Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky had an affair in the years of 1996-1997. In 1998 Bill Clinton would drop his famous “I did not have sexual relations with that women” line. This situation landed Clinton in hot water, in 1998 Clinton would be impeached. He became one of three presidents to be impeached. Clinton would …
Climate Change is Fake? For the meme assignment I decided to choose the topic of climate change to promote misinformation. Initially, I was planning to do a meme about COVID-19 misinformation, but those topics were taken. Therefore, I thought climate change would make for fun meme ideas. I ended up making three since I kept […]
Climate Change is Fake? For the meme assignment I decided to choose the topic of climate change to promote misinformation. Initially, I was planning to do a meme about COVID-19 misinformation, but those topics were taken. Therefore, I thought climate change would make for fun meme ideas. I ended up making three since I kept […]
I chose to do my meme on the Watergate scandal. I decided to do the Watergate scandal because it was one of the most famous incidents of misinformation. When the Watergate scandal initially broke, Rihcard Nixon denied his involvement and the involvement of the people close to him to the burglary. Many months later, in a question-and-answer session, Nixon declared that he was not a crook. However, he was in fact a crook. During his…
During the time that Joe Biden was in the hospital […]
Our assignment this week was focused on creating a meme. I chose to create one about untrue popular history. While it’s not difficult to find pretty accurate descriptions of what actually happened at the battle of Thermopylae, a lot of people were not even aware that this battle took place until the movie “300” came …
https://imgflip.com/i/7fhlx7 from Imgflip Meme Generator The idea that George Washingtons were made of wood was a myth with unknown origins that remained a popular in American culture and its public schools because it makes George Washington a more approachable figure to study. Though most public-school teachers and dentists today say that his teeth were made …
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My meme is about the moon landing and how some people believed it was fake. The image on the left is from NASA and is an actual image of the moon landing in 1969. The picture on the right is from Wikipedia but is said to be from NASA training, which was used by conspiracy […]
When I saw this Misinformation assignment, for some strange reason, my mind jumped to the rumors spread about one of the most important Russian rulers: Catherine the Great. Both during her reign and afterward, a multitude of rumors surrounding her character and sexuality were spread to diminish her power and affect public perception of her….
The topic I chose to focus my meme around is misinformation surrounding COVID-19; more specifically, how misinformation spreads rapidly from conspiracy groups and threads across multiple social media platforms. These rumors and misinformation did not just stop around the idea of the disease itself, but how it was spread, whether […]