On November 15 2019, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet about the purported opening paragraph from a textbook by California Institute of Technology professor David Goodstein called States of Matter: The beginning to every …
Several outlets covered a purported Ohio law allowing students to be “wrong” on science tests due to religious belief.
Viral food news from 2017 about a “clear pumpkin pie” recirculated in October and November 2019.
A popular history post claims that Mary Maloney tailed the British statesman and prevented him from being heard in the early 1900s.
A meme posted to Reddit cyclically claims Americans are widely misled about the outcome of the “Space Race” between Americans and Soviets.
Rep. Tom Malinowski said a constituent shared with him Gen. J.M. Wainwright’s message to troops after the war.
Posts on Facebook about an impending “snowpocalypse” are always widely shared regardless of their reliability.
A Facebook post by Northeast Police Department in Denton County, Texas about their arrest of an individual for “stealing” a shopping cart faced backlash from outraged readers.
A wildly popular social media post wove a narrative about the actor and her secret life as an accomplished painter of homoerotic art.
A traffic sign reading “Epstein was murdered” was purportedly spotted in Modesto, California — but the image was attributed to other locales, too.
