Quiz

BuzzFeed News Reporter

This week: phallic buildings, weed jokes, and horse-eating alligators.

If You Get Less Than 5/7 On This Quiz, You're Drowning In Fake News

Can You Tell The Difference Between This Week's Real And Fake News?

[This happened to a kayaker in New Zealand](https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/watch-this-seal-slap-a-kayaker-in-the-face-with-an-octopus). He said he was watching the seal wrestle with the octopus for a while, and then it unexpectedly surfaced near him and slapped him across the face with the octopus in its jaws.

It's real!

A seal slapped a man across the face with an octopus.

The Guangxi New Media Center in China sure looks a lot like a wiener. But a suggestive video of fireworks shooting out of the tip of the building, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, is fake, [according to Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/this-video-of-a-giant-dick-building-shooting-fireworks-1829334090).

Nope!

This phallic building in China held an NSFW fireworks show.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission [is suing Elon Musk](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/elon-musk-is-sued-by-securities-and-exchange-commission-docket-jml0ca0m) for “a series of false and misleading statements” on Twitter about taking his car company private at $420 per share. Musk told the SEC he picked the number because he thought his girlfriend “would find it funny.”

Yikes.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk got sued, in part, for tweeting a “420” marijuana joke to impress his girlfriend.

In the days before Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate, [a photo went viral](https://www.factcheck.org/2018/09/viral-photo-doesnt-show-soros-with-ford/) on social media that purported to show her with George Soros, the liberal billionaire at the center of countless conspiracy theories. But the photo depicted a totally different person.

Nope.

Christine Blasey Ford was photographed with George Soros.

Anna Dovgalyuk, a 20-year-old activist, has been pouring bleach onto the pants of men who take up too much space on public transit in St. Petersburg. [According to Vice](https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/j54gg4/a-woman-in-russia-keeps-pouring-bleach-between-manspreaders-legs), the solution she uses is much stronger than household bleach and discolors clothing in minutes.

A woman in Russia is pouring bleach on men who “manspread” on the subway.

This is an obviously doctored photo, but it has still [gone viral](https://www.yahoo.com/news/fake-photo-trump-apos-rescuing-224015238.html) on social media. The original image is from Texas in 2015 ( [and it definitely doesn't feature Trump](https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1044293407022231553)).

This is a photo of Donald Trump helping flood victims after Hurricane Florence.

Yes, this is somehow a real story! An elderly woman in Texas shot a 12-foot alligator at her ranch, [telling local reporters](https://www.dallasnews.com/news/animals/2018/09/18/texas-grandma-kills-12-foot-gator-says-finally-avenged-miniature-horse) she believed it was the same alligator that ate her miniature horse a few years ago.

WTF?

A Texas grandmother killed an alligator that ate her miniature horse.

Don’t worry — it will get better. Do some reading and stay vigilant. Better luck next week.

You're drowning in fake news!

You don’t always get to the bottom of the story, but you sure know how to dig. Keep your ears perked up and stay skeptical.

You're a fake news detective!

Congratulations: You’re unstoppable! Nothing can beat your BS-detecting instincts. But keep your nose to the ground. Fake news is always around.

If You Get Less Than 5/7 On This Quiz, You're Drowning In Fake News

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