Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Pluto the Planet?

What started as an April fools day prank, turned into a social media controversy. After a fake post on twitter announcing that Pluto was a planet again, many people became confused on the topic. The wording was convincing and was said to be from "the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the body that is responsible for naming and classifying objects in the cosmos." Pluto was not actually reclassified as a planet. "The text was taken nearly word-for-word from a 1 April 2017 article published by Futurism.com. Missing from the republished version were...important final words" that this was an April fools joke. [1 image, 1 link, 2 quotes, 107 word]

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