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This week we have stories about a mini Ice Age, a gender-reveal party, and a very large steer.

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And [now, there's a video](https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/knickers-huge-steer-height-smaller-cows-australia) 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.

It's real!

A gender-reveal party started a massive wildfire.

No, [this photo was not staged,](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/mom-fleeing-photo-used-for-hoaxes) but right-wing websites claimed it was, and it spread across social media.

It's fake!

This photo of a mom running away from tear gas with her children was staged.

The optical illusion [was created by Yurii Perepadia](https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikrd/optical-illusion-tells-you-how-stressed-you-are-fake), a 50-year-old graphic designer and illustrator from Ukraine who told BuzzFeed News that everything written in the caption is a lie.

This image was created by a Japanese scientist as a stress test.

The giant steer in the middle is Knickers. He weighs almost 1.4 tons and is [nearly 6 feet tall](https://www.buzzfeed.com/lanesainty/knickers-huge-steer-height-smaller-cows-australia), though the cattle around him are a small breed.

Is this a real photo of a herd of cows?

[According to fact-checking website Climate Feedback,](https://climatefeedback.org/false-claims-coming-ice-age-ecosystem-unreliable-news-sites-blogs-social-media-accounts/) 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.

A mini Ice Age is on the way because of sunspot activity that will cause temperatures to drop.

The image is from 2013, [Snopes reports](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/border-patrol-rock-injury/), and there was no description of the details of the incident when it was first posted.

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.

Zoe Nawar, a 20-year-old who lives in Atlanta, [told BuzzFeed News that McAfee approached her](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/millennial-outreach-coordinator-anime-shitposting?bftwnews=&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc) for help and she agreed. Nawar doesn't share McAfee's political views, describing herself as a communist.

John McAfee hired an anime shitposter to help him with his 2020 presidential campaign.

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

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