Did Ronald Reagan Say ‘Under No Pretext Should Arms and Ammunition Be Surrendered’? A meme spreading virally online falsely credits the former president with a distorted version of a quote from Karl Marx.
Dear ‘Ban Gun’ Teenagers, 11 Teens Die a Day from Texting and Driving A bad faith argument about texting and driving deaths aimed at "'ban gun' teenagers" has been shared more than a million times on social media.
‘There are 30,000 Gun Related Deaths Per Year by Firearms’ An authoritatively worded social media post about guns is a long-circulating mixture of decontextualized statistics and opinion.
Does Video Show Police Spraying Fake Blood on Themselves During a Philadelphia Shooting? Viral video spread on several social channels, purportedly showing Philadelphia police using "fake blood" after a shooting standoff.
Mass Shooter Media Myth On February 2019, television personality John Stossel released a video to Facebook watch, entitled “Media Hype Questionable Gun Control Study/MASS SHOOTER MEDIA MYTH.” That video was first shared to YouTube on December 18 2018. The clip was just under five-and-a-half minutes, and in it, Stossel introduces a segment challenging a purported “media myth” involving mass […]
Does This Photograph Show the 2019 ‘March for Life’? On January 20 2019, a Facebook user shared the following photograph and caption: Estimated 650,000 MARCH FOR LIFE IN D.C.! So thankful that we are seeing so many stand up for the innocent babies being killed every day in this nation. Over 2500 babies a day are killed in the USA. Over 61 million have […]
