Lawmaker Brings World War II Discharge Letter to Light Online
Rep. Tom Malinowski said a constituent shared with him Gen. J.M. Wainwright’s message to troops after the war.
Rep. Tom Malinowski said a constituent shared with him Gen. J.M. Wainwright’s message to troops after the war.
Posts on Facebook about an impending “snowpocalypse” are always widely shared regardless of their reliability.
A mega-viral Facebook post about purported religious freedom is receiving huge numbers of outraged shares, despite lacking any citation or supporting evidence at all.
A long-running falsehood about social security payouts continues to be spread online.
A story about a room cleaner making “millions” after “stealing a condom” from a rich Las Vegas hotel guest spread online like wildfire.
On Facebook and Twitter, “Journalist Excellence Worldwide” pages are racking up rage-bait engagement — while simultaneously spreading white supremacist and neo-Nazi dogwhistles.
The platform uses an opaque process to determine which sites have less reach there — and they’re not revealing anything about it.
A conservative political candidate posted a “bulletin” from the student that was demeaning toward LGBTQ communities.
A Facebook post by Northeast Police Department in Denton County, Texas about their arrest of an individual for “stealing” a shopping cart faced backlash from outraged readers.
A wildly popular social media post wove a narrative about the actor and her secret life as an accomplished painter of homoerotic art.