Nearly every day the internet is blessed (or not so blessed) with people coming up with new trends. Some are shorter, some are longer; some are very niche, while others are more mainstream. Today ...

Social media posts say Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of all charges in a fatal 2020 shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, submitted a claim to have legal possession over television and movie star ...

We’ve all seen them. Many of us have even been duped by them. But most of us haven’t considered exactly why some of X’s (formerly Twitter) most notable parody accounts do what they do. A report by A.J ...

Social media posts are saying that five NFL teams will fire players if they kneel for the U.S. national anthem next season, but the narrative stems from a satire website. The posts refer to a symbolic ...

A satirical Facebook post falsely saying that newly instated FBI Director Kash Patel had ordered investigations into 13 congressional Democrats was shared online as if it was authentic. The U.S.

“Elon Musk bans DreamWorks Animation from X for promoting Pride,” read a Nov. 17 Threads post. An article linked in the post claimed, “Elon Musk has reportedly banned DreamWorks Animation from the ...

The internet is filled with people who fail to recognize jokes and satirical claims. Sometimes such satirical posts are intentionally deceptive, intended as clickbait to lure gullible internet users.