The French ‘Barbie’ Poster
A purported poster for the highly-anticipated Barbie movie in French spread virally on social media in June 2023.
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‘We’re Not After Children, We Just Want to Live Our Lives’ Doctored Pride Image
A deleted viral tweet by @WokeArchive (“We’re not after children, we just want to live our lives”) featured a digitally altered image to falsify a point.
Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dragons and Dinosaurs’ Tweet
Another fabricated tweet attributed to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) circulated on social media.
Propublica’s Politwoops Archive in Peril — Can It Be Saved?
Fact checkers have long relied on ProPublica’s Politwoops to determine the veracity of tweets.
‘This Tweet Large Marge Wrote Should Get Her Kicked Out of Congress’
“Large Marge” trended on Twitter due to an outburst by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) during the presidential State of the Union address, amplifying a screenshot of a tweet attributed to her.
Donald Trump and Bob Woodward ‘Depends’ Tweet
A tweet attributed to journalist Bob Woodward about former U.S. President Donald Trump and ‘Depends’ spread virally in screenshot form in early 2023.
‘Pornstar Brandon Cummings … Arrested After Beating Up 35 Neo-Nazi’s’
A nearly extinct genre of satirical news returned in October 2022, with a viral story about “pornstar Brandon Cummings” of the series “Let’s Go Brandon.”
Texas Republican Tweets, Deletes Fake News Headline
Sen. Ted Cruz captioned the phony screenshot with “The left is beyond parody.”
Benny Johnson’s ‘Trump’s Enthusiasm is Bigger Than in 2016’ Deleted Tweet
A right-wing blogger tweeted, and then quietly deleted, a claim that a 2020 photograph was taken on August 5 2022 in Wisconsin.
Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet
As June 2022 hearings regarding the January 6 2021 insurrection continued, purported screenshots of a deleted tweet from a Texas Republican circulated on social media.