30 Screenshots Of People Who Caught Others Shamelessly Spreading Lies On The Internet And Stepped In To Shut Them Up
There’s only so much nonsense one person can handle. And just because the internet is not guarded by BS-detecting police, that doesn’t mean one can share it without hesitation. Especially if it misinforms, spreads fakery, or takes advantage of a situation.
The corner of the subreddit “Quit Your Bull,” which is home to 1.6 million members, is dedicated to collecting such bittersweet examples. From Elon Musk busting his alleged “brain coach” to the American Kennel Club calling out a false ad that claims that a particular type of dog breed is recognized as dangerous by AKC, these are some of the screenshots that got karma restored.
And next time someone claims you can say whatever you want online, tell them to try and see what happens. Hint: nothing good will ever come of this.
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Someone Is Awfully Busy With So Many Careers!
Guy Leaves A Bad Review For A Shop He Was Never Even At
Don't Need 5g When U Have The Fastest 4g In The Universe
Nobody was born BS-proof. We've all lied, said nonsense, regretted it, or maybe not. Sometimes the nonsense we shared did no harm to us or people around, and sometimes it really paid off. Like, white lies. These incredible little lies hold half honesty, half false chaos that spins the world around us.
It's a whole different story when we encounter serious lies. Like anti-vaxxers spreading false beliefs against Covid vaccinations on social media. In such cases, a lie targets the most vulnerable people of society who, for the lack of better information, find themselves in genuine belief that what they’re reading is pure truth.
Bored Panda reached out to Scott Berkun, the author of eight popular books on creativity, design, leadership and public speaking who was happy to share his insights on dealing with someone else’s BS. According to him, the first thing to tackle it is to expect it. “Fire alarms are good at detecting fires because they are always expecting them. We say some people have good BS detectors for the same reason. They’ve seen it enough times to sense it before the rest of us do.”
Idk How Restaurants Deal With All The Anti-Masker Bs Right Now
Anti Vaxxers Never Change
Restaurant Owner Smacks Down Bs Review
Scott believes that it’s not hard, but “it just means you need the habit of asking good questions before you accept what you see or hear. And learning what sources to trust more than others.”
Due to the rise of social media fake news, bogus claims, and lies, both little and big, seem to be spreading faster than ever. “Someday we will learn that technology accelerates everything, the good and the bad. Today is not that day. 300 years ago Jonathan Swift wrote that “Falsehood flies and the Truth comes limping after it” but everyone at Facebook at Twitter seems to have only recently figured this out.”
According to Scott, “Everyone should be taught media literacy like this.” Meanwhile, many seem to struggle to find ways to politely tell a person to quit their nonsense. Scott suggests “asking “how do you know what you know?” as it often does the job.” “It sets you up to say ‘Thanks, but I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.’”
Local Jackass Gets Corrected
Faking A Dead Man's Autograph
I Found This Review From A Local Haunted House Attraction. There Were Quite A Few Negative Reviews Just Because They Had To Follow Covid Guidelines
Disgusting people with their disgusting lies. It's a good thing these people never quite bothered to improved their minds to be capable of better lies.
On the other hand, “Sometimes it works to your advantage to keep quiet and let them think you don’t realize they are full of BS. You may learn more about them and their real intentions than calling them out,” the book author concluded.
Vegan Lies About The Benefits Of Being Vegan. Another Vegan Calls Them Out
Akc Calls Out Clickbait Twitter Ad
Boyfriends Steals £hundreds From Store, Goes Next Day, Gets Nicked So Girlfriend Sends 1-Star Review. As You Do
Faking A Wedding Pic For Karma
They Did The Math
*sigh*
It's Just Full Of Misinformation
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation
Guy Doesn't Even Know What Band He Saw
could have been the british band Attack! Attack! not the american band Attack Attack.
Third Times A Charm. Repost For Anonymity Editing
Someone Doesn’t Have Their Facts Straight
(Now Ex) BF Says He Is Getting Threats From Reddit Users Because I Anonymously Posted On R/Amitheas***le
Bill Gates Made The Coronavirus
Karma Farming Accounts
Lying About Donating Bone Marrow
It's A Big Conspiracy!
