A purportedly leaked memo from Bank of America (“we hope conditions for American workers will get worse”) circulated across social media in late July and early August 2022.
In May 2022, a meme about Wisconsin child labor laws and a “labor shortage” spread virally.
A Florida-based restaurant went on Fox News to complain about a purported labor shortage, leading social media users to locate their PPP loan records.
An image of a McDonald’s banner purportedly advertising an $18 an hour wage with a suspicious asterisk went viral on Twitter, then Facebook.
Social media posts and images of signs about how no one wants to work are omnipresent, but low-wage jobs are not “competing with unemployment benefits.”
