Inside the Smear of a Muslim ‘Infiltration’ of Obama’s White House
A chain email and meme provided the template for weaponized Islamophobia against Democrats.
Disinformation
Baseless Claim About Obama’s ‘Secret Gay Trysts’ Finds New Home on ‘X’
Former Fox broadcaster Tucker Carlson turned to a convicted con artist for content.
Are Fetuses and Embryos Being Used to Generate Power?
The practice of incinerating medical waste has been fused with antisemitic conspiracy theories in order to produce a distasteful narrative about abortion.
‘Johns Hopkins Scientist Slams Flu Vaccine’
A 2013 opinion piece was ready-made for being spread by anti-vaccination blogs.
The Disinformation Around the 2015 Disneyland Measles Outbreak
Measles vaccines are less effective than previously believed and the patient zero measles carrier in the Disneyland measles outbreak may have been immunized against measles.
‘WHO IS BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES’
A right-wing news organization’s attempt to link Occupy Wall Street to corruption was taken still further online.
The Truth and Fiction About ‘Insect Sky Drones’
Reports allege that the U.S. government is developing an insect spy drone the size of a mosquito that will be able to capture photos, sound recordings and DNA samples.
A Rare Legitimate Halloween Candy Scare
The issues with Sherwood Brands in 2008 were quite unlike panics about “Stranger Danger.”
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Socialist’ Quotes
A chain mail attempting to smear the former Secretary of State distorted several of her remarks to try to make a case that she was a “socialist.”
How Ginned-Up Outrage Turned Two Border Patrol Agents Into Right-Wing Heroes
The fallout from a February 2005 extrajudicial shooting by two U.S. Border Patrol agents was picked up as a source of outrage by right-wing media personalities two years later. Jose Alonso Compeán and Ignacio Ramos were convicted in 2006 for charges including discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence for shooting …
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