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A rumor spread online that FBI Director Kash Patel had been arrested twice for drunken behavior in the early 2000s. Here's what we know: snopes.com/news/2026/04/2…

Social media has been abuzz with rumors about Pope Leo XIV since he became leader of the Roman Catholic Church last May. We collected 18 claims involving the pope that we've investigated: snopes.com/collections/po…

A Substack post claimed Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife had taken $20 million from law firms he ruled on. We investigated: snopes.com/news/2026/05/0…

🌲 A claim spread online that the Trump administration ordered the dismantling of the Forest Service, the government agency managing the country's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. We spoke with the Forest Service's associate chief to unpack the current state of the agency:

For years, social media users have claimed Meghan, Duchess of Sussex once hazed her sorority sisters at Northwestern University by gluing their eyelids shut with superglue. No evidence — court records, newspaper articles or witness testimony — supports the claim: snopes.com/news/2026/05/0…

❌ No, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good wasn't "cleared of all charges." Here's the real story: snopes.com/fact-check/ice…

✅ Yes, a video shows Ilhan Omar misreading "World War II" as "World War 11." Here's the full story: snopes.com/fact-check/vid…

Conservative activist Christopher Rufo and journalist Jonathan Choe published an article claiming California was providing "sex-change procedures to homeless illegal aliens." We found the claim excluded key context: snopes.com/news/2026/04/2…

By 2027, will all new cars sold in the U.S. include surveillance technology that continuously watches a driver's every move? Here's context: snopes.com/fact-check/car…

Posts claimed Minnesota Senate Democrats voted unanimously to oppose removing dead people from the state's voter rolls. Here's the real story: snopes.com/fact-check/min…

Social media users claimed Pope Leo XIV said he would "probably" cheer for Peru over the U.S. if both teams compete in the FIFA World Cup. The quote is real, but posts sharing it omitted some context. snopes.com/fact-check/pop…

Posts claim that the MGM Grand in Las Vegas has canceled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's upcoming summer residency amid a feud with the Trumps. But the story is complete fiction — the residency never existed. ❌ snopes.com/fact-check/mgm…

❌ No, Trump didn't appoint Ghislaine Maxwell's former defense attorney as acting attorney general to head the Department of Justice. Trump appointed Todd Blanche, his former defense attorney: snopes.com/fact-check/tru…

After former FBI Director James Comey's indictment, social media users claimed Trump once posted a video that included an image depicting Biden bound and gagged in the back of a pickup. That's true — it happened in March 2024 when Trump was a presidential candidate. ✅ snopes.com/fact-check/tru…

✅ Yes, a photo authentically shows the suspected White House Correspondents' dinner gunman in a selfie he took before the shooting. We found the photo in a DOJ filing that argued he should be detained until his trial: snopes.com/fact-check/col…

👑 King Charles III was back in the news this week as he visited the U.S. on an official state visit. To mark his visit, we compiled 16 rumors from our archives about the royal: snopes.com/collections/ki…

❌ No, a video shared online doesn't authentically show a massive amount of plastic pollution washed up along an Indian shore. We found the video is real — but users got the location of the river wrong: snopes.com/fact-check/vid…

✅ Yes, the U.S. government announced new passports that will include a portrait of Trump. Here's what to know: snopes.com/fact-check/pas…

Here's how we debunked the false claim. 👇 snopes.com/fact-check/dod…

❌ Don't believe a rumor claiming the U.S. military hand-delivered sealed envelopes to more than 6,000 hospital administrators, ordering them to suspend contracts with major pharmaceutical companies.