In the summer of 2025, a rumor spread that the CIA once ran a "fake" brothel in San Francisco, California, in order to test drugs, including LSD, on its unsuspecting patrons. For example, on July 31, ...

The claim that Melania Trump worked as an escort before meeting Donald Trump has been spreading online since at least August 2016, when the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail published an article making ...

Mark Carney won the 2025 Canadian election against Conservative leader Paul Poilièvre. This made him a target of several rumors, many false.

James Richard Verone, who was unemployed, was arrested in June 2011 after a desperate plan to receive medical attention.

In late August 2025, social media posts claimed convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell "confirmed" the existence of secret ...

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

On Aug. 25, 2025, according to posts on social media, U.S. President Donald Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller ...

Maps or images allegedly showing rising sea levels or increasing temps often circulate online. Some are real, others are not.

Barbara Kent and a dozen other 13-year-old girls believed nuclear fallout from the Manhattan Project's Trinity test was ...

The order encourages forcible commitment of "homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment.

A TikTok user pointed to several “worsening" symptoms and claimed they were signs that Trump had congestive heart failure and ...

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