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18 March 2019 - Some social media users started recirculating stories about terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslim extremists in response to a deadly mass shooting in New Zealand by a suspected white supremacist.
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24 May 2017 - This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
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4 June 2012 - "WARNING: Everything you’ve ever posted becomes public from tomorrow!"
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18 March 2019 - Official statements from celebrities tend to be posted on the official websites and social media pages of said celebrities.
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18 March 2019 - “To all you misguided, uninformed liberal ‘women’ demonstrating in favor of embracing Islam ..."
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3 August 2018 - Prominent conservative commentators boosted a false, mathematically impossible rumor about the president's salary donations, taking aim at the news media along the way.
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16 July 2017 - A cartoonish photograph purportedly showing presidential sons Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. was digitally manipulated.
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18 March 2019 - Gordon Ernst was one of the coaches alleged to have accepted bribes from parents to provide entry into elite universities under the guise of recruiting. He also coached Michelle Obama.
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4 February 2008 - An ambiguity in the U.S. Constitution allows for speculation about a back door method of getting around presidential term limits.
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15 March 2019 - The claims made by "Mr. Reagan" in the "Brains Behind AOC" viral video illustrate a lack of knowledge about political action committees.
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15 March 2019 - A years-old incident, an unrelated photograph, and some misleading reporting were mixed together and spread on social media after dozens of Muslims were killed in a mass shooting in New Zealand.
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24 July 2015 - "We should be allowed to take scrap meat and other parts home."
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15 March 2019 - "This is a man who thinks he is running for president in 2020?"
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18 March 2019 - New Zealand was rocked by grief following a massacre at two mosques perpetrated by a suspected white supremacist.
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16 December 2002 - "Anyone who has listened to Limbaugh's program can imagine the dripping scorn he would bring to the revelation that a prominent Democrat had skipped a war over something like that."
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19 March 2019 - News reports in the aftermath of the Christchurch, New Zealand, massacre presented a woefully incomplete description of a complicated conflict.
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A viral cartoon accurately presented several quotations by the then-presidential candidate, delivered on the campaign trail in 2015 and 2016.
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20 April 2016 - DISTURBING IMAGE WARNING
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15 March 2019 - "The lobster thing is pennies compared to the literally billions of dollars they were spending in a mad rush at the end of the year."
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4 September 2018 - A widely-shared Facebook meme offered allegations about a rising Democratic politician in Texas.
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15 March 2019 - "I dunno how to explain this but watching these rides gives me a real deep primal fear and makes me feel uncomfortable."
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12 December 2016 - In a classic conspiracy theory trope, rumormongers "spotted" the Podesta brothers in police sketches linked to the Madeleine McCann disappearance.
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23 April 2004 - Viral story claimed Jane Fonda and Ted Turner were refused service in a restaurant run by a Vietnam War veteran.
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21 August 2018 - A popular theory holds that the characters in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' stories each represents a different mental disorder.
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15 March 2019 - What exactly is the European Union planning? And what, if anything, did they announce in March 2019?
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12 March 2019 - Evidence that Trump wears a toupee is as thin as a balding person's hair.
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25 October 2001 - A purported speech by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard encouraging Muslims to leave Australia is misattributed.
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4 January 2018 - An intern could be seen making the "OK" gesture in an official photograph with the President, but he denied he was making a white supremacist gesture.
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19 March 2019 - We do know he was in a punk band in the 1990s that got its name from the Icelandic word for "Waterfall."
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17 November 2002 - "In his zeal to have this sharply defined nose, he's had so many things done, the tissue is no longer able to withstand it. "
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19 July 2017 - Unreliable web sites stoked partisan rancor by attributing a fake, self-aggrandizing quote to former President Barack Obama.
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24 August 2016 - Images contrasting the sentencings of white swimmers with that of homeless mother Tanya McDowell lacked context necessary to accurately compare the scenarios.
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24 October 2017 - A fabricated story blames the fluke 1967 aircraft carrier fire on the negligence of then-Navy bomber pilot and future United States Senator John McCain.
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12 February 2019 - You can claim anything if you remove evidence from the equation.
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19 September 2018 - A video appears to capture the disturbing and messy aftermath of a school prank.
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15 March 2019 - "Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."
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14 March 2019 - A video shot at a public housing project makes numerous, factually challenged claims about Syrian migration to West Virginia.
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10 August 2018 - The instructions on the back label of a bacon package advised consumers to "complain to elected officials" if they "don't know how to cook bacon."
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22 February 2019 - Photographs from a Pride parades have not uncommonly been re-purposed for political reasons.
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13 March 2019 - Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a number of ideas to combat global warming.
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2 December 2016 - Many conservative pundits misconstrued a statistic about population density vs. voting patterns.
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11 March 2019 - Tragedies are bad enough without misrepresenting them via repurposed videos.
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26 February 2019 - Warnings have been spread worldwide about the 'game's alleged potential to harm young people who may be lured into playing it.
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24 September 2016 - Questionable sources maintain that the plight of so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was worse than that of African slaves. Historians beg to differ.
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15 February 2019 - Rep. Ilhan Omar has been the subject of recurrent controversies, including ones regarding her marriages and family immigration history.
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20 July 2018 - A Russian asbestos producer shared a photograph of their product to social media with a seal of Donald Trump’s face and the text "Approved by Donald Trump”.
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15 July 2015 - An intriguing image of chairs with trees growing through reportedly stems from an ill-fated wedding in Poland that was halted by the onset of World War II.
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8 July 2018 - An Internet meme made misleading comparisons between presidential donations and the sizes of the first ladies' staffs, calling the Trumps "givers" and the Obamas "takers."
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6 February 2018 - Facebook hasn't limited your feed to only a certain number of people, and sharing a post saying otherwise won't make any difference.
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5 March 2019 - If you encounter something on a social network, then it hasn't been removed.
