Find Out If You Got Duped By The Internet With This Week's Fake News Quiz
This week we have stories about a mini Ice Age, a gender-reveal party, and a very large steer.
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A gender-reveal party started a massive wildfire.
Youtube
It's real!
And now, there's a video that tells us the sex of the baby (it's a boy!). The fire from the party caused $8 million in damages and torched 47,000 acres of grasslands.
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This photo of a mom running away from tear gas with her children was staged.
Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
It's fake!
No, this photo was not staged, but right-wing websites claimed it was, and it spread across social media.
Via Screenshots/BuzzFeed News
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This image was created by a Japanese scientist as a stress test.
Twitter: @awfficial
It's fake!
The optical illusion was created by Yurii Perepadia, a 50-year-old graphic designer and illustrator from Ukraine who told BuzzFeed News that everything written in the caption is a lie.
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Is this a real photo of a herd of cows?
7 News
It's real!
The giant steer in the middle is Knickers. He weighs almost 1.4 tons and is nearly 6 feet tall, though the cattle around him are a small breed.
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A mini Ice Age is on the way because of sunspot activity that will cause temperatures to drop.
metro.co.uk
It's fake!
According to fact-checking website Climate Feedback, this story was misreported by a handful of news outlets. The phenomenon that NASA observed won't have an effect on the Earth's temperature, just the atmosphere.
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This is an image of a US border agent in California being treated after a rock was thrown at him from the other side of the border.
Facebook: Saturneptune98
It's fake!
The image is from 2013, Snopes reports, and there was no description of the details of the incident when it was first posted.
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John McAfee hired an anime shitposter to help him with his 2020 presidential campaign.
Twitter: @officialmcafee
It's real!
Zoe Nawar, a 20-year-old who lives in Atlanta, told BuzzFeed News that McAfee approached her for help and she agreed. Nawar doesn't share McAfee's political views, describing herself as a communist.
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Jane Lytvynenko is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Toronto, Canada. PGP fingerprint: A088 89E6 2500 AD3C 8081 BAFB 23BA 21F3 81E0 101C.
Contact Jane Lytvynenko at jane.lytvynenko@buzzfeed.com.
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