A cursory search revealed that the quote was quite popular among political commentary memes, all widely shared and mostly attributed to Truman. In January 2018, a different arrangement of the same ...
Obama resettled 70,000 SOMALIAN REFUGEES in MINNESOTA. No wonder ILHAN OMAR was elected. IT WAS PLANNED. If the subtext wasn’t clear enough, the meme said that President Obama purposely relocated tens ...
Claim: Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu said “An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” Description: A widely shared quote on social media attributes the claim ‘An evil ...
The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other ...
Summary of eRumor: After Thomas Edison’s school teacher called him addled or mentally ill in a letter, Edison’s mother hid the letter from the young inventor and homeschooled him so that Edison could ...
The origin of one anti-fascist tactic circulated again on Facebook in August and September 2020, with some readers getting a new perspective on cosmetics and their impact. The post, which has been ...
On July 18 2021, a Reddit user shared the meme to r/BrandNewSentence (and someone else posed it as a question to the notoriously strict r/AskHistorians): That meme was not the first to use humor and ...
“I’m not asking you to kiss me, nor apologize to me when I think you’re wrong. I won’t even ask you to hug me when I need it most. I don’t ask you to tell me how beautiful I am, even if it’s a lie, ...
On March 3 2019, Texas politician Sid Miller shared “An important reminder!”, a meme (archived here) purportedly providing the last line in a Statue of Liberty dedication speech from October 1886: ...
On June 11 2019 Twitter user @n_robe shared the following tweet, claiming that the word “homosexual” was only added to the Bible in 1983 as a pretext for codifying anti-gay sentiments in Christianity: ...
On June 9 2019, the Facebook page “No To Theocracy” shared the following meme (archived here), featuring a quote in which President Dwight Eisenhower appeared to have predicted Holocaust denial: Above ...
In September 2019, a number of people tweeted an apparent news article headlined: “Teen Masturbated 56 Times Straight Before Dying of Heart Attack”: The link spread on Facebook too: PORTLAND — ...