40 Times People And The Media Thought They Would Get Away With Their Lies Until Their Subjects Replied To Them First-Hand
More than 70 percent of Americans who follow current events feel concerned about "fake news". Well, they have every reason to. False or misleading information can be seen everywhere—from online media to print, from TV to radio. But even if we feel overwhelmed by the number of lies we're bombarded with daily, it shouldn't discourage us from exposing them.
Luckily, some people who stumbled upon falsehoods said about them online chose to do everyone a public service and call them out. To celebrate their razor-sharp replies, members of the Quit Your BS subreddit decided to document their deeds and share the screenshots with the whole community.
From learning about your non-existent wife to seeing yourself in an ad you didn’t sign up for, take a look at some of the best posts Bored Panda has selected from this page, and upvote the ones you liked the most! If you're in the mood for more posts where people expose others' nonsense, check out our previous posts here, here, and here.
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Delivering The Twist Ending
Don't See Much Star Trek Content Here
I Guess Heroic Hollywood Really Likes That Film...
Since 2013, the Quit Your BS forum has amassed more than 1.7M members. The subreddit started when user GreenMagine shared a Facebook conversation where one person was accused of lying about getting engaged. Another user responded to the post: "I wish there was a whole subreddit for this, like r/quityourb*****it or something. Or at least I hope the trend continues." Redditor (and now moderator) Doxep replied by saying that they created a forum with that exact name.
Ever since that day, the community has been growing strong and becoming one of the main places for people to call out any type of lies, fake news, and misinformation. And from the number of posts the members share, it seems that falsehoods online get shared all too often.
Wait Wha... How... Even...
Girl Exposes Bs Account Using Her Pictures To Sell Their Product
I hate these people who steal hard working weight loss photos for this s**t
The Mountain Calling Out An Instagram Fan Page On Their Bullsh*t
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 64 percent of American adults said fabricated news stories were causing a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues and events. They interviewed 500 people on landline telephones, and 502 on cellphones. The respondents came from different backgrounds, education levels, demographics, and had different incomes.
While Americans are aware that these stories spread perplexity, they reveal a fair amount of confidence in their ability to detect such made-up tales. About four in ten respondents felt very certain that they can recognize fake stories, and another 45 percent felt somewhat confident.
Generally, about a third of the US citizens confirmed they often stumble upon fabricated political news online. Pew Research Center explained that "it is difficult to measure the precise extent to which people actually see news that has been completely fabricated—given that news consumers could see but not recognize made-up news stories as well as mistake factual stories for false ones." Yet, these numbers show "a high-level sense of the public’s perception of this kind of content."
Chris Hemsworth Calls Out The Daily Mail
Grandma Shuts Down The Bullsh*t
That's Sad
Actually given that the twitter account is using the exact same picture for their profile, I’m inclined to believe “saf” is just some rando trying to make that person look bad. I don’t know if that person is also lying about having a girlfriend, but people change their profile pictures all the time to do call outs like this when they’re not actually the person in the picture.
Apparently someone in the original Reddit post suspected it and did some research - this example was legit even if it's more common for this sort of thing to be faked. Links are all over two years old now so I'm not digging further, but there was a lot of speculation and discussion about exactly what you mentioned
Load More Replies...Living in some astoundingly wild dream from another (twisted)dimension/universe.
Load More Replies...I cry in bisexual, my friend. Mostly because, for some reason, I'm extra depressed. And no, I'm not on or near my period (for those who may suggest so). It ended a few weeks ago.
Load More Replies...but arent people saying this often about celebs or even influencers? like "my future husband" or "my boyfriend so get your hands off him" - stan Twitter is weird. So i wonder if thats just that or of its a creep
my brother might've showed me the same picture and she that his gf but now I know the truth. Should I confront him
While some people take the time to fact-check and find out whether things we learn in the media are true or made-up, 23 percent of respondents revealed that they have shared fake news themselves. Some people did it knowingly, others explained that they only later realized that it was in fact false. "When it comes to how to prevent the spread of fake news, many Americans expect social networking sites, politicians, and the public itself to do their share," the researchers added.
Fake news is definitely not a new threat. The term became Collins Dictionary’s word of the year in 2017 and kept popping up in the headlines ever since. While fake news exists across a variety of channels, much of the recent conversation about it involves social media platforms.
Youtuber Mkbhd Calls Out Chair Company, That Photoshopped Him On Their Ad Against His Will
Bet their chair is uncomfortable and overpriced. You just need an office chair.
