Recent stories featuring Chain email

PolitiFact's oddest fact-checks of 2012:

The Truth-O-Meter has a sense of humor (we swear) so we occasionally do light-hearted or downright odd fact-checks. Here are some of the more unusual fact-checks we did in 2012.

PolitiFact's guide to Thanksgiving dinner :

Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain e-mails? Here's our annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole until you need it.

Debunking claims about a new home sales tax:

Did you get the chain email that claims the health care law will institute a new tax on home sales? 

It boldly proclaims that the health care law includes "a 3.8% sales tax" on "all real estate transactions." The claim has persistently circulated for two years, but there's just one catch: It's not true.

We ran it through the Truth-O-Meter.

Have lip readers figured out Michelle Obama's 9/11 comments?:

A chain email claims that a lip-reading instructor for the River School has determined that at a 9/11 ceremony, Michelle Obama said, "All this for a damn flag." We check the facts.

The flood of falsehoods about the health care law:

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review President Barack Obama's health care law, we review the falsehoods that simply won't stop.