A purportedly leaked memo from Bank of America (“we hope conditions for American workers will get worse”) circulated across social media in late July and early August 2022.
Several social media posts claimed that Glenn Thompson attended the wedding of his gay son three days after voting against same-sex marriage.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, social media posts indicated that divorces in Missouri are not granted if one of the spouses is pregnant.
A story about “Astronaut Mark Kelly” purportedly “smuggling” a gorilla suit aboard the ISS went viral in July 2022.
In early July 2022, a Reddit post about a year when “San Diego set all the fireworks off at once” was virally popular.
A thinly coded political meme phrase (“Let’s Go Brandon”) helped a young boy named Brandon overcome fears and led to a book.
In June 2022, a three-month-old Facebook post about Mark Cuban starting an online pharmacy spread virally.
A popular Facebook image purportedly was a photo of Saturn, “as captured from a backyard telescope.”
A viral tweet suggested that median rent in the United States would soon reach $2000 per month in 2022, firmly outside the “3x rent” ratio rule of thumb when considering median salaries.
In May 2022, a popular post on Reddit purportedly depicted a “monument in Tikrit, Iraq” that memoralized the shoes thrown at former U.S. leader George W. Bush.