Trying To Make A Celebrity Look Bad Backfires
That Was Quickly Gunned Down
Samuel L Jackson Wasn’t Having Any Of Their Bullsh*t Tn
Dailymail Literally Photoshops Man’s Picture To Accuse Him Of Neglecting Social Distancing With His Dad...
Previously, Andrew Selepak, Ph.D., a program coordinator of Master’s in Social Media and a lecturer at the University of Florida, told Bored Panda that "everyone engages in self-image manipulation on social media. We highlight and promote our best moments while leaving out the bad or mundane."
"Before social media, a person could tell a lie to another and then the exact opposite lie to someone else, and it is possible no one would know. But you cannot do this on social media because everyone you know finds out at once."
He noted that the one great thing about the internet is that collectively, we can uncover falsehoods and those who spread them more than ever before. “If anything, social media may actually limit the amount of outright lying people do anymore because anything they say or post can be refuted by any and all of their followers rather than by one person,” the lecturer said.
She Met Zedd’s “Wife” In The Bathroom. Gets Called Out Directly
Misleading Headline Called Out By Mom
Credit To U/Haqummar
Apparently Homophobia = Criticism
Andrew Selepak mentioned that lies on social media can be intentional or unintentional. For example, when we see a story criticizing a politician or sports team we don’t like, we will probably share it because we want it to be true: "We aren’t the originator of the lie, but we are spreading it because we didn’t do our due diligence to fact check it first."
Yet, this is not as bad as being the creator of a lie. "Politicians, internet trolls, and influencers spread lies about issues like COVID-19, their political party or the opposition, or other major political issues, to manipulate the public." Such posts are dangerous because these people have a greater reach. Thus, their lies can be further spread by individuals who want to believe they're true.
X-Men Director Shuts Down Fake News Article
Ign Does An Ign
Chris O'dowd Calling Out The Daily Mirror
“This is how fake news spreads,” Selepak explained. “But it can be difficult to combat fake news because as individuals we often don’t have reach as influencers. We can debunk and dispute lies, but not as many people will see it, and some might be more willing to believe the lie than the truth.”
We are all impacted by dishonesty on social media. Selepak provided COVID-19 as an example: "those who were telling lies that Covid was spread through 5G towers led some to take down the towers for fear over the disease." He added that people also get hurt by encountering exaggerations online. "We know that celebrities have personal trainers, personal chefs, ... and Photoshopped images they post to social media that then receive thousands if not millions of likes on their post. Social media has a way of setting cultural norms on behavior, beauty, relevancy."
Best. Day. Ever!
Jeremy Clarkson Calling Out A Fake Story
Pretty Sure This Counts
Jj Watt Calls Out His Own Team
“When people, and especially young girls, see the fake body images presented on social media as the norm and forget that what they see on social media is not real, it impacts how they see their body, the bodies of others, and what they idealize as the beauty standard,” the lecturer said. “This is unhealthy and can lead to anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.”
She Tried To Call Out Mrbeast
It sounds like a stranger paid for his meal, so he never got the check.. if you don't get the check, if you don't have cash, you can't really tip.. unless you want to buy a soda or something and leave a fat tip on that receipt, but even still, some places will only let servers enter tips up to a certain percentage of the bill.
Don't Try To Bullsh*t Data
Reading something and then immediately posting it to social media for the attention, without fact checking first...
John Stewart: No I Didnt
Imagine Being So Consumed By Calling Everything Fake News, That You Become One With The Fake News
While social media is full of dishonesty, “we cannot expect the platforms to remove all of this content, nor should we want them to. Social media should be a free speech space where ideas are debated and lies are publicly disputed,” Andrew Selepak concluded.
Silent Bob Says No
Breaking: Kevin Smith drops the weight by washing windows at local gas station
It's Always Nice When Media Create Fake Dramas...
Can we all just stop to think that this is how celeb based “news” can be completely made up and falsified, as a reminder about world changing news that matters having an equal chance of being manipulated and manufactured by people who don’t care, and who initially cater to idiots. It is then picked up by larger networks and the chain builds, and builds, and builds until there’s no truth.
Kumail “Bailed” On Sh*tty Journalism
Loudwire Back With Their Sh*t Again
News Outlet Clickbait
Nick Offerman Calls Out 'Brobible'
Guy Fishes For Retweets, Gets Called Out By Official Account
Elon Musk Shuts Down Time Magazine
Elon Musk when the cave rescuers won't use his submarine: tantrum-62...77d9b3.gif
The Sister He Always Wanted But Never Had
Elon Musk Should Just Start Posting His Own Tweets Here To Be Honest
James Gunn Responds To Fake Article
They already are connected. That's a really dumb article. That's like saying BREAKING NEWS! Your arm and your leg are similar because they have bones in the middle!
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LOL this article should be condensed and called "Elon Musk Takes On The Internet".
hahaah or "daily mail gets the wrong end of the stick as usual"
Load More Replies...I mentioned this on one of the posts and feel it’s worth repeating here: Can we all just stop to think that this is how celeb based “news” can be completely made up and falsified, as a reminder about world changing news that matters having an equal chance of being manipulated and manufactured by people who don’t care, and who initially cater to idiots. It is then picked up by larger networks and the chain builds, and builds, and builds until there’s no truth.
I just kept the name of the news companies in mind to remember to ignore any posts/articles I see from them.
Load More Replies...he's also targeted other people unfairly though and showed himself a lot of a dickhead doing so. Like the guy who said his submarine idea for getting the kids out of the cave wouldn't work and wasn't being seriously considered...... so his response was to use his considerable social media influence to accuse the guy of being a 'pedo' in revenge for it. Whilst he may have been unfairly targeted at times, he definitely isn't a good guy.
Load More Replies...Not on a big, Internet famous kinda scale, but it happened to me too, to be... "given too much credit", to put it nicely. Accusations of things I've never done or said, without any proof. One of my ex-bosses and a previous circle of friends, in two instances. Thankfully, both are over now. Although disappointing, I find it pretty interesting what people hear you say, the askew connections they make with the words you give them, and the ones they insert themselves to fill the gap of their wanted imagined story.... wow!
I'm old, I think I knew who about 5 of these people mentioned! Read most of them but If all these rich people have to stand up to people because they say something wrong about them and the clarifications are just as bad as the accusations. JUST SHUT UP -all of you!
Just goes to show, you can't believe what you see on the internet. Not even the stuff about Trump or Biden.
What bakes my noodle is that verified account holders can see on a dashboard EVERYTHING that uses their name. They can face take-downs, account removal and even full-blown litigation. For a stupid tweet? There are literal companies that hunt these clowns down for a slice of the litigation money.
Aren't there discussions about fake news and how to stop them? Looks like we live in an age of misinterpretation and false information anyway...?
I mentioned this in the comments but I had always thought journalists had to have multiple sources before they published a story to kind of cover their a$$. I guess either this isn't true or it's only true for the reputable ones. I guess I saw too many episodes of newsroom.
LOL this article should be condensed and called "Elon Musk Takes On The Internet".
hahaah or "daily mail gets the wrong end of the stick as usual"
Load More Replies...I mentioned this on one of the posts and feel it’s worth repeating here: Can we all just stop to think that this is how celeb based “news” can be completely made up and falsified, as a reminder about world changing news that matters having an equal chance of being manipulated and manufactured by people who don’t care, and who initially cater to idiots. It is then picked up by larger networks and the chain builds, and builds, and builds until there’s no truth.
I just kept the name of the news companies in mind to remember to ignore any posts/articles I see from them.
Load More Replies...he's also targeted other people unfairly though and showed himself a lot of a dickhead doing so. Like the guy who said his submarine idea for getting the kids out of the cave wouldn't work and wasn't being seriously considered...... so his response was to use his considerable social media influence to accuse the guy of being a 'pedo' in revenge for it. Whilst he may have been unfairly targeted at times, he definitely isn't a good guy.
Load More Replies...Not on a big, Internet famous kinda scale, but it happened to me too, to be... "given too much credit", to put it nicely. Accusations of things I've never done or said, without any proof. One of my ex-bosses and a previous circle of friends, in two instances. Thankfully, both are over now. Although disappointing, I find it pretty interesting what people hear you say, the askew connections they make with the words you give them, and the ones they insert themselves to fill the gap of their wanted imagined story.... wow!
I'm old, I think I knew who about 5 of these people mentioned! Read most of them but If all these rich people have to stand up to people because they say something wrong about them and the clarifications are just as bad as the accusations. JUST SHUT UP -all of you!
Just goes to show, you can't believe what you see on the internet. Not even the stuff about Trump or Biden.
What bakes my noodle is that verified account holders can see on a dashboard EVERYTHING that uses their name. They can face take-downs, account removal and even full-blown litigation. For a stupid tweet? There are literal companies that hunt these clowns down for a slice of the litigation money.
Aren't there discussions about fake news and how to stop them? Looks like we live in an age of misinterpretation and false information anyway...?
I mentioned this in the comments but I had always thought journalists had to have multiple sources before they published a story to kind of cover their a$$. I guess either this isn't true or it's only true for the reputable ones. I guess I saw too many episodes of newsroom.