‘Buffalo, NY. Look at All That Snow 😱 ❄️’ Heavy mid-November 2022 snowfall blanketed Buffalo, but one viral Facebook post showed a weather event from 2014, not 2022.
‘Maury Stevens’ Glitter Glue Facebook Post In August 2022, a miscaptioned 2019 Facebook post about a man purportedly arrested for huffing glitter glue at a county fair recirculated in groups and on pages.
‘NASA Just Dropped New Planet Pics’ A July 2022 Facebook post leveraged interest in NASA's JWST to spread a set of old photos and composites as images that the agency had "just dropped."
‘Mammatus Clouds in South Dakota’ Viral Pic A real July 2022 news story about green clouds under a green sky during extreme weather in South Dakota led to the recirculation of an older image.
‘Ukraine Looters Taped to Poles’ Viral photographs of purported looters in Ukraine being "taped" to poles are circulating, sometimes identified as Russian soldiers.
‘2 Million People Are in the Streets of Ottawa Demanding Their Freedom’ Perhaps two million people gathered somewhere -- but not in this picture.
‘Swedish TV Accidentally Puts Subtitles from a Kids’ Show over a Political Debate’ An October 2 2021 Facebook post (screengrab included) contained a claim that a Swedish TV station accidentally put subtitles from children’s’ programming over a political debate: Beneath an apparent username from an unspecified platform (“nerdeas,”) two captions appeared. The first was the post itself, and the second the purported subtitle (which had presumably been converted from Swedish […]
‘Canadian Peanut Butter’ Packaging A photograph of peanut butter sold in trays was labeled in a viral post as "Canadian peanut butter," an inference likely drawn due to Canadian milk bags.
‘Looks Like Crazy Nancy Had a Liquid Lunch’ A photograph of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaving an establishment circulated with claims that she was leaving a bar and was clearly inebriated.
Is This a Photo of Seattle — Brought to You By ‘The Environmental Left’? A photograph of debris on a street, purportedly from Seattle's CHAZ (or CHOP), circulated on Facebook in the summer of 2020.
