Late on May 14 2020 (or early on May 15 2020) Popeyes.com and BurgerKing.com were hacked, replaced with the following message, an email address, and the hashtag #OurMine: Our Mine is here[,] contact us for better security[.] Use of the hashtag #OurMine enabled users to connect on sites like Twitter after visited Popeyes’ (archived) and …
Right-wing personality Tomi Lahren’s claim was refuted by others on social media — and reality.
A viral photograph purportedly shows small children playing all alone in individual “chalk squares” marked on the playground asphalt.
A British tabloid’s story on Michigan protests had a different presentation for Facebook users.
A single response to an AskReddit thread (“People who are 40+ and happy with their life, what is your advice to people in their 20s?”) struck a chord with Facebook users.
Twitter users quickly noticed that the post from Tesla Motors’ chief executive officer still bore the photo’s original watermark.
A doctored tweet attributed to Trump purportedly said “it is unbelievable” that President Barack Obama “criticized” him “for the coronavirus response” when Obama “had 8 years to prepair.”
It is curious that the American Institute for Economic Research is interested in reporting that Woodstock was held during a purported pandemic.
The newspaper called scientists who have criticized its reporting “Twitter researchers.”
“Force testing” and the threat of taking children into foster care has emerged as a massive subthread of coronavirus conspiracies and disinformation, among them a video from Ventura County, California.
