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.

A midwestern meme contains claims that Lake Superior, because of its size and frigid waters, "never gives up her dead." ...

On May 23 2023, several social media posts popped up with the jarring claim that a majority of book removal or book ban requests in American schools were an effort by the same eleven individuals: ...

A March 2009 event honoring then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lingered on for years online, as both right-wing political figures and internet “influencers” have linked her to another ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't say, "If Women need to be raped by Muslims to prove our tolerance, so be it. Then thank God for Planned Parenthood." ...

After Thomas Edison’s school teacher called him addled or mentally ill in a letter, Edison's mother hid the letter from the young inventor and homeschooled him so that he could reach his full ...

In October 2019, a post circulated showing a natural rock formation known as “Six Grandfathers” before it was carved into what most Americans now call “Mount Rushmore.” For anyone curious, here’s what ...

Amid news Netflix planned to curtail password sharing, a purported tweet stating that "love is sharing a password" recirculated in 2022.

On July 29 2020, comedian Lee Camp shared the following image, which quoted Elon Musk as saying the United States would “coup whoever we want,” and to “deal with it”: Across an image of Musk, text ...

Ted Kennedy asked leaders of the Soviet Union to help the Democrats defeat President Reagan in the 1984 presidential election in a secret letter that he sent in 1983.

Viral Facebook posts claim that British Heinz Ketchup boasts a markedly different ingredients list than its American counterpart.

On April 2 2019, Facebook page “ The Other 98% ” shared a meme (archived here) with an apparent quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on “socialism for the rich” and “rugged individualism for the ...