2 July 2018 Maxine Waters is in line to become chair of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats take that chamber — a position that comes with broad subpoena powers.
2 July 2018 A hyperpartisan Facebook page shared an edited image from a real interview by the California congresswoman.
15 May 2018 A quote supposedly from the California Congresswoman about impeaching President Trump was digitally added into an old still from a CNN broadcast.
20 February 2018 An impostor Twitter account posing as Rep. Maxine Waters posted an inflammatory remark with the hashtag #guncontrolnow.
18 August 2017 Right-wing Facebook pages created a meme containing a fabricated quote attributed to the Democratic Congresswoman.
9 June 2017 A self-debunking Reddit claim that Maxine Waters missed 90 percent of "Congressional meetings" was repeated by a blog as a credible statistic.
6 June 2017 A parody Twitter account succeeds again in tricking users into taking a fake tweet seriously.
5 June 2017 Michael Tracey called Waters' behavior "intemperate and unprofessional" after she walked away from him during an interview.
2 June 2017 An account parodying the Congresswoman sent the tweet in response to President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.
19 February 2017 Russian pranksters claimed they pulled phone pranks on Senator John McCain and Congresswoman Maxine Waters by impersonating the Ukrainian prime minister.
