No, a Man Wasn’t Awarded $450K Over an ‘Unwanted Birthday Party’
Stories about “crazy lawsuits” are great clickbait — but the truth is usually a little more complex than a click.
Stories about “crazy lawsuits” are great clickbait — but the truth is usually a little more complex than a click.
A mischaracterization of a pre-print study about “vaccine hesitancy” further advanced anti-vaxxer falsehoods.
Images from local news sources are often removed from their context and recaptioned, as was the case with a photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders and high school girls.
An image taken deliberately out of its context was used as outrage-bait on Twitter and blogs.
Manufactured controversy about millennial affectations have nearly become a tradition all their own, and in 2018, news outlets took a shine to claims that “social justice warriors” (often shortened in internet parlance to the more derogatory “SJWs”) were “demanding” a gender-neutral Santa. Various versions of this story featured vague details about from where people might …