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Real or Total BS? Fact vs. Fiction

Fact-checking falsehoods after shooting at White House correspondents' dinner

What's fact and what's fiction? We're fact-checking falsehoods after a shooting in the hotel hosting the White House correspondents' dinner

10 Very Mind-Blowing Facts About Movies, Music, And History That Honestly Feel Too Wild To Be Real

These facts are all true, even if some of them sound like they were made up.View Entire Post ›

Facts & Sincerely Held Beliefs

Years ago, the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court of the United States raised numerous issues including one about beliefs and facts. Oversimplifying things for the sake of b...

14 Movies That Lied About the ‘True Story’ Part

Hollywood loves the phrase “based on a true story,” even though that label often stretches the truth to its limits. In many cases, real events serve only as a loose foundation, wit...

Are These Outlandish Rock And Roll Tales Fact or Fiction?

20 Fun Facts from the History of Pop Culture

Pop culture history is full of stories that sound completely fake until you realize they actually happened. While most involve weird coincidences, others are about celebrities cros...

Fact-Checking ‘Michael’: What the Biopic Gets Right and Wrong About Michael Jackson

Here’s how the new biopic about the pop star handles everything from major moments like the “Beat It” video to details like a pet giraffe.

12 Widely Accepted Old Hollywood Myths That Are Actually 100% False

No, Walt Disney is not cryogenically frozen.View Entire Post ›

15 Ridiculous Hollywood Rumors That People Actually Believed

We know that we shouldn’t believe everything we read online, but wanting to believe the gossip is part of the fun. But as these stories show, such rumors tend to be false nearly al...

Separating Fact from Fiction in FACE Act Enforcement

The Trump administration’s new report claims DOJ’s enforcement of the FACE Act unfairly targeted religious Americans. Each of its claims fail against the enforcement record. The po...

A Real U.S. Marshal Fact-Checks CBS’s <em>Marshals</em>

Does the Yellowstone spinoff ring true? Not quite: “I do enjoy watching the show, just because it's so outrageous.”

True Crime Thursday – Blurry Line Between Fact and Fiction

by Debbie Burke Here’s a familiar trope in crime fiction: an author protagonist details a fictional murder that the author is later accused of. The book they wrote is used as evide...

18 Celebrity Sex Facts That Sound Fake But Are Actually 1,000,000% True

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A casebook of five wild Dubai myths, busted

Don’t believe everything you read, except maybe this… It’s been said that we’re living in a post truth world, where fake news fills the airwaves and facts are as interchangeable as...

8 Common Myths About Star Wars

Some of what you think know about Star Wars just might be completely wrong.

Fact Check: Yes, That Story About a NJ Candidate Catching Voting Machines Stealing Her Election Is True, But There's Mor...

Resurfaced rumors of a “stolen election” years ago in New Jersey are accurate, but the catch is that the most likely culprit this particular time was human error and incompetence....

20 claims we've fact-checked about Bill Clinton

From AI-generated criticisms of Trump officials to alleged hush money, here are some of our most popular investigations regarding the ex-president.

Fact Check: Yes, That Story About a NJ Candidate Catching Voting Machines Stealing Her Election Is True, But There's Mor...

Resurfaced rumors of a “stolen election” years ago in New Jersey are accurate, but the catch is that the most likely culprit this particular time was human error and incompetence....

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Frank Sinatra’s Stag Film

EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Aug. 25,  2025....

Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective realit...

Facts meet feelings

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The Surprising Divide Over What Counts as True

A new study finds that what people think about facts, authenticity, or coherent beliefs explains why they disagree about what is true.

Fact Check wRap: Lies about all the Senate drama

Watch this video to discover the five most common lies about Senator Bato dela Rosa and all the chaos that happened at the Senate this month