Did a Woman Post an Ad Offering to Babysit ‘White Kids Only’?
Social media amplified threats and harassment against an Oregon woman over the flyer without pausing to see whether it was real.
Social media amplified threats and harassment against an Oregon woman over the flyer without pausing to see whether it was real.
In the hours after a mass shooter at a mall in El Paso, Texas left at least 22 people dead, rumors flew that the President of the United States was deleting relevant tweets.
In early July 2019, Haile Bailey’s casting as main character Ariel in a live-action reboot of Disney’s animated film The Little Mermaid caused controversy on social media, sparking a meme about another person of color having appeared in the original animated television series from the early 1990s. In the meme linked above, what appears to be a …
In February 2019, the following image appeared (archived here), with the description “victorious black soldiers returning to the U.S. from World War I are lynched while still in uniform.” An attached image showed a black man being dragged from a streetcar by several white men, captioned “the massacre they don’t teach you about in history.” However, the …
Were Black WWI Veterans in Uniform Lynched During the Red Summer of 1919? Read More »
On January 23 2019, a Facebook user shared what appeared to be a screenshot of an unlinked Facebook post, alleging that a man named Jordan Lee Grinnell assaulted an unnamed black middle school student: Above three images (a handcuffed man sitting on steps, presumably the same man in an unrelated photograph, and what looked to …
Did a 38-Year-Old White Active Duty Naval Officer Assault a Black Middle School Student? Read More »
A fabricated screenshot led to another online attack against the California congresswoman.
A June 2017 trolling attempt was part of a pattern of attacking non-white lawmakers’ intellectual capabilities.
A meme claims that Donald Trump was never accused of racism before running for president.
Social media users spread a white nationalist op-ed presented as an actual newspaper piece.
A short-lived blog’s attempt at humor hinged on mocking the Obama administration — and the poor.