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stated on October 22, 2025 social media posts:

Walmart will close to in-store shoppers and allow only online orders and curbside pickup starting Nov. 1 because of an expected Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding lapse.

By Loreben Tuquero • October 29, 2025

Instagram posts
stated on September 29, 2024 Instagram posts:

Video shows “FBI finds human remains at a McDonald’s meat supplier.”

By Sofia Ahmed • October 2, 2024

Instagram posts
stated on April 28, 2024 a reel:

Video proves all sizes of Starbucks’ paper drink cups hold the same amount of liquid.

By Sara Swann • May 10, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 a video:

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 22, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on May 3, 2023 a video:

“The government has been putting ground up human teeth and bone in our food and calling it 'calcium phosphate.’”

By Gabrielle Settles • May 16, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on April 4, 2023 a video:

Pouring soda on raw pork will cause parasites to emerge.

By Sara Swann • April 7, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on January 18, 2023 an Instagram post:

Bill Gates tweeted that “vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.”

By Samantha Putterman • January 20, 2023

Instagram posts
stated on October 12, 2022 a video:

Today’s high food prices were planned during a 2015 food shortage simulation.

By Jeff Cercone • October 26, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on October 7, 2022 a post:

Dark spots on potato chips are “infected with throat mold.”

By Andy Nguyen • October 19, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on July 27, 2022 a Facebook reel:

Consuming “rice and beans, milk, cheese, butter and eggs” causes disease by age 30.

By Grace Abels • August 5, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2022 a Facebook post:

“Drought is a lie” designed to limit farming, reduce the food supply and ultimately control Americans.

By Madison Czopek • July 19, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on June 30, 2022 a Facebook post:

Fast food chain Wendy’s was “exposed for using horse meat.”

By Gabrielle Settles • July 8, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on February 15, 2022 a Facebook post:

Grocery chain Aldi will send people who share a Facebook post a “bag full of family necessities” worth $750, and 100 random bags also have a voucher for $500.

By Andy Nguyen • February 21, 2022

Instagram posts
stated on January 19, 2022 an Instagram post:

Photos show “sheep feces” that are “now in high demand in China because of their richness in protein.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 19, 2022

X posts
stated on April 28, 2021 posts on social media:

Sen. Joni Ernst's visual aid said liberals wanted to abolish lasagna, among other things.

By Natalie Dunlap • April 29, 2021

Kevin McCarthy
stated on April 28, 2021 a Fox News appearance:

Says Joe Biden is “going to control how much meat you can eat.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 29, 2021

Fox News Channel
stated on April 23, 2021 a TV graphic:

"Biden's climate requirements" will "cut 90% of red meat from diet" to a "max 4 lbs per year" and "one burger per month."

By Bill McCarthy • April 26, 2021

Viral image
stated on June 19, 2020 an Instagram post:

“Chick-fil-A now open Sunday (Blacks only).”

By Ciara O'Rourke • June 26, 2020

Bloggers
stated on February 6, 2020 a social media post:

“Chinese people eat human baby soup to improve health.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2020

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stated on January 17, 2020 a Facebook post:

Says Joe Biden talked about eating wooden corn dog sticks.

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 22, 2020

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