Is San Francisco Paying Criminals $300 a Month Not to Shoot People? On September 8 2021, the unreliable Daily Wire published an item headlined, “San Francisco Is Going To Pay People $300 A Month Not To Shoot Others.” The outrage-baiting headline worked; soon it appeared atop Trendolizer.com’s “trending” list. The piece began by citing Fox News: In an attempt to reduce violent crime, San Francisco, California will launch […]
Does This Video Show ‘More and More’ Coronavirus Looters in San Francisco? Specious blogs and right-wing social media users seized on one video to falsely claim that the region was seeing an uptick in crime.
A View of San Francisco ‘Yesterday’? On July 20 2019 the Facebook page “The Modern Conservative” shared the following image, purportedly showing San Francisco the day before: https://www.facebook.com/ModCn/photos/a.828112317337232/1355096337972158/?type=3&theater Commenters lamented the purported state of the city underneath the photograph: SF is going downhill on a slippery slippery slope. So sad. Just wonderful, thank you democrats Check out your city Nancy [Pelosi]. […]
Is This a Picture of Used Syringes Recovered in ‘Democrat Run’ San Francisco? On December 20, 2018, the Facebook page Try Decaf shared a photograph, purportedly showing used needles “found on the streets of Democrat run San Francisco”: As of January 4, 2019, the image had been shared thousands of times. Angry users commented on the photograph: paid for by these cities! give them free drugs and needles! […]
