Director James Gunn Refutes Fake Instagram Post Fueling ‘Guardians’ Coverage
Pop culture sites disseminated the forged screen capture before their reporting was debunked.
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Did Mike Pence Use ‘Mulan’ to ‘Prove’ Women Should Not Be in the Military?
The vice president of the United States wrote in 1999 that the animated movie proved it was a “bad idea” for women to be service members.
Was Julia Roberts Supposed to Play Harriet Tubman in a 2019 Biopic?
In November 2019, just after the film Twitter was outraged over news that white actor Julia Roberts was “suggested” by a studio executive to play Harriet Tubman, a black woman and a former slave turned abolitionist hero: …
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What Happened to ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Swastika Props?
Rumor has it that as the fourth and final season of the alternate-reality Amazon series aired, the production’s remaining swastikas and Nazi iconography met an unusual fate.
Did Robin Williams Cheer Up a Paralyzed Christopher Reeve by Pretending to be a Proctologist?
A viral Facebook post tells a heartwarming story about the bond of friendship between the two actors.
Was Kevin Hart ‘Paralyzed’ in a Car Crash?
A dubious ‘entertainment’ site attempted to mine the comedian’s real-life accident for readership.
The Chernobyl ‘Bridge of Death’
In May 2019, the release of HBO’s show Chernobyl caused a spike of interest in all aspects of the nuclear disaster — including the revival of some long-forgotten rumors. A postscript relating to a scene in Pripyat …
Trump Rally vs. Live Aid
In May 2019, a suspicious looking meme began to make the usual rounds on social media. It shows a huge crowd of people packing a venue raptly gazing at a stage bearing “Trump 2020” signs …
Jordan Peele, Tim Burton, Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, and Racism in Casting
On March 31 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot (archived here) of a different Facebook post which dissected the purported race-related casting decisions made by Jordan Peele, Tim Burton, Woody Allen, and Ridley Scott: …
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Did Rod Serling’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Use Sci-Fi to Push Politics Past Network Censors?
The beginning of April 2019 also marked the premiere of the third television iteration of The Twilight Zone. This time, Rod Serling’s mid-century television classic series was rebooted with producer Jordan Peele at the helm. On …
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