For more than a decade, people have falsely claimed polar bears are “thriving,” using an “increasing population” as proof. We explain the real status...
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A video claiming to show a police vehicle ramming into a crowd wasn’t taken during protests in China. It’s actually from Washington state in...
Tweets suggest Chinese state media has been blurring their footage of World Cup fans as a form of censorship. That’s not true.
A real video showing Japanese fans picking up trash at a World Cup stadium was reversed to appear as though the fans were spreading...
Crypto exchange FTX did help with a fundraising site for Ukraine. But there’s no evidence it laundered U.S. aid money back to Democratic lawmakers.
Human rights groups warn that sentences can be handed down without warning or due process. But they happen individually, not all at once.
In September, the annual inflation rate in the U.S. remained near a 40-year high at 8.2%. But that’s nowhere near the highest in the...
Popular band BTS made headlines with news they will fulfill mandatory Korean military service. An exemption exists, but the members don’t qualify.
Memes about electric car graveyards in France have been circulating for years. The most recent example is actually from China.
The video was made using video from the Crimean Bridge and a clip from a strike in Kharkiv, neither from the October explosion.
A viral video clip actually shows a stealth bomber landing on a runway in the U.K. in 2020.
The edited clip shared on social media uses years-old footage from an Azerbaijani TV show and doesn't depict current events in Iran.
When the royal beekeeper told the queen’s bees of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, he was practicing a beekeeping tradition of updating the hives of...
Prince Philip’s coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, which isn’t refrigerated, after his funeral in 2021. It’s expected he will be moved next...
After Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept. 8, several images appeared on social media that were fake or shared out of context.
Government officials and some U.S. citizens with regular passports can have more than one valid passport under certain circumstances.
Yes, U.S. insulin prices are far higher than these other countries, like viral tweets claim
Viral tweets claim U.S. consumers pay multiple times more for insulin than other countries, including Japan, the U.K., Canada and France. That’s true.
Since Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, two videos have circulated online claiming to show military drills during her visit, but the videos are from...
One of the first major prisoner exchanges with Russia was in 1962. The exchange was depicted in the 2015 film “The Bridge of Spies.”
Headlines said scientists called Nessie of Loch Ness “plausible” after a fossil discovery, but the monster itself wasn’t what they believed could be real.