Egg ‘Sink or Float’ Test
A viral Facebook post claims that “testing fresh eggs” is as simple as seeing which eggs sink and which eggs float.
A viral Facebook post claims that “testing fresh eggs” is as simple as seeing which eggs sink and which eggs float.
Screenshots of an apparent news article reporting that Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer used “the n-word twice in court” were decoupled from their source.
A viral Facebook post showing a letter claiming that Facebook “stole” MetaCompany’s “name and livelihood” went viral, but a few elements of the claim were suspicious.
A November 2021 Imgur post accurately described a Hobby Lobby advertisement, but context about the source of the text and date was removed.
A viral image of a purported billboard advising drivers that if their boss texts on their day off that they should “leave them unread” circulated across social media platforms.
A meme claimed that the collective encyclopedia’s “list of vampires” existed independently of its “list of fictional vampires.”
A viral, misleading Facebook post “joked” that Facebook fact-checkers denied evidence that people ever saved bacon grease or aluminum foil.
Treacly, engagement-baiting glurge about Pierce Brosnan and Keely Shaye Smith spread virally on Facebook, despite being unsourced and deeply insulting.
A meme claimed that in Nintendo’s NES classic Duck Hunt, the second controller can “control the duck” in its flight path.
A Halloween meme asserted that the word “bonfire” was an amalgam of “bone fire,” and the image had a cool skull on it.