Did JK Rowling Respond to ‘No One Should Live in a Closet’ Tattoo with ‘Yes They Should’?
After author JK Rowling aired transphobic sentiments on Twitter, a screenshot of a purported anti-LGBTQ comment was attributed to her.
After author JK Rowling aired transphobic sentiments on Twitter, a screenshot of a purported anti-LGBTQ comment was attributed to her.
A meme replicating a World Health Organization graphic went for an easy, puerile joke.
The death of Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash spurred a number of grief-shaming posts about a supposedly recent crash that killed 31 people.
Pat Cipollone pushed a flagrantly false account of an October 2019 deposition covering classified material.
A side story in the United States’ presidential impeachment saga involved House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s gold pens, purportedly expensive and served up as souvenirs on silver platters.
Social media posts about a state of emergency declaration in Virginia were not misleading per se, but context helped.
A controversial pre-debate CNN story about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren proved to be predictably divisive, a tone the network carried over to the debate it hosted.
After rumors that the Vermont senator and presidential candidate said a woman couldn’t win a presidential election emerged, claims appeared that his campaign hosted a “Bern the Witch” event in 2016.
The Russian embassy augmented an announcement about escape routes from Syria with an unrelated, years-old, misleading photograph.
As primary season kicked off in January 2020, a known disinformation purveyor shared video of a young woman’s purported theft of a “Trump sign” and her “immediate regret” at being arrested.