Federal Deficit $585 Billion in January 2017 Versus $984 Billion in January 2019
A meme on the Facebook page “Impeach Trump” claimed the federal deficit was $585 billion on January 20 2017 and $984 billion on January 20 2019.
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Did the Confederate Flag’s Designer Call it a Symbol of White Supremacy, Not Southern Heritage?
“Heritage, not hate” wasn’t axiomatic when the Civil War and the Confederacy were current events.
‘Another Teenager with an Important Message’ (About the Flint Water Crisis)
As Greta Thunberg made international news, a Reddit post about “another teenager with an important message” says that amid everything else, Flint, Michigan still lacked clean water.
Is This the Only Existing Footage Of the First Plane Hitting the World Trade Center?
On the anniversary of September 11th 2001, the purported only existing footage of the first plane hitting New York City circulated on social media.
Did Socrates Say ‘When Debate is Lost, Slander Becomes the Tool of the Losers’?
On June 26 2019, Eric Trump tweeted a meme attributing a quote about slander to the philosopher Socrates: Against an image of what appeared to be a black and white photograph of a statue of Socrates in Athens, text read: When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers. – Socrates Eric …
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New Georgia Abortion Law Conspiracy to Commit Murder Clause
On May 7 2019, a Facebook user shared the following screenshot of an apparent article (archived here), along with a lengthy comment about extremely restrictive new abortion laws in the state of Georgia: A lengthy comment from the original poster (paragraph breaks ours) extrapolated from the highlighted text in the screenshot, proposing scenarios in particular …
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Are Venezuelans Being ‘Shot in the Streets’ After a 2012 Gun Ban?
An April 30 2019 text-based Facebook post (archived here) claiming that 2012 gun control legislation in Venezuela prompted political unrest was shared over 100,000 times in a few days: The status update, which came in text form without news links or other form of citation or context, and it drew a direct line between purported …
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Is Nathan Phillips Lying About His Military Service in Order to Raise Money?
In the wake of the days-long Covington Catholic controversy, rumors spread about its central figures, Native American rights activist Nathan Phillips of the Omaha Nation and student Nick Sandmann. As the story continued to unfold, pushed along by a toxic social media brew of rumors, backtracking, and the usual swarms of bots and paid trolls, claims appeared about Phillips …
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Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi Had an Affair for 13 Years-Fiction!
Fake news websites based in Panama are behind false reports that Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi had an affair that lasted for 13 years, forcing Mueller to resign.
President Trump Ends Barack Obama’s ‘Vacation Scam’?
A fake news websites is behind false reports that President Trump has ended President Obama’s vacation scam and sent him a bill.