‘A Strip of Medical Tape on Top of Your Mask Will Keep Your Glasses from Fogging Up for Hours’ When face masks became a part of daily life, glasses fogging up became an annoyance; a popular Facebook post posits that medical tape might solve the issue.
Did a Teenager Get Pleurisy From Wearing a Face Mask for Work? No -- but this "friend of a friend" anti-mask tale has been spreading like wildfire on Facebook.
There’s No ‘New Evidence’ Face Masks Pose Health Risks to Healthy People During the COVID-19 Pandemic Retired surgeon turned serial medical disinformation shill Russell Blaylock has new claims, but he's just up to his same old tricks.
‘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.
Facebook Fact-Checking Platform Dangerously Labels Mask Meme ‘False,’ Discourages Use of Masks Against Expert Guidelines 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.
COVID-19 HIPAA Face Mask Exemption ‘Passes’ A number of purported exemption "passes" or badges circulated on social media during the coronavirus pandemic, all falsely asserting that individuals could skirt local mask-wearing orders by citing HIPAA.
‘Wear Your Mask: The Urine Test’ Analogy Meme A meme spreading on social media attempts to explain the purpose of coronavirus masks using an analogy about peeing (or not peeing) on everyone around you.
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.
Spanish Flu 1918 Family Portrait Shows Cat with Face Mask After the CDC recommended use of face masks in public during the COVID-19 pandemic, a purported vintage family portrait from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic showed a family wearing masks -- including their cat.
