Did Black Lives Matter Members Attack a Man While Protesting a Statue of Louis IX?
Far-right disinformation purveyors tried to associate the movement with an incident at a St. Louis protest.
Far-right disinformation purveyors tried to associate the movement with an incident at a St. Louis protest.
A virulent strain of disinformation about “antifa” renting moving trucks in order to invade “residential areas” appeared to be sparked by white supremacists posting as anti-fascists.
Hulu opted to remove an episode of “The Golden Girls” (titled “Mixed Blessing”) due to “blackface,” prompting debate over whether the decision was productive.
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: Alongside three hashtags (#endpolice, #defundthepolice, and #blacklivesmatter) was a closely cropped photograph of a woman with a …
In early June 2020, markers were destroyed and spray painted with “BLM,” “George,” and “Floyd”; no suspects have yet been identified.
In the case of the 600 armed Americans in Ada and four busloads of protesters, it’s not on the news because … it didn’t happen.
Before posts about “fireworks every night” went viral, people around the country in myriad cities were complaining of relentless, abnormally loud fireworks through early morning hours.
After Stacy Talbert shared a crying breakdown about hostility towards cops at a Georgia McDonald’s to Facebook Live, rumors spread that she was in fact not even in law enforcement.
Amidst ongoing protests in June 2020, a Facebook post about the death of Tamla Horsford in late 2018 went viral — and an investigation was reopened.
BabyNames.com published a moving message in support of Black Lives Matter, which quickly went viral and caused server issues.