‘It’s Just a Mask, It’s Just a Vaccine’ [Covid Fanfics] One of many overdramatic circulating Facebook posts claims that the use of face masks is proof positive the United States has become "an obedient socialist country."
This Photograph Does Not Show a Woman Who Was Beaten and Sexually Assaulted at a BLM Protest In mid-June 2020, the following meme circulated on Facebook and Instagram, purportedly a screenshot of a Facebook post by a woman claiming she was “beaten and raped” by three people of color at a Black Lives Matter protest: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBjBuu6Fhvo/ Alongside three hashtags (#endpolice, #defundthepolice, and #blacklivesmatter) was a closely cropped photograph of a woman with […]
Was a Military Memorial in Pensacola Destroyed in George Floyd Protests? An inaccurate and misleading (but viral) post about a shattered military bench in Florida falsely linked the broken monument to June 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd.
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.
Twitter Adds ‘Glorifying Violence’ Label to Trump’s ‘Looting’ and ‘Shooting’ Tweet; White House Blames Fact Checkers A late-night Trump tweet about shooting protesters was quickly swept into an unrelated dispute about Twitter "fact check" labels.
Is Ventura County COVID-19 Testing and Removing Children from Homes? "Force testing" and the threat of taking children into foster care has emerged as a massive subthread of coronavirus conspiracies and disinformation, among them a video from Ventura County, California.
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.
Is This a Photograph of Someone’s Kitchen After Microwaving Coronavirus Masks? Facebook marked the image as a "true" fact check, but the uncited claim used an unrelated image that dated back to at least 2015 -- years before COVID-19 came into existence.
AOC Did Not Say the ‘Only Reason Trump is Keeping His Promises is to Infuence the Outcome’ of the 2020 Election Memes attributed quotes to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), such as the "only reason Trump is keeping his campaign promises is to influence the outcome of the next election."
‘Tax Brackets Explained’ Imgur Post A post to Imgur in February 2020 called "Tax brackets explained. Help educate others!" went viral on that site and elsewhere on social media.