‘Doug Mastriano, Jenna Ellis, and Breitbart Touted a Fake Polling Firm Created by a High School Student’ As midterms loomed in August 2022, politicians and pundits sought favorable polls to share on social media.
Gretchen Whitmer Bar Photo What year is it again? Partisan outlets circulated a gotcha image of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) "violating social distancing guidelines" in May 2021.
‘BLM Trapped 100 Shoppers’ in Wegman’s in Rochester, Explained A number of viral tweets claimed that Black Lives Matter protesters had "trapped" dozens of shoppers in a Rochester, New York grocery store.
Do Only 3 Percent of Trump Voters Believe Joe Biden is the ‘Legitimate Winner’ of the 2020 Election? A CNBC/Change Research poll cited by Breitbart suggested that only a small number of Trump voters are not crying foul at his decisive loss in the presidential election.
Can You Adjust Facebook to Block Fact-Checkers? An account appearing to belong to a Texas woman exhorted her friends to block "Zuckerberg's bots" on her own page.
Facebook ‘News’ Service to Include ‘Diverse’ Category, Sites Associated With White Nationalism "I cannot fathom what Facebook is thinking," one expert said of the move.
Did the FBI Say Knives are Used in Five Times More Murders than Rifles? A number of posts led readers to believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime statistics implicated knives as far deadlier than rifles, but there are a few issues with that assessment.
Elizabeth Warren Accused of Claiming to be Cherokee and Plagiarizing Recipes in ‘Pow Wow Chow’ A September 2019 tweet accusing the Democratic legislator and presidential candidate of stealing content for a Native American cookbook lacked a lot of context.
Did a Swedish Scientist Propose Cannibalism to Fight Climate Change? Cannibalism can't "combat" climate change, so why are so many outlets suggesting otherwise?
Woodland Hills ‘Sharia Law’ Poster On March 24 2019, a Facebook post in the group “Political Liars” (archived here) attributed a poster that apparently appeared in Woodland Hills, California to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR: A status update true to the page’s name stated: US Rep Omar helped CAIR at their March 23rd [2019] fundraiser. This poster […]
