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Texas floods: 10 rumors about celebrity acts of kindness

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
July 18, 2025 From Bruce Springsteen to Coco Gauff to Patrick Mahomes, numerous stars have been at the center ...
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50 pieces of presidential trivia to mark Presidents Day

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Jessica Lee
Feb. 17, 2025 From allegations of extramarital affairs to claims of after-death hauntings of the White House — ...
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10 Most Popular Snopes Fact Checks in 2024

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Dec. 29, 2024 While the presidential election dominated news headlines this year, a lot more than politics cap ...
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Snopes' Top 8 Most Popular Stories in 2024

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Dec. 26, 2024 They ranged in variety from a tale about a mother supposedly abandoning her child in a vacant ho ...
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From clockwise, a white man raises his hands surrounded by other people, a Black woman holds out her left arm as a white woman looks on, a white man raises his index finger while speaking in front of a microphone and a white man stands while wearing a white shirt.

Snopes' Top 10 Most Popular Fact Checks in 2024

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Dec. 16, 2024 These fact checks attracted more readers than any others since the start of the year.
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Neil Armstrong Flubbed 1st Words on the Moon? Remembering the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
July 20, 2024 No matter how well-documented an event, people will still have their doubts. That's where Snopes ...
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10 Fact Checks About Fourth of July and Founding Fathers

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Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
July 4, 2024 In honor of the holiday, we rounded up 10 of our best fact checks about it and the Founding Fathers.
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10 Rumors About Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Over the Years

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David Emery
April 15, 2024 The stories gained new life as Trump made history as the first former president to stand trial o ...
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10 9/11 Conspiracies that Still Persist Today

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Shannon Sanford
March 15, 2024 Amid chaos comes plenty of rumors and conspiracies, and we're here to debunk them all.
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5 Elon Musk 'Facts' That Have Been Debunked

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Shannon Sanford
March 14, 2024 His eccentricity (dare we say ... outlandishness?) can make it difficult to separate fact from f ...
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20 Climate Change Rumors that Don't Hold Water

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Shannon Sanford
March 13, 2024 Facing the facts can be tough, especially when it comes to climate change.
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10 Times People Accused Fox News of Lying

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Shannon Sanford
March 12, 2024 Can they really get away with this?
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This satellite image taken at 3:06 p.m. EDT and provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Ian making landfall in southwest Florida near Cayo Costa, Fla., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, as a catastrophic Category 4 storm. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Rumors That Are Downright Dangerous

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Shannon Sanford
March 11, 2024 It's time to separate fact from fiction and weather the storm of misinformation together.
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20 Times People Accused CNN of Lying

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Shannon Sanford
March 8, 2024 In recent years, the 24/7 cable news network has become something of a cultural punching bag.
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A rumor said that USPS would be temporarily suspending mail services in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

20 Online Scams to Watch Out For

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Shannon Sanford
March 7, 2024 Unfortunately, that text is not from a company that wants to send you free money. It’s just ano ...
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A false rumor claimed that a video showed a naked Joe Biden whipping a female sex slave.

Pearl Harbor Rumors That Live in Infamy

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Shannon Sanford
March 6, 2024 We're taking a look at some of those rumors and which ones actually stand up to scrutiny.
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Jimmy Carter: Unveiling the Truth Behind the Rumors

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Shannon Sanford
March 5, 2024 Jimmy Carter stopped a nuclear meltdown? What else can this guy do?!
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Smartphone Warnings You Can Safely Ignore

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Shannon Sanford
March 4, 2024 Seriously, don't worry about these warnings. It won't do you any good.
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Food Myths We All Fell For

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Shannon Sanford
March 1, 2024 Could peanut butter be used to diagnose Alzheimer’s? Can you use it for a home test?
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20 Myths and Facts About the Moon Landing

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Shannon Sanford
Feb. 29, 2024 Apparently some people think it was all a Stanley Kubrick film? Talk about a masterpiece!
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