Did Trump Once Say He Had Known Jeffrey Epstein for Years and ‘He Likes Women … on the Younger Side’? A long-circulating meme quotes U.S. President Donald Trump as saying, "I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years ... he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
‘If You Elect Joe Biden, There Will Be No Hand Sanitizer; I Have Spoken to the Hand Sanitizer People…’ A tweet quoting "Donald Trump today" on the topic of hand sanitizer spread in screenshots -- which lacked their original context.
Did Dave Ramsey Warn Against a Cashless Society Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic? Viral missives rail about the ills of a cashless society, but they didn't start to spread until the financial commentator's name was attached.
Is This a ‘Shooting Target’ Holding a Phone in the ‘Police Supply’ Section of a Gun Store in Lexington, Kentucky? On first glance, a "shooting target" of a figure holding a mobile phone as if recording looks damning, but there's a bit more context to the image.
‘If You as a White Person Would Be Happy to Receive the Same Treatment That Our Black Citizens Do in This Society, Please Stand!’ A "repost" on Facebook purportedly quotes a woman named Jane Elliott on white Americans' indifference toward racism.
‘Justice Will Not Be Served’ Ben Franklin Quote After the officer-involved killing of George Floyd, a quote attributed to Ben Franklin about justice and the unaffected circulated.
Meme Comparing ‘Flattening the Curve’ of COVID-19 to Deploying a Parachute Goes Viral Thousands of people on social media shared a post comparing "flattening the curve" to using a parachute, against a backdrop of protests against the measures.
Did Bernie Sanders Say ‘I Will Never Tell You How to Vote, If I Do, Don’t Listen to Me’? After the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, a meme recirculated suggesting that Sanders said he would never tell people how to vote (and if he did, not to listen to him.)
Harry S. Truman: ‘Socialism is a Scare Word’ A viral Facebook meme claims that the 33rd President of the United States criticized the use of the term as wielded against the public's interest.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: ‘Capitalism Does Not Permit an Even Flow of Economic Resources’ A screenshot of a tweet captioned "Once again, it's that time of year that we pretend Dr. King never said things like this" accompanied a purported King quote on the topic of capitalism.
