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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

It’s hard to debunk false claims “coming with the seal of the federal government,” said Derek Tisler, counsel and manager with the Brennan Center for Justice’s elections and government program.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

The flood of AI-fabricated visuals -- mixed with authentic imagery from the Middle East -- continues to grow faster than professional fact-checkers can debunk them.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

An older school of historians and philosophers took this framework for granted, while a newer school has wanted to debunk or deconstruct the concepts rather than explain their significance and trace their origin.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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 film itself debunks any attempts to debunk it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Liz O'Riordan, who herself has breast cancer, often debunks health misinformation online.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

“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

In late October, AFP's fact-checkers debunked a likely AI-altered clip that purported to show a former student of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico accusing him of sexual misconduct.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“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

He added that allegations the Singaporean company was smuggling chips to China "were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The pulmonologist Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria penned a column in the Washington Post last week debunking wellness claims about nicotine and underscoring its risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Once someone has formed an opinion, debunking their belief can backfire, driving them to commit even more strongly to their mistake.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Also, it was debunking the lie that just because we’re all in the music business, we all like each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

If every event is met with automatic suspicion and conspiracy theory, we’ll spend all our time debunking nonsense, and nothing will ever get better.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

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