In pretty much every course I teach, on some day when students…
It’s unfair to treat every gaffe as evidence of malice or incompetence. But were Trump’s demonstrably false statements gaffes?
Public officials misspeak all the time. Journalists make mistakes all the time. Ordinary citizens over-react to headlines without reading the…
Fact check: Trump utters series of false and misleading claims at coronavirus briefing
Not fake news. Not the enemy of the American people. “Nobody ever thought a thing like this could have happened,”…
When People Only Read the Headline — Misuse of Journalism
The Society of Professional Journalists links to an interview with an MIT professor who's studying misinformation on social media (which…