Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.
The second set of House hearings focused on the role of false narratives in motivating the United States Capitol insurrection in January 2021.
Fears of a wheat shortage swept social media in May 2022, alongside claims only ten weeks of wheat were held in reserves globally.
A popular Imgur post suggested that Republican lawmakers (who complained of high gas prices through 2022) blocked a bill attempting to prevent gas gouging by oil companies.
In May 2022, an old purported Twitter screenshot was shared to Imgur about a woman’s parents divorcing after 52 years to avoid medical debt.
A popular tweet claimed that the amount of money Elon Musk would pay for Twitter was nearly the same as the Biden administration’s proposed climate budget cost.
As images of the aftermath of a massacre in the Ukrainian city of Bucha spread globally, Russian state media tried to sell a story that the mass civilian casualties were “staged.”
The platform’s association with a “right-of-center” firm is the latest in a string of political affiliations.
The Supreme Court justice’s wife already had a years-long reputation for pushing existing weaponized disinformation campaigns.
The leaked document detailed mass execution plans in cities that Russia hopes to take over.