How Much Water Does it Take to Make a Burger?
Courtesy of a Los Angeles billboard, but posted to social media by Kathy Freston, a vegan author, with over 8,500 likes and 21,500 shares. This is a mating of the old school version of a…
This Isn’t What’s Wrong in Washington
Courtesy of Americans Against the Republican Party, with over 7,600 likes and 6,900 shares. It’s also been put up by Liberal America, with about 1/3 of the traffic. This meme claims the capital gains tax…
Obama and Executive Orders
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 48,000 likes and 46,000 shares. This meme manages to be false, misleading and snarky in its assessment, but we’ll focus only on the first two. Wrong Numbers As of…
Examining the 90% Tax Rate
Courtesy of Liberal America, with over 5,900 likes and 9,700 shares. This meme has been spread extensively in various forms, including a Paul Krugman New York Times column heralding the 1950s and the high tax…
Did the Income Tax Fund the Civil War?
Courtesy of Liberal and Proud of It, with over 8,000 likes and 4,000 shares. This meme is a jab at Bush and other neocons about not paying for the Iraq War. By bringing up the…
355 Mass Shootings This Year?
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 28,000 likes and 23,000 shares. This meme claims that there have been 355 mass shootings this year in the US (as of December 3rd), an average of more than…
Are These Shooters All Democrats?
Courtesy of Thought Crime Resistance, where it received over 300 likes and 4,000 shares. Similar memes have been sporadically spread by some (though not many) voices on the right, including one by Ted Nugent that…
Guns and Kinder Eggs
Courtesy of Moms Demand Action. This is an older meme, so the amounts of likes and shares can’t be known exactly, but it’s likely in the hundreds of thousands for each. It shows a Kinder…
Australia, Big Mac and the Minimum Wage
Updated January 27, 2018 with new data. Courtesy of US Uncut, with over 21,000 likes and 49,000 shares. This meme attempts to show that raising the minimum wage doesn’t translate into an increase in prices…
Was Steve Jobs the Son of a Syrian Refugee?
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 53,000 likes and 46,000 shares. This meme claims that Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian refugee. It links to this USA Today article in the comments, even…