‘In Case You’re Wondering What Utter, Abject Failure Looks Like’: Are These USA, France, Italy, and Spain COVID-19 Charts?
A quartet of purported COVID-19 charts — the USA, France, Italy, and Spain — are spreading sourcelessly across social media.
A quartet of purported COVID-19 charts — the USA, France, Italy, and Spain — are spreading sourcelessly across social media.
A North Carolina woman said she was “stressed out” after being asked to pay more than $14,000 up front.
Ongoing rumors that death rates were being inflated during a pandemic crested when Colorado revised state data, but it’s not as sinister as circulating claims suggest.
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.
Thanks to Facebook’s mishandling of its fact-checking initiative, disinformation about COVID-19 and masks is being amplified and recommendations to wear masks are being suppressed.
A viral Facebook post claimed that the beauty chain was continuing to pay its furloughed workers throughout the coronavirus-related closures.
“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.
Disinformation peddlers are hoping you don’t read the text of H.R. 6666 (also known as the TRACE Act), because it in no way mandates COVID-19 testing or the removal of children from homes.
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.
A viral Facebook meme misrepresents why hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine fell from favor and remdesivir became the next great COVID-19 hope.