Multiple databases of mass shootings indicate that transgender people are not unusually likely to commit mass shootings.

In late August 2025, a rumor spread that Joe Gibbs, former coach of the NFL's Washington Commanders, had died. For example, a ...

Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis was one of three top officials at the CDC who resigned after the White House fired the agency's director.

Online users and prominent news media outlets promoted partly misleading information about yet another trending topic.

As news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement spread in August 2025, a video surfaced supposedly showing comedian Larry David on NBC's "Today" show reacting to the proposal. The Grammy-winning ...

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, eventually taking thousands of lives and causing billions in damage.

The Road Warriors Motorcycle Club allegedly came to defend the honor of their founder after he was humiliated at a Walmart store.

Florida did not ban "The Diary of Anne Frank" statewide, as posts suggest. A graphic-novel adaptation was removed from some schools' shelves.

Users shared posts in August 2025 claiming "antifa thugs" altered a new "American Workers First" banner hanging outside the Washington building.

Vance didn't elaborate on what he considered to be a major conflict, but not even WWII ended with a negotiation between the defeated Axis powers and the Allied powers. There are many other examples of ...

In the aftermath of deadly floods in Texas in July 2025, Facebook posts circulated false stories about celebrities supposedly helping victims of the disaster. The posts targeted celebrities ranging ...

The day after an Aug. 27, 2025, mass shooting that resulted in the deaths of two children in a Minneapolis church, a rumor spread online that the shooter, Robin Westman, was Jewish.