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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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Video shows South African news outlet reporting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “purchased a controlling stake” in a mine.
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Website that regularly publishes false information goes after Democrats’ Wisconsin Supreme Court win
“White hats to investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court election.”
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Says Elon Musk wrote on X, “The DOGE team has discovered tens of millions of dollars spent on golf by a single government official.”
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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.”
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Video shows “how Denmark reacted when Trump said he wanted to buy Greenland.”
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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…
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“Man gets plastic surgery and name change to date his ex-girlfriend after she obtains a restraining order.”
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Says U.S. Rep. Majorie Taylor Green wrote on X that she is “a product of incest.”
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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…
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Says Luigi Mangione posted on X, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.”