Media outlets can’t resist turning every viral topic into an alleged rash of teen clout chasing, this time reporting on a “coronavirus challenge” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of a woman “coughing” on food items in a supermarket went viral fast, based on an emotive account from the chain’s co-owner.
A Twitter user shared what she called coworkers’ accounts of being pulled over amid a stay-at-home order.
Amazon’s chief executive officer Jeff Bezos is a frequent target of anti-billionaire ire, which continued with claims that Amazon was soliciting public donations for paid time off.
Social media users and shoddy blogs are taking shaky videos of relatively common military shipments and turning them into conspiracy fodder.
A viral tweet and post attempted to prove that the media had “hyped” the threat of COVID-19 by donning protective gear when clearly none was necessary.
A meme listing various companies is littered with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods.
Discourse about “sacrificing the economy” to prevent mass deaths almost immediately got very dark.
Specious blogs and right-wing social media users seized on one video to falsely claim that the region was seeing an uptick in crime.
A viral image set shows the Spanish Legion (not the “Spanish Army”), and the photographs date back as early as 2013 — well before the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
