‘Jeffrey Westerfield’ Facebook Post
Viral posts purportedly describing the death of law enforcement officer Jeffrey Westerfield on his 47th birthday circulated in May 2021, co-opting language of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Viral posts purportedly describing the death of law enforcement officer Jeffrey Westerfield on his 47th birthday circulated in May 2021, co-opting language of the Black Lives Matter movement.
A May 2021 interview given by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to public radio show Latino USA was presented in partial excerpts alongside disinformation about the events of January 6 2021.
An avalanche of social media posts drew attention to the “NH election audit,” described as a bellwether for widespread 2020 fraud.
Stories shaming bad behavior lead to easy clicks, such as claims that pandemic pets were being surrendered to shelters in record numbers.
Fox News quietly changed a headline claiming that Black Lives Matter said it “stands with Hamas,” but aggregated versions by Fox affiliates (and Google cache) told a different story.
Screenshots of a tweet attributed to Kaitlin Bennett about wearing a mask circulated in screenshots, and suggested the line between satire and reality is increasingly thin.
A viral tweet demonstrates how easy it still is to get people to believe utter nonsense with out-of-context or wildly misapplied data.
A viral, updated tabloid tale about a beauty therapist cutting a client’s eyelashes off over a declined card looks like someone misunderstanding meme culture.
Social media posts and images of signs about how no one wants to work are omnipresent, but low-wage jobs are not “competing with unemployment benefits.”
Hyperfixation on imaginary ‘cancellations’ continued with a claim that fairy tale character Snow White was the latest victim of ‘woke mobs.’