Project Veritas and ‘Nick Karl From Pfizer’ The disinformation purveyors at Project Veritas are claiming that they "exposed Pfizer" with secret video of a scientist named Nick Karl.
@KaitMarieox ‘Might Just Start Wearing A Mask Again … Wouldn’t Want To Give Off The Impression That I’m A Vaccinated Democrat’ Tweet Screenshots of a tweet attributed to Kaitlin Bennett about wearing a mask circulated in screenshots, and suggested the line between satire and reality is increasingly thin.
Giant Food ‘Super Spread’ Ad As public health officials advised against large Thankgiving gatherings, a purported Giant Food "super spread" advertisement circulated on social media.
Did Trump Say There Are ‘Many Per Capitas’ During a COVID-19 Discussion? Social media discourse suggested that Trump exhibited confusion about the meaning of "per capita" during May 20 2020 remarks on the ongoing global pandemic.
Facebook Fact-Checking Platform Dangerously Labels Mask Meme ‘False,’ Discourages Use of Masks Against Expert Guidelines 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.
Did Elon Musk Tweet ‘If One Day, My Words are Against Science, Choose Science’ Before a COVID-19 Controversy? After Musk expressed scientifically and medically controversial COVID-19 opinions, screenshots of an old pro-science tweet he purportedly once sent circulated.
Is There ‘No Scientific Proof’ That Social Distancing Prevents the Spread of Coronavirus? A University of Southern California professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics claimed that social distancing is ineffective.
‘Quarantine is When You Restrict the Movement of SICK People’ Facebook Meme Tacking "hmmm" onto a false statement about the purpose of quarantine doesn't make this meme any less purposefully obtuse.
Did H1N1 Infect 1.4 Billion People and Kill Nearly 600,000 Worldwide? A tweet from pundit Bill Mitchell asserted that COVID-19 was no big deal compared to H1N1, but he included questionable figures about infection and mortality rates to make his point.
‘They Opened Up Florida Beaches and Now They Have 1400 New Cases Overnight!’ Facebook Meme A COVID-19 Facebook post's heart was in the right place, but the underlying coronavirus claims were a bit incomplete.
