Ben Shapiro ‘Look How Beautiful My Sister Looks’ Tweet
A tweet attributed to Ben Shapiro about “how beautiful” his sister looks spread virally from Reddit to other platforms.
A tweet attributed to Ben Shapiro about “how beautiful” his sister looks spread virally from Reddit to other platforms.
A bait-and-switch headline about a “first article of impeachment … against Joe Biden” rendered one way when shared on social platforms, and another for the few who clicked before sharing.
A judge in Ottawa issued a temporary ten-day injunction against honking, as social media posts using coded “honk honk” references proliferated.
Perhaps two million people gathered somewhere — but not in this picture.
A February 2022 DailyWire.com article claimed that new research had cast doubt on the effects of “lockdowns,” also known as “shelter-in-place” directives.
Ongoing intense discussions about a school district’s decision to ban Maus brought attention to an old purported quote by prolific author Stephen King about banned books.
An ongoing social media dispute between Jim Cramer and “meme stock” investors included a purported tweet from the former in which he taunted them with “have fun being poor.”
Video of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) apparently advocating the use of misinformation as a messaging strategy resurfaced nearly a decade later.
An unprecedented avalanche of disinformation followed the 2020 general election, enabling truly weird elements like “fake electors” to fade into the background of an increasingly bizarre chain of events.