Has Denmark Offered to Buy the United States From Russia?
Timely geopolitical satire was mistaken for a real story by some presumably exhausted readers.
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Did University of Findlay Students Discover a Chemical Compound that Kills Glioblastoma?
Post and tweets contained claims that student researchers had made a major brain cancer discovery, which were immediately followed by conspiracy theories.
Did Dick’s Sporting Goods Lose $150 Million After Reducing Gun Sales?
A text meme about the company’s purported revenue loss is a paraphrase of a paraphrase.
Is Facebook Ending Group Chats?
Here’s what’s changing in Facebook Groups on August 22 2019, and how you can restart group messages.
Was a Crowd of People Filmed Taunting Philadelphia Police During a Standoff?
Video taken at the scene drew media coverage separately from the actual incident, but it was a small group within a much larger crowd of people.
Were Protesters of American Immigration Policies Hit by a Truck and Injured in Rhode Island?
News articles and Facebook posts indicated an employee at an ICE facility injured several people when he deliberately drove through a crowd of protesters.
Does Costco Pharmacy Have the Least Expensive Prices and No Membership Requirement?
A viral Facebook post advises people to default to Costco for prescriptions, claiming that membership is not required for its pharmacies.
Was the Mississippi Chicken Plant Raided by American Immigration Authorities Previously Sued for Workplace Abuses?
After massive ICE raids, claims appeared that Koch Foods was previously ordered to pay a large settlement to employees after an EEOC lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, discrimination, and other abuses.
Is the Trump Administration Rewriting the Statue of Liberty’s Poem?
A number of headlines appeared to convince people that acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli was literally replacing the plaque bearing the fabled sonnet on the Statue of Liberty.
A Million Seconds Ago Was July 24th, a Billion Seconds Ago Was 1988?
The difference between millionaires and billionaires may be poorly understood, but time-based analogies have inherent flaws, for a very good reason.