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An October 2021 Facebook “fact meme” described a purported German structure put up to provide homeless people a place to sleep.
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.
A screenshot of a Facebook post showing two uniformed officers posing with a “homeless quilt” and mentioning a “panhandler patrol” was shared to Imgur in January 2021.
“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 April 24 2019, a Facebook user shared the following images and status update (archived here), purportedly showing images from California that included piles of trash on a beach and by roads and trails: In the status update (“Welcome to the Sunny Sanctuary State of Once Beautiful California”), the user heavily implies the images here …
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