In the morning of 13 May, an explosion took place in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. The Russian attack was aimed at critical infrastructure. Narratives appeared on the Internet that a “depleted uranium” storage facility was hit and destroyed. Increased measurements of the bismuth isotope from 15 May were presented as…

George Soros and his death have already become a meme on social media. Every now and then breaking news emerge that the billionaire has died. This news is particularly eagerly passed on by conspiracy theorists. They often treat him as a personal enemy, which is why his death would be…

Once again (our team cannot count all the similar cases already covered) a well-known person is attributed to made-up words. This time, an alleged Fyodor Dostoevsky’s quote began to gain popularity on social media. It refers to tolerance and supports a certain perception of the world, which makes it more…

On 9 January, a photo began circulating online showing waxwings lying on the pavement. Numerous posts claimed they are intoxicated after eating fermented fruit and instructed on how to help the birds. Some posts informed that the photo was taken in Poland. In fact, the photo comes from Ukraine and shows…

One of the most popular stories at the end of 2022 was a verbal feud on social media between Greta Thunberg, a climate activist, and Andrew Tate, a former kick-boxer and popular influencer spreading conspiracy theories. Shortly after, Tate was arrested i.a. on human trafficking charges, and media…

On 3 December, Damian Żurawski, a municipal councillor from Sosnowiec, shared a video on his Twitter and Facebook accounts showing a man saving a child at the last minute from being hit by an SUV driver who was overtaking at a pedestrian crossing. He added the following caption:…

In recent days, information about the Human Meat Project has circulated on social media. The initiative is supposed to acquire human bodies and then process them into food products. They are to be consumed by humans to help fight world hunger and global warming. This seemingly frightening project is actually…

On 21 December, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of U.S. Congress. After that speech, he gifted a Ukrainian flag with signatures of the defenders of Bakhmut to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was this object, subjected to…

A video with a fragment of a news segment from Australia has become very popular on the Internet. In the footage, a reporter informs about the idea that citizens would need 100 points of identification to be able to use social networking sites such as Facebook or Instagram. In this…

As always in the case of a major sporting event, such as the World Cup, there is a lot of information noise in the media space. Therefore, one can stumble across a lot of unverified information circulating, such as the one about the salaries of Croatian footballers. They allegedly…