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.)
Social media posts called for a gas boycott between July 3 and 5 2022 (the weekend of American Independence Day.)
A popular post claimed that scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee were attempting to “open a portal into another dimension.”
A 2014 French climate change forecast intended as a warning became reality in June 2022.
An image shared to Imgur in June 2022 purportedly showed young girls who worked shucking oysters in 1911 or 1912.
The Georgia Republican suggested that transgender people were to blame for a tampon shortage.
In June 2022, discourse about the Uvalde, Texas school shooting centered on body cam footage.
A very thinly-sourced claim that Kim Kardashian ruined Marilyn Monroe’s dress during the Met Gala on May 2 2022 quickly became a trending topic.
A thinly coded political meme phrase (“Let’s Go Brandon”) helped a young boy named Brandon overcome fears and led to a book.
A June 2022 Imgur video post purportedly depicting a lengthy list of school shootings in the United States (and the entry itself) lacked context.
In June 2022, a three-month-old Facebook post about Mark Cuban starting an online pharmacy spread virally.