Texas Governor Tweets, Quietly Deletes ‘@ElonMusk Picked the Right State to Move to’
Republican Greg Abbott retweeted Elon Musk and said that Musk “picked the right state to move to,” but deleted the tweet after seven minutes.
Republican Greg Abbott retweeted Elon Musk and said that Musk “picked the right state to move to,” but deleted the tweet after seven minutes.
A fake tweet initially labeled as “satire” and attributed to Rep. Lauren Boebert lost its signifier during a “severe thunderstorm watch.”
An ongoing social media dispute between Jim Cramer and “meme stock” investors included a purported tweet from the former in which he taunted them with “have fun being poor.”
A screenshot of a tweet claimed that Macauley Culkin was “now four years older than Catherine O’Hara when she played his mom in Home Alone” as of December 2021.
A debunked, deleted tweet spread as zombie disinformation in late October 2021, claiming the “FDA Vaccine Advisory Board” lamented a “more educated” populace of unvaccinated people.
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”: In the screenshot (dated October 11 2021 at 4:50 PM), Shapiro purportedly said: My daughter woke me up this morning and asked me what day it was. I asked, “is it …
Fake tweets quickly move outside their ecosystem on Reddit, as was the case with a tweet attributed to Charlie Kirk and initially labeled “satire.”
An August 16 2021 tweet by @NBCLA used “shot on site” in a confusing, but humorous, way.
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.
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.