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Did U.S. President Barack Obama Have a Separation Policy at the Border?

Disinformation, Fact Checks / By Kim LaCapria / June 24, 2019

In late June 2019, United States President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that his administration did not have a family separation policy at the border — going further to attribute the controversial actions to his predecessor, Barack Obama. Trump outright stated this lie multiple times in a series of interviews between June 21 and June 23, 2019: On …

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Did Donald Trump Send Six Tweets Warning President Barack Obama Would Attack Iran as a Diversion?

Fact Checks, Politics / By Kim LaCapria / June 21, 2019

As tensions between the United States and Iran escalated in June 2019, a number of memes circulated that purportedly depicted tweets sent by Donald Trump between 2011 and 2013 — predicting that former United States President Barack Obama would fabricate a reason to attack Iran to divert attention from his administration. At least two versions …

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‘Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump in 2020’ Twitter Meme

Disinformation, Fact Checks / By Kim LaCapria / June 20, 2019

On June 18 2019, Twitter user @johncatsjr shared the following tweet (“why I’m voting for Donald Trump in 2020”), a missive picked up by innumerable other users — along with an original misspelling: In that first version, the user spelled “manufacturing” as “manufactuing,” an error present in reposts of the same cut-and-pasted content: In the …

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Did the Media Refuse to Cover Massive Crowds in England Chanting ‘We Love Trump’?

Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics / By Kim LaCapria / June 5, 2019

On June 4 2019, Facebook user James Johnson shared a video (archived here) purportedly showing large crowds of supporters shouting “we love Trump.” He then claimed that news outlets in the United Kingdom and United States deliberately refused to air the footage: Attached to the video was a status update: Massive crowd in the UK …

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Donald Trump’s British Fans?

Disinformation, Fact Checks, Politics / By Brooke Binkowski / June 5, 2019

In June 2019, as United States President Donald Trump visited Britain to meet with the royal family and elected officials, a photograph purportedly of his English fans appeared on social media and made the usual rounds. One popular variation (archived here) came with additional commentary about how the media refuses to tell the story of …

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Trump Rally vs. Live Aid

Disinformation, Entertainment, Fact Checks, Politics, Trump / By Brooke Binkowski / June 3, 2019

In May 2019, a suspicious looking meme began to make the usual rounds on social media. It shows a huge crowd of people packing a venue raptly gazing at a stage bearing “Trump 2020” signs on either side, with a third Trump banner over the audience: The text over the photograph said: No, this is …

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Was the USS John McCain Hidden From Sight for President Donald Trump’s Japan Visit?

Fact Checks, Politics / By Kim LaCapria / May 30, 2019

On May 29 2019, a claim published by the Wall Street Journal was quickly picked up by other news organizations, all relating a story about President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan and his purported disdain for the USS John McCain: The White House wanted the U.S. Navy to move “out of sight” the warship USS John S. McCain …

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Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Say ‘We Can Land on the Sun, We Just Have to Go at Night?’

Disinformation, Fact Checks / By Kim LaCapria / May 28, 2019

On January 31 2019, a Facebook user shared the following meme (archived here), claiming that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had once said that it was possible to “land on the sun” and “we just have to go at night”: Not only did the post not include any indication as to whether it was presented as real …

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Are These Presidents Obama and Trump’s Statements on the Notre Dame Fire?

Disinformation, Fact Checks / By Kim LaCapria / April 17, 2019

,On April 16 2019 the Facebook page “Proud Liberal Americans” shared a subsequently popular meme (archived here), purportedly contrasting statements provided by United States Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump about the fire that gutted Notre Dame Cathedral: At the top was a photograph of Obama and a quote: “Notre Dame is one of the world’s …

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John McCain vs. Donald Trump in 1973 Meme

Fact Checks, Politics / By Kim LaCapria / March 27, 2019

In March 2019, United States President Donald Trump made several comments about Sen. John McCain, who died of brain cancer the previous August. Trump’s 2019 comments continued a feud that he had had with McCain before his death: President Donald Trump’s feud with the late Sen. John McCain dates back many years, to long before …

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