Fox News ‘They/Them Summer’
A viral headline attributed to Fox News about a “far-left they/them summer” appeared to start as a joke.
Fact Checks
$7250 ‘Westwood Lake’ Housing Advertisement from 1955
An old advertisement for new houses priced at $7450 circulated on Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook.
Gas Boycott July 3 to 5 2022
Social media posts called for a gas boycott between July 3 and 5 2022 (the weekend of American Independence Day.)
AriZona Iced Tea Price Increase
A misleading photograph of two side-by-side AriZona Iced Tea suggested it too had fallen prey to widespread inflation in June 2022.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Parallel Universe Experiments
A popular post claimed that scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee were attempting to “open a portal into another dimension.”
‘In 2014, This French Weather Presenter Announced the Forecast for August 18, 2050’
A 2014 French climate change forecast intended as a warning became reality in June 2022.
‘Young Girls Working at an Oyster Processing Plant’
An image shared to Imgur in June 2022 purportedly showed young girls who worked shucking oysters in 1911 or 1912.
Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Tampon Shortage’ Remarks
The Georgia Republican suggested that transgender people were to blame for a tampon shortage.
‘BTW, Gas Was $1.87 on Memorial Day in 2020 When the Mean Tweeter Was in Office’
A Facebook post claiming gas prices were $1.87 “on Memorial Day in 2020” spread virally — but it was not so much lacking context as willfully ignoring it.