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How To Spot Fake News From A Mile Away
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Cracked Writers
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Ryan Menezes
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- April 18, 2020
Thanks to the Twitters and the Facebooks of the world, these days we pretty much just get our "news" from the clickbait headlines we see while scrolling through poorly-made but still hilarious memes. Which sucks, because it's pretty much ruining society. So here's how to avoid becoming an uninformed angry internet denizen in the future.
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108 Comments
CorruptUser
April 18th, 2020 • 18/04/20 • 1:13 pm
#3 Chronology isn't Causation
This, oh so much this. Otherwise, every time there is a murder or something else horrific, you can write a headline "Man eats other man's face after Pluto declared not a planet", "Mass suicide pact occurs after Pluto declared not a planet", "Coronavirus outbreak occurs after Pluto declared not a planet". Thanks scientists, you helped make this world by removing another one, jerks.
jz78817
April 18th, 2020 • 18/04/20 • 2:12 pm
#10 irritated me repeatedly over the past few years. every so often, a news site would push a story like "(car company) announces recall of 8 million vehicles" when in reality the story was that they were adding another 10,000 to the almost 8 million already under recall for the Takata airbag defect.
JonBastian
April 18th, 2020 • 18/04/20 • 3:35 pm
#15 reminds me so much of the Daily Express online. It seems like every other day they have a headline pushed to Google news that reads something like, "Giant killer asteroid to pass close to Earth on April 19th!" or "Asteroid the size of Mt. Everest due to hit Earth!"
Well, if by "close," you mean fifteen times farther away than the moon, and "due to hit" may or may not be in 2714, okay. Otherwise, alarmist as hell.