‘Wear Your Mask: The Urine Test’ Analogy Meme
A meme spreading on social media attempts to explain the purpose of coronavirus masks using an analogy about peeing (or not peeing) on everyone around you.
A meme spreading on social media attempts to explain the purpose of coronavirus masks using an analogy about peeing (or not peeing) on everyone around you.
Facebook marked the image as a “true” fact check, but the uncited claim used an unrelated image that dated back to at least 2015 — years before COVID-19 came into existence.
Conflicting information about the value and availability of face masks led to misperceptions spreading at scale.
A viral tweet and post attempted to prove that the media had “hyped” the threat of COVID-19 by donning protective gear when clearly none was necessary.