‘During WWII, Lipstick Became a Sign of Patriotism’
A piece of fashion-related wartime history circulated again on social media in August 2020.
A piece of fashion-related wartime history circulated again on social media in August 2020.
Tweets and blog posts claimed that former United States Vice President Joe Biden “completely botches” the Pledge of Allegiance in a video clip.
Business owner Jacob Gardner had been indicted in the shooting death of James Scurlock, a “rioter” who “attacked him.”
In September 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added — and then removed — information about aerosolized spread of SARS-CoV-2.
A purported screenshot of a remote lesson for high school students in Stevenson, Washington went viral on Facebook and Twitter, and it featured a question about the ethics of smothering a crying baby.
Two unrelated pieces of content were mashed up in a meme about a woman purportedly accused of driving a motorized shopping cart around Target, drinking wine and eating sushi and cinnamon rolls.
In 2020, a viral tweet maintained that Cornel West got the Fox News host to say he was “basically on board” with democratic socialism.
The Wisconsin teen was listed alongside civil rights leaders — and one of the people he killed.
A popular post on Reddit’s r/therewasanattempt claimed that Samsung Life Insurance’s effort to decrease suicide attempts backfired horribly.
Another viral child trafficking and abuse rumor in 2020 held that Facebook placed a ban on hundreds of page dedicated to exposing pedophilia.