‘Stimulus Pork’
A sourceless “stimulus pork” chart brought Americans together (by stoking bipartisan outrage), but it lacked a lot of important context.
Fact Checks
Far Right News Organizations Issue Statements, Admit ‘No Evidence’ Exists to Support Wall-to-Wall Coverage of Election Fraud
More than six weeks after the 2020 election, fringe news organizations are being legally compelled to air statements about their extensive and baseless “coverage” of purported election fraud.
‘Giulia Tofana Was an Italian Professional Poisoner … Famous for Selling Poison to Women Who Wanted to Murder Their Abusive Husbands’
A viral Facebook post addresses the purported history of Giulia Tofana and her “Aqua Tofana,” sold to women with abusive husbands.
Biden ‘Stepped Up Basis’ Facebook Post
A copy-and-paste Facebook post claiming Joe Biden “wants to get rid of something called ‘stepped up basis'” regarding to family home transfers is making the usual rounds.
‘BREAKING: State of Georgia Issues Huge Announcement, Will Conduct Statewide Signature Audit’
A December 17 2020 claim about “breaking news” from Georgia about a signature audit was neither “breaking” nor “news” — at least, not in the way disinformation purveyors were presenting it.
Is EO 13848 Trump’s ‘Ace in the Hole’ for Election Challenges?
Yet another piece of election-related disinformation is circulating, this one centered on Executive Order 13848 — specifically, claims that it would keep Donald Trump in the White House despite his decisive loss to Joe Biden.
Is the Trump Campaign Planning a Second Inauguration?
A suspicious “statement” attracted attention on Twitter in December 2020.
Dominion Voting Systems and the SolarWinds Vulnerability, Explained
After a vulnerability in SolarWinds’ Orion software was disclosed in December 2020, conspiracy theorists claimed to have found Solarwinds source code on Dominion Voting Systems’ website.
Is a ‘Firefly’ Reboot Coming To Disney+?
Rumors that the science fiction fan favorite was getting a “family-friendly” reboot on Disney Plus spread rapidly on social media.
Trump Tweets About ‘Fake Water Main Break’ on Election Night in Georgia
As the Electoral College prepared to cast their votes on December 14 2020, Donald Trump claimed that a “water main break” was staged to somehow rig the election against him.