Did Police Tell Newspapers That $2.4M of Merchandise Was Looted from a SoHo Rolex Store — When Rolex Said it Wasn’t?
A New York City headline led with a claim about Rolex looting in SoHo, but the article’s text conflicted with the headline.
A New York City headline led with a claim about Rolex looting in SoHo, but the article’s text conflicted with the headline.
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.
Outlandish “surveys” (like one claiming that a large portions of Americans won’t drink Corona beer because of coronavirus fears) get repeated verbatim by outlets like CNN, giving free press to public relations firms.
In February 2020, a number of social media and blog posts claimed that House Majority Whip James Clyburn “refused to give credit” to United States President Donald Trump for low Black unemployment numbers, because Black Americans were “fully employed during slavery”: In the second post above, a February 19 2020 post on the site Chicks On …
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You’re probably seeing posts about the grocery chain giving free food to needy families on Christmas Eve, but they’re missing important context.
A hyper-viral Facebook post purportedly shows a newspaper article about private prisons suing states for millions of dollars if “lockup quotas” are not met.
In November 2019, just after the film Twitter was outraged over news that white actor Julia Roberts was “suggested” by a studio executive to play Harriet Tubman, a black woman and a former slave turned abolitionist hero: Memes popped up in response to the viral brouhaha, one depicting Roberts in Tubman’s spot on the American $20 bill: …
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Posts on Facebook about an impending “snowpocalypse” are always widely shared regardless of their reliability.
Commenters were confused by a controversy about who said what, thanks to unspecified later edits to already published stories.
A “weird facts” page on Facebook claimed that excess caffeine could have a deleterious effect by either mimicking or triggering the effects of schizophrenia.