NASA ‘Internet Apocalypse’ Outage Rumors, Explained "NASA saying no internet" spiked in searches in June 2023 amid rumors of an "internet apocalypse."
A Moms For Liberty Chapter Quoted Hitler in Newsletter In Hamilton County, Indiana, the local chapter of Moms For Liberty conspicuously quoted Adolf Hitler.
Fake Twitter Account @OceanGateExpeds Suspended After Spreading OceanGate Disinformation After Elon Musk removed Twitter's verification system, a fake OceanGate account successfully spread falsehoods during an active disaster.
‘Kentucky Cutting Polling Places’ A popular June 2023 Imgur post suggested that Kentucky was "cutting [the] number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200."
‘Homosexuals Are Overrepresented …’ Before and during Pride Month (June 2023), an old and fully discredited canard about LGBTQ+ people and child abuse was promulgated by a handful of newly-created accounts on social media and established disinformation purveyors.
ZipRecruiter ‘Crisis Actors Needed in Miami’ A viral tweet implied that ZipRecruiter sought highly paid "crisis actors" for positions in Miami in June 13 2023.
‘We’re Not After Children, We Just Want to Live Our Lives’ Doctored Pride Image A deleted viral tweet by @WokeArchive ("We’re not after children, we just want to live our lives") featured a digitally altered image to falsify a point.
The Amanda Gorman Banned Book Controversy, Explained Yes, Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb" was banned at a Florida school in May 2023, per Miami-Dade Schools.
In a Friday News Dump, YouTube Announces Election Disinformation Policy Changes In June 2023, YouTube issued a policy statement on 2020 election "misinformation," what it calls disinformation.
AOC Parody Account on Twitter Aims to Confuse A "parody" account for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) was designed to look real; Elon Musk engaged with it to boost its visibility.