Fortunate Son Meets Travelin’ Band
Must've been on some of those good concert drugs at the age of 12 to have hallucinated that.
Clickbating About The Vaccine
Unfortunately, a lot of such half informative news are being shared online these days.
Vaccines are dangerous! They will kill you! (If you're the virus, lol)
And that's how moronic antivaxers grow and spread like a disease...
I'm not a antivaxer....I got a HPV shot last week....I just don't trust the vaccine yet no one knows what it could do in the long run.
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I'm a Contact Tracer and yes people have still gotten COVID after 1 shot. That is coincidental as the vaccine does not cause COVID. And no one fully vaccinated in the US had died of COVID. Even if vaccine has side effects compare to actual whatya think COVID has
I had a headache and was overall a bit achy, little dizzy and suffered with fatigue for 48 hours. Absolutely worth it!
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I hate it when any form of media is using a headline that implies something for clicks but then they say the opposite in their article just to cover their ass. They know people don't read the whole thing.
Why would you give someone the vaccine after they've contracted covid? The whole story sounds like BS. Vaccines induce an immunological response leading to immunity. ARGH people need to learn science before spreading BS
If they didn't know the person had already contracted it until after the vaccine was administered.
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What else do you expect from the New York Post? Half of what they report is lies
This is like saying someone died after getting the Covid vaccine, but conveniently leaving out that they died in a car crash or something.
My niece, who is completely against just this vaccine, was telling me about how the husband of her coworker died after he got his first dose. Then she drops the bomb that he had cancer. Well... that could be a million things if he was on chemo. But I can almost bet that he shouldn’t have gotten the vaccine unless he was in remission.
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The NY Post is a s**t of a site. I wouldn't believe anything they write anyway!
yeah. i know the true way covid started as well. not bad bat soup. man forgot to wear a mask while studying the virus that only affected animals at the time, and forgot to wear a mask while doing so, and my have touched his face with the virus on his hands :/ my dad told me this, he is a worker at the national institute of health anyways, i dont mean to offend anyone for any reason
Heh, reminds me of some woman who claimed some little girl died two days after being vaccinated. It's true. She did die. She was run over by a car.
Title is contradicting. Most likely to get you to click on it for reads/views revenue
Oh, the New York Post is being vague, misleading and click bait-y? Quelle surprise.
I definitely appreciated the local new headline yesterday that read "State Medical Examiner determines NO deaths have been caused by the COVID vaccine" after seeing multiple clickbait stories in the prior days about people dying after receiving the vaccine. The deaths were all attributed to other causes but the authors couldn't resist.
These headlines make my whole body tense up b/c I cannot in good conscience start screaming as I run down the road... "READ ARTICLES NOT HEADLINES!"...
Idiots: The number of Covid deaths isn't nearly as high as they claim. If people die in a car crash they call it a covid death to crank the numbers up. Same idiots: The vaccine is dangerous and they cover it up by saying that people who have died from the vaccine actually died in a car crash.
Depends very much on country; and some changed their counting midways. "Death with covid" tends to be the term, and yes accidents get excluded. However, the number of "excess deaths" (=more than similar time in previous years, adjusted for changing population) is far greater in most countries than the number of counted covid deaths.... So the number of pandemic deaths so far is far greater than you seem to think.
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Why would someone get a vax hours before dying?? Surely someone did an assessment on them before injection. Or are we just using the overworked people at the local pharmacy and their health questionnaire as the only medial advice to follow?
Not all people that dont take the vaccine are antivaxers. I'm not getting it but it's not cause I believe in conspiracies. I just dont want it if I get covid and die so be it. Not everyone is afraid to die.
So what *is* your reasoning for not getting it? Do you drive without a seatbelt because 'you're not afraid to die'? Look both ways before you cross the road? How about the people who could lose their lives because of you not being vaccinated? Are their feelings about dying not valid? And the feelings of the people around you who care for you?
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Caught A Live One Today
right-click any pics and select "search the web for image" for easy factcheck
First One In The Wild
How do people think that they can snatch a random pick from the internet, pretend it's them and not get caught out on their nonsense? Honestly, time and time again people confront those idiots with their obvious lies and yet there's a new moron every day trying it again.
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The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
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This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....
The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
Load More Replies... This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....
