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Claim: A WhatsApp video known as “Martinelli” spreads malware that irreparably hacks your cell phone. A hoax that has been making the online rounds on WhatsApp since at least mid-2017 warns users of the encrypted messaging service that they are supposedly vulnerable to a piece of malicious software …
Read MoreClaim: An “extreme snuff film” in which Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin are seen raping and mutilating a prepubescent girl is circulating on the dark web under the code name “Frazzledrip.” Somewhere on the dark web there exists a video of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and longtime …
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Claim: News stories about a mass shooting at a Florida high school were timestamped days earlier than 14 February 2018, which prove that the mass shooting was actually a “false flag” hoax. A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14 February 2018, killing …
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Claim: Accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz has ties to the Islamic State or other Islamic extremist groups. In the aftermath of a deadly high school shooting in south Florida in February 2018, conspiracy theorist web site Infowars offered speculation about the suspected perpetrator’s ideological …
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Claim: A Maryland man has been indicted in connection with the Uranium One investigation. On 12 January 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an eleven-count indictment against a Maryland man who is accused of bribing a former Russian energy official in a scheme to win nuclear fuel …
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Claim: Motorists in Mexicali, Mexico, shot footage capturing an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Footage allegedly shot in Mexico was promoted online in January 2018 as the first “proof” of extraterrestrial life to emerge during the near year. Pedro Ramírez, who calls himself a “UFOlogist,” posted the …
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Claim: A photograph shows a group of DACA recipients dressed in Mexican flags burning an American flag. An old image purportedly showing a group of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act burning an American flag took another lap around the internet in December 2017, after it …
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Claim: “Antifa” admitted to pouring concrete on train tracks causing an Amtrak train to derail. What’s True In an April 2017 post on an anarchist web site, a group claimed to have poured concrete on train tracks in Washington to prevent the shipment of fracking materials. What’s False Whether the …
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Claim: Officials say the October 2017 California wildfires were started by Mexican drug cartels in order to gain a strategic advantage over the legal marijuana industry. As wildfires caused devastation in parts of California in the fall of 2017, conspiracy theories about their causes followed …
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Claim: The man accused of opening fire on hundreds of people in a Las Vegas casino in October 2017 was spotted at an anti-Trump protest two months earlier. The aftermath of a mass shooting is often a springboard for misinformation as ordinary citizens attempt to do their own investigative work. …
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