An often-circulated quote from a University of Pennsylvania faculty member attacking United States President Donald Trump was posthumously spread second-hand. The purported remark attributed to ...

On July 29 2020, comedian Lee Camp shared the following image, which quoted Elon Musk as saying the United States would “coup whoever we want,” and to “deal with it”: Across an image of Musk, text ...

This is a series about how communities can fight back and protect themselves against weaponized disinformation. Part I: Firehosing Part II: Gaslighting Part III: Distraction Part IV: Signaling and Dog ...

A March 2009 event honoring then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lingered on for years online, as both right-wing political figures and internet “influencers” have linked her to another ...

Dubious and dated stats about missing children spread in August 2020, among them that 2,000 children go missing in the United States every day.

A meme quotes former U.S. President Barack Obama — who was at that point a senator — on undocumented immigration.

A self-professed “targeted individual” on Twitter apparently had his hackles raised by a group of German satiricists enough to try to use their work to gin up fears about “Antifa.” “Ever seen an ...

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: ...

Against the backdrop of a long-running federal shutdown, purportedly over border wall funding, a Facebook user shared the following meme in January 2019: It read: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SENT $56 BILLION ...

Viral Facebook posts claim that British Heinz Ketchup boasts a markedly different ingredients list than its American counterpart.

On January 23 2020, the Facebook page “We Resist” shared the following images, purportedly a “Brazilian condom ad” mocking world leaders Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-Il: Text atop three ...

After the officer-involved killing of George Floyd, a quote attributed to Ben Franklin about justice and the unaffected circulated.