Marines Defend McDonald’s?
There were a series of reports about U.S. Marines being ordered to defend the only McDonald’s in Kabul, this story was fake but managed to fool a lot of people.
The fake reports alleged that the McDonald’s location in Kabul was used to serve diplomats and civilians and was going to be kept open by U.S. Marines until every diplomat was evacuated. This was quickly disproved as the McDonald’s corporation does not have any locations in Afghanistan.
This piece of misinformation was spread by first fabricating a tweet from Dylan Welch, a reporter from ABC, and then spreading it as a screenshot on various social media platforms.
