Take This Quiz To Find Out How Easily You Fall For Internet BS
Welcome to 2018, everything is still bad.
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This image of a woman waving a white headscarf is from the mass anti-government protests in Iran.
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It's fake!
This photo was used by several websites and Twitter personalities, but it was shot before the protests and is part of a separate movement.
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This is a video of the recent anti-government protests in Iran.
Twitter: @Ranj__Talabany
It's fake!
As news of the Iran protests broke, many accounts began spreading old videos from other protests and other countries, Snopes reports.
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Below is an excerpt from the explosive book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Twitter: @pixelatedboat
It's fake!
This started out as a parody of the upcoming book, but some people took it seriously.
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Employees at an Alabama Walmart operated a meth lab in the store.
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It's fake!
This story has circulated on unreliable websites for months, but it's not true. A spokesperson for Walmart told PolitiFact they are unaware of any meth labs being discovered in Alabama stores.
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It was so cold in Florida this week that iguanas were freezing and falling out of trees.
Twitter: @FranklyFlorida
It's real!
Usually the iguanas aren't dead, just frozen, so you can bring them back to life by moving them into the sun.
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Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are no longer available starting Jan. 1, 2018.
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It's fake!
This is a case of an old hoax becoming new again. Originally this fake news item went viral in September 2017, but PolitiFact reports it was repurposed for 2018.
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Chocolate is on track to go extinct in the next 40 years.
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It's fake!
Clickbait headlines have been misleading about scientific reports on the subject, Snopes reports, so you don't have to hoard any chocolate.
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