Did a Dallas Teacher Call the Kenosha Homicide Suspect a ‘Hero for the Modern Age’?
The Wisconsin teen was listed alongside civil rights leaders — and one of the people he killed.
The Wisconsin teen was listed alongside civil rights leaders — and one of the people he killed.
Another viral child trafficking and abuse rumor in 2020 held that Facebook placed a ban on hundreds of page dedicated to exposing pedophilia.
A stolen picture of an injured boy coupled with false information about the original poster testing positive for coronavirus has spread unchecked on Facebook.
The reporter’s cell phone captured video debunking the claims by Los Angeles County authorities.
A purported news story about a Louisiana man dying immediately after insulting a woman spread virally on social media platforms in September 2020.
A right-wing page post misconstrued an upcoming study by the social media platform.
A fake Fox News article spread in screenshot form, falsely claiming that a Kenosha car dealer had died by suicide after sustaining $2.5 million in damages during recent protests in Wisconsin.
Circulating Facebook posts claim that thousands of California Christians made a pilgrimage to the state capitol, but the media refused to report the gathering.
Twitter accounts — many of which were very new — claimed that “members” of “antifa” were caught setting fires in Oregon in September 2020; shady sites quickly padded out the speculation for a multilayered disinformation attack.
A very popular Facebook post claims that unnamed “people” are trying to “make the legal age of consent four years old,” but they can’t buy alcohol or tobacco until they’re 21.