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Friday, April 20, 2018
A Green Moon?
A hoax claiming that s green moon would be visible on April twentieth went viral this week on Facebook. Space experts responded by saying there is no such thing and that there will not be any surprises involving the moon any time soon. This fake post has caused sites like EarthSky to be bombarded by searches about the green moon. A Twitter user said "My grandma shared this on FB and truly thinks there is going to be a “green moon” on 4/20." The post has now been deleted but this fake article caused a lot of searches on more about it online.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/18/green-moon-hoax-goes-viral-ahead-april-20.html
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April Fools News
Elon Musk joined in on the fake news on this year's April fool's day by tweeting out very controversial things about his company, Tesla. Tweets came out in April first stating, "Elon was found passed out against a Tesla Model 3, surrounded by "Teslaquilla" bottles, the tracks of dried tears still visible on his cheeks." and "There are many chapters of bankruptcy and, as critics so rightly pointed out, Tesla has them *all*, including Chapter 14 and a half (the worst one)." Many critics online and investors did not find this very amusing as the company is having troubles and delays in production of vehicles that were supposed to be delivered to their customers already. Elon responded by saying he is confident in his company that why he decided to mess around and he has been working very hard to get production back on track.
https://www.cnet.com/news/best-april-fools-day-2018-pranks-on-web/
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Fake Crypto News
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, denied false reports circulating online that they will introduce dollar trading. This large company handles a lot of trading daily and some days the trading value be over two billion dollars. Several articles circulating on twitter and websites claimed that Binance would introduce USD transactions to try to bring the prices of cryptocurrencies reports claim. This means that you can exchange different forms of digital currencies for other forms of digital currencies like tokens but not for a traditional euro or dollar. A spokeswoman said by email that these reports are "Fake News" and that Binance currently only does exchanges between cryptos and not dollars.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/crypto-exchange-binance-denies-it-will-introduce-dollar-trading
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Facebook Fake News
The most popular Black Lives Matter page on Facebook turned out to be a scam run by white Australians after recent reports. The page had nearly one million followers and had raised hundreds of thousands in donations from online fundraising. This was discovered as they saw funds being deposited into an Australian bank account and shortly after reports came out the page was shut down. CNN contacted someone who believed to know more about the incident but he simply said that he, " once bought the domain name only and sold it.” The CEO of Facebook when discussing these fake news issues says that he is responsible and it was his mistake and that he is sorry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04/10/facebooks-most-popular-black-lives-matter-page-was-a-scam-run-by-a-white-australian-report-says/?utm_term=.f5912ec12ec7
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Does Eating at McDonald's Make You a Cannibal?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swap-meat/
It is a universal truth that people do not go to McDonalds
for their high-quality food. In fact, a lot of people are skeptical of what
exactly is in a McDonalds Cheeseburger. A story spread about one Oklahoma chain
that had traces of horse and human meat at their store due to lack of resources
of actual beef. “that McDonald’s article was just a spoof from the Huzlers web
site, which offers users the ability to “Create your own news prank and trick
your friends by sharing it”” Fact Check explains. So as questionable as McDonalds
Food can get sometimes, I think it is safe to say we do not have to worry about
becoming cannibals while enjoying a quick bite to eat there.
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Fake Coupons
Starbucks has become a target for trolls and fake news following its recent racial incident in a store in Philadelphia. A fake coupon that offers free coffee to people of color has been spreading around and has caused outrages. People responded to this by saying things like, "Even if it's not real, I bet Starbucks would honor it." Many of these fake news and trolls start on anonymous message boards and eventually make their way to bigger sites with more people on them like Reddit and Twitter which makes it nearly impossible to find out where the fake news originated from.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trolls-spread-hateful-fake-starbucks-coupon-n867501
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