In an unexpected turn of events, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice found himself involved in a multi-car accident that shook the Dallas community over the weekend. Driving a Lamborghini, ...

On June 7 2023, amid right-wing book-banning attempts sweeping the United States, poet and author Amanda Gorman addressed the banning of her own book The Hill We Climb at a Florida elementary school.

What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.

Derided for years as a comedic (at best) example of a frivolous lawsuit, the story of Stella Liebeck’s legal battle with the McDonald’s fast food chain has been the subject of a critical reappraisal.

A popular February 2023 post to Reddit's r/todayilearned asserted 80 percent of elevator "close door" buttons are not functional.

The death of former Pope Benedict XVI led to claims a "dead pope hammer" was necessarily deployed as part of the Catholic Church's traditions.

Claim: “Reminder that ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ was initially a joke about an absurd, impossible thing to do, and that it is not a real thing one can do.” Description: The phrase ...

Narratives about a purported string of food factory fires in 2022 had long-tail staying power, but rarely did debunkings address the "whys" of the conspiracy theory.

A March 2022 post that claimed former U.S. President Ronald Reagan oversaw the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, and vetoed Congressional bills seeking to codify the FCC's guideline into law.

Fact Check Claim: Anthony Bourdain said: "Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone ...

The effects of news paywalls on public information literacy have long been a thread in discourse around news literacy, and 12ft.io purportedly bypasses paywalls to connect readers to blocked content.

Out-of-context images and posts about "sea cats" requiring passports spread across social media in the summer of 2021.