Anti-Immigrant Claims Involving Homeless ‘Veterans’ Fall Apart
A New York state lawmaker has recanted allegations that came from a veterans’ group.
A New York state lawmaker has recanted allegations that came from a veterans’ group.
An October 2021 Facebook “fact meme” described a purported German structure put up to provide homeless people a place to sleep.
A viral tweet suggested homeless people can qualify for stimulus checks, referencing something called an “EIP return” — and verifying the claim was a nightmare.
A viral tweet encouraged social media users to purchase Girl Scout cookies from “Troop 6000,” whose scouts live in New York City homeless shelters.
“Bezos math” once again circulated on social media, when the Amazon chief executive officer’s $165 million house purchase was placed in purported terms of a $60,000-a-year wage earner.
People did the math on the Amazon CEO’s $98 million “gift” to the homeless, placing it in the context of middle-class money.
On June 1 2019, the Facebook page “All Eyes On Me: Los Angeles” shared the following image (archived here) of seemingly discarded hypodermic needles in the city: A very brief description did not provide much context for the image, simply stating that the photograph was captured in Los Angeles in 2019: Needles, Los Angeles, 2019. …
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On February 5 2019, a Facebook user shared a photograph and text claiming that homeless people could eat for free at Subway locations between 3 and 5 every afternoon: If you know any homeless please make them aware they can eat an drink free daily at subway from 3-5 Each subway is individually owned so …