20+ Silly Fake Celebrity News Stories That Are Almost Plausible Enough to Be True

It probably isn’t a good thing that as a society, we have chosen to put 0.01% of people up on a pedestal for us to gawp at with admiration. So long as celebrity culture exists, though, we may as well have fun with it. The rich and famous are often eccentrics, and the media do …
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27 Hilarious Instances of Community Notes Debunking Misinformed Tweets

There’s something so vindicating about the community notes section on Twitter, when it’s used right. Watching misinformation get taken down in one fell swoop by wise commenters is like popping an extra juicy pimple. Sorry for that image, but the simile stands. Twitter, (we’re not calling it X) a website famous for hawking wrong info, …
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Facts Redditors Were Taught in Grade School That Turned out to Be Utter Phooey

Information is ever-evolving. That’s why there are new editions of textbooks, up-to-date encyclopedias, and good folks working tirelessly to constantly update Wikipedia pages (I’m NOT looking at you, Wiki-vandals). We’re always learning new things, observing new phenomena, and doing new research. They used to teach that Pluto was a planet. I’m still salty about that …
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‘TrueAnon’ Podcast Host Brace Belden Started a Rumor About an Ebola Outbreak at Burning Man and Twitter Believed It

You might have heard about the massive downpour that flooded Burning Man over the weekend and left tens of thousands festival goers stranded in the middle of a muddy mess. But did you hear that Black Rock City has been quarantined by FEMA because Diplo caused an ebola outbreak? If you did, then you might …
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Explain Like I’m 35: Why Are Biden, Trump and Obama Playing Minecraft Together? (February 25, 2023)

So far, 2023 is shaping up as the year of artificial intelligence. All us luddites have been schooled on the many wonders of our robotic friends, from their essay writing skills to their ability to draw cartoonish-looking women in bikinis. Every major tech company seems to be releasing their own version of the golden child of …
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Poor Fools Who Fell For The Onion’s Satire

We don’t want to come at people too harshly for getting wooshed by ambiguous jokes or falling for a fake headline that sounds like it could be totally real, but everyone should know what The Onion is by now. Most satirical news publications these days have the words satire, or fake, or not real news …
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15+ Poor Fools Who Fell For The Onion’s Satire

We don’t want to come at people too harshly for getting wooshed by ambiguous jokes or falling for a fake headline that sounds like it could be totally real, but everyone should know what The Onion is by now. Most satirical news publications these days have the words satire, or fake, or not real news …
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30+ Credulous People Who Fell For Obvious Satire

Lately it feels like reality has become so unhinged and unbelievable that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. On the other hand, some people are so eager to be outraged that they’ve lost the ability to recognize satire all together. Come on, everyone should know what The Onion is by now, right? Millennials: …
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Total Liars Who Were Called Out For Their BS

If you go literally anywhere on the internet, you’re guaranteed to come across bullshit, fake news, and straight up liars. Some very online people just can’t help themselves and lie about the weirdest stuff. Why do they do it? Does it give them satisfaction to get away with lying to  strangers on the internet? Or …
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Fake Rumor Of Elon Musk’s Death Sparks Spicy Twitter Memes

Okay first of all, let’s get something out of the way: no, Elon Musk is not dead. We’re not quite sure who is responsible for the initial spread of the rumor that Elon Musk died yesterday from a lithium battery explosion, but a handful of fake screenshots of news articles were circulated and caused chaos …
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