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Did a 'Pro-Choice Activist' Set a World Record by Getting Her 27th Abortion?
Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Oct. 11, 2018
A long-running junk news site used a legitimate stock photo for another one of its "satirical" s ...
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Did a Woman Sue Samsung After Her Cellphone Got Stuck in Her Vagina?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Sept. 24, 2018
People sue over the oddest things, but this scenario is probably not actionable.
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Was a Man Freed After Outliving a 99-Year Prison Sentence for Horse Theft?
Written by:
Dan Evon
July 19, 2018
We're still waiting for someone to live out the entirety of a 99-year prison sentence.
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Was a Nevada Morgue Employee Arrested for Pimping Out Corpses for Sex?
Written by:
Dan Evon
July 17, 2018
A bizarre story posited that a Nevada morgue employee found an inventive way to combine two prom ...
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Did a Babysitter Tie a One-Month-Old to a Ceiling Fan for 26 Hours?
Written by:
Dan Evon
July 16, 2018
A flippant and fabricated article about a genuinely horrific subject is an example of the worst ...
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Was a New Zealand Farmer Arrested for Selling Sheep as Sex Slaves to the Islamic State?
Written by:
David Emery
May 29, 2018
A "satirical" article that manages to malign Islam, New Zealanders, and sheep all in the same br ...
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Was a Lottery Winner Arrested for Dumping $200,000 of Manure on the Lawn of His Former Boss?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
May 15, 2018
When asked by organizers what he would do with the money, he had simply answered: “Just read the ...
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Was a Zambian Man Arrested After Boasting He Lost 280 Pounds on a 'Cannibal Diet'?
Written by:
David Mikkelson
May 14, 2018
Not a realistic way of losing weight, nor a method that's actually been tried.
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Was a Scuba Diver Hospitalized After Getting His Penis Stuck in a Giant Clam?
Written by:
Dan Evon
March 27, 2018
A sexually adventurous scuba diver was supposedly brought down by a shellfish allergy.
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Did a Gay Man 'Turn Heterosexual' After a Near-Death Experience?
Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Feb. 26, 2018
A fake news web site used a photograph of a white nationalist to spruce up another of their fabr ...
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Was a Student Suspended for Pretending to be Transgender to Use the Girls' Locker Room?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Feb. 23, 2018
A story about a high school student talking his way into showering with girls after gym class is ...
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Did a Greenpeace Activist Get His Arm Bitten Off After Hugging a Shark?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Feb. 2, 2018
An article claiming that a great white shark attacked a Greenpeace activist originated on a well ...
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Did a Woman Sue a Paris Zoo After an Escaped Hippo Tried to Rape Her?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Jan. 30, 2018
A tasteless, body-shaming fake news article claimed that a hippopotamus attempted to rape a 400- ...
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Was a Zookeeper Arrested for Molesting a Gorilla?
Written by:
David Emery
Dec. 7, 2017
A story claimed a San Diego Zoo employee was accused of sexually assaulting a 500-pound male gor ...
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Did a Funeral Home Owner's Son Build a 'Sex Doll' Out of Body Parts?
Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Dec. 6, 2017
A "news site" impersonating ABC News published a fake story about a grisly police investigation.
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Was an Aquarium Employee Emasculated After a Sexual Assault on an Octopus?
Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Nov. 12, 2017
A lurid report about an aquatic animal encounter gone wrong was fake news.
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Did an Elderly Woman Train 65 Cats to Steal from Her Neighbors?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Nov. 9, 2017
A "news" article reported that an elderly woman had succeeded in herding cats.
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Was Tiger Woods Ordered to Take 137 Paternity Tests?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov. 3, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a fabricated story that plays on an old, debunked allegation ag ...
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Was 425-Pound Teacher Suspended for Sitting on Student and Farting in His Mouth?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Oct. 26, 2017
A gross-out story about an Iowa teacher's inappropriate punishment of a student was completely f ...
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FBI Seizes Over 3,000 Penises During Raid at Morgue Employee's Home?
Written by:
Dan Evon
Sept. 28, 2017
Rumors holding that a morgue employee was involved in a salacious organ trafficking operation or ...
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