‘Book Banned at School Named After its Author’
Amid ongoing discourse about banning books, a middle school in Texas purportedly banned a book written by George Dawson — the man for whom the school was named.
Amid ongoing discourse about banning books, a middle school in Texas purportedly banned a book written by George Dawson — the man for whom the school was named.
As the American public discussed an August 2022 move by the Biden administration to cancel some student loan debt, some of its more vocal critics on social media were accused of receiving PPP “loans.”
On August 22 2022, an Imgur account shared a screenshot of the following tweet, which claimed that the state of Louisiana was withholding flood funding from New Orleans in an abortion-related disagreement — just as the anniversary of 2005’s destructive Hurricane Katrina was approaching: The tweet included no link to any news supporting the claim, and it …
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In spite of a significant margin, the Kansas abortion referendum prompted a recount from entities unable to accept the outcome of the vote.
Unprecedented heat waves and drought drove interest into striking images of a purportedly “dried up” river in France.
In August 2022, an archival New York Daily News front page reading “Nixon Blasts ‘False Charges'” began circulating on social media, echoing 2022 political events.
Screenshots of a tweet purportedly published by former Gen. Michael Hayden circulated in August 2022, addressing extremism in the Republican party.
A popular post to Reddit’s r/worldnews suggested that a host on Russian state media said “I’m very worried for our agent Trump” in reference to the August 2022 Mar-a-Lago FBI search.
After the August 8 2022 raid of Mar-A-Lago, memes attributing a statement that “anyone being investigated by the FBI is not qualified to be President” to Donald Trump circulated.
A right-wing blogger tweeted, and then quietly deleted, a claim that a 2020 photograph was taken on August 5 2022 in Wisconsin.