Snopes Debunker - An old Facebook hoax is new again, Churchill on a water slide, Hitler's Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and the "dancing plague"

​ MONDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker Oct. 17, 2022 Trouble Reading? View in Your Browser Today: An old Facebook hoax is new again, Churchill on a water slide, Hitler's Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and the "dancing plague" ​ 'Facebook Will Start Charging This Summer’ Is an Old Hoax Recently, Facebook users copied and pasted posts that claimed, “Facebook will start charging this summer.” The copy-and-paste posts, which we refer to as copypasta, claimed that the news was “official” and that the posts had been “signed” by the users, a word that was sometimes misspelled as “signal.” The posts claimed the news had even been broadcast “on TV.” However, this was nothing more than a repeated iteration of a long-running Facebook hoax. Jordan Liles has more. Read Now Fact Checks and Original Reporting Does Video Show Churchill Losing Swimsuit on Water Slide? "But in this footage, no one seems worried about being caught with their pants down." Read Story. Was Hitler Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? The Nazi leader’s nomination in 1939 was not meant to be taken seriously. Read Story. What Was the ‘Dancing Plague’ in Medieval Europe? A major clue to the causes of these phenomena was that they were preceded by severe collective psychological distress.  Read Story. Latest Fact Checks More on Snopes.com No, the Right to Vote Isn’t in the US Constitution The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out. Read More Scholar: Crippling Civilian Infrastructure Has Long Been Part of Russian Generals’ Playbook According to this defense strategist, Vladimir Putin is merely expanding that approach. Read More What Does the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Really Say? Spoiler alert: No one fully knows (yet). Read More

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