Texas Republican Tweets, Deletes Fake News Headline
Sen. Ted Cruz captioned the phony screenshot with “The left is beyond parody.”
Sen. Ted Cruz captioned the phony screenshot with “The left is beyond parody.”
A long-debunked “tweet” attributed to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) about electric cars and storms is resurrected ahead of just about every hurricane.
As the Electoral College prepared to cast their votes on December 14 2020, Donald Trump claimed that a “water main break” was staged to somehow rig the election against him.
Another fabricated tweet attributed to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) circulated on social media.
A screenshot of a tweet attributed to failed Republican candidate Jeff Younger (@JeffYoungerTX) called for the “political power” of women to be “diminished.”
A November 2022 Imgur post depicted political advertising disguised as a regional fake newspaper.
In late October 2022, news about Kanye West’s series of business breakups included a Twitter claim that he had been banned from playing the popular trading card game.
Details about slates of “fake electors,” one of several ploys to disrupt the 2020 election, continued to emerge in September 2022.
The coerced flights were compared to the “Reverse Freedom Rides” against Black Americans in the 1960s.
As midterms loomed in August 2022, politicians and pundits sought favorable polls to share on social media.