Oh, joy! It is the most wonderful day of the year (if you are a fact checker)... April Fool's Day is upon us, that day when every outlet, brand, influencer and Internet jokester under the sun tries to come up with something original to fool their audience with. Listing every effort at humor, satire, parody etc. on such a day is an impossible task, but here is a running list of the ones we've enjoyed most today:
Ryanair Goes Corporate Comms
Ryanair was quick out of the gate (get it?) with a post that claimed that from now on they would be adopting a more "corporate and professional approach in our communications" after being famous for whimsical and trolling social media posts. The post appeared in the evening of March 31 in Europe but by that time April 1 had already rolled around in some parts of the world, which is one of the perks if you are an airline. The announcement can be seen here (archived here):
Update... pic.twitter.com/reCYMc0RLo
-- Ryanair (@Ryanair) March 31, 2026
Dogecoin Goes Corporate Comms
Essentially the same joke at cryptocurrency Dogecoin, famous for its meme-inspired Shiba Inu logo and frequent exclamations of "wow". They too will now be going in a more corporate direction, becoming "DogeCoin Financial Solutions LLC™". Wow, such joke (archived here)!
📢 An Important Message to Our Community.
-- Dogecoin (@dogecoin) April 1, 2026
Effective immediately, Dogecoin is undergoing a full corporate restructuring.
We are proud to introduce: DogeCoin Financial Solutions LLC™
As part of this transition, we will be:
▪ Retiring the Shiba Inu logo in favour of a tasteful...
WordPress Gets A Dongle
Server hosting company 365i claims the popular WordPress software (used to manage websites) will get a new version that will require a physical and heavy hardware key dongle to be inserted into your computer, for security reasons:
The WordPress Foundation has announced that WordPress 7.0 will require a physical USB-C hardware key plugged into your computer to access wp-admin. Four pricing tiers start at £29.99. The Agency Bundle weighs 1.4kg. We have questions.
