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Tech NewsNewsViral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group
LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other ridiculous things, to address the … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebookIndia Calls on WhatsApp to Stop the Spread of Hoax Messages That Have Led to Lynchings
WhatsApp is promising to introduce new features intended to prevent the spread of hoax messages in India following reports that more than one dozen lynchings have occurred in the country as a result of false rumors spread on the popular, Facebook-owned messaging service. According to BuzzFeed, WhatsApp sent a letter to India’s Ministry of Electronics … Continued
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YouTube: What If We Just Inserted a Link to Wikipedia Under Some of the Conspiracy Videos
On Tuesday at tech festival SXSW, streaming site and Google subsidiary YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki proposed one solution to the conspiracy screeds and “false flag” hoax videos that are slowly but surely taking over the site by gaming its algorithms. No, it’s not really a critical self-examination of whether YouTube’s business model is all about … Continued
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Twitter Trolls Are Posting About Fake Assaults at Black Panther Screenings
These trolls, clearly trying to ruin everyone else’s fun, have claimed to be moviegoers who were assaulted at Black Panther showings for trying to see the movie while being white. These accounts gained steam last night claiming that they were assaulted by Black moviegoers while attempting to see Black Panther, often coupling their claims with … Continued
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Those Adorable Chinese Spider-Man: Homecoming Posters Are Totally Fake
Sorry, folks. Spider-Man didn’t ride a horse, play with pandas, or take a nap next to the Great Wall. The posters for China’s release of Spider-Man: Homecoming are a hoax. Several posters were making the rounds this week that put Spider-Man with some of China’s biggest tourist attractions, including hanging with the Terracotta Army and … Continued
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Tech NewsFakes
Trump’s Staff Literally Gives Him Fake News That’s Printed From the Internet
Have you seen that 1977 Time magazine cover proclaiming that you need to prepare for the coming Ice Age? It’s popular on right wing sites that claim climate change is a hoax. But the magazine cover itself is 100 percent fake. Good thing nobody printed it off and showed it to the president though, right? … Continued
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Tech NewsFakesThat Viral Sean Spicer Apology About ‘Fellow Germans’ Is Totally Fake
Yesterday, Sean Spicer said that Hitler, “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” It was completely wrong and he apologized. One version of Spicer’s apology was posted on Facebook, and it appears to be just as offensive as his original statement. The only problem? It’s totally fake. The doctored apology appeared on a now-deleted Facebook … Continued
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Tech NewsNo, The Daily Show Didn’t Get Hacked
Earlier tonight, the broadcast of The Daily Show was briefly interrupted by a blip of stock war footage, a spinning ballerina, and a web address with a Russian domain name. The internet quickly assumed that the late night comedy show had been hacked. It wasn’t. Simply put this was a dumb publicity stunt designed to … Continued
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Tech NewsFakes
That Story About a Boy Dying In Santa’s Arms Is Totally Fake
Did you see that story about a 5-year-old boy and his dying wish to see Santa Claus? Of course you did. The heartbreaking tale has been seen and heard by millions of people around the world. It went viral earlier this week when it was retold by virtually every major news outlet. The only problem? … Continued
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Legendary Programmer Dies for the Second Time
Those working in tech owe much of their livelihood to Dennis Ritchie. The New-York born pioneer was among the early Bell Labs alums, and is credited with both creating the C programming language and co-developing Unix. Unfortunately for those mourning his passing today, he died five years ago. Among the first to Tweet about Ritchie’s … Continued
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These Viral Photos From Hurricane Matthew Are Totally Fake
Every time a natural disaster hits, we see plenty of fake photos on social media. And with Hurricane Matthew currently hitting Florida, there are lots of fake images currently doing the rounds. The short version: If you see a photo of sharks in the streets, it’s probably fake. 1) Is this a “shark on the … Continued
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No, Niantic Isn’t Making a Harry Potter Version of Pokémon Go
Since Pokémon Go hit the app stores, people have been wondering what other fictional universes they could be fun in augmented reality. Of course, Harry Potter is one that keeps showing up. This weekend, reports on websites such as UPROXX and HelloGiggles claimed that Niantic, the company behind the famous app, were planning on releasing … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow the Rubik’s Cube Juggler Tricked the Internet
Last week the internet watched in amazement as Leo Weston solved three Rubik’s cubes while juggling them. Now he’s back to show us how he faked the entire thing, and its just as impressive. The footage was captured by juggling solved cubes and then digitally removing them—so that element at least wasn’t faked. Leo and … Continued
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Tech News‘Drunk’ Policeman Who Went Viral Was Actually Having a Stroke
Salim PK, a police officer in Delhi, India, was captured on video while allegedly drunk on a metro train. Video of him staggering and falling over went viral. But doctors have confirmed what he insisted all along: He was actually having a stroke. Salim was videotaped on the train back in August of 2015, where … Continued
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No, The Uber Driver Accused of Murder Spree Isn’t Suing Uber For $10 Million
The internet went into a tizzy this week when headlines proclaimed that the Uber driver in Kalamazoo, Michigan who’s accused of murdering six people was suing Uber for $10 million. But the lawsuit is a hoax. As MLive first reported, a handwritten lawsuit was indeed filed on Tuesday. But the killer, 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton, … Continued
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Tech NewsFakesThat Knife-Wielding Crab Video Is A Hoax
Did you see that video of a knife-wielding crab that went viral recently? Sadly, it’s a hoax. The Washington Post spoke with an expert, and the whole thing was definitely staged. The crab didn’t pick up the knife itself. In reality, the blade was almost certainly jammed into the crab’s claw, and the crab can’t … Continued
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Tech NewsFakes9 More Viral Photos That Are Completely Fake
The truth is out there. And by “out there” I mean anywhere but the internet. We see hundreds of images flash in front of our eyes every month. But these are the ones you might have seen recently that deserve a second look. Because they’re all fake. 1) Is this a real Yeti? Last week … Continued
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