‘Memento Homo’ and Untrustworthy Google Results
A rapidly changing search landscape led to a satirical tweet (“memento homo”) being presented by Google as a citation for a falsehood in June 2023.
A rapidly changing search landscape led to a satirical tweet (“memento homo”) being presented by Google as a citation for a falsehood in June 2023.
A popular May 2023 Reddit post featured a tweet about American education, attributed to “Rep. Jack Kimble.”
A January 2023 over M&M “spokescandies” prompted a humorous tweet from A&W Restaurants, confounding Fox Business.
A thread by satirical account @JewWhoHasItAll features a letter to teachers about Christmas and Christian students.
A video purportedly showing Sinema introducing Trump was apparently too good for many to double-check.
Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted an unverified video of the Taliban hanging an interpreter from a Blackhawk helicopter.
Screenshots of a tweet purportedly speculating on why the virus only affects unvaccinated people spread virally on Facebook, but “Rep. Jack Kimble” has been around for quite a while.
A viral tweet purportedly shows an eerily prophetic headline in satirical site “The Onion” about the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A “satirical” Twitter account scored attention with a bogus post about the “Drag Race” host.
A viral screenshot depicted a purported PragerU graphic reading “LEFTIST LOGIC: Racism = Bad.”