After Trump’s personal lawyer tested positive for COVID-19, purported screenshots of his claim that infections were caused by “having sex with barnyard animals” spread on social media.
An allegedly “targeted individual” used a satirical group’s joke to regurgitate a right-wing boogeyman.
The name “Hatsune Miku” trended alongside author J.K. Rowling’s in December 2019, thanks to a viral meme.
The platform uses an opaque process to determine which sites have less reach there — and they’re not revealing anything about it.
On February 6 2019, a Facebook post circulated claiming that “modern c-sections” were invented by midwives in Africa. The post had the hashtag #BlackHistoryMonth, and it said in its entirety: Did you that modern C sections were invented by African women— centuries before they were standard elsewhere? Midwives and surgeons living around Lake Tanganyika and […]
In October 2018, a warning appeared and made its way around the usual internet circles to warn against eating meat from deer afflicted with “bovine tuberculosis.” The warning was accompanied by a rather unappetizing photograph of a lesion-studded hunk of meat that showed what people should avoid: This warning (and the accompanying photograph) is legitimate, […]
Bush’s Baked Beans issued a recall in July 2017, and it re-circulated on social media in June 2018.
Whoopi Goldberg didn’t wear a shirt showing President Trump shooting himself. Roseanne Barr shared an edited photo on Twitter that had been previously debunked.
Guy the beagle rode in a car with Queen Elizabeth the day before the Royal Wedding after being rescued from a shelter by Meghan Markle in 2015.
A meme falsely claiming that Nancy Pelosi said “Building a wall will violate the rights of millions of illegals” has been circulating since January 2018.
