claim: reports didn’t misrepresent one man’s death as two
summary: a meme circulated on facebook showing side-by-side stories reporting the death of one man as a retired milwaukee police chief and as a university of memphis professor, claiming that this was fake news and the liberal media trying to spread fear; the stories did not double-count one man, but reported on different aspects of his career
subject_description: a covid-19 related death was reported as two separate deaths, demonstrating that fake news is overcounting fatalities and spreading fear
Motive_Description: fake news may be overcounting covid-19 deaths and trying to stoke panic
author_description: general public
keywords: coronavirus, milwaukee, memphis, fake news, scamdemic