NASA ‘Internet Apocalypse’ Outage Rumors, Explained
“NASA saying no internet” spiked in searches in June 2023 amid rumors of an “internet apocalypse.”
“NASA saying no internet” spiked in searches in June 2023 amid rumors of an “internet apocalypse.”
In Hamilton County, Indiana, the local chapter of Moms For Liberty conspicuously quoted Adolf Hitler.
After Elon Musk removed Twitter’s verification system, a fake OceanGate account successfully spread falsehoods during an active disaster.
A popular June 2023 Imgur post suggested that Kentucky was “cutting [the] number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200.”
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.
A viral tweet implied that ZipRecruiter sought highly paid “crisis actors” for positions in Miami in June 13 2023.
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.
Yes, Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” was banned at a Florida school in May 2023, per Miami-Dade Schools.
In June 2023, YouTube issued a policy statement on 2020 election “misinformation,” what it calls disinformation.
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.