“Just pretend you’re taking your grandma to church. There’s a platter of biscuits and 2 gallons of sweet tea in glass jars in the back seat. She’s wearing a new dress and holding a crock pot full of gravy.”
As Texas struggled with atypical winter weather, videos instructing people how to construct a terracotta space heater assembled with candles went viral.
The right-wing lawmaker came under fire online for leaving the state for warmer weather with his family as many of his constituents lived through a historic winter storm.
As millions of Texans lost electricity, a coordinated disinformation campaign attempted to shift the blame to renewable energy.
Posts of a famous quote about schadenfreude were quickly followed by discussions around who actually uttered (or wrote) it.
As a number of states endured winter storms and power outages in February 2021, claims started popping up that law enforcement in Portland, Oregon was guarding discarded food.
A suspended GoFundMe campaign was not authorized by Bell; she validated a separate active campaign as legitimate.
Twitter users chided the hotel chain after photos of online listings began spreading.
A February 2021 post showing four people toasting with minibar bottles outdoors spread to Facebook, then Imgur, and back to Reddit.
The advent of “quarancleaning” during the COVID-19 pandemic led to the viral popularity of using Tide to mop floors.
