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Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.

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Ukraine President Zelenskyy didn’t buy a controlling stake in mining company,  despite online claims
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.

Website that regularly publishes false information goes after Democrats’ Wisconsin Supreme Court win
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

“White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”

Elon Musk didn’t target Trump’s golf trips in an X post about DOGE
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”

No, AOC is not cashing grandmother’s Social Security checks, this is satire
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s family “must have just overlooked” “cashing her dead grandmother’s Social Security checks for a decade and a half.”

Video shows Danish lawmakers laughing at prime minister, not at Trump’s Greenland remarks
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”

This isn’t a real Truth Social post from Trump about ending dual citizenship
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 4, 2025

Says President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am ending dual citizenship under the Espionage Act and all these traitors will be ‘denaturalized and…

Plastic surgery crime story originated on a self-described satire site
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 2, 2025

“Man gets plastic surgery and name change to date his ex-girlfriend after she obtains a restraining order.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t author this X post about incest. This is fake
By Ciara O'Rourke
April 2, 2025

Says U.S. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green wrote on X that she is “a product of incest.”

No, this isn’t an authentic X post from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By Ciara O'Rourke
February 26, 2025

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X, “In my first 6 months as HHS secretary … I’ll ban…

No, Luigi Mangione didn’t post this Napoleon Bonaparte quote
By Ciara O'Rourke
February 21, 2025

Says Luigi Mangione posted on X, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.”

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