‘Ashleigh Shackelford Teaching Critical Race Theory’ Video Astroturfed discord over "critical race theory" included the relabeling of a years-old video featuring activist Hunter Ashleigh Shackelford addressing a room full of white adults.
‘Biden Mindlessly Claims White Supremacy is a Bigger Threat to America than ISIS or Terrorism’ A second excerpt from U.S. President Joe Biden's remarks in Tulsa was misrepresented by disinformation purveyors.
‘This Photo of Chick-Fil-This Photo of Chick-Fil-a Honoring Fallen Soldiers on Memorial Day Is Triggering Liberals’ A photograph of a memorial table at a Chick-Fil-A honoring fallen soldiers is real, but it's not "triggering liberals across social media."
‘Jeffrey Westerfield’ Facebook Post Viral posts purportedly describing the death of law enforcement officer Jeffrey Westerfield on his 47th birthday circulated in May 2021, co-opting language of the Black Lives Matter movement.
‘AOC Announces She’s in Therapy’ and ‘Implies Lawmakers Effectively Served in War’ Interview Excerpt A May 2021 interview given by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to public radio show Latino USA was presented in partial excerpts alongside disinformation about the events of January 6 2021.
The New Hampshire Election Audit An avalanche of social media posts drew attention to the "NH election audit," described as a bellwether for widespread 2020 fraud.
Are People Returning Pandemic Pets? Stories shaming bad behavior lead to easy clicks, such as claims that pandemic pets were being surrendered to shelters in record numbers.
‘Black Lives Matter Says It Stands with Hamas’ Fox News Stealth Edit Fox News quietly changed a headline claiming that Black Lives Matter said it "stands with Hamas," but aggregated versions by Fox affiliates (and Google cache) told a different story.
@KaitMarieox ‘Might Just Start Wearing A Mask Again … Wouldn’t Want To Give Off The Impression That I’m A Vaccinated Democrat’ Tweet Screenshots of a tweet attributed to Kaitlin Bennett about wearing a mask circulated in screenshots, and suggested the line between satire and reality is increasingly thin.
‘There Is No Such Thing as a Blue State, Only Blue Cities’ Tweet A viral tweet demonstrates how easy it still is to get people to believe utter nonsense with out-of-context or wildly misapplied data.
