‘Meeting Between Breadfruit’ Facebook Meme The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have rekindled the "meeting between breadfruit" Facebook status meme, essentially an emotionally manipulative and pointless chain letter.
Facebook #HocusPocus ‘Witch Checker’ The social media platform did not create a "witch checker," and typing #HocusPocus will not produce a "green bar" if a user is a witch.
Does This Picture Show a Tiny Crowd Ten Minutes Before Sen. Bernie Sanders’ April 2019 Houston Rally? On April 26 2019, Facebook page “The Trump Train” shared the following post (archived here), claiming that it showed a crowd of a few dozen people in Houston ten minutes before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) was scheduled to speak: https://www.facebook.com/TheTrumpTrainExpress/photos/a.959587150743121/2174109532624204/?type=3&theater Across the top of an image of a few dozen people, the text read: 4/24/19 – […]
Was Samuel L. Jackson an ‘Unknown Heroin Addict’ Before ‘Pulp Fiction’? In February 2019, a Facebook page shared the following biographical meme about Samuel L. Jackson, detailing a purported drug addiction that defined his life before he got clean, which was around the time he appeared in Pulp Fiction. Alongside the meme, the page wrote: “Because he did not allow his situation to become his coffin.” The […]
List of ‘Facts and Figures’ About Undocumented Immigrants? A chain email turned into a meme claims to be a list of "facts" about unauthorized immigration to the United States, but it fails badly on the "facts" front.
