Users shared the rumor weeks after the Trump administration and Israel started a war with Iran, resulting in oil prices ...

In early March 2026, two photos (archived) circulated online that claimed to show former U.S. President Bill Clinton wearing pajamas while carrying and sitting next to physicist Stephen Hawking, who ...

I've spent years hiding my conservative politics for the sake of my career -- now ChatGPT is giving advice that will silence others. For years, critics have charged that artificial intelligence ...

On March 8, 2026, a rumor that two members of U.S. President Donald Trump's Cabinet had commissioned nuclear bomb shelters appeared on social media. Snopes readers wrote in asking for more information ...

In late February 2026, a rumor circulated on social media claiming that tech billionaire Bill Gates donated $50 million to a company creating a new category of "biologically-modified crops." One X ...

In March 2026, Facebook users shared a rumor alleging U.S. President Donald Trump had fasted every Friday since 2020. According to the claim, Trump abstained from eating food with no exceptions, both ...

In March 2026, a rumor circulated online that Team USA figure skater Ilia Malinin received a message from U.S. President Donald Trump that the Olympian said "was meant to shut me up." For example, on ...

Beginning on March 3, 2026, an image spread on social media claiming to show Iranian civilians mourning schoolchildren and other victims from a girls' primary school in the city of Minab killed by ...

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the Department of Homeland Security, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, “Well, Secretary Noem, we still ...

In early March 2026, a video (archived) circulated online that claimed to show people in Kuwait approaching a downed pilot after the country's air defenses mistakenly shot down (archived) three U.S.

After the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, rumors circulated online that brand-new accounts on the betting site Polymarket made suspiciously well-timed wagers about when the attack would ...