‘Give Your Pumpkins a Bleach Bath’
A viral Facebook post advised users to give pumpkins a “bleach bath,” providing a dangerously high bleach concentration and posing a risk to pets and wildlife.
A viral Facebook post advised users to give pumpkins a “bleach bath,” providing a dangerously high bleach concentration and posing a risk to pets and wildlife.
Thanks to Facebook’s mishandling of its fact-checking initiative, disinformation about COVID-19 and masks is being amplified and recommendations to wear masks are being suppressed.
A University of Southern California professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics claimed that social distancing is ineffective.
Tacking “hmmm” onto a false statement about the purpose of quarantine doesn’t make this meme any less purposefully obtuse.
Facebook marked the image as a “true” fact check, but the uncited claim used an unrelated image that dated back to at least 2015 — years before COVID-19 came into existence.
A viral post about COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine shared to Medium’s platform has since been removed, but copies continued spreading on social media.
Conflicting information about the value and availability of face masks led to misperceptions spreading at scale.
Hyperpartisan accounts on Twitter have been debating the safety and efficacy of chloroquine. Why is the use of a drug to treat COVID-19 so politically charged?
Pet warnings are always popular, and COVID-19’s link to hand sanitizer made sure that a claim that it was fatal to animals spread far and wide..
Twitter user @into_the_brush’s claims about attempting unsuccessfully to be tested for novel coronavirus in Seattle went viral, so we decided to take a closer look.