Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Named Goya’s ‘Employee of the Month’? Social media commentators and political blogs claimed that the legislator, who is also referred to as "AOC," was named Goya's "employee of the month" after she suggested boycotting the brand in 2020.
Does Benford’s Law Prove Election Fraud in Biden Votes? After "watermarked ballots" (and many other rumors) failed to materialize, conspiracy theorists pivoted to claims that something known as "Benford's Law" proved that votes for Joe Biden were inauthentic.
Wisconsin Does Not Have More Votes Than Registered Voters A tweet spreading disinformation about Wisconsin having counted more votes than there are registered voters was deleted, but that sort of claim tends to hang around.
‘Major Events in USA History that Cause Major Death Tolls’ COVID-19 Chart A widely-shared chart credited to a Mario Hardy purportedly contrasts a growing death toll from a coronavirus pandemic against myriad events in American history.
CNN ‘Global Death Toll Approaches Three Million People’ Chyron Error Screenshots of a CNN chyron purportedly transposing the global death toll of COVID-19 with its infection rate spread on social media.
‘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.
Did MSNBC Switch Colors for “Favorable” and “Unfavorable” for Only Bernie Sanders in a Super Tuesday Chyron? On Super Tuesday, screenshots circulated suggesting that MSNBC had swapped colors on a graphic to imply Bernie Sanders was less "favorable" in polling data than fellow presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Does Adding Your Birth Year to Your Age Total The Year Number Once a Millennium? A popular post claims that "all the people in the world are the same age this year," but the math is not a puzzle to mathematicians and doesn't even work for everyone.
Was the Original Super Mario Bros Only 40 KB (While Modern Screenshots of One Frame Are 283 KB)? A popular post repeated a long-circulating piece of Nintendo lore concerning the original size of Super Mario Bros. versus single screenshots of the game today.
