‘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.
Rep. Jack Kimble: ‘A Whopping 25% of American Students Are in the Bottom …’ A popular May 2023 Reddit post featured a tweet about American education, attributed to "Rep. Jack Kimble."
A&W Root Bear ‘Bear Mascot’ Twitter Joke Ends Up on Fox News A January 2023 over M&M "spokescandies" prompted a humorous tweet from A&W Restaurants, confounding Fox Business.
‘Dear Teacher’ Letter Explaining Christmas Goes Viral on Twitter A thread by satirical account @JewWhoHasItAll features a letter to teachers about Christmas and Christian students.
‘Kyrsten Sinema Introducing Donald Trump’ Video A video purportedly showing Sinema introducing Trump was apparently too good for many to double-check.
Taliban ‘Hanging from Blackhawk’ Video Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted an unverified video of the Taliban hanging an interpreter from a Blackhawk helicopter.
Rep. Jack Kimble: ‘I Find It Very Suspicious …’ 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.
‘U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night’ Onion Story A viral tweet purportedly shows an eerily prophetic headline in satirical site "The Onion" about the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Did RuPaul Say Evidence of the Armenian Genocide ‘Just Isn’t There’? A "satirical" Twitter account scored attention with a bogus post about the "Drag Race" host.
PragerU ‘Racism = Bad’ Graphic A viral screenshot depicted a purported PragerU graphic reading "LEFTIST LOGIC: Racism = Bad."