7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled Mainstream Media
We love us some fake news (in fact, over half the things we write on this site are fake…), and somehow it’s especially rewarding being in on a joke story when someone with supposedly more authority and credibility falls for it. Cracked chronicles some cases of just such a scenario with their listicle of 7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled Mainstream Media. We can’t decide if our favorite story is the one about the Chinese paper that picked up the Onion article about Congress threatening to leave D.C. if not given a new Capitol building, or Fox News’ ridiculous reaction to this fake story about a teenager hiring sex workers to play Halo with his dad’s credit card:

“we love us some fake news” is not comprehensive. What does it mean? your mom forced me to ask this! but I wonder!