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"You could just spend 30 seconds researching and find plenty of sources to debunk these conspiracies, but that's not how people use the internet anymore."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Civic experts are urging regular voters to help debunk misinformation about voting within their communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Researchers found that when large language models, like ChatGPT or Claude, are instructed to debunk conspiracy theories, they often successfully change people’s minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

It’s important to debunk this genetic stuff as we now live in a genomic age in which science has been used to justify all sorts of atrocity.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Ms. Schrager debunks several myths that she says keep Americans of all ages and stations from taking healthy chances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

AFP's global network has produced more than 500 debunks of false information in multiple languages since the conflict began -- a rate never before seen in such a crisis.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

“The Colonel and the King” debunks some of the most stubborn myths about Parker, refuting the notion that Parker destroyed Elvis’ career by force-feeding awful material down his throat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

Although this debunks the previous assumptions about protoplanetary disks, it also confirms earlier images from the mid-2000s from NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

The study debunks myths about Cockney rhyming slang being born out of criminal activity, and highlights how it has historically thrived on multicultural influences, adapting with each wave of newcomers.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024

“The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

“I’ve watched those paranormal shows and a lot of the stories can be debunked, so I tried to debunk it,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Many had been examined ad nauseam, including by those at the reception, and roundly debunked.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

"The claim that working in partnership with Manchester City's owners has not been a good deal for the council or the city has been debunked repeatedly," the authority said.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Every medium so studied has been debunked, if not in the sessions, then by materials, photos, or interviews after the fact.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

His “viral hospital rumor has been debunked,” the account wrote in a post accompanying an article about the debunking.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

An American former newspaper columnist took to his Substack page to attempt a debunking, which offered a coherent if implausible theory of why Europe isn’t all that bad and America isn’t all that great.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

But I’m less interested in debunking this manufactured news moment — or collective act of wish-casting, or whatever it is — than in exploring why it has seized many people’s attention around the world.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

Internet users are increasingly turning to chatbots to verify images in real time, but the tools often fail, raising questions about their visual debunking capabilities.

From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025

Its place in the canons of poetics and rhetoric, moreover, has largely survived the personal debunking of its author.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith