Fact-checkers clear up satirical screenshot of boss instructing employees to wear masks on a Zoom call

As Twitchy reported, PolitiFact stepped up and fact-checked liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she spread some glaring falsehoods about COVID, such as there being 100,000 children in serious condition with the coronavirus, with many on ventilators. We were hoping some fact-checkers were going to intervene during Insurrection Week to set people straight on just how many police officers had been killed on January 6 protecting the Capitol, but we haven’t seen any.

Instead, the Associated Press and others were concerned about a screenshot being passed around purportedly showing an email from a boss telling his employees to wear masks on a Zoom call. Twitter even made it a trending topic:

Here’s the AP:

Social media users are sharing a screenshot purporting to show an email from a boss instructing workers to wear a mask on Zoom meetings. But the image was from a TikTok account labeled as "satire." https://t.co/aNGw9QzOaZ

— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) January 7, 2022

Time well spent by all

— Uncle Beau 🐗⚜️ (@beauhunter17) January 8, 2022

What would I do without you associated press fact check

— jackie / encanto is a very good movie (@cartoonenjoyer) January 8, 2022

Damn, thank you guys for your service. You’re really doing the lords work.

— matt james (@jattmamesphd) January 8, 2022

Lol how is this news

— Bianca (@biancabites) January 8, 2022

Sorry to burst the AP bubble but requesting masks on Zoom calls actually happens. They think they are "setting an example". Just like Biden wearing a mask with Jill alone on a beach.

— Geldner *️⃣ (@Geldner) January 8, 2022

🙄 Being asked to wear a mask for a Zoom meeting is real idiocy; I’ve experienced it.

— ScienceYouCant?IsPropaganda (@ktx5335) January 8, 2022

But #Macron on a video conference with a mask isn’t satire. pic.twitter.com/PPfjoY5DLv

— 🌹Merry Socialist🌹 (@Socialistesque) January 8, 2022

“Also, wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen — such as on Zoom or another video-conferencing platform — by non-DNR staff,” Preston Cole said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “Set the safety example which shows you as a DNR public service employee care about the safety and health of others.”

Wow these fact checkers – who are they?

— de_stijl Synth/Bass (@IbbyPoly) January 8, 2022

Sweet gig, right?

— Dang ol' Rangz (@internal_issues) January 8, 2022

Really earning those checks

— Arcas (@ArcasDream) January 8, 2022

This is what the AP news is spending its time and money on.

— quitebrazen.eth (@QuiteBrazen) January 8, 2022

And you're so threatened you have to "fact check" it?

— @ChrisMRyan on GETTR (@FordPre08385980) January 8, 2022

Thank god for these tools, what we would do without you.

— Dr. Craig Mowry (@craigmowryy) January 8, 2022

you earned your paycheck today that’s for sure 👍🏼

— SCBS146 (@scbs146) January 8, 2022

People misunderstood a joke. Is this really top news? Maybe you guys are missing the joke too?

— 🈁 Vegan (@whileURhere) January 8, 2022

🖕 fact checkers

— Jake – Bitcoin is 👑 (@jake_pauk) January 8, 2022

Keep fact checking the important stuff like this. You’re not a complete joke at all.

— Demand can be a force majeure (@filthyanalyst) January 8, 2022