‘Mad Max is Set in 2021’
A set of related viral memes contain some variant of, “I don’t want to be a pessimist, but Mad Max 2 was set in 2021.”
A set of related viral memes contain some variant of, “I don’t want to be a pessimist, but Mad Max 2 was set in 2021.”
The claim, despite being completely untrue, was shared nearly half a million times on Facebook, with no intervention detected by the social media platform despite its vows to crack down on disinformation.
A screenshot of a newspaper headline (“How Election Was Stolen”) was framed as political truth-telling from outside the United States.
On December 24 2020, “Twisted Tea” became a popular trending term in the wake of footage showing an altercation at an Ohio Circle-K. Footage of the incident, which involved racial slurs and a can of Twisted Tea, was shared to r/PublicFreakout alongside a concise but comprehensive title — “Drunk guy yells N Word and gets SMACKED with …
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A sourceless “stimulus pork” chart brought Americans together (by stoking bipartisan outrage), but it lacked a lot of important context.
More than six weeks after the 2020 election, fringe news organizations are being legally compelled to air statements about their extensive and baseless “coverage” of purported election fraud.
A viral Facebook post addresses the purported history of Giulia Tofana and her “Aqua Tofana,” sold to women with abusive husbands.
A copy-and-paste Facebook post claiming Joe Biden “wants to get rid of something called ‘stepped up basis'” regarding to family home transfers is making the usual rounds.
A December 17 2020 claim about “breaking news” from Georgia about a signature audit was neither “breaking” nor “news” — at least, not in the way disinformation purveyors were presenting it.
Yet another piece of election-related disinformation is circulating, this one centered on Executive Order 13848 — specifically, claims that it would keep Donald Trump in the White House despite his decisive loss to Joe Biden.