‘This Photo From the France Pension Strike Last Week Goes So Hard’
A viral photograph purportedly showed a March 2023 pension reform protest in France.
A viral photograph purportedly showed a March 2023 pension reform protest in France.
A professor of immunology called a pilot program “unacceptable” compared to how similar tests are done in France.
A viral photograph purportedly shows small children playing all alone in individual “chalk squares” marked on the playground asphalt.
Calls for a general strike ended up becoming the loudest of several trending hashtags among Americans opposing calls they “return to work” at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic — alongside #NotDying4WallStreet, #COVIDIDIOTS, and #DieForTheDow.
A report relying on an anonymous “senior official” within the Trump administration was quickly contradicted by other news organizations.
Soon after the April 15 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire broke out, Twitter user @FaithGoldy tweeted that the blaze occurred shortly after the arrest of “three Muslim jihadis” in Paris (archived here): A screenshot of the tweet was subsequently shared by the Facebook page “Freedom From Tyranny” (archived here.) The original tweet linked to an April …
News of a devastating fire at Paris’s famous Notre Dame cathedral on April 15 2019 created a flashpoint of global interest, followed by immediate rumors that the blaze was an act of arson or terror. On Twitter, a since-deleted tweet published by TIME magazine columnist Christopher J. Hale appears to have contributed to early versions of that …
In December 2018, amid massive civil unrest in France, a photograph of a serrated knife hidden in a baguette appeared on social media with a quip that it showed “bladed weapons confiscated from rioters” by Paris police. As of December 6 the image had accumulated tens of thousands shares, and a screencap published to Facebook …
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