Prominent current and former politicians, as well as members of their families, can often become targets of misinformation, with particularly egregious examples often drawing on outrage around divisive topics, such as race and gender identity.
Michelle Obama, Barack Obama's wife and the former First Lady of the United States, became the latest victim of such attacks, with multiple posts promoting a false narrative about her gender.
Plus, Newsweek's regular Misinformation Watch evaluates recently resurfaced videos, including one showing thousands of birds over a busy highway and another seemingly depicting a very targeted "rain cloud."
A number of prominent conservatives and right-leaning social media accounts reignited a false narrative about the former First Lady, with the viral claim "Michelle Obama is a man" gathering hundreds of thousands of engagements on Twitter.
Among those repeating the falsehood, or framing it is a question, were GOP congressional candidate Omar Navarro, comedian Terrence K. Williams and Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state delegate, who served three months in prison for his role in the Capitol attack, and who recently announced his official candidacy for Congress.
While it is not clear if the dozens of posts on this subject are genuine statements, written in jest or simple trolling, they appear to stem from a pre-existing debunked narrative that itself was based on a doctored photo.
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