Xennial Memes

Topics Tech & the internet

Misinformation

Hand-drawn comic titled "CLIMATE CHANGE: A TIMELINE" with the credit "@SEMI_RAD". A long horizontal bar is split into colored sections. The wide light blue section is labeled ""CLIMATE CHANGE ISN'T REAL"". The larger orange section is labeled "OK, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL, WE'RE JUST NOT CONVINCED IT'S CAUSED BY HUMANS". A small dark red-brown section is labeled "OOPS". The tiny yellow end section is labeled "FUCK". Italic text quote on a white background: "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived… Text on a pale yellow background: "When I was in 7th grade, our teacher put on a video and told us to take notes. Ten minutes in, she threw the lights on and shouted at Steven Webb Sladki, telling him he wasn't taking notes and he should have been. But the thing was, Steve was taking notes. I saw it. We all saw it. The teacher asked if anyone wanted to stand up for Steve. A few of us choked out some words of… A vial of dark red blood with a red cap beside a block of text. It reads: "It contains more than 4,000 chemicals and it has spread into every human body on Earth." "Among its components are formaldehyde, acetone, ethanol, ketone bodies, dihydrogen monoxide, tryptophan, urea, Dehydroepiandrosterone, Hexosephosphate P, and at least 20 kinds of acids." "Nearly every chemical constituent will, in certain… Top caption: "Finally someone tells it like it is. Way too many people have forgotten how awesome NASA is." Two photos show a red Russian Space Pen package printed with a rocket, and a joke text: "When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that could write in space,… Tumblr post screenshot. User sapper-in-the-wire: "people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat" and "german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans". Reblog by thefloatingstone: "Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn't even gone extinct yet:… Two side-by-side photos under the heading "NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE". Left: a man in a dark suit places a blue-ribboned medal on a short-haired woman in a red jacket, captioned "TALK SHOW HOST". Right: a man places a medal on a gray-haired older man in a dark jacket, captioned "VIETNAM WAR HERO". Below, typewriter-style text reads: "You know what? I do see the difference! The guy on the left is awarding Ellen with the… A young man with slicked-back hair in a black tuxedo and white bow tie smirks at the camera while raising a coupe glass of champagne. Caption text above reads: "Cheers to everyone who does their own research. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Orange poster from NewseumED, supported by Facebook. Title: E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News. A giant hand holds a screaming green-faced phone over a city skyline as silhouetted zombie-like people stagger below. Badge: Visit NewseumED.org for more resources! Banner: 6 Ways to Evaluate Information. Columns: Evidence, Source, Context, Audience, Purpose, Execution. Black-and-white photo of an old dictionary page printed over with large bold gray capital letters reading: "IF IT CAN BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY THE TRUTH" and below it, "CARL SAGAN". Media bias chart, copyright Vanessa Otero 2017. Columns run from Liberal Utter Garbage to Conservative Utter Garbage. Rows run from Original Fact Reporting down to Contains Inaccurate/Fabricated Info. Dozens of news logos are placed on it, with a color-coded key at right.