On December 12, 2018, a purported Department of Homeland Security memo about the proposed border wall began circulating on social media. Titled “Walls Work,” its original wording was widely described widely as “bizarre” due in part to its unusual, labored syntax. Visiting direct links to the memo led to a page that read in part: WE …
False claims that Joe Kennedy’s home is surrounded by a wall are based on photos of an estate that the Kennedy family sold in 1995, when Joe was just 14.
The disingenuous memes that foreshadowed disinformation about ‘migrant caravans.’
eRumor claiming to be written by To The Point News about a brand new Airbus A340-600 that crashed into a retaining wall on a pre-delivery test. The aircraft crew were all Arabs from Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies and when one of them shut off a warning alarm it caused the computer to shut off the brakes while the plane was at full throttle.
A sourceless “stimulus pork” chart brought Americans together (by stoking bipartisan outrage), but it lacked a lot of important context.
The Facebook chief executive officer had previously claimed that “terrorist content” would be enough for an instant ban on the platform.
One organizing group is named after a disinformation campaign that had already been removed from the platform.
In September 2019, a number of Facebook posts attributed a pro-Trump missive shared on the social network to actor Tim Allen — which happens to be a common name.
On June 18 2019, Twitter user @johncatsjr shared the following tweet (“why I’m voting for Donald Trump in 2020”), a missive picked up by innumerable other users — along with an original misspelling: In that first version, the user spelled “manufacturing” as “manufactuing,” an error present in reposts of the same cut-and-pasted content: In the …
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In early February 2019, a Facebook user shared the meme below, which claims that after Australia went through a government shutdown in 1975 its citizens kicked out the entire legislature and started over: Text overlaid on a photograph of what looked like the inside of a legislative building stated: In 1975 Australia had a government …
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