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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The claim stemmed from a Daily Beast report that cited Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist and associate of the health ...

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

The day after an Aug. 27, 2025, mass shooting that resulted in the deaths of two children in a Minneapolis church, a rumor ...

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

Conservatives seized on the shooter's purported gender identity to launch attacks on the transgender community.