‘Mad Max is Set in 2021’
A set of related viral memes contain some variant of, “I don’t want to be a pessimist, but Mad Max 2 was set in 2021.”
2020
‘Trump Got 74 Million Votes With 133 Million Registered Voters in the USA … There’s Only 59 Million Votes Left for Biden, How Did He Get 81 Million?’
The claim, despite being completely untrue, was shared nearly half a million times on Facebook, with no intervention detected by the social media platform despite its vows to crack down on disinformation.
‘George Soros With the Owner of Smartmatic’
Right-wing blogs and social media users used the billionaire philanthropist to fuel their debunked conspiracy theories — again.
‘How Election Was Stolen,’ ‘Funny How the Rest of the World Gets Different News Than Us’
A screenshot of a newspaper headline (“How Election Was Stolen”) was framed as political truth-telling from outside the United States.
Twisted Tea Circle K Fight Video Spreads Virally
On December 24 2020, “Twisted Tea” became a popular trending term in the wake of footage showing an altercation at an Ohio Circle-K. Footage of the incident, which involved racial slurs and a can of Twisted Tea, was shared to r/PublicFreakout alongside a concise but comprehensive title — “Drunk guy yells N Word and gets SMACKED with …
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Is This a Deleted Scene From ‘Love Actually’?
The movie’s high-flying original climax continues to be rediscovered online.
Were Illinois Police Filmed Arresting Another Law Enforcement Officer?
The incident, which took place in Harvey, had some social media users cheering.
‘Stimulus Pork’
A sourceless “stimulus pork” chart brought Americans together (by stoking bipartisan outrage), but it lacked a lot of important context.
Far Right News Organizations Issue Statements, Admit ‘No Evidence’ Exists to Support Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Election Fraud
More than six weeks after the 2020 election, fringe news organizations are being legally compelled to air statements about their extensive and baseless “coverage” of purported election fraud.
‘Giulia Tofana Was an Italian Professional Poisoner … Famous for Selling Poison to Women Who Wanted to Murder Their Abusive Husbands’
A viral Facebook post addresses the purported history of Giulia Tofana and her “Aqua Tofana,” sold to women with abusive husbands.