Donald Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ comment, made during a campaign speech in Ohio, has ignited a flurry of reactions across the political spectrum. This phrase, loaded with economic and political implications ...

On June 7 2023, amid right-wing book-banning attempts sweeping the United States, poet and author Amanda Gorman addressed the banning of her own book The Hill We Climb at a Florida elementary school.

On May 23 2023, several social media posts popped up with the jarring claim that a majority of book removal or book ban requests in American schools were an effort by the same eleven individuals: ...

What sounded like an eerily prescient quote by a Chinese military philosopher about a wish to "rule over the ashes" spread virally in March 2023.

The death of former Pope Benedict XVI led to claims a "dead pope hammer" was necessarily deployed as part of the Catholic Church's traditions.

Claim: “Reminder that ‘pulling yourself up by your bootstraps’ was initially a joke about an absurd, impossible thing to do, and that it is not a real thing one can do.” Description: The phrase ...

A viral Facebook post asserted that self-driving cars can be "trapped" by a salt circle, coincidentally a common media trope for magic.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, comments spread claiming that Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said we should "rewrite the Constitution" regularly.

A screenshot spread of a purported tweet from the right-wing pundit featuring a Fox News article about ivermectin and incontinence.

Amid news Netflix planned to curtail password sharing, a purported tweet stating that "love is sharing a password" recirculated in 2022.

A popular meme claimed that the seventh (or tenth) largest pyramid in the world was a Bass Pro Shops location.

Years-long social media discussions contrasting worker pay and the price of Big Macs in Denmark and the United States resurfaced in November 2021.