‘The Water Was Laced With Fentanyl’
A new online hoax tries to sell a rare ocurrence as a new fentanyl-related threat.
A new online hoax tries to sell a rare ocurrence as a new fentanyl-related threat.
Like Tim Allen, Dave Ramsey is often accused of writing political screeds on Facebook — in this case, a treatise on “Joe Biden’s tax plan.”
For starters, that picture isn’t Nancy Green — and the “save Aunt Jemima” rant has additional issues.
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have rekindled the “meeting between breadfruit” Facebook status meme, essentially an emotionally manipulative and pointless chain letter.
Any post saying that it was “copied from a friend” should raise a red flag for readers.
An authoritatively worded social media post about guns is a long-circulating mixture of decontextualized statistics and opinion.
Although the musician reposted a rant about United States President Donald Trump and his followers, he didn’t write it himself.
On April 17 2019, a Facebook post (archived here) began circulating, purporting to tell the tragic story (“they pushed her”) of a young girl named Carmen Winstead, as well as the fates of the classmates responsible for her death: They pushed her After lunch, her teacher announced that the school was holding a fire drill. …
A false claim on a Fox talk show has survived online in several iterations.
How various Black male celebrities got used to spread a “somewhat racist” bit of folklore.