‘Treason for the Season’
A circulating Fox News chyron purportedly reads “Treason for the Season,” because “Reason for the Season” is stylized with an adjacent cross.
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Ivanka Trump and the Alexis de Tocqueville Quote
The First Daughter tweeted a dubious historical quote, citing purported commentary from 1835 on impeachment.
Was Julia Roberts Supposed to Play Harriet Tubman in a 2019 Biopic?
In November 2019, just after the film Twitter was outraged over news that white actor Julia Roberts was “suggested” by a studio executive to play Harriet Tubman, a black woman and a former slave turned abolitionist hero: Memes popped up in response to the viral brouhaha, one depicting Roberts in Tubman’s spot on the American $20 bill: …
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Greta Thunberg Time Traveller Picture
No one is genuinely claiming that the climate activist is a time traveler from the past and future, here to save us from climate change.
‘Students Today Depend on Paper Too Much, Don’t Know How to Write on a Slate’ 1815 Quote
A purported lament from a “principal’s publication” in 1815 addressed students’ over-reliance on paper and their inability to manage writing on slates without getting chalk dust everywhere.
Is Chrome’s Reopen Closed Tab Gone?
You don’t need to install anything to regain “reopen closed tab” access.
Goodstein’s ‘States of Matter’ Opening Quote
On November 15 2019, an Imgur user shared a screenshot of a tweet about the purported opening paragraph from a textbook by California Institute of Technology professor David Goodstein called States of Matter: In the screenshot was a November 10 2019 tweet by @quantian1: In the tweet’s written portion, the user wrote: No other textbook, and possibly …
Did Jeff Bezos Cut Whole Foods Workers Benefits as He Bought a Second Mansion?
A viral Robert Reich tweet claimed that as the billionaire bought a lavish mansion, Amazon’s Whole Foods rescinded part-time employees’ healthcare benefits.
Did Ivanka Trump Quote Thomas Jefferson’s Denial of ‘Something He Did, in Fact, Do’?
In early November 2019, a tweet by Ivanka Trump quoting Thomas Jefferson in defense of her father, United States President Donald Trump alongside a response in screenshot form on Facebook: On October 31 2019, Ivanka Trump tweeted a partial quote: Trump added, referencing her father, that “some things never change.” In the response tweet by @zeddary, …
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Did a Forensic Pathologist Say That Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Looks More Like Homicide Than Suicide?
A multitude of stories asserting that a pathologist said Epstein’s death was more similar to a homicide than a suicide were — predictably — immediately viral.