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.
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.
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.
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.
Screenshots of a CNN chyron purportedly transposing the global death toll of COVID-19 with its infection rate spread on social media.
Tacking “hmmm” onto a false statement about the purpose of quarantine doesn’t make this meme any less purposefully obtuse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
