A Feb. 9 Threads post (direct link, archive link) includes an image of a person in a crowd making an obscene gesture toward President Donald Trump. “Trump has arrived at the Super Bowl LIX,” reads the ...

An image shared online of an individual appearing to direct a middle-finger gesture toward U.S. President Joe Biden during his February visit to Warsaw has been altered, with the original photograph ...

Either the president had an itchy head or he was sending a message to an American astronaut who fact-checked him. When, after a five-second delay on the long-distance call session, Meir corrected him, ...

A March 9 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) appears to show President Joe Biden placing the Presidential Medal of Freedom around the neck of a man making an obscene gesture. “Illegals beat up ...

A photographer captured the picture during the Iowa at Iowa State college football game on Sept. 9, 2023. A rumor circulating online on Feb 9, 2025 — the day of the 2025 Super Bowl — concerned a photo ...

A widely shared image on social media purportedly explains the historic origins of the “middle finger”, considered an offensive gesture in Western culture. The image makes the claim that the gesture ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including ...

Trumpstagram is Slate’s pop-up blog that close-reads Instagram accounts in the Trump orbit. If you cruise through the Instagram photos geotagged “Trump Tower New York,” you will surely note a glaring ...