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.
‘I Just Tested Positive for Coronavirus’ Engagement Bait Spreads on Facebook A stolen picture of an injured boy coupled with false information about the original poster testing positive for coronavirus has spread unchecked on Facebook.
Does This Image Depict an ‘Antifa Rioter’ Named Brian Who ‘Hit a Woman’ in Front of a ‘Real Man’? A very brief post about an "antifa street rioter" named "Brian" manages to cram an astonishing number of lies into just thirty words.
Did the Media Ignore a Pro-Police March Across the Brooklyn Bridge in July 2020? Social media users claimed that the media ignored a large, "pro-police" or "defend the police" march across the Brooklyn Bridge in July 2020.
‘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.