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.
Rep. James Clyburn: Black People Were ‘Fully Employed During Slavery’ Controversy 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”: WOW: This is how House Majority Whip James Clyburn responded to lowest ever black unemployment: […]
Does an Image Show the Ku Klux Klan Marching with a Trump/Pence Banner? A photograph, ironically shared by a Facebook page called "The Truth Fairy," was misleadingly edited.
Angelika Greg-Delany #WalkAway Campaign: ‘I Came From the Soviet Socialist Part of the Ukraine, I Barely Survived’ A viral post made to the "#WalkAway Campaign" group on January 7 2020 conflates socialism and communism in a purported firsthand account from a failing USSR.
‘This is a Real-Life Post by an Anti-Abortion Activist, You Can’t Make This S*** Up’ A purported screenshot of an anti-abortion activist's complaints that unplanned care of a baby would interfere with her life went viral in February 2020.
How Many Moms Are in ‘One Million Moms’? We're 99.99999999 percent sure it's nowhere close to a million.
‘University of Oxford Clapping Ban’ Rumor Tabloids raced to report that "snowflakes" at Oxford "banned" clapping, when in reality the guidelines were amended to encourage more use of sign language for inclusivity purposes.
