Mass Shootings, Violence in California Highlight Issue of Disinformation in Immigrant Communities
The fact-checking and debunking world is drastically underfunded and under-resourced — and that’s just the English-language platforms.
The fact-checking and debunking world is drastically underfunded and under-resourced — and that’s just the English-language platforms.
A meme spreading virally online falsely credits the former president with a distorted version of a quote from Karl Marx.
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.
A text meme about the company’s purported revenue loss is a paraphrase of a paraphrase.
A Facebook post about back-to-school bullet-resistant backpacks went viral, sparking debate and discussion.
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 …
In January 2019, Facebook page “The Original American Resistance” shared a meme attributing a quote to former United States Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis: The quote at the bottom of the image said: WHAT PISSES ME OFF IS, MY MEN DEFEND FREEDOM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH A GUN. YET WHEN THEY GOME HOME …
On December 7 2018, the Facebook page Change The Ref shared this meme (text below): FACT: MORE AMERICANS HAVE DIED OF GUN-RELATED INCIDENTS IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS THAN HAVE DIED IN WAR SINCE THE COUNTRY’S FOUNDING. A caption with the image read: #FckThat Fact of the Day: Did you know that more Americans have died …
A satirical story about California requiring Christians to register bibles as assault weapons was mistaken for a factual news report in May 2018.
Pope Francis Gun Owners Aren’t Christian, Calls to Ban All Weapons-Misleading! Summary of eRumor: Pope Francis said that gun owners and those who support gun rights can’t call themselves Christian anymore and are hypocrites. Pope Francis also called for a ban on all weapons. The Truth: Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken out against weapons of …
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