Predictably, the first debate for the 2016 presidential election generated a lot of tweets supporting and criticizing things spoken by the two candidates.
One of the hottest was one that claimed that Republican nominee Donald Trump was deleting tweets during the debate. A Twitter user named Juan Vidal, who claimed to be a writer and book critic for NPR, published an image of one of Trump's tweets from 2012 about global warming with a message overlay saying the tweet had been deleted. It had at least 35,000 retweets at one time.
Problem is, despite racking up thousands of retweets, it didn't happen.
Juan Vidal. Author of that article.
He is a serial liar as well:
https://www.cnet.com/news/no-trump-didnt-delete-global-warming-tweet-during-debate/