Some social media users have shared an image of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska that appeared in Vogue’s July 2022 edition next to an image of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, with the claim that the latter image featured in Vogue in 1939. However, no such image of Hitler and Braun was published by Vogue in 1939.
An image circulating online of former U.S. President Donald Trump has been edited to make him appear older.
There is no evidence that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a net worth of $29 million, despite online claims that that figure was released by Forbes magazine. Forbes has denied releasing the $29 million figure and no other reliable source for the claim has been cited.
A widely shared meme circulating on social media claims an episode of “The Simpsons“ predicted the 2022 monkeypox outbreak. The collage, however, includes frames from two different episodes and neither are about monkeypox.
An image purporting to show a Canadian news outlet with a headline urging straight men to limit their male sexual partners to curb the spread of monkeypox is digitally altered, and no such headline was published by the outlet.
A seven-second clip does not show security personnel with fake arms walking behind the former U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania during the 2017 presidential inauguration parade. Although the short video shows the individuals with their hands placed relatively still while walking behind the former president, a longer version of the scene shows the security personnel moving their hands at multiple points.
A widely shared social media post likening the current monkeypox outbreak to biblical-era leprosy outbreaks has some users confused, others amused. The post says but does not provide any evidence that monkeypox, a viral disease, and leprosy, a bacterial infection, are actually the same illness. They are not.
A provision proposed by U.S. Democrats to cap insulin costs in the United States did not make it into the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the U.S. Senate on Aug. 7. After this, social media users shared a statement purportedly made on C-SPAN by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. This was originally posted as satire, but some social media users have been duped into thinking it is a real comment by Graham.
Social media users have captioned an image of a rally as being an event for the former U.S. President Donald Trump in Wisconsin in August 2022. But a reverse image search shows that the photograph dates from at least November 2020.
An image purporting to show an article published by The Atlantic, reporting that straight men are in a “unique position” to end the stigma around monkeypox is fabricated.