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One downside of today’s digital world is the questionable authenticity of many things you find online. Fake news, fabricated images, and unverified information have brought about a new 21st-century slogan: “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” 

Check out these stories from this Instagram page and see for yourself. While the account is named, “Yeah, that definitely happened,” reading through most of them may make you go, “No, it likely didn’t.” 

Ultimately, they make for an interesting read, especially when bored and k*****g time at the DMV. So, go ahead and enjoy scrolling.

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    Screenshot of Twitter exchange with a funny obvious lie and a humorous confusing statement about things that unhappened.

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    Space Invader
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Waitress: ...or you could be cleaning the toilets.

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    Misinformation and disinformation are often used interchangeably. However, there is a clear distinction between the two. According to University of Melbourne professor Dr. Greg Nyilasy, the difference lies in the intent. 

    Disinformation is a falsehood spread in bad faith, while misinformation is innocently disseminated without knowing it is incorrect.

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    #5

    Tweet sharing a hilariously obvious lie about waiting at a dentist's office with Jurassic Park playing on TV.

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    Mreoww
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve seen this before, and it still makes me laugh. No way, no way.

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    #6

    Text post showing a funny and obvious lie shared on social media about turning lesbian and wanting kids later.

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    Zelda McLink
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nobody 'turns gay' for poops and giggles.

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    According to Dr. Nyilasy, misinformation and disinformation were highly prevalent during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The former were the misunderstandings about the disease and wishful thinking about false remedies. 

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    The latter was more destructive and divisive, as Dr. Nyilasy pointed out. These were statements that blamed particular races for spreading the virus, which resulted in hate crimes against Asians.

    #8

    Screenshot of a social media post about obvious lies involving a Flat Earth theory discussion at school.

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    Don Adams
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good thing it wasn't the Assistant Principal!

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    #9

    Text conversation showing a funny obvious lie about a horror movie scene from hilariously obvious lies people tried to pass off as true.

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    Mike F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then everyone clapped and walked out of the theater.

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    Most of us know of the existence of fake news, but why do many people still fall for it? According to Dr. Nyilasy, one possible explanation is our inherent negative biases. Bad news is more likely to grab attention and, therefore, become more shareable. 

    There is also the natural tendency to downplay threatening information. As Dr. Nyilasy points out, people become more selective with what they want to hear and block out real threats by downplaying risks.

    #10

    Man telling a hilariously obvious lie about getting a VIP table at Chili's showing confidence and ambition.

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chili's doesn't have "VIP tables". Source: I have eaten at a Chili's before.

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    #11

    Conversation where a person lies about weight loss by blaming coffee, a hilariously obvious lie shared online.

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    Space Invader
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doctor then pulls out a vacuum sealed bag & shows me the ingredients. Me: B******t? Doctor: B******t. And that's how I knew she didn't buy my story.

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    With all the potentially fabricated information circulating online, how do we protect ourselves from falling for it? Virginia Tech digital literacy educator Julia Feerrar says it comes down to doing due diligence. 

    In her interview with the university publication, she reminded users to double-check sources to ensure they are coming from a reputable organization. If necessary, do a quick Google search for a background check on the company.

    #13

    Screenshot of a tweet showing a hilariously obvious lie about rejecting women in Google interviews and giving NP-hard problems.

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    Mike F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one has incel written all over it.

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    #15

    Text post joke about a Marine getting in trouble for a visible hickey, an example of hilariously obvious lies.

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    Mreoww
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can feel my brain rotting in my skull.

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    According to Feerrar, mindfulness is also key, especially when reading something that evokes a strong emotion. If you find yourself reacting to news that seems dubious, pause to question the authenticity of what you’re consuming. 

    “Fake news content is often designed to appeal to our emotions,” Feerrar said, noting other possible red flags of AI-generated content, like overly generic headlines. 

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    #19

    Person sharing a hilarious obvious lie story about catcalling while bone hunting, included in funny lies collection.

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    Rick Murray
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh-huh, you know rabbits are tiny compared to humans?

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    #20

    Young woman with purple hair and neck tattoo shares funny and obvious lies people tried to pass off as true meme.

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    meow meow
    Community Member
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe that someone paid the poster $2000 to not have s*x with them but none of rest of the story.

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    #21

    Text image showing a conversation humorously exposing obvious lies people tried to pass off as true about essential oils and medicine.

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    Happy Horse Girl
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Censoring pandemic? Seriously?

    Mike F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should be censoring the part about the "essential oils"!

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    Alison
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never had COVID either, should I start spouting the benefits of cigarettes and chocolate?

    meeeeeeeeeeee
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also never had COVID even though I was sick at the same time as people around me who did have COVID. Guess what? Cigarettes and chocolates, too!

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    Apatheist Account2
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Never gotten IT" could refer to the scary film, or information technology.

    NerdAlert
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean.. I never got it, but i'm sure it was because of tests and vaccines

    Valentina Arlati
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we censoring pandemic? Come on BP

    This Person
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Modern medicine does indeed hate people who spread disease.

    Original Kinkster
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got IT seven months ago the last time and I've to confess that I'd never used essential oils. But at least I'm vaccinated and boosted so I didn't worry about it.

    Jack Smith
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was listening to a podcast about MLM's and 97-98% of the people who fall for the hustle either don't make ANY money or actually LOSE money (true of Amway as well). Basically a few people at the top are making money by encouraging the people under them to annoy the living fuq out of their friends and family members for NO PAY.

    Binky Melnik
    Community Member
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s how pyramid schemes work: The ones who create it (the people at the top) recruit suckers to do all the work and give them a percentage of what they make. The suckers make money by bringing in more suckers and taking a fraction of *their* sales. The bigger the pyramid becomes, the more the people at the top profit and the less the people below the top profit. And of course, there comes a point where there are no customers anymore, but rather just suckers passing the pennies they make back up to the top. No one with a brain would ever join a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has any brains (but no morals) will CREATE the pyramid; everyone else exists to make the pyramid creators money. 😕 When I was a kid, people did this through the mail (with chain letters); these days, all those suckers have garages filled with product that they were made to buy and now can’t sell, as NO ONE likes a pyramid scheme victim; it’s hard being with someone desperate to unload his garbage on you.

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    Ron Man
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lithuania denies there was ever a pandemic, and that's where BP is

    EmJay
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I havent had it, guess what, i got the shot

    Carl Roberts
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I swear the censorship on BP gets more ridiculous by the day

    Lara Verne
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    can we censore idiots like this one instead of pandemic?

    KieLeaHar
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahh MLM.. there’s a whole ANTI-MLM on Reddit.

    Sheena Leversedge Wood
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never got it either. neither has my husband. we are both up to date on vaccinations, and we have come into contnact with people, both vaccinated and not, who had it. none of those times have either of us got it. so, we've been lucky, but I think it's also a fair guess we've got pretty good immunity to it. no essential oils. just luck and vaccines (luck, too, because, like I said, we've had vaccinated and unvaccinated family members get it. some of them several times over)

    Marie BellaDonna
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh I HATE essential oil-ers. Like my cousin who posted about her kid having the flu, and slathering him in them. Or the ones who had an...oil party(? Idk what Think Tupperware party but with oils) at a fast food restaurant where I was working. They sat in a back booth, but they stunk up literally the WHOLE store. People were complaining, and some of them couldn't even eat! Like, keep that shít at home!

    Amanda Reinstatler
    Community Member
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this a script for an infomercial....??? "I guess you better tell me more" GTFOH. I KNEW there would be at least one post about essential oils 😆

    urbeinghunted 25
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dream: Last line of the post. Reality: Just so you know, it would be my assumption that the rest of the world are smarter

    Roxy222uk
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I could weep, I really could. I have used essential oils for decades. They do have proven qualities and can help certain things, but these f.u.c.king MLMs have ruined everything. Telling people to ingest them.Claiming they can cure things there's no research for. Giving extremely unsafe advice about putting irritants neat on the skin. Getting them near newborn babies. I could go on. Essential oils don't deserve MLMS :-(

    Lea S.
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If modern medicine HATES us maybe you can explain how my doctor suggested essential oils to me.

    weatherwitch
    Community Member
    6 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a prize fückïng twät

    Sally Moen
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Putting big pharma to bed in your fairy tale

    Robert Beveridge
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "modern medicine HATES this one weird trick!"

    Chris the Bobcat
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Q: Why does the ant!vaxxer's child throw a tantrum on his second birthday? A: Midlife crisis.

    Binky Melnik
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once read an article about *real* genuine essential oils, and they’re CRAZY-expensive. I don’t remember the numbers by now, but it takes something absurd like 20 pounds of roses to make an ounce of rose essential oil. The stuff you get in your average store for $2.99 is just olive or corn oil with some rose scent in it and not any *actual* rose oil. And I waste my time typing this knowing full well that only a couple essential oils have any *real* use, assuming you could afford ‘em anyway. Fυck all of pharma for spending BILLIONS researching c**p when some olive oil waved over a fruit/vegetable/plant can serve the same purpose!

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    #24

    Screenshot of a social media post sharing a hilariously obvious lie about owning someone at school with Minecraft and fashion references.

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    Mike F
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He had to otherwise his nose would begin bleeding again after getting clocked for his smart mouth.

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    #25

    Young woman with green highlights and matching nails posing with a selfie in a bathroom, illustrating obvious lies people tried to pass off.

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    olaff 422
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, imagine being hot and feeling the need to post this shite. I'm an insecure, ugly F and I don't need this kind of validation.

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    #26

    Screenshot of a hilarious obvious lie about flying with a perfect baby and passengers clapping on the plane.

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    Cee Cee
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only way this happened would be through sedation.

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    #28

    Screenshot of a hilariously obvious lie in a negative restaurant review with exaggerated claims about service and staff.

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    Cee Cee
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you didn't respond in Chinese?

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    #30

    Woman sharing a humorous story about obvious lies and misunderstandings in a four-panel social media video reel.

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    paul tress
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i would say being a fantasist was her main problem

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    #31

    Screenshot of a social media post featuring a humorous obvious lie about using big vocabulary to compliment women.

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    Space Invader
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thee displayeth flags of scarlet, crimson and vermillion hues in the most ostentatious manner.

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    #35

    Screenshot of a social media comment sharing a hilariously obvious lie about iron and trucks in the auto industry.

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    Kelli Wilson
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't even get the point she's trying to make

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    #36

    Screenshot of a social media post sharing a hilariously obvious lie about a coworker's inappropriate girlfriend at a work event.

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    Max Fox
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, could very well have happened.

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    #37

    Tweet showing a humorous lie about a 93-year-old registered blind mum asking which box is for war with France.

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    #39

    Text conversation showing a hilariously obvious lie about giving money to a homeless man and the confrontation that follows.

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    LakotaWolf (she/her)
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha. American currency isn't printed on paper. Thus, it couldn't give anyone papercuts. I call falsity upon this story!

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    #41

    Text post about a prank call leading to police involvement, highlighting hilariously obvious lies people tried to pass off as true.

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    Max Fox
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't belong here. This could have definitely happened in a small town, especially back when this person was in 7th grade.

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