4Chan’s /Pol/ Seeks to Sow Discord With #AskMeWhy Users of /pol/ devised a campaign to hijack vaccination efforts with the hashtag #AskMeWhy.
‘Mexico Planning Joint Military Intervention with Canada If Trump Refuses to Leave Office’ An image shows what appears to be a legitimate screenshot of an article, but it wasn't real reporting from NPR.
Joe Biden, Arrogation, and ‘The Office of the President-Elect’ Disinformation purveyors are now trying to claim that Joe Biden's transition team employed "arrogation" to deceive the public, going so far as to invent an "Office of the President-Elect."
‘Ending White Privilege Intersects Ending Jewish Privilege’ Flyer An image getting passed around as evidence of left-wing anti-Semitism actually appears to have originated in a forum notorious for far-right content.
Is the California Department of Social Services Mandating COVID-19 Testing for Eligible Families — and Threatening to Place Children in Foster Care? A frightening (and fake) letter attributed to the California Department of Social Services circulated on Facebook, claiming that residents were being forced to submit to COVID-19 testing under threat of taking their children away.
Did Trump Supporters Sabotage the Iowa Caucus Hotlines on Election Night? Reports placed some blame for the Iowa caucus chaos on prank calls that were organized on sites such as Reddit and 4chan, but some readers inferred that those calls were the cause of it all.
Online Trolls Seize on Anti-Semitic NYC Attacks for Anti-Black Disinformation Effort Users on a 4chan thread traded ideas on spreading memes to "make the Left have to choose."
This Is Not Angela Merkel With Adolf Hitler A since-suspended Twitter account published a historically impossible photograph.
‘YesJuliet’ Instagram Murder Rumors On July 14 2019, rumors began spreading on Instagram, Reddit, Discord, 4Chan, Twitter, and other social media sites about purported disturbing posts shared by Instagram user @YesJuliet about an alleged murder of a 17-year-old girl named Bianca Devins (@escty and @beegtfo.) Disturbing images were shared to 4Chan’s /pol/ board (archived here), and a longer thread updating […]
‘Company Policies’ Poster In March 2019, a poster of “Company Policies” spread on Facebook (archived here) and other sites, purportedly illustrating draconian — yet believable — rules for employees at an unidentified company: Many versions of the image appeared to come from Snapchat, with a circled portion around “sick days” and a comment: “This part tho .. wth.” The […]
