‘Muzzles are for Dogs and Slaves’ COVID-19 Protest Sign
A purported sign at an “anti-lockdown protest” appeared to read “muzzles are for dogs and slaves,” along with an image of a Brazilian folk saint.
A purported sign at an “anti-lockdown protest” appeared to read “muzzles are for dogs and slaves,” along with an image of a Brazilian folk saint.
A frightening (and fake) letter attributed to the California Department of Social Services circulated on Facebook, claiming that residents were being forced to submit to COVID-19 testing under threat of taking their children away.
Two major advocacy groups said they “emphatically condemn” Daniel Erickson and Artin Massihi’s statements.
The proposal would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit for eligible recipients.
In the wake of deadly and devastating fires in Australia in December 2019 and January 2020, a miscaptioned photograph showing firefighters from California circulated with prayer requests.
A meme purporting to show California curriculae that compared and contrasted political views continued spreading on social media long after its already flimsy context fell away.
AB5 — introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez — goes into effect in January 2020.
On June 1 2019, the Facebook page “All Eyes On Me: Los Angeles” shared the following image (archived here) of seemingly discarded hypodermic needles in the city: A very brief description did not provide much context for the image, simply stating that the photograph was captured in Los Angeles in 2019: Needles, Los Angeles, 2019. …
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On April 24 2019, a Facebook user shared the following images and status update (archived here), purportedly showing images from California that included piles of trash on a beach and by roads and trails: In the status update (“Welcome to the Sunny Sanctuary State of Once Beautiful California”), the user heavily implies the images here …
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Sizable wildfires burning up and down California in late 2018 left dozens of people dead, destroyed an entire Northern California town, Paradise, and the heat and speed of least two enormously destructive fires — the Woolsey Fire in the south of the state and the Camp Fire in the north — overwhelmed safety measures and firefighters: …