A copy-paste meme I've encountered recently compares chickenpox, herpes and HIV with COVID-19, and builds up to a powerful rebuke…
Several times in the past few days I've come across this claim in my social media feed. I didn't share…
Trump really did tweet "This is a battle to save the Heritage, History, and Greatness of our Country!" Plugging those…
Earlier today a reporter, following her journalism training, asked Trump, "Were you just kidding, or do you have a plan…
Using bits and pieces of real news in order to distort the public perception of a story is unethical. Not…
There's nothing like a fair-minded, good-faith analysis of the facts. And this article from PJMedia is nothing like a fair-minded,…
A Richmond police official and a fire official agree that Sunday, multiple individuals interfered with a fire truck's response to…
A Facebook meme that claims "3 of these 4 honorable men were killed by 'protesters'" is false. I don't mean…
A Facebook meme with 52k reactions and 37k shares includes pictures of volunteers cleaning the streets in Minneapolis, the day…
On social media recently I saw people mocking Trump for "refusing" to unveil the traditional presidential portrait of Obama, and…
Fascinating use of social media. To be clear, this story about "Carolyn Gombell" is a fabrication, intended to spark Twitter…
If, like pollster Matthew McDermott, you shared (or at least chuckled at) that Jimmy Kimmel clip of VP Pence joking…
You sheep who trust the lamestream fake news media think you know them as Prince Charles, the heir to the…
Have you seen this image mashup being cited as evidence that you should wake up because "the media" is lying…
For years, I've been teaching a fake graph. In pretty much every course I teach, on some day when students…
Public officials misspeak all the time. Journalists make mistakes all the time. Ordinary citizens over-react to headlines without reading the…
Not fake news. Not the enemy of the American people. “Nobody ever thought a thing like this could have happened,”…
The Society of Professional Journalists links to an interview with an MIT professor who's studying misinformation on social media (which…