If You Get 3/7 On This Quiz, You're Drowning In Fake News
This week we have stories about farts, hackers, and the Hungarian government.
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A new study shows that couples who fart in front of each other stay together longer.
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It's fake!
There haven't been any known studies on the effect of flatulence on relationships, Lead Stories reports.
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The Hungarian government used an image from the distracted boyfriend meme to illustrate a loving happy couple.
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It's real!
The campaign was meant to encourage people to have kids.
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This is a real video of Donald Trump not wearing a toupee.
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It's fake!
This video was digitally manipulated, Snopes reports, and was spread by an account that frequently posts political memes.
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Which picture shows a face of a real person and not an algorithmically generated one?
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The face on the left is real!
Machine-generated faces are becoming more sophisticated. Learn how to tell the difference from a real face and a fake face here.
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Is this a real video of showing the pilot losing control before the Ethiopian plane crash?
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It's fake!
This footage is from a plane crash in Afghanistan in 2013, Lead Stories reports.
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Beto O'Rourke was once part of a hacker collective called "Cult of the Dead Cow."
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It's real!
O'Rourke recently spoke to Reuters about his involvement with the collective some 30 years ago.
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Did a Greenpeace co-founder say that climate change is fake?
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It's fake!
The quote is real, but Patrick Moore is not a Greenpeace co-founder, Snopes reports.
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