The ‘TikTok Benadryl Challenge’
Amid ongoing political discussions about the TikTok video app, claims spread about a death related to a “Benadryl challenge.”
Amid ongoing political discussions about the TikTok video app, claims spread about a death related to a “Benadryl challenge.”
A New York Post tweet claimed that eating just one hot dog “takes 35 minutes off your life,” but the underlying research was far more complicated than the headline suggested.
The New York Post is still milking the “2020 bingo” meme to spread misleading claims, such as how an asteroid “could” hit Earth in November 2020.
A New York City headline led with a claim about Rolex looting in SoHo, but the article’s text conflicted with the headline.
News organizations and blog posts claimed that scientists had discovered evidence of a parallel universe that was likely “better” than our own.
Images of densely populated, newly reopened Florida beaches were followed by claims that they were old or stock images.
Health officials have already refuted the idea that “traditional” remedies can work against the virus.
In early June 2019, a number of English-speaking news organizations reported that a 17-year-old Dutch girl named Noa Pothove had been “euthanized” at her request, following years of unsuccessful treatment due to the trauma of rape and sexual abuse: Among organizations reporting the claim were the Washington Post, the Daily Mail, The Sun, the New York Post, Fox News, and …
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