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Nathaniel Alexander He invented the folding chair. Broadly, the meme was part of a much larger and more widely discussed incident loosely known as “the Alabama riverfront brawl,” or the “Alabama ...
On June 7 2023, amid right-wing book-banning attempts sweeping the United States, poet and author Amanda Gorman addressed the banning of her own book The Hill We Climb at a Florida elementary school.
On May 23 2023, several social media posts popped up with the jarring claim that a majority of book removal or book ban requests in American schools were an effort by the same eleven individuals: ...
What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.
Screenshots of a March 2023 tweet about "female suicide rates" after the introduction of no-fault divorce spread to Imgur.
After a February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a meme claimed that former U.S. President Donald Trump deregulated industries (including rail).
After the June 11 2022 arrest of 31 Patriot Front extremists in a U-Haul in Idaho, disinformation purveyors spotted a "FBI bullhorn" in photographs of the incident.
A screenshot spread of a purported tweet from the right-wing pundit featuring a Fox News article about ivermectin and incontinence.
A worsening baby formula shortage led to viral posts advising the use of emergency homemade baby formula, but the rapidly spreading recipe could harm babies.
Readers spotted a purported reference to a "domestic supply of infants" by Justice Alito in the footnotes of the leaked Roe draft in May 2022.
Fact Check Claim: Anthony Bourdain said: "Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone ...
Social media posts claiming humans have invisible stripes were suddenly everywhere in September 2021.
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