‘Alabama Town Disbands Police Force After Racist Text Message Surfaces’ An August 2022 Imgur post suggested that an Alabama town police force fell apart over a racist text message.
Is There a Painting of J. Marion Sims’ Experiments on Black Women at the Alabama State Capitol? A popular Facebook post misstated the location of the painting depicting the gynecologist's work.
Alabama Senate Blocks Attempts to Raise Minimum Wage in Birmingham In January 2020, an article about Alabama's Senate blocking a minimum wage raise went viral on Facebook.
The Economics of Turning Cotton Into Jeans A long-running graphic illustrating some of the costs of the making a pair of blue jeans has been revived again on Facebook, but unlike many memes that appear and reappear time and again, it is largely accurate. The graphic originated in November 2014; it showed a photograph of a cotton module alongside the caption: The 2580 […]
Weather Agency Contradicts Itself Over Trump’s Hurricane ‘Forecast’ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowed a forecast showing that Hurricane Dorian would not affect Alabama.
Could Alabama Women Be Jailed for 99 Years Under a New Abortion Law? On May 14 2019, the state of Alabama’s legislature passed an extremely restrictive law banning nearly all abortions, and social media posts suggested women faced 99 years in prison for obtaining an abortion under its provisions. The claim appeared on Twitter: Georgia bans abortion after six weeks & will punish women who go out of […]
Does the Alabama Abortion Ban Have a ‘False Rape’ Reporting Clause? Four days before the Alabama Senate voted to pass a near-total ban on abortion in Alabama, a Facebook screenshot by act.tv of two tweets (archived here) claimed that the legislation included a clause enabling imprisoning those reporting rapes in the state if the accused was not found guilty: https://www.facebook.com/actdottv/photos/a.167930366730871/1047889228734976/?type=3&theater A tweet at the bottom by Adam […]
Did Alabama Declare Fetuses Are People? On January 22 2019, New York State’s Reproductive Health Act was signed into law, inflaming people across the United States. Arguments raged on social networks, largely due to misinterpretations of the law and a mistaken belief that it enabled elective third-trimester abortions. A week later, on January 29 2019, a Facebook user shared the following […]
Did a Washington Post Reporter Bribe a Woman to Accuse Roy Moore of Sexual Assault? A right-wing smear campaign targeted the newspaper and tried to derail its reporting on Moore.
