In late March and early April 2019 an Instagram screenshot circulated on Facebook, asserting a “new Netflix show” aimed to transform boys into “sexy little girls.” The earlier iteration circulating in March appeared to have been removed or deleted (archived here), but a subsequent post (linked and archived above) was intact as of April 4 …
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On March 12 2019, a Facebook user shared the image and text-based status update above (archived here) to the Facebook group “LARGEST GROUP EVER! We need 10000000 members to Make America Great Again!”, claiming that President Obama settled 70,000 Somali refugees into what later became Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district. White text against a purple background …
In January 2019, New Jersey politician Joseph Rudy Rullo shared the following meme (archived here), purportedly quoting then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama on immigration: It featured a photograph of Obama on the right, and on the left it read: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of …
Where mass communication is used to spread lies and disinformation and smear political enemies, stochastic terrorism follows.
In early October 2018, many people in the United States and abroad were closely watching the twists and turns around a Supreme Court nomination as multiple women accused the nominee of committing or abetting sexual assault. Almost immediately, bots, trolls, and useful idiots picked up on the controversy, muddying the waters with rumors, gossip, and …
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Conspiracy theorist Roger Stone sought to link a federal attorney to the “Deep State.”
A Facebook group that posts fabricated reports is behind false reports that Obamacare Article 54 takes effect on May 1, 2018, diverting 30 percent of Social Security benefits to “the undocumented.”
A spokesperson for Melania Trump said that rumors the first lady brought an exorcist into the White House were “not true in any way.”
President Trump signed a law rolling back Obama-era measures to strengthen background checks to prevent gun sales to people with mental illnesses.
Mislabeled opinion pieces are behind false reports that Donald Trump changed Obama Highway back to Old Dixie Highway that surfaced in January 2018.
