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Claim: Hillary Clinton had a teleprompter hidden on her lectern during the first presidential debate. A series of conspiracy theories circulated after the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on 26 September 2016, holding that the Democratic nominee had somehow rigged …
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Claim: NASA admitted that they were in contact with aliens but failed to officially disclose that information, presuming everyone already knew about it. On 19 September 2016, the conspiracy web site Disclose.tv published an article reporting that NASA, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. …
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Claim: Nearly 5 million uncounted California ballots cast for Bernie Sanders were found on Hillary Clinton’s private email server by the F.B.I. Fake news occasionally proves itself to be more amusing than annoying (i.e., actual satire rather than an attempt to fool readers with sensationalist …
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Claim: Eerie clouds over Geneva were caused by the particle collider at CERN opening a portal to a new dimension. What’s True There was a storm over Geneva in June 2016, and nature photographer Christophe Suarez captured images from the event. What’s False The photographs do not portray CERN …
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Claim: A photograph shows UFO “kill markings” on the side of a German World War II anti-aircraft gun. A photograph purportedly showing “kill markings” that indicate flying saucers on the side of a German World War II anti-aircraft gun has been showing up on the internet for several years, often …
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Claim: Fire and smoke billowing from the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower were evidence of a Bastille Day terrorist attack in Paris. Just after a devastating attack in Nice, France, on 14 July 2016 — in which dozens of people were killed and still more wounded when a man identified as French-Tunisian …
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Claim: A 2016 Stanford study revealed widespread primary election fraud in multiple states favoring Hillary Clinton. What’s True Two researchers (presumably graduate students) from Stanford University and Tilburg University co-authored a paper asserting they uncovered information suggesting …
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Claim: WhatsApp Gold is a premium service offered by WhatsApp. In May 2016, several users of the messaging service WhatsApp reported that they had received an offer to download something called “WhatsApp Gold.” While the messages varied, they all claimed that users who downloaded the new “premium …
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Claim: Multiple news outlets reported that primary voters in New York claimed their votes were switched from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton. On 19 April 2016, social media users began sharing links to what appeared to be a Huffington Post article titled “The Fix Is In: Sanders Supporters in New …
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Claim: The Obama Administration is “fighting in court” to allow non-citizens to vote in general elections. What’s True The League of Women Voters (along with the NAACP and other parties) filed for injunctive relief against the Election Assistance Commission on 12 February 2016 due to unilaterally …
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