Was a Texas Man Arrested for Dressing as an ‘Alien’ and Abducting People? An El Paso radio station responded after the city was named by a longtime satire blog whose articles are often repurposed as disinformation.
‘10,874 People Killed by Drunk Drivers in 2017, 403 by Rifles but Walmart Stops Selling Rifles’ Meme The numbers in a meme contrasting deaths by drunk driving with death by rifles in 2017 is mathematically accurate — but it's also whataboutism.
Is This an Accurate Picture of 2019’s Mass Shooters? As the American public started to discuss white supremacist-linked violence in the context of mass shootings, a image showing dozens of people purportedly responsible began to circulate.
Are El Paso Mass Shooting Victims or Their Families Avoiding Hospitals for Fear of Immigration Enforcement? In the hours after a mass shooting in Texas, rumors appeared that victims and families were too fearful of border authorities to visit hospitals in El Paso.
Asylum-Seekers Held Under a Bridge in El Paso On March 28 2019, a Twitter user shared the following tweet, purportedly showing a large number of people being detained under an overpass in El Paso, Texas: This concentration camp full of children is in El Paso, Texas, United States. It’s 2019. pic.twitter.com/9wIHzsGKNL — Amir (@AmirAminiMD) March 28, 2019 The images appeared to be authentic […]
Are Asylum-Seekers Getting Numbers Written on Their Arms at the United States Border? Amid escalating news reports of unarmed adults and children being teargassed over an international border by the United States, infants and children being forcibly, and permanently, taken from their parents, and asylum-seekers being held in detention camps, yet another story and image appeared: Photo credit: Adria Malcolm for Yahoo! News As some readers and viewers […]
