Take This Quiz To Find Out How Easily You Fall For Online Bullshit
This has been a very, uh, shitty week.
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A woman was fired for baking laxative-laced brownies for her coworker's goodbye party.
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It's real!
According to a police report, the woman didn't like her ex-coworker and baked the laxative brownies, but she was found out in time and nobody ate them.
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Octopuses came from space as eggs millions of years ago.
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It's fake!
Despite numerous media outlets reporting otherwise, there is absolutely no evidence to suggest octopuses are aliens.
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Maxine Waters said she would impeach Trump if she became president.
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It's fake!
This meme uses an old CNN still with false quotes juxtaposed on it, Snopes reports.
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A lottery winner was arrested for dumping $200,000 of manure on his ex-boss's lawn.
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It's fake!
This hoax originated from a site that labels itself as satire, but many people believed it.
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Is this photo of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei reading Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury real or fake?
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It's real!
The supreme leader of Iran posted a photo of himself reading the controversial book, Snopes reports.
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An angry woman pooped in a Tim Horton's restaurant and threw it at employees.
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It's real!
Apparently, the woman was denied access to the restroom, which resulted in this incident.
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Is this a real tweet from the president's account?
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It's fake!
This tweet was photoshopped, Snopes reports.
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