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X posts stated on June 7, 2026 in an X post:

This video shows a June 2026 earthquake in the Philippines.

By Loreben Tuquero • June 8, 2026

Social Media stated on April 6, 2026 in social media posts:

Photos and clips show the moon from Artemis II.

By Maria Briceño • April 8, 2026

Threads posts stated on November 17, 2024 in Threads posts:

“Elon Musk has $180 Billion and there are 8B people on earth. If he gave us each $1B he’d still have $172B left.”

By Sofia Ahmed • November 18, 2024

Threads posts stated on November 1, 2024 in a Threads post:

Video shows 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Oregon.

By Jeff Cercone • November 8, 2024

Viral image stated on August 26, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows buildings crumbling because of an “earthquake in Taiwan.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • August 29, 2024

Facebook posts stated on May 20, 2024 in a video:

Footage “shows a completely flat horizon proving the flat Earth and completely destroying the globe theory.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • May 29, 2024

Facebook posts stated on April 6, 2024 in a Facebook reel:

There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.

By Sofia Ahmed • April 18, 2024

X posts stated on April 3, 2024 in a post on X:

Video shows “an entire block of unfinished houses collapsed as a result of an earthquake in Taiwan.”

By Madison Czopek • April 4, 2024

Facebook posts stated on April 19, 2024 in a post:

"The Earth is warming because of the sun's changing distance from the Earth, not because of carbon emissions."

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 3, 2024

Facebook posts stated on September 13, 2023 in an image shared on Facebook:

Giant human skeletons as large as 36 feet have been “unearthed and documented” in historical records.

By Madison Czopek • September 22, 2023

Instagram posts stated on May 15, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“We are about 1 degree Celsius above the coldest it’s been in the last 10,000 years” and “that’s why we shouldn’t be panicking.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 17, 2023

Facebook posts stated on April 20, 2023 in an image:

The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth.

By Andy Nguyen • April 28, 2023

Viral image stated on March 11, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Elon Musk tweeted, “The world is flat.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • March 13, 2023

Facebook posts stated on February 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:

Video shows “the earthquake in Turkey.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 21, 2023

Instagram posts stated on February 10, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“Humans are not causing climate change.” Magnetic pole shifting “is causing havoc worldwide in weather, climate, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.”

By Loreben Tuquero • February 15, 2023

Facebook posts stated on February 7, 2023 in a Facebook post:

The earthquake in Turkey is a "scripted" use of geo engineering weather modification HAARP

By Jeff Cercone • February 15, 2023

Viral image stated on February 8, 2023 in an Instagram post:

A video shows a dog trying to reach her puppies after the Turkey-Syria earthquake.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 10, 2023

Facebook posts stated on February 5, 2023 in a Facebook post:

“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 9, 2023

Instagram posts stated on February 6, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "a systemic attack against Kurdish people."

By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2023

Instagram posts stated on February 7, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Photo showing Game of Thrones characters depicts victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

By Madison Czopek • February 8, 2023

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Rescue workers at rubble from Venezuela's earthquakes 06-29-26

Fact-checking 5 videos that falsely depict scenes from Venezuela’s earthquakes

By Maria Briceño • June 29, 2026

New Earth photos appear dull because of cameras and lighting, not climate change

By Zoe Weyand • April 7, 2026

Climate change smokestacks coal-fired plant 2018

The Earth has rapidly warmed over the past century. Can politics slow it?

By Daniel Funke • October 28, 2019

Unearthing the facts on Yosemite’s visitors, bears and wildfires

By Chris Nichols, Sami Soto • August 9, 2018

Earth Day 2016: 6 things to know about climate change

By Linda Qiu • April 21, 2016

Fact-checking Texas fracking, pollution, earthquakes

By W. Gardner Selby • May 18, 2015

Earth, wind and fire

By Robert Farley • February 20, 2009

Trump’s midterm rallies: A fact-checked guide to talking points, falsehoods

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2026

What Trump’s communism claims miss about Democrats and democratic socialists

By Amy Sherman, Gracey Abernethy • July 9, 2026

Bandera Venezolana cuelga en edificio tras terremotoso 06-26-26

Verificamos 5 videos que muestran falsas escenas de los terremotos en Venezuela

By Maria Briceño • June 30, 2026

Ohio’s GOP governor said it’s ‘absurd’ to call Haiti safe, experts agree

By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2026

Looking into the Reflecting Pool: We examined Trump’s vandalism claims

By Gracey Abernethy • June 26, 2026

Sometimes fighting dangerous pests like screwworms and mosquitoes means sterilizing bugs

By Madison Czopek • June 10, 2026

Vape shop manager blows aerosol ring while vaping 09-03-2019

When someone’s vaping nearby, what are you breathing in? The risks of vape pens’ secondhand aerosols

By Madison Czopek • May 19, 2026

Los Alamos National Laboratory, 4-16-2019

Fact-checking claims about missing, dead scientists: Were they researching UFOs, nuclear weapons?

By Loreben Tuquero • April 28, 2026

Social media users questioned Pete Hegseth, Pope Leo’s Bible quotes. Here’s the full context

By Loreben Tuquero, Maria Briceño • April 17, 2026

Too many salt options? Based on health properties alone, all salt is similar

By Madison Czopek • April 7, 2026

Not just oil: How the Strait of Hormuz blockage affects US consumers, from fertilizer to helium

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2026

Could Iran ‘soon’ hit US with long-range missile? Experts doubt Trump as US bombs Iran.

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2026

vigil for TPS in Little Haiti, Miami 1-12-26

Judge’s ruling on TPS for Haitians temporarily blocks Trump campaign promise

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2026