Are Christians Being Told to Stop Saying That Jesus Is the ‘Son of God’ Because It Offends Muslims? A mega-viral Facebook post about purported religious freedom is receiving huge numbers of outraged shares, despite lacking any citation or supporting evidence at all.
Recurring Disinformation Around Remembrance Day, Poppies, and ‘Upset Minorities’ A Facebook user's xenophobic post with supposedly "shocking news" was not news and not even new; despite that, it was shared thousands of times.
Did Dwight Eisenhower Say Someday ‘Someone Will Claim It Never Happened’ in 1945? On June 9 2019, the Facebook page “No To Theocracy” shared the following meme (archived here), featuring a quote in which President Dwight Eisenhower appeared to have predicted Holocaust denial: https://www.facebook.com/176892342366434/photos/a.810757058979956/2211639368891711/?type=3&theater Above a photograph skeletal human remains, text read: “Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because […]
Is the ‘New Congresswoman from Michigan’ Describing ‘What the Enemies of America’ Plan to Do? On May 26 2019, rock musician turned conservative commentator Ted Nugent shared the following video and caption to his Facebook page: Listen very closely to the new congresswoman from Michigan what the enemies of America believe especially on Memorial Day so we don’t let them continue to destroy the wonderful American system of individual freedom […]
Woodland Hills ‘Sharia Law’ Poster On March 24 2019, a Facebook post in the group “Political Liars” (archived here) attributed a poster that apparently appeared in Woodland Hills, California to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR: A status update true to the page’s name stated: US Rep Omar helped CAIR at their March 23rd [2019] fundraiser. This poster […]
Retaliatory Attack on Christian Church in Pakistan? On March 18 2019, just days after a right-wing extremist traveled from Australia to Christchurch, New Zealand to murder fifty people at two mosques during Friday prayers, British conservative commentator Theodora Dickinson posted a video of a burning building on Twitter with the following commentary: In response to the New Zealand mosque attacks, Islamists have […]
Did President Barack Obama Settle 70,000 Somali Refugees in Minnesota, Leading to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Election? On March 12 2019, a Facebook user shared the image and text-based status update above (archived here) to the Facebook group “LARGEST GROUP EVER! We need 10000000 members to Make America Great Again!”, claiming that President Obama settled 70,000 Somali refugees into what later became Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district. White text against a purple background […]
Did a Muslim Principal Ban Crucifixes in a Virginia School? On January 30 2019, Facebook page “The Blacksphere” shared the following meme, purportedly depicting a Virginia principal named Mamasai Mamakusa: The meme was likely outrage-bait which implied that the nonexistent principal’s hijab constituted a form of religious expression, one she supposedly deemed acceptable for herself but not Christian students. Text added to what appeared to […]
Did Muslim Men Attack a UK Serviceman on New Year’s Eve? On January 1, 2019, British far-right activist Tommy Robinson (née Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) shared a post with photographs of an injured man, claiming that fifteen Muslim men had seriously assaulted a British serviceman one day prior in Batley: I have been informed by his family that this serving soldier was out celebrating the new year in Batley […]
‘Muslim Migrant Beats Up Dutch Boy’ and ‘Islamist Mob’ Videos President Trump retweeted ant-Muslim videos in November 2017. One of the videos does not show a Muslim migrant attacking a Dutch boy, as it claims.
