Was This Photograph Taken at a Protest in Portland?
A South Carolina journalist’s work was recirculated online without the necessary context.
A South Carolina journalist’s work was recirculated online without the necessary context.
Fabricated stories about vigilantes and child predators remain a cash cow for purveyors of false news.
A “satire site” racked up six-figure shares with an untrue claim about football player Tom Brady.
A journalist’s footage from ongoing protests in Portland brought back to light a legal loophole concerning the use of chemical weapons.
Social media users claimed that the media ignored a large, “pro-police” or “defend the police” march across the Brooklyn Bridge in July 2020.
A persistent COVID-19 meme claims — completely falsely — that Amish people aren’t contracting coronavirus, because they don’t own televisions.
When face masks became a part of daily life, glasses fogging up became an annoyance; a popular Facebook post posits that medical tape might solve the issue.
A group of Kansas conservatives took a libertarian group’s words out of context to push skepticism and sow doubt.
A circulating link leads to an article claiming that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director tried to make her father “look incompetent.”
A Facebook advertisement contrasting “public safety” with “chaos and violence” used an image from the Ukraine in 2014.