Universal Federal Free Lunch Program Ending
A popular Imgur post suggested that a federal free lunch program in American schools would be ending in June 2022.
A popular Imgur post suggested that a federal free lunch program in American schools would be ending in June 2022.
In May 2022, a popular post on Reddit purportedly depicted a “monument in Tikrit, Iraq” that memoralized the shoes thrown at former U.S. leader George W. Bush.
After a May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a popular tweet claimed that guns had become the leading cause of death in children and teens in the United States as of 2020.
The day after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, The Onion‘s cyclical mass shooting piece took over its front page — as a New York Times abstract followed suit in reality.
Labeling a claim as a “new” TikTok trend helps it go viral, as was the case with a claim involving IRS tax-exempt statuses for churches.
A viral tweet claimed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) distilled white supremacist domestic terrorism into a voting issue.
Social media posts about Walmart’s Juneteenth ice cream (with a trademark) spread virally in late May 2022.
Fears of a wheat shortage swept social media in May 2022, alongside claims only ten weeks of wheat were held in reserves globally.
A dangerous subthread of baby shortage formula discourse held that commercial infant formula wasn’t used in the 1950s and 60s, and that babies “were fine.”
Republican Greg Abbott retweeted Elon Musk and said that Musk “picked the right state to move to,” but deleted the tweet after seven minutes.