Diane Sawyer’s Special Report, ‘Made in China’
Posts about the journalist’s “special report” about items “made in China” circulated virally.
Posts about the journalist’s “special report” about items “made in China” circulated virally.
In December 2021, a meme claimed that the “bad guy” in the film Dallas Buyers Club was none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The emergence of an “insurrection PowerPoint” in December 2021 renewed interest in a January 4 2021 memo restricting deployment of the Washington DC National Guard.
Facebook’s promoted Reels included a video claiming that Dawn dish soap is actually hand soap, a “big if true” claim apparently circulated to promote a multi-level marketing scam.
“Betty White” was a feature of Twitter’s trending list on November 11 2021, and a screenshot of a purported tweet attributed to the cultural icon took advantage of the algorithmic boost.
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, 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 debunked, deleted tweet spread as zombie disinformation in late October 2021, claiming the “FDA Vaccine Advisory Board” lamented a “more educated” populace of unvaccinated people.
In criticizing an announcement about the new Man of Steel, right-wing outlets tried to erase his identity.