Questions Over ex-GOP Official’s Tweet Leads to Patti LaBelle’s ‘Anti-Feminist’ Relative
What started as a search for a fake Twitter account mushroomed into an even more bizarre set of claims.
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‘Asteroid Could Hit Earth’ Clickbait Revived by the New York Post
The New York Post is still milking the “2020 bingo” meme to spread misleading claims, such as how an asteroid “could” hit Earth in November 2020.
Did a Long Island News Outlet Call George Floyd Graffiti ‘Anti-Government’?
The phrase “I can’t breathe” was included without context in a story about a local high school.
How Old Do You Have to Be to Be Vice President?
Popular youthful surrogates in the 2020 Democratic primary led to questions about age requirements for running mates.
‘Don’t Abbreviate 2020’ Warning
A meme that warns people not to abbreviate “2020” is being regurgitated by police and framed as a “legal warning.” Sounds like an urban legend to us.
Andrew Yang ‘Pathway to Citizenship (Make Them Earn It)’ Policy Statement?
Screenshots of a purported “Pathway to Citizenship (Make Them Earn It)” page on Andrew Yang’s website Yang2020.com looked real, but were hard to find.
Is Halloween 2020 a Saturday With a Full Moon and When the Clocks Go Back?
One year ahead of Halloween 2020, a social media post said that the next year would be lit, so to speak, for Halloween enthusiasts.
‘Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump in 2020’ Twitter Meme
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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Will Earth Lose Two-Thirds of its Animals by 2020?
In early March 2019, a Facebook user shared a screenshot (archived here) of a tweet sent the same day, which admonished followers of a scandal involving the Kardashian family. That post claimed that while readers were busy on Kardashian gossip, two-thirds of the Earth’s animals were in the process of being eradicated by 2020: lmagine if …
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