Supreme Court ‘100 Miles’ Border Ruling
In June 2022, a Supreme Court ruling purportedly ruled that “Border Patrol can enter any home without a warrant and assault you, within 100 miles of the border.”
In June 2022, a Supreme Court ruling purportedly ruled that “Border Patrol can enter any home without a warrant and assault you, within 100 miles of the border.”
Screenshots of a purported Facebook group spread wildly and without context on other platforms.
Narratives about a purported string of food factory fires in 2022 had long-tail staying power, but rarely did debunkings address the “whys” of the conspiracy theory.
After days of social media outrage following the officer-involved shooting of Leonna Hale, a purported bodycam still raised further questions.
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.
After a May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a popular tweet claimed that guns had become the leading cause of death in children and teens in the United States as of 2020.
The day after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, The Onion‘s cyclical mass shooting piece took over its front page — as a New York Times abstract followed suit in reality.
Labeling a claim as a “new” TikTok trend helps it go viral, as was the case with a claim involving IRS tax-exempt statuses for churches.
A viral tweet claimed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) distilled white supremacist domestic terrorism into a voting issue.