Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
The Georgia Republican suggested that transgender people were to blame for a tampon shortage.
A Facebook post claiming gas prices were $1.87 “on Memorial Day in 2020” spread virally — but it was not so much lacking context as willfully ignoring it.
A popular tweet from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich held that a majority of Americans polled in June 2022 supported legal action against elected officials who worked to overturn an American election.
In June 2022, discourse about the Uvalde, Texas school shooting centered on body cam footage.
A very thinly-sourced claim that Kim Kardashian ruined Marilyn Monroe’s dress during the Met Gala on May 2 2022 quickly became a trending topic.
After the June 11 2022 arrest of 31 Patriot Front extremists in a U-Haul in Idaho, disinformation purveyors spotted a “FBI bullhorn” in photographs of the incident.
A thinly coded political meme phrase (“Let’s Go Brandon”) helped a young boy named Brandon overcome fears and led to a book.
In June 2022, a Supreme Court ruling purportedly ruled that “Border Patrol can enter any home without a warrant and assault you, within 100 miles of the border.”
Screenshots of a purported Facebook group spread wildly and without context on other platforms.