decontextualized – Truth or Fiction?

Cartier Boss with $7.5 Billion Fears ‘Prospect of the Poor Rising Up’ Every Night

In late June and early July 2023, a circulating headline asserted that a “Cartier boss” lost sleep over the “prospect of the poor rising up”.

A rapidly changing search landscape led to a satirical tweet (“memento homo”) being presented by Google as a citation for a falsehood in June 2023.

A circulating blog post by ZeroHedge advanced rumors that devastating “food shortages” were worsening.

A years-old clip of a store clerk collapsing circulated as new on social media in July 2022.

A confluence of events propelled a video of Democrats singing “God Bless America” across Twitter.

Not everything that looks like satire is satire.

Stories about “crazy lawsuits” are great clickbait — but the truth is usually a little more complex than a click.

In February 2022, a snippet from Saget’s “Bob Saget’s Here for You” podcast went viral — in which Saget alluded to being “found dead in bed.”

A February 2022 Imgur post appeared to show an insensitive bus advertisement featuring Rosa Parks.

A viral post contrasts the purported leadership of Lowe’s and Home Depot.