Did MSNBC Switch Colors for “Favorable” and “Unfavorable” for Only Bernie Sanders in a Super Tuesday Chyron? On Super Tuesday, screenshots circulated suggesting that MSNBC had swapped colors on a graphic to imply Bernie Sanders was less "favorable" in polling data than fellow presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
Jeff Bezos Bought a $165M House, the Equivalent of a $75 House if You Make $60,000 a Year? "Bezos math" once again circulated on social media, when the Amazon chief executive officer's $165 million house purchase was placed in purported terms of a $60,000-a-year wage earner.
Was Paul Rudd the Same Age as Wilford Brimley in ‘Cocoon’ as of December 2019? Memes about actor Paul Rudd "not aging" escalated with a December 30 2019 tweet claiming that Rudd was 18,530 days old — the same age as Wilford Brimley in "Cocoon."
How Many Moms Are in ‘One Million Moms’? We're 99.99999999 percent sure it's nowhere close to a million.
Did Uber Receive 235 Reports of Rape and 5,981 Reports of Sexual Abuse? A screenshot of a tweet on Facebook claims that Uber has received a large number of sexual abuse reports.
Was Jeff Bezos’ $98 Million ‘Gift’ to Homeless the Equivalent of $45 to a Person Earning $50,000 Annually? People did the math on the Amazon CEO's $98 million "gift" to the homeless, placing it in the context of middle-class money.
Does Adding Your Birth Year to Your Age Total The Year Number Once a Millennium? A popular post claims that "all the people in the world are the same age this year," but the math is not a puzzle to mathematicians and doesn't even work for everyone.
Did Republicans Hold 33 Benghazi Hearings and Make Hillary Clinton Testify for 11 Hours? A popular tweet compared the Trump administration to Clinton's experiences as secretary of state under former United States President Barack Obama.
Was $6 an Hour in 1980 Equivalent to More Than $18 Today? A viral "Boomers vs. Millennials" post claims that "I only made $6 an hour" is a flawed metric when comparing costs of living between generations.
If You Made $5,000 a Day Starting in 1492, Would You Still Have Less Money Than Jeff Bezos? A tweet about Christopher Columbus, Jeff Bezos, and billionaires in general has been racing around social media, so we checked the math.
