Ben Shapiro ‘Wife’s Bedroom’ Columbus Day Tweet An October 11 2021 tweet featured a purported Twitter screenshot, which was attributed to Ben Shapiro and mentioned his “wife’s bedroom” and “Columbus Day”: pic.twitter.com/YUqBJgI3NB — Michael Kofi A.||♤🇬🇭 (@MikeKofiA) October 12, 2021 In the screenshot (dated October 11 2021 at 4:50 PM), Shapiro purportedly said: My daughter woke me up this morning and asked […]
Charlie Kirk ‘Cure’ Tweet Fake tweets quickly move outside their ecosystem on Reddit, as was the case with a tweet attributed to Charlie Kirk and initially labeled "satire."
NBC LA ‘Shot On-Site’ Tweet An August 16 2021 tweet by @NBCLA used "shot on site" in a confusing, but humorous, way.
‘Canadian Peanut Butter’ Packaging A photograph of peanut butter sold in trays was labeled in a viral post as "Canadian peanut butter," an inference likely drawn due to Canadian milk bags.
‘Before You Diagnose Yourself With Depression or Low Self-Esteem …’ Quote A long-circulating musing attributed to Sigmund Freud addresses diagnosing oneself with "depression or low-self esteem," should one be surrounded by unpleasant or taxing people.
Jersey Mike’s ‘How Do You Top Your Sub,’ ‘Blocked Blocked Blocked, None of You Are Free From Sin’ Tweets A years-old tweet-and-response meme involving Jersey Mike's (@jerseymikes) Twitter account tweeting "how do you top your sub" re-emerged in May 2021.
‘Pockets in Dresses Were Phased Out So Women Could Prove They Were Not Witches’ A deleted tweet about why women's dresses purportedly lack pockets lived on in screenshots.
‘If $15/Hr is Too Much For Minimum Wage Then $85/Hr is Too Much to Pay Our Senators to Literally Do Nothing’ Tweet A tweet about a $15 minimum wage vs. $85 hourly pay for elected officials went viral on multiple platforms, but it showed lawmakers in the UK, not in the United States.
Neera Tanden Didn’t Tweet ‘Hitler Was Certainly Controversial But No One Gives Him Proper Credit for Fighting to the Death Against Communism’ Tweets are easy to falsify, something everyone seems to forget when an implausibly bad take (like one about Hitler attributed to Neera Tanden) begins circulating.
