Who Saved the Electoral Ballots During the Capitol Riots? A viral tweet credited Senate aides with quick thinking, but who saved electoral ballots as insurrectionists breached the Capitol was in question.
‘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.
Did News Outlets Publish Old Photographs of Crowded Jacksonville, Florida Beaches in April 2020? Images of densely populated, newly reopened Florida beaches were followed by claims that they were old or stock images.
‘Spanish Army Locked Down the Country Due to Coronavirus’ Image Set A viral image set shows the Spanish Legion (not the "Spanish Army"), and the photographs date back as early as 2013 -- well before the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
Storm Cloud in Benevento An Instagram photograph of a purported electrical storm in Benevento, Italy went viral on other platforms.
Is This Image Yellow Hat Firefighters Protesting in Spain? On March 31 2019, an image (archived here) went viral on social media purportedly showing a “yellow hat” firefighter protest in Spain. Under an image of several men wearing only yellow hats and boots was a caption: Forget the yellow vests demonstrating around parliament. Here in Spain we have the yellow hats (firemen) demonstrating for a […]
Snow Walls in Austria? As temperatures in the Midwest plummeted in January 2019, the following photograph appeared on social media with the caption: “You think we got snow, how about Austria?” No context was provided for the images, and no clues about the location or date on which they were purportedly captured were immediately apparent. But in the comments, the […]
Is This a Photograph of Roger Stone’s Neighbor Gleefully Watching the FBI Raid of His Home? On January 25 2019, the Facebook page “Make ‘Murica Great Again” shared the following photograph of a smiling woman clad in a fur coat and drinking wine, purportedly a neighbor of Roger Stone toasting his arrest during a raid by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents: The original was shared on the day Stone’s Florida home […]
