‘Died Suddenly’ and the ‘Irish Light’
Images of a purported newspaper cover for the Irish Light (“Died Suddenly”) circulated on social media in November 2022.
Images of a purported newspaper cover for the Irish Light (“Died Suddenly”) circulated on social media in November 2022.
Heavy mid-November 2022 snowfall blanketed Buffalo, but one viral Facebook post showed a weather event from 2014, not 2022.
The suspect in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs is the grandson of a California politician.
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Donut Hole was “firebombed” amidst sustained rhetoric targeting drag shows.
Six days before the November 8 2022 midterm elections, the American president gave a speech about disinformation and its role in fueling a marked rise in political violence.
A doctored image of Claussen “pickle candy corn” repeatedly spread on social media, but there’s no evidence it ever existed.
A November 2022 Imgur post depicted political advertising disguised as a regional fake newspaper.
An attempted October 28 2022 attack on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led to a predictable straw-grabbing race to re-frame the incident.
Speaker Pelosi, often the focus of progressively violent partisan rhetoric, appeared to have been the intended target.
In late October 2022, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s remarks on “freedom from religion” in the United States spread virally